Konstantin Wecker

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Konstantin Wecker (2018)
Konstantin Wecker at the Zelt-Musik-Festival (ZMF) 2017 in Freiburg

Konstantin Alexander Wecker (born June 1, 1947 in Munich ) is a German musician , songwriter , composer , actor and author . He is considered one of the most important German songwriters.

Life

As the only child of Alexander and Dorothea Wecker, Konstantin Wecker grew up in the Munich district of Lehel and received his first piano lessons at the age of six. He learned to play the violin at the age of eight and to play the guitar at the age of 14. In his childhood he was a soloist in the Rudolf Lamy Children's Choir ; so he is u. a. to be heard as a soloist in the Heimatfilm Die Trapp-Familie .

From 1968 he made a name for himself in the cabaret scene, co-founded the rock-soul band Zauberberg and went on tour with the German version of Jesus Christ Superstar . He became known as a pianist and singer , but was also convincing as a composer of film scores (e.g. Schtonk! ) And musicals as well as an author ( poetry and prose ). His songs, sometimes melancholy, but often accusatory, sometimes influenced by the blues , mainly reach a left-wing audience. As an actor, he worked in the nurses report and six other sex films from 1972 to 1974 .

Konstantin Wecker (Garching near Munich 1986)

In 1974 he founded the Musikon team , with whom he produced his own records and concerts until 1985. In 1980 he moved to Tuscany with the musicians and friends . In 1977 he made his breakthrough with the album Enough is not enough . Wecker was awarded the German Cabaret Prize for this in the same year . The ballad on this LP to a friend Willy who was slain by right-wing extremists became a cult. In an interview with the Allgemeine Zeitung (Rhein Main Presse) on March 24, 2015, he stated that the real Willy was still alive and partly sold CDs at his concerts. It is his friend and co-author of his biography Günter Bauch. In 1979 Wecker composed and played the music for the album Hagenbuch has now admitted by cabaret artist Hanns Dieter Hüsch . In 1980 he married the actress Carline Seiser , from whom he divorced in 1988. After his first success as a songwriter, Konstantin Wecker began to use cocaine . A literary treatment of this topic can be found for the first time in the heretic letters of an addict (1983).

He worked with many well-known German and foreign artists, including Joan Baez and Mercedes Sosa . Between 1986 and 1993 he gathered a band, some from the German jazz scene, around the United Jazz and Rock Ensemble . Among them were u. a. Wolfgang Dauner , Charlie Mariano , Johannes Faber , Frank Diez , Stephan Diez , Norbert Meyer , Wolfgang Haffner and Jo Barnikel , but also the English musicians Colin Hodgkinson and Pete York . On June 13, 1987 Wecker took part in the press festival of the SED central organ New Germany in East Berlin in front of around 10,000 East German listeners.

In the mid-1990s, Wecker's drug addiction escalated - according to his own statements, from 1994 until his arrest on November 29, 1995, he consumed up to 7 grams of freebase / cocaine base and cocaine and suffered from delusions . Already in his 1993 novel Uferlos with recognizable autobiographical features, he made the subject of drugs a clear theme . The following court hearings dragged on for years. In April 2000, he was sentenced to one year and eight months suspended prison sentence in the third instance. His lecture on drug addiction, given to neurologists in Erlangen in 1997, was published two years later under the title There is no life without death in book form.

On February 3, 1996, Wecker married Annik Berlin from Bassum near Bremen, 27 years his junior , whom he had met at one of his concerts. In 1997 and 1999 the sons Valentin and Tamino were born.

From the year 2000, Wecker appeared together with Hannes Wader . On the occasion of Wader’s sixtieth birthday in 2002 there was a concert by Konstantin Wecker, Hannes Wader and Reinhard Mey in Bielefeld, in which Jo Barnikel also took part as a pianist. It was released in 2003 on CD under Mey, Wader, Wecker - das Konzert . In 2010 a German tour with Hannes Wader, Jo Barnikel, Nils Tuxen and Hakim Ludin took place under the title “No end in sight” .

With Christopher Franke he composed the musical Ludwig² , which premiered on March 11, 2005 in Füssen , and before that the Hundertwasser musical (2004). In recent years he has appeared increasingly as a soloist or with Jo Barnikel as an accompanist.

In the festival season 2006 and 2007 Konstantin Wecker was musical director for the theater performances Faust I and Faust II at the Bad Hersfeld Festival . He composed the musical accompaniment for these pieces and gave a concert at the beginning of rehearsals in the monastery ruins .

In the 2007/2008 winter semester, Wecker accepted an official teaching position at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg ; In 2007, 2013 and 2018 he taught composition and arrangement in the songwriting workshop .

In February 2010 he was appointed to the Munich tower scribe.

Several times he took part in the songs on a summer evening , so in 2011 , 2012, 2014 and 2016 .

Konstantin Wecker 2015 at the Tollwood concert

On June 26, 2013 Konstantin and Annik Wecker announced their mutual separation. They later became a couple again, but kept this out of the public eye.

In 2013 Wecker, Dieter Hildebrandt and Georg Schramm founded the stoersender.tv format . In the same year Wecker founded the independent record label " Sturm & Klang " based in Munich .

In November 2013, Wecker and the Austrian opera singer Angelika Kirchschlager undertook the Liedestoll tour through Germany and Austria, during which his songs from Schubert to Schumann were performed. In 2013 he sponsored the third season of a street musician casting show. NRW's most popular street musicians were searched for as part of the WDR program daheim + on the go . The prize winners Simone Oberstein and Thomas Schlüter won the competition and thus an appearance at a concert by Konstantin Wecker.

Wecker has been visiting professor at the University of Koblenz-Landau (Campus Landau) since June 13, 2018.

Political commitment

Konstantin Wecker was also politically active over the years of his artistic career. In 1982 he took part in the concert series Artists for Peace . In many of his songs, Wecker deals with daily political events. His well-known ballad Willy deals with the confrontation of the 1968 movement with right-wing ideas.

In January 2003, two months before the start of the Second Iraq War , Wecker went with a group of Western artists to the country ruled by the dictator Saddam Hussein to perform in Baghdad at a solidarity concert that was politically instrumentalized by the Iraqi regime. Wecker explained: “That is a price that you have to pay. I don't know what the Iraqi press is doing with our visit from a journalistic point of view, I don't care either. The central newspaper is unofficially called the 'disinformation sheet'. Everyone knows that too and knows how to read between the lines. And what can the Iraqi government do with it if it wants to capture Konstantin Wecker? ”After his visit to Iraq, he founded the web magazine Behind the Headlines , which is directed against racism, militarism, authoritarianism and dogmatism.

Konstantin Wecker appears at rallies of the peace movement . With the motto Nazis out of this city , Wecker toured together with the songwriters Strom & Wasser in 2006 through East Germany . The cancellation of the concerts in Hoyerswerda and Halberstadt attracted attention and discussions . According to press reports, the concert in a grammar school in Halberstadt in Saxony-Anhalt was not approved due to pressure from NPD politicians and the announcement of disruptive actions. District Administrator Henning Rühe explained that they did not want to risk the NPD claiming the right to be able to hold events in the school as well. The NPD justified the action with the danger of an election campaign for the Left Party.PDS in the run-up to the state elections.

On June 17, 2006 there was finally an open-air concert in Halberstadt (Düsterngraben). There were also Hannes Wader, Hans-Eckardt Wenzel , Strom & Wasser ( Heinz Ratz ) and the Afghan percussionist Hakim Ludin .

As a result, the confrontation came at the request of the Greens - fraction to a debate in the Bundestag on the right-wing extremism in Germany. Wecker canceled the concert in Hoyerswerda due to a dispute over the motto of the performance. The proposed theme of the organizer Nazis out from the minds displeased alarm clock that when Nazis get out of this town wanted to stay. Konstantin Wecker is occasionally also a guest at the UZ press festival . On June 16, 2007 he appeared at the party congress of the party Die Linke . In 2007 he took part in the initiative Rheinhessen against right.

In 2010, in an interview with the magazine Graswurzelrevolution , Konstantin Wecker confessed to the rule-free society: "I always felt that I belonged to the anarcho-camp, even in the 68s, because as a young man I was deeply impressed by Henry Miller ." He continues: "We have to hold on to our utopias of a society free of domination and violence, and develop them further together with others."

Konstantin Wecker was sent by the Saxon parliamentary group to the 14th Federal Assembly for the election of the Federal President on June 30, 2010. However, he canceled his participation in the Federal Assembly.

