Ingo Barz

Ingo Barz (born May 18, 1951 in Ribnitz-Damgarten ) is a German songwriter . In the GDR he was only allowed to perform in the church environment and not publish any records .

Life

Barz was born in 1951 in Ribnitz , Mecklenburg , which had been merged with Damgarten in Western Pomerania the year before . Ingo Barz has been a songwriter since 1969, especially in Mecklenburg, where he was also employed as a youth warden for the Protestant church . Since he does not play permission was given, he was allowed to turn the church only in the context of events occur. At first he played more songs with a religious background and then turned to songs in which the state power was deliberately ignored or criticized in a subtle way. So he wrote the song The thoughts are free so that it could be related to the conditions in the GDR: "I imagine a house made of rhymes and notes, where no entry and exit is forbidden ..." He accompanied himself to the Guitar and also played accordion, bass guitar, banjo and percussion.

His songs were distributed on audio cassettes , his texts copied with blue paper or by hand. From May 18, 1982, there was a file of the GDR Ministry for State Security in which he was listed as an operative "preacher" and in which he was accused of incitement to the state against the state . In 1988 the GDR band Berluc released the Amiga quartet single Wie ein Regenbogen with songs whose lyrics were by Ingo Barz.

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, Barz published numerous records and books. In 2003, together with Karl Scharnweber and Johannes Pistor, he recorded the CD Where is a place to stay with songs to twelve works of art by Ernst Barlach . In 2005 the double album and sometimes I would like to be sad was released - 51 “unwanted” songs (1979–1990) , which is named after a song written in 1986. The accompanying book was published with the title Spreading pessimistic ideas in action with guitar playing, in which the persecution of Barz by employees of the Ministry for State Security is documented. In 2010, Barz published his autobiography Must the boy keep painting tanks. He lives with his wife on the "Schnitterhof" in Lühburg .

Works

Discography

1993: Losers, dreamers, deserters with Karl Scharnweber (sound spaces)
1996: The last wolf (Schnitterhof)
1999: In the beginning there was the ear - songs from another country (Schnitterhof)
2000: So someone asks me how it was (song cycle; Schnitterhof)
2003: That makes us find each other (Schnitterhof)
2003: where's a place to stay. Songs for 12 works by Ernst Barlach with Karl Scharnweber and Johannes Pistor
2005: and sometimes I want to be sad - 51 “unwanted” songs (1979–1990) with an accompanying book Spreading pessimistic ideas in action with guitar playing
2007: I want to sing that to you ... - a song trip through Mecklenburg (Schnitterhof)
2011: Who can see what's behind it (Schnitterhof)

Literary works

1989: position lights. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, ISBN 3-374-00907-7 (poems)
1992: April – April or specific positions on the general situation from 1990–1991. Scheunenverlag, Kückenshagen, ISBN 978-3929370003
1993: Disrespectful handling of the peculiarities of the everyday. Scheunenverlag, Kückenshagen, ISBN 978-3929370065
1996: As long as I have a word. Chants - Poems - Stories (selection 1979–1996). Schnitterhof, Lühburg, ISBN 978-3931964009
1998: thunder, lightning and stovepipe. Schnitterhof, Lühburg, ISBN 3-931964-01-9 (song book)
2000: Buds on the tree: song people without “permission to play” in Mecklenburg 1979–1989 (with Jörg Boddien). Schnitterhof, Lühburg, ISBN 978-3931964061
2010: Does the boy have to keep painting tanks. Schnitterhof, Lühburg, ISBN 978-3931964139