Jens-Paul Wollenberg

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Jens-Paul Wollenberg (born January 18, 1952 in Speyer ) is a singer , poet and lecturer living in Leipzig .

When he was three years old, he moved to Gernrode with his mother in 1955 and to Quedlinburg in 1959 . He learned to cook and worked in the restaurant business, later as a prop master in the theater and as a postman.

Since the 1970s he belonged to various music groups, all of which were banned by the GDR authorities. Stations of his artistic career were the groups Vin rouge (from 1976), Quitilinga (1978), Gevattern-Kombo (1981) and other ensembles under constantly changing names in order to confuse the GDR cultural officials. Since 1990 he has lived in Leipzig with his partner, the painter and avowed street musician Uta Pilling . With watercolors and drawings he had several exhibitions during the time of the fall of the Wall. He was several times a participant in the GDR open chanson days in the Michaelsstein monastery and in the illegal songwriters' meeting Ringelfolk in the Ringelnatzklause Wurzen and belongs to the Leipzig song scene .

After reunification he founded the jazz-rock-folk band Wahdi el Ahana (1990) and the band Pojechaly (1993). In 1996 he initiated the "Ostwind" concert series at naTo , in which Eastern European music culture is presented. He has been working with the Leipzig multi-instrumentalist Ingeborg Freytag (“Freytag & Wollenberg”, 2005) since 1990, with the Leipzig Folksessionband (1998), the Funkner Quartet (1998) and the group Der Singende Tresen (2003). In scenic readings, he recites texts by Kafka , Schiller and others. In 2003 his first book, The Story of the Lonely Self, was published .

His new project ex.ces combines the poetry of François Villon and Louis Aragon with the music of the world music jazz rock band chelesta .

“The artist strings small, apocalyptic nightmare stories into a morbid chain of gloomy, largely rhymed treatises full of death and corruption, love, sin, ridicule and decay. Quite a few lines by the Wollenberg / Uta Pilling team of authors reveal an almost insurmountable disgust for the world, if almost every deliberate and pathetic gesture were not characterized by an unmistakable pleasure in play, pleasure in life, pleasure in this world. "

- Kai Engelke

Disco and bibliography

  • 1988 "Die Schimmelblume", Studio Schmidt oder so , Leipzig, Magnitisdat
  • 1991 "Razzia im Paradies" with Wahdi Al Ehana, RUM Records
  • 1994 "A wreck in tails" with Pojechaly, Loewenzahn Verlag, Leipzig
  • 1997 “Alptraum Arche” with Pojechaly, Loewenzahn Verlag, Leipzig
  • 1998 “Say Never Tango” with the Funkner Quartet, Loewenzahn Verlag, Leipzig
  • 1998 “Songs of the 1848 Revolution” with the Leipzig folk session band
  • 1998 "Räuber- und Poachersgesänge" with the Leipzig Folksessionband
  • 2003 “The story of the lonely self”, Fünf Finger Ferlag, Leipzig
  • 2005 “Tooth for a tooth” (with ex.ces), Raumer Records, Berlin
  • 2012 “The 7 sleepers are awake” with Pojechaly, Raumer Records, Berlin
  • 2018 "LEIPZIG LIEDERSZENE of the 1980s", CD / DVD and book. Participation. Loewenzahn / RUM Records. Leipzig 2018.

credentials

  1. ^ The schizophrenic I-AG. ( Memento from March 9, 2008 in the Internet Archive )

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personal data
SURNAME Wollenberg, Jens-Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German singer, poet and lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Speyer