Despite continued political involvement, Wecker was never a member of any party. In a double interview with Hannes Wader in the Sunday edition of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on August 8, 2010, Konstantin Wecker confesses that a party can never be a home for him. “I've always been of the opinion that the artist's chance lies in being able to paint in bright colors, in contrast to the black and white of politics. For me, party membership would have always been a restriction. "

In the run-up to the Bavarian state election in 2013 , Wecker advocated a change of government in favor of the SPD .

In 2015, he supported a declaration calling for the Association of Those Persecuted by the Nazi Regime - Association of Antifascists of Bavaria to be deleted from the Free State's report on the protection of the constitution . He also supports the Coordination against Bayer Risks (CBG).

Awards

Konstantin Wecker, Bayerischer Poetentaler, 2009

Works

Discography

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Love flight
  DE 47 02/23/1981 (8 weeks)
  AT 15th 05/15/1981 (6 weeks)
Konstantin Wecker and the band - Live
  AT 29 03/01/1988 (2 weeks)
Nice alarm clock
  AT 25th 07/15/1988 (4 weeks)
Silent happiness, sweet home
  AT 18th 02/25/1990 (9 weeks)
Bankless
  DE 72 04/19/1993 (9 weeks)
  AT 32 04/11/1993 (4 weeks)
Bankless in Salzburg
  AT 24 05/01/1994 (8 weeks)
Gamsig
  AT 37 05/12/1996 (5 weeks)
Fatherland
  DE 90 09/17/2001 (1 week)
The concert (with Reinhard Mey and Hannes Wader )
  DE 22nd 02/10/2003 (7 weeks)
At the riverbank
  DE 78 02/07/2005 (2 weeks)
No end in sight (alarm clock & wader)
  DE 26th 07/30/2010 (6 weeks)
  AT 50 07/30/2010 (1 week)
Anger and tenderness
  DE 18th 09/30/2011 (5 weeks)
  AT 10 09/30/2011 (8 weeks)
Without a why
  DE 14th 06/26/2015 (7 weeks)
  AT 8th 07/03/2015 (9 weeks)
  CH 24 06/28/2015 (2 weeks)
Poetry and resistance
  DE 16 06/02/2017 (7 weeks)
  AT 13 06/09/2017 (4 weeks)
  CH 69 06/04/2017 (1 week)
Say no! (Anti-fascist songs: 1978 to today)
  AT 50 December 14, 2018 (2 weeks)
Weltenbrand (Live) (with the Bavarian Philharmonic & Mark Mast )
  DE 31 October 18, 2019 (2 weeks)

Studio albums

  • 1973: The sadopoetic chants of Konstantin Amadeus Wecker
  • 1974: I always live on the beach
  • 1976: alarm clock lights
  • 1977: enough is not enough
  • 1978: A lot of life
  • 1981: love flight
  • 1982: That gives me courage
  • 1982: alarm clock
  • 1984: Warm inside
  • 1986: back home
  • 1988: Nice alarm clock
  • 1989: quiet happiness, sweet home
  • 1993: bankless
  • 1994: when you're gone
  • 1996: Gamsig
  • 1998: Brecht
  • 2001: Fatherland
  • 2005: On the river bank
  • 2006: I allow myself to revolt
  • 2008: Good morning, Mr Fischer - a Bavarian look
  • 2011: anger and tenderness
  • 2015: no why
  • 2017: Poetry and Resistance
  • 2018: say no! Antifascist songs 1978 to today
  • 2020: poetry in stormy times

Live albums

  • 1975: I sing because I have a song - Live at Uncle Pö
  • 1979: live (in Hamburg)
  • 1981: Live in Munich
  • 1983: In the Name of Wahnsinns Live '83
  • 1986: Find an Island Now - Live
  • 1987: Live (in Vienna and Graz)
  • 1990: Concert '90
  • 1994: Uferlos in Salzburg Live
  • 1998: Live '98
  • 2002: Vaterland live 01/02
  • 2005: Am Rußufer, Live in Munich
  • 2008: Encores - Live
  • 2011: Stormy times, my darling (live)
  • 2012: Anger and Tenderness (Live)
  • 2016: no why - live
  • 2019: Weltenbrand (with the Bavarian Philharmonic & Mark Mast )

