Jan Kawelke

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Jan Kawelke (2019)

Jan Bruno Kawelke (* 1992 in Oberhausen ) is a German music journalist. He also works as a rapper under the pseudonym Icarus .

Life

Kawelke grew up in Oberhausen and, in addition to studying journalism at the Westphalian University of Gelsenkirchen, began poetry and rapping. In 2013 he appeared together with Jan Philip Binder as the artist collective “Jan und Jan” and exhibited works of art in combination with poetry. At the beginning of 2014 he took part in the young talent competition "RAPutation" and made it to the finals, followed a few months later by releasing his first studio album Gold under the pseudonym Icarus . After completing his studies, there followed journalistic assignments for print media such as Juice or Zeit Online as well as a journalistic program traineeship at Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR). At WDR he met the journalist Vassili Golod, with whom he has been moderating the podcast Machiavelli - Rap & Politik since 2018 , which was nominated for several awards and was named the third best podcast of 2018 by Spiegel . Since 2019, he has regularly moderated the music program Soundcheck on the radio station WDR Cosmo .

honors and awards

  • 2017: International Music Journalism Award "Best Music Journalism Under 30 Years" for Rap & Depression: Finally no longer a taboo subject
  • 2019: International Music Journalism Award "Best Music Journalistic Work - Audio - German" for Machiavelli - Rap & Politics (with Vassili Golod)
  • 2019: Medium Magazin Top 30 to 30 for Machiavelli - Rap & Politics (with Vassili Golod as a journalist team)

Discography

Albums (as Icarus )

  • 2014: GOLD

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dirk Hein: Oberhausen young artists show art on the edge of the taboo. In: The West . May 21, 2013, accessed July 20, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Ann-Kathrin Brocks: Icarus from Oberhausen wants to be Germany's best young rapper. In: Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung . February 19, 2019, accessed July 20, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Gilbert: 5 questions about the album: Icarus about his new album “Gold”. In: Rap & Blues. May 21, 2013, accessed July 20, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Jonas Leppin: Books, films, series, music, games - these are the best of 2018. In: SPIEGEL. December 27, 2018, accessed July 20, 2019 .
  5. ↑ https://juice.de/rap-depression-endet-kein-tabuthema-mehr-feature/
  6. ↑ https://www.reeperbahnfestival.com/de/news/artikel/items/und-die-imja-gewinner-sind-1045
  7. ↑ https://www1.wdr.de/radio/cosmo/podcast/machiavelli/index.html
  8. ↑ https://www.mediummagazin.de/meldung_unsere-top-30-bis-30-des-jahres-2019/
personal data
SURNAME Kawelke, Jan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kawelke, Jan Bruno (full name); Gold, Icarus (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1992
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberhausen