Katrin Lindner (singer)

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Katrin Lindner (born September 24, 1947 in Halle (Saale) ) is a German singer and painter.

Life

Lindner grew up in Halle and was trained as an enamel surgeon . Her parents lived in the Federal Republic of Germany . From 1964 to 1968 she attended the Burg Giebichenstein School of Art . As an autodidact, she was the singer of the jazz band BAF and then worked as a co-singer in the GDR bands College Formation , Jürgen-Erbe-Chor and - 1974 to 1976 - Wir . In 1976 she became the singer of the Sieghard Schubert formation (later the Schubert band) under band leader Sieghart Schubert, with whom she was married before. From 1978 she worked on several singles. In 1979 she was voted rock singer of the year by the listeners of the radio station Voic of the GDR , in 1980 Amiga released a single under her name with two cover versions, Call Me by Blondie and I've Never Been in Love by Suzi Quatro . In 1981 the only album by "Katrin Lindner & Schubert-Band", Heiße Tage, was released by Amiga . It contains broadcast productions only. In the same year she sang the role of the witch in the children's musical The Soldier and the Lighter . In 1982, the single Mensch was released by RCA in the Federal Republic of Germany , don't forget that. In 1983 Katrin Lindner took part in the Rock for Peace music festival . Katrin Lindner was one of the few front women in GDR rock music and was known as a "rock tube". In 1980 her voice was described as "bitter" and "unsentimental".

In 1985 Schubert and Lindner retired to the “Farmland-Hof” in Quadenschönfeld , Mecklenburg , where they had already set up the “Farmland Music Studio” in 1982 to produce recordings by other musicians. There the album Aufruhr im Augen von Pankow was recorded. At the same time, Lindner began her career as a painter, which she continued in the same place after separating from Schubert. In 1996 Lindner's album Zugvögel was released with eight titles, on which Henning Protzmann , Pitty Piatkowski , Sieghart Schubert and her son Moritz Schubert had contributed. 2009 Katrin Lindner took with pianist André Gensicke ( the tax collector ) and cellist Sonny Thet ( Bayon ), the album Nothing stays on. As on the 2013 CD Against the Time , Katrin Lindner wrote the compositions and texts herself.

Awards

Discography

Albums
  • 1981: Hot days ( Amiga )
  • 1996: migratory birds
  • 2009: Nothing remains ( Buschfunk )
  • 2013: Against Time (ZuG Records)
  • 2016: Couple run (allorangemusic / tonbewegtbild)
Singles
  • 1978: Heaven and Earth / Bye Bye Sadness (Amiga)
  • 1980: ... and how to go on / hold me tight (Amiga)
  • 1980: I've Never Been In Love / Call Me (Amiga)
  • 1982: Man, don't forget that / What should I be ( RCA )
Contributions
  • 1981: The soldier and the lighter (Amiga)
  • 2013: Leiermann on the album Monument End of the band Fjoergyn

Books

  • 2013: Katrin Lindner. Self-published.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b liner notes from the album Heisse Tage.
  2. ↑ a b c d e Interview with Katrin Lindner at deutsche-mugge.de , accessed on April 19, 2014
  3. ↑ Götz Hintze: Rock Lexicon of the GDR. 2nd Edition. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-303-9 , p. 264.
  4. ↑ The former rock tube takes it easy. Nordkurier dated February 2, 2014, accessed April 19, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Lindner, Katrin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German singer and painter
DATE OF BIRTH September 24, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Halle (Saale)