Samplers / compilations

  • 1978: songbook
  • 1986: Much remains unwritten
  • 1991: Classics
  • 1999: love songs

With other artists

Alarm clock with the artist Gautam , sculpture in front of the town hall in Kirchhundem in the Sauerland

Performances, concerts and tours (selection)

  • 1968: First solo appearances in the cabaret scene
  • 1973: First appearances in the Munich Lach- und Schießgesellschaft
  • 1976: First tour of Germany
  • 1978: Great tour of Germany
  • 1979: Tour in Germany and Austria
  • 1980: Concerts in Holland and Scandinavia
  • 1981: Great tour of Germany and Austria
  • 1982: Participation in the concert series Artists for Peace
  • 1983: Great tour of Germany and Austria
  • 1983: Concerts with Joan Baez and Bettina Wegner
  • 1984: Swiss tour of songs and poetry
  • 1985: First concert in the GDR (Benz Church, Usedom)
  • 1985/1986: solo tour
  • 1987: Big tour Konstantin Wecker & Die Band
  • 1988: Tour 3 voices with Joan Baez, Mercedes Sosa, the band and the Modern String Quartet
  • 1988: Tour with the Modern String Quartet
  • 1989: Solo tour (Germany, Austria, Switzerland)
  • 1989: Concerts in Istanbul and Ankara
  • 1989: Concert for the 200th anniversary of the English Garden in Munich with around 150,000 spectators
  • 1990: Big tour (self-organized) with the band through Germany, Austria, Northern Italy and Switzerland
  • 1990: Concerts with Wolfgang Dauner, among others in Bolivia, Peru and Mexico.
  • 1991: Duo tour with Wolfgang Dauner
  • 1991: Tour Classics with the Münchner Rundfunkorchester (conductor: Peter Herbolzheimer )
  • 1992: Tour 20 years Wecker , solo and with Wolfgang Dauner and Charlie Mariano
  • 1993: Big tour with band
  • 1993: Duo tour with keyboardist Jo Barnikel
  • 1994: Trio tour with Jo Barnikel and Norbert Nagel
  • 1994/1995: Tour of the Konstantin Wecker Quartet (with Jo Barnikel , Norbert Nagel and Stephan Wildfeuer ), among others in the Leipzig Gewandhaus, the Großer Festspielhaus Salzburg and the Vienna State Opera
  • 1996: Tour with 17-piece choir from Cameroon Les Voies d'Espérance de Douala
  • 1996/1997: Solo tour Leben in Liedern
  • 1998: Reading tour, painfully alive
  • 1998: Brecht tour and own songs with a new band
  • 1999/2000: Tour with the guitar duo Paradoz
  • 2000: Summer concerts with Hannes Wader and Jo Barnikel
  • 2001: Tour with Jo Barnikel and Jens Fischer , partly with Gerd Baumann
  • 2001: Summer tour with Hannes Wader and Jo Barnikel
  • 2001/2002: Great Fatherland Germany tour in autumn with Gerd Baumann, Jens Fischer, Sven Faller and Jo Barnikel in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
  • 2002: Concert with Johannes Faber and Jo Barnikel in the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz (Munich)
  • 2002: Concert with Hannes Wader, Reinhard Mey and Jo Barnikel in Bielefeld for the 60th birthday of Hannes Wader
  • 2002: Duo tour with Jo Barnikel (Germany, Switzerland and Austria)
  • 2003: Concerts in Baghdad and Ankara
  • 2003: Charity appearances and concerts against the war, u. a. together with Eugen Drewermann
  • 2003: Appearance in front of 500,000 people on February 15 at the peace demonstration in Berlin
  • 2003: Concert stops on April 2nd with many musicians from then and now in the Philharmonie am Gasteig, Munich
  • 2003: Solo tour in spring and autumn (Germany and Austria)
  • 2003: Summer tour through Germany with Hannes Wader and Jo Barnikel.
  • 2004: Tour stops with Jo Barnikel and Norbert Nagel as well as solo
  • 2004: Reading tour The Sound of Unplayed Tones
  • 2004/2005: Tour I allow myself a revolt with Ulrich Meining and Damian Zydek
  • 2005/2006/2007: Tour Am Flussufer with Norbert Nagel, Jo Barnikel and Hakim Ludin in Germany, Austria, Luxembourg, South Tyrol and Switzerland.
  • 2006: Tour WeckErlebnisse with the Munich Symphony Orchestra (conducted by Manfred Knaak)
  • 2007: Tour Una nuova realtà with Pippo Pollina (Germany, Austria, Switzerland)
  • 2009/2010: Tour Leben im Leben with Jo Barnikel and with a band
  • 2009/2010: Tour Stormy Times with Jo Barnikel and the Spring String Quartet
  • 2010/2011: No end in sight tour with Hannes Wader, Jo Barnikel, Nils Tuxen and Hakim Ludin in Germany and Austria
  • 2011/2012/2013: Tour anger and tenderness in Germany, Austria, Luxembourg, Italy, Liechtenstein and Switzerland
  • 2013/2014: Solo concerts Every moment is eternal in Germany, Austria and Switzerland
  • 2013: Tour Liedestoll with Angelika Kirchschlager , Jo Barnikel, Sebastian Trimolt and Spring String Quartet in Germany, Austria and Switzerland
  • 2014/2015: Tour 40 years of madness with a band
  • 2015: Tour without a why
  • 2016: Concert in the House for Mozart
  • 2016: Tour Revolution with band (Jo Barnikel, Wolfgang Gleixner, Jens Fischer and Fany Kammerlander)
  • 2017/2018: Tour Poetry and Resistance Anniversary tour for the 70th birthday with band (Jo Barnikel, Wolfgang Gleixner, Jens Fischer, Marcus Wall and Fany Kammerlander)
  • 2018: The sound of unplayed notes Literary-musical evening, world premiere on January 26th in the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz, Munich

