Jochen Distelmeyer

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Jochen Distelmeyer at the Immergut Festival 2016
Jochen Distelmeyer at the Immergut Festival 2016
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Heavy
  DE 29 09/10/2009 (2 weeks)
Songs from the Bottom, Vol. 1
  DE 36 02/19/2016 (1 week)
  AT 23 02/26/2016 (2 weeks)
Singles
Let's be love
  DE 78 09/25/2009 (1 week)
rain
  DE 79 02/12/2010 (1 week)

Jochen Distelmeyer (born July 24, 1967 in Bielefeld ) is a German musician . He gained particular fame as the head of the Blumfeld band .

Career

Distelmeyer grew up in Brake (Bielefeld) , he is the older brother of the film critic Jan Distelmeyer . In 1986 he first read about the scene around the Bad Salzufler label Fast Weltweit in an article in Spex and joined it in 1987. With his band Die Bienenjäger he published for the first time contributions on cassette samplers. In 1988 he completed his civil service in Hamburg, where he founded the band Blumfeld in 1990 with Andre Rattay (drums) and Eike Bohlken (bass) , in which he not only sang and played guitar, but also wrote most of the lyrics. In 1991 the first single “Ghettowelt” appeared on Alfred Hilsberg's label ZickZack , which immediately became single of the month in Spex - and a little later of the year too.

In the same year the band recorded the LP Ich -maschine, which caused euphoric reactions from the press. As a reaction to the pogroms against foreigners in Rostock-Lichtenhagen and Mölln at the end of 1992, Jochen Distelmeyer urged political action in the Hamburg Circle of Friends. After Die Goldenen Zitronen was attacked on a tour through East Germany, the Hamburg “ Welfare Committee ” was founded as an initiative against neo-fascism.

At that time, the second album L'État et moi was released , which received critical acclaim and marked the final breakthrough for Blumfeld. While "unhappy personal consciousness ... was exhibited and deconstructed" on the ego machine , there was "a concrete counterpart that the ego deals with [...]: state, money, social and personal structures". The texts written by Distelmeyer triggered a long-term, also academic exegesis and were received by writers such as Durs Grünbein .

Before the last Blumfeld album Verbotene Frucht (2006), Distelmeyer had a son. After Blumfeld broke up in 2007, he began a solo career. In 2009 his first solo album Heavy was released , to which Distelmeyer went on tour again. The first single was Lass uns Liebe , followed by the EP Regen .

In 2015 Distelmeyer published the novel Otis , which was largely received negatively by the established critics. According to Heinz Strunk , he refused to do an editing.

In 2016, Distelmeyer's second solo album, Songs from the Bottom, Vol. 1 , was released and only contains English-language cover versions.

Discography

Albums

  • Heavy (2009)
  • Just like that - live (live album, 2010)
  • Songs from the Bottom, Vol. 1 (2016)
  • Coming Home (2019)

Singles

  • Let's be love (2009)
  • Rain EP (2010)

Other publications

  • 1988: VA: Presented almost worldwide: Now! ... The stars ... The stranger ... The bee hunters ... The Time Twisters ... Bernadette Hengst (The "Red" Cassette Sampler No. 1), Fast Worldwide
  • 1988: VA: Presented almost worldwide: Now! ... The stars ... The stranger ... The bee hunters ... The Time Twisters ... Bernadette Hengst (The "Blue" Cassette Sampler No. 2), Fast Worldwide

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  1. ↑ a b Chart sources: Germany / Austria
  2. ↑ The bee hunters at discogs
  3. ^ Walter Gödden: Do it yourself! In: Stadt.Land.Pop - pop music between Westphalian provinces and Hamburg schools , publications by the Literature Commission for Westphalia, vol. 34, 2008, pp. 112-131, ISBN 978-3-89528-708-4 .
  4. ↑ Spex article on the single of the month ( Memento of the original from August 12, 2016 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / skyeyeliner.endorphin.ch
  5. ↑ Article in the indiepedia on the I-Machine
  6. ↑ Björn Fischer: Die Lyrik der late Hamburger Schule (1992–1999) , 2007, p. 12, ISBN 3-638-86695-5 .
  7. ↑ Welfare Committees (ed.): Something Better Than the Nation - Texts and Materials for Defense against Counter-Revolutionary Evil , Edition ID Archive, 1994, ISBN 3-89408-038-8 .
  8. ↑ Grothe, Nicole: InnenStadtAktion, Kunst oder Politik ?, p. 124 (Google books, accessed on July 18, 2009)
  9. ^ Walter Gödden : A story with Blumfeld In: Stadt.Land.Pop - pop music between Westphalian provinces and Hamburg schools , publications of the literature commission for Westphalia, Vol. 34, 2008, pp. 229–245, ISBN 978-3-89528-708 -4 .
  10. ↑ Stadt.Land.Pop- - The project In: Stadt.Land.Pop - Pop music between the Westphalian province and the Hamburg school , publications of the Literature Commission for Westphalia, Vol. 34, 2008, p. 12, ISBN 978-3-89528-708 -4 .
  11. ↑ Dandy-like pampering. Retrieved April 25, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Discography at Discogs
  13. ↑ Jan Wiele: Antique Carpaccio with Soul Salad , in: FAZ , January 31, 2015, p. 12.
  14. ↑ Summary of the criticism at Perlentaucher
  15. ↑ The drumming of the clueless in: Die Zeit Online.
  16. ↑ Frederic Schwilden: If you watch Heinz Strunk getting angry. Retrieved April 25, 2019 .
  17. ↑ jochendistelmeyer.de, album subpage , accessed on January 5, 2016.

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personal data
SURNAME Distelmeyer, Jochen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pop musician
DATE OF BIRTH July 24, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Bielefeld