Jörg-Martin Willnauer

Jörg-Martin Willnauer (born April 12, 1957 in Heidelberg ) is a German cabaret artist , author , composer and lecturer . He is also known by the two pseudonyms Martina Will and Jörg Nauer .

Life

Jörg-Martin Willnauer was born the son of a Protestant pastor and grew up in Heidelberg. After studying music in Heidelberg, Willnauer went to Austria in 1981 , where he began to study composition with Iván Eröd at the Graz University of Art . Numerous workshops with Gisela May , Lauren Newton , Bobby McFerrin and others followed.

From 1984 to 2009 he hosted and designed numerous radio programs in the fields of jazz , cabaret and entertainment for Radio Steiermark . As a cabaret artist and musician , he performed his programs in Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Sweden, Lithuania, Finland, Italy , Slovenia , Hungary and Estonia and made a guest appearance in the GDR . In 2007 he was invited to perform in Sweden at the Goethe Institute in Gothenburg for the first time . Willnauer taught musical roles for actors as a guest lecturer at the University of Art in Graz for seven years .

Furthermore, he was the initiator and co-founder of the Austrian Cabaret Archive and from 1999 to 2004 the first chairman of the Austrian Cabaret Archive Association.

He has lived in Graz since October 26, 1981 . He is the father of a daughter.

Activity as a politician

On December 5, 2009, Willnauer was elected as the top candidate of the Styrian Greens for the state elections on September 26, 2010 with an approval rate of 85 percent . He resigned in April 2010 for personal reasons. In his place, the Greens elected their state chairman Werner Kogler as the new top candidate.

In order for Willnauer to be allowed to run for office by law, he had to take Austrian citizenship. He criticized the content of the citizenship test in February 2010, and historians agreed. He also criticized the cost of becoming a citizen, which is around 12 times higher than that of Germany.

Works

Solo programs

• The bald singer
• Can I show you my software?
• One should be able to play the piano ...
• Foresight, forgery!
• Carmina Banana - crooked songs
• Best of Willnauer!
• Lechts & Rinks
• Willnauer plays Kreisler
• Strictly Fui!
• Intermotzo
• What do I eat when I'm full ?! - About the too little in the too much
• Ironing in a Buddhist way
• MUSTARD 13.0 - Between Krems, Dijon & Tarragon

Duo programs

• Strictly subjective (with Ernst Sittinger)
• tandem
• City. Country. Swamp.
• Gifted Minds (Premiere on January 22nd, 2015, Theater Le-Be, Graz)
• An evening to forget (premiere on January 21, 2016 at Theater Le-Be, Graz)

Trio programs

• A wonderful autumn for autumn men

Discography

• The Bald Singer - LP (1990)
• Can I show you my software? - CD
• Willnauer plays Kreisler - CD (2005)
• Carmina Banana - Crooked Songs - CD (2007)
• Potatoes & Light Bulbs - CD (2012)
• Insects, Bugs and other Species - Ensemble Clarinettissimo - CD (2013) - 3 songs - Orlando Records
• “La Tâche” - Alea-Quartet with Jörg-Martin Willnauer “String Quartet” as well as works by Iván Eröd , Gerhard Present , Herbert Blendinger and Mohamed Abdel-Fattah - ALEA-01-97 (1997)
• I don't know anything about the gods - CD ptx 107, www.pantau-x-records.com

By Uli Rennert (composer). With Sophie Rennert (mezzo-soprano), Jörg-Martin Willnauer (speaker), Maria Beatrice Cantelli (flute), Klaus Gesing (bass clarinet), Radu Petrean (horn), Reka Nagy (violin), Emilia Gladnishka (viola), Andrea Molnar (violoncello ) and Peter Herbert (double bass) (2014)

Books

• Styria in words and shields , Styria, Graz / Vienna / Cologne, 2000, ISBN 3-222-12792-1
• Austria in Word and Shield , Edition Gutenberg - Steirische Verlagsgesellschaft, Graz, 2002, ISBN 3-900323-51-8
• Lachstein - Musical Miniatures , Edition Keiper, Graz, 2013, ISBN 978-3-902901-12-5
• The goulash hut - city novel in 50 pictures , Styria-Verlag, ISBN 978-3-7012-0178-5

Children's pieces

• Ignaz Igel's birthday (performances among others with Thomas Fey and the Heidelberger Sinfoniker, in the Musikverein Graz and in the Konzerthaus Wien on February 27, 1994 with Marco de Prosperis, Ruth Straub, Francois Benda, Dimi Polisoidis, Aima Maria Labra and others)
• Veronica braces
• Florentine Flunders fantastic trip (on behalf of the Herbert von Karajan Center, Vienna )
• Beauty and the Beast (on behalf of the Musical Youth of Austria (Jeunesses))

Movie

• I speak in my tones , ORF documentary film on the 100th anniversary of Johannes Brahms' death (director: Wolfgang Beyer )

Singspiel

• Schwejk (Director: Leo Lukas , Music: Jörg-Martin Willnauer)

Awards

• Passau executioner's ax
• Theodor Körner Prize
• Luitpold-Stern special price
• Wilhelm Busch Prize 2003 (3rd place)

Web links

• Literature by and about Jörg-Martin Willnauer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Official homepage of Jörg-Martin Willnauer
• More from Jörg-Martin Willnauer

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kürschner's German Literature Calendar ( Memento of the original from December 24, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ Wolfgang Schober in punch lines instead of praying , Styrian month January 2009.
3. ↑ Steira-Misu on Radio Steiermark (accessed on October 22, 2013)
4. ↑ Die Grünen Steiermark: Jörg-Martin Willnauer elected Green Top Candidate with a clear 85% ( memento of the original from December 9th, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . December 5, 2009  
5. ^ Styrian Green top candidate Willnauer resigns. Kleine Zeitung , April 17, 2010, archived from the original on May 27, 2010 .  . In: Small newspaper . April 17, 2010
6. ↑ Ernst Sittinger: Jörg-Martin Willnauer: "I underestimated that". Kleine Zeitung , April 20, 2010, archived from the original on April 23, 2010 .  .
7. ↑ Immigration: Green Criticism of Citizenship Test orf.at, February 5, 2010, accessed November 13, 2016.
8. ↑ Ursula burkert on Strictly Fui! ORF, August 24, 2008
9. ↑ Wilhelm Busch Prize ( Memento of the original from December 18, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.