Musicals

  • Woman power , first performance July 1, 1973
  • Terror , first performance June 16, 1974, Munich crash
  • Viva Italia , world premiere February 2, 1975, Munich Crash
  • The resilient rise of Arturo Ui , first performance April 28, 1983, Städtische Bühnen Bonn
  • Fist. The first part of the tragedy , world premiere October 18, 1985, Schauspiel Bremen
  • Casanova (ballet), first performance April 9, 1986, Stadttheater Aachen
  • The Maiden of Orleans , first performance September 4th, 1988, Volkstheater Vienna
  • The Love Council , first performance December 31, 1988, Schillertheater Berlin
  • Die Räuber , first performance December 6, 1991, Schauspielhaus Cologne
  • Dakota Pink , world premiere May 22, 1998, Theater Pfütze in the Nürnberger Kammerspiele
  • There was a child living in the trees , first performance April 13, 1999 (orchestral version: November 7, 2000, Rhein-Mosel-Halle, Koblenz ), Literaturhaus Munich
  • Jim Knopf and Lukas the engine driver , first performance July 1, 1999, summer theater in the Cuxhaven castle garden
  • Jim Knopf und die Wilde 13 , world premiere June 29, 2000, summer theater in the castle garden of Cuxhaven
  • Minna Musical , world premiere December 2, 2000, Stadttheater Heilbronn
  • Schwejk It Easy , world premiere May 19, 2001, Theater des Westens Berlin
  • Pettson and Findus , world premiere June 28, 2001, summer theater in the castle garden of Cuxhaven
  • Tamino Pinguin , world premiere on July 5, 2001, summer theater in the castle garden of Cuxhaven
  • Take It Easy - SCHWEJK! (New version of the musical), world premiere October 20, 2001, Deutsches Theater Munich
  • The Jungle Book Musical , world premiere July 27, 2002, summer theater in the Cuxhaven castle garden
  • Pinocchio. The musical , world premiere August 1, 2003, Hapag-Hallen summer theater in Cuxhaven
  • Hundertwasser. The musical , first performance July 30, 2004, Theater an der Ilmenau Uelzen
  • Ludwig². The musical , world premiere March 10, 2005, Festspielhaus Neuschwanstein (Füssen)
  • Quo Vadis. Musical , world premiere June 16, 2005, Amphitheater Trier (Antikenfestspiele)
  • Jan with the wings , world premiere June 22, 2006, Theater des Kind , Linz
  • Till Eulenspiegel , world premiere November 8, 2006, Graz Opera
  • Fist. The second part of the tragedy , world premiere June 9, 2007, Bad Hersfeld Festival ( ruined monastery )
  • Raven mother and cuckoo child , world premiere September 15, 2007, Kinderklangwolke Donaupark Linz
  • Der kleine Lord , first performance December 5, 2007, Deutsches Theater Munich
  • Peter Pan , world premiere May 6, 2008 (version with orchestra: June 26, 2010, Theater Dortmund ), Schmidt Theater Hamburg
  • The great secret of the Brothers Grimm , world premiere December 17, 2008, Jahrhunderthalle Frankfurt (Main)
  • Paulas Reisen , first performance March 26th, 2009, Prinzregententheater Munich
  • Happy Birthday Jim Knopf , world premiere on July 25, 2009, Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg
  • The children in the mirror , world premiere September 12, 2009, Kinderklangwolke Donaupark Linz
  • Youth without God , premiere November 26, 2009, Theater in der Josefstadt , Vienna
  • Alexis Sorbas , world premiere on June 26, 2010, Theater im Turm (Ingolstadt)
  • The dream of freedom: Tjede - heroine of the north , world premiere July 15, 2010, Summer Theater Cuxhaven
  • König Badeschwamm , together with Peter Blaikner, world premiere November 7, 2010, Salzburger Landestheater
  • Kissed awake - The Sleeping Beauty Musical , world premiere May 6, 2011, Comedy Winterhuder Fährhaus, Hamburg
  • Revolt! - The true story of the Sendlinger Murder Christmas of 1705 , world premiere October 6, 2012, Geretsried culture tent
  • Feng Shui - Balance of Life - Music for the Chinese National Circus , world premiere December 14, 2012, Europapark - Dome Rust
  • Escape - music theater about new beginnings and new beginnings , world premiere October 14, 2014, Kulturzelt Geretsried
  • Oliver Twist - Das Familienmusical , together with Christian Berg, world premiere 22 August 2015, Harburger Theater

Film music

  • 1982: Gutenbach , BR Germany 1978, TV film, director: Michael Verhoeven
  • Sisters or The Balance of Happiness , Germany 1979, 95 min., Women’s film / drama, director: Margarethe von Trotta
  • Oh this father! , Federal Republic of Germany 1981, TV series, music for the 2nd season
  • The White Rose , Germany 1982, 123 min., Political thriller / biography, director: Michael Verhoeven
  • Peppermint Frieden , BR Germany, 1982, 110 min., Drama / youth film, director: Marianne Rosenbaum
  • Breathlessness , Austria 1983/1984, 95 min., Drama, director: Käthe Kratz
  • Martha Dubronski , Switzerland 1984, 96 min., Literary film adaptation / drama, director: Beat Kuert
  • Der Havarist , Federal Republic of Germany 1984, film adaptation, director: Wolf-Eckart Bühler
  • Deadly - does not apply! , Federal Republic of Germany 1985, TV game, directors: Marianne Rosenbaum and Gerard Samaan
  • Stinkwut , Federal Republic of Germany 1986, TV game, director: Michael Verhoeven
  • Kir Royal , FR Germany 1986, TV series, director: Helmut Dietl
  • Dreifacher Rittberger , Federal Republic of Germany 1987, TV comedy series, director: Bernd Schroeder
  • Didi - The Expert , Federal Republic of Germany 1987, 93 min., Comedy, director: Reinhard Schwabenitzky
  • Der Geisterwald - Blood beech and Rabenrache , Germany 1988, TV series, directed by Gerard Samaan
  • Sonntagskind or Der Circumstances , Germany 1988, TV movie, director: Marianne Rosenbaum
  • Der Bierkönig , Germany 1990, TV movie, director: Tom Toelle
  • Tatort - Blue Lady , Germany 1990, theme song “You just can't buy love”, director: Hans-Christoph Blumenberg
  • Hausmänner , Germany 1991, TV movie, director: Peter Timm
  • Schtonk ! , Germany 1991, 115 min., Comedy, director: Helmut Dietl
  • A man for every key , Germany, 1992, 92 min., Comedy, director: Peter Timm
  • Lilien in der Bank , Germany, 1992, 104 min., Director: Marianne Rosenbaum
  • The Babylon plot , Austria 1993, made for TV, director: Peter Patzak
  • 1945 , Austria 1994, TV film, director: Peter Patzak
  • Deadly Obsession , Germany, 1994, TV-movie, director: Peter Patzak
  • Doctors : Dr. Schwarz and Dr. Martin , Germany, 1994/1996, TV series in 8 episodes, directed by Xaver Schwarzenberger (1 and 2) / Bernd Fischerauer (3 to 8)
  • Kriminaltango , Germany 1995, TV crime series, theme music
  • The trail of the red barrels , Germany 1996, 91 min., Literary film adaptation / children's film, director: Kai Wessel
  • At fifty men kiss differently , Germany 1999, TV movie, director: Margarethe von Trotta
  • Latin Lover , Germany 1999, directed by Oskar Roehler
  • A vicious couple , Germany 2000, made for TV, directed by Wolf Gremm
  • Father and Daughter , Germany, 2000, short film
  • Everything with cutlery , Germany 2001, short film
  • In the middle of a life (music together with Rudi Spring ), Germany 2003, three-part TV series, director: Bernd Fischerauer
  • In the Name of the Lord , Germany 2003, two-part TV series, director: Bernd Fischerauer
  • Apollonia , Germany 2005, two-part TV series, director: Bernd Fischerauer
  • Das Zimmer im Spiegel , Germany 2007, feature film, director: Rudi Gaul
  • All that is right , Germany 2007
  • Liesl Karlstadt and Karl Valentin , Germany 2008, directed by Jo Baier
  • Whether you want it or not , Germany 2009, directed by Ben Verbong
  • Lippel's dream , Germany 2009
  • Water Makes Money , Germany / France 2010, directed by Leslie Franke and Herdolor Lorenz
  • Salto Vitale , Germany 2011, TV movie

Books

Concert and reading in Vienna, 2009

Audio book

  • Shadows , Munich 2017, Twelve moral considerations, with Herbert Rosendorfer EAN: 4042564180145

Feature films

Wecker in 2004 as Vinzenz Gschwandtner in the two-part TV series "Appolonia"
  • My whole heart is full of music , BR Germany 1959, music film (participation and solo appearance in the Rudolf Lamy children's choir)
  • Die Autozentauren , Federal Republic of Germany 1972, TV Movie (Actor)
  • 1972: Wedding Night Report
  • Nursing report , Federal Republic of Germany 1972, 81 min., Sex film, (a patient, with Elisabeth Volkmann and Ingrid Steeger )
  • Love in three dimensions , Germany 1973, 93 min., Sex film, (Rudi)
  • The Ostfriesen-Report : O mei, the Ostfriesen have giants , BR Germany, 1973, 80 min., Comedy / sex film (Hinnerk)
  • Yodelling under the dirndl , Federal Republic of Germany 1973, sex film (Florian)
  • Geilermanns Töchter - When girls come of age , BR Germany 1973, sex film (Stefan)
  • Love market - mattress listening service , Federal Republic of Germany 1973, sex film (Tom)
  • Lederhose itches when yodelling , Federal Republic of Germany 1974, sex film (Sepp)
  • Sisters or The Balance of Happiness , Germany 1979, 95 min., Women’s film / drama (Robert Edelschneider)
  • The white rose , Federal Republic of Germany, 1982, 123 min., Political thriller / biography
  • Peppermint Frieden , Federal Republic of Germany 1983, 112 min., Drama / (Schreiner Lustig)
  • Say no , Federal Republic of Germany 1983, 98 min., Documentary film (concert excerpt)
  • End of Freedom , Federal Republic of Germany 1983, 85 min., Documentary film (concert excerpt)
  • Is' what, Chancellor!?! , Federal Republic of Germany 1984, 92 min., Comedy (street musician)
  • Breathlessness , Austria 1983/84, 95 min., Drama (concert with Sigi Maron and Konstantin)
  • Martha Dubronski , Switzerland 1984, 96 min., Literary film adaptation / drama (Fleischhauer)
  • Stinkwut , Federal Republic of Germany 1986, TV game (singer theme song with zither)
  • Kir Royal , Federal Republic of Germany 1986, TV series (studio musician, 6th episode)
  • Split processes , Federal Republic of Germany 1987, documentary (concert excerpt with Konstantin Wecker)
  • Dreifacher Rittberger , Federal Republic of Germany 1987, TV comedy series (piano carrier, 4th episode)
  • Der Geisterwald - copper beech and raven revenge , Germany 1988, TV series (raven)
  • German idioms and their origins - Put someone off , Germany 1989, TV short film (Spielmann)
  • The Republicans , Germany 1990, documentary film (concert excerpt)
  • Tatort (TV Series) - Blue Lady , Germany 1990 (Rainer Seifert)
  • Go Trabi Go , Germany, 1991, comedy film ( Playboy )
  • A man for every key , Germany 1992, 92 min., Comedy (bar pianist)
  • Lilies in the bank , Germany 1992, 104 min. (Gym teacher)
  • The Babylon plot , Austria 1993, TV movie (Thomas)
  • 1945 , Austria 1994, TV film ( Bauer Mühlberger)
  • Doctors : Dr. Schwarz and Dr. Martin , Germany 1994/1996, TV series in 8 episodes (Franzl Unterrainer)
  • For me it's supposed to rain red roses , Germany 1995, documentation about Hildegard Knef (excerpt from conversation with K. Wecker)
  • Kriminaltango , Germany 1995, TV crime series (Mischa König, episode 6 Münchner Freiheit )
  • SOKO 5113 : Tommy , Germany 1999, episode from the TV crime series (Manfred Brunnhorst)
  • At fifty men kiss differently , Germany 1999, TV movie ( Sculptor Gerd)
  • Dunkle Tage , Germany 1999, TV movie (Herr Rinser)
  • A vicious couple , Germany 2000, TV movie (Frank)
  • Everything with cutlery , Germany 2001, short film (pianist)
  • Edelweiß , Austria 2000 (Paul Richter)
  • In the middle of a life , Germany 2003, three-part TV series (Tom Hochreiter)
  • Apollonia , Germany 2005, two-part TV series (Müller Vinz)
  • Mozart - I would have done Munich honor , Germany 2006, TV film, director: Bernd Fischerauer
  • Who dies earlier is dead longer , Germany 2006, feature film, director: Marcus H. Rosenmüller (Vampire im Zug)
  • Summit storm , Germany 2007, TV-Movie (supporting role and music)
  • To Tuscany and Back , Germany 2007, TV-Movie (Nikolaus Schweiger)
  • Crime scene: Bitter Grapes , Germany 2009 (Ludwig Kappl)
  • Clear case for Bär , Germany 2010, TV movie
  • Die Trödelqueen - Opportunity Makes Love , Germany 2011, TV movie
  • The big comeback , Germany 2011, TV movie
  • Wunderkinder , Germany 2011, film drama (SS Standartenführer Schwartow)
  • Clear case for Bear - Dangerous Friendship Service , Germany 2011, TV movie
  • Hanni & Nanni 3 , Germany 2013
  • My sister's wedding , Germany 2014
  • Der Alte - Die heilige Maria , Germany 2014, TV series

literature

  • Oliver Binder, Ulrich Müller [Salzburg]: Lessing's Minna von Barnhelm as a musical : “Minna. Musical “by Michael Wildenhain , Konstantin Wecker, Nicolas Kemmer (2001). In: Suevica. Contributions to Swabian literary and intellectual history. 9 (2001/2002). Stuttgart 2004 [2005], pp. 43-54.
  • “Another society has to be a more loving one.” A conversation with the songwriter Konstantin Wecker. In: Bernd Drücke (Ed.): Anarchism Hoch 2. Social movement, utopia, reality, future. Karin Kramer Verlag, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-87956-375-3 , pp. 112-134.

documentary

The documentary Wader Wecker Vater Land by Rudi Gaul about Hannes Wader and Konstantin Wecker, who went on tour together in 2010, won the Audience Award as the most popular film at the Munich Film Festival in 2011.

Interviews with alarm clock

Web links

Commons : Konstantin Wecker  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A political bard. In: br.de , September 14, 2011
  2. ↑ Allgemeine Zeitung
  3. ↑ The Whole Terribly Beautiful Life , page 14
  4. ↑ Lauter Lieder with Konstantin Wecker on the website of the University of Würzburg
  5. ↑ mutual separation
  6. ↑ http://www.bild.de/unterhaltung/wissenschaften/konstantin-wecker/so-zerbrach-seine-grosse-liebe-31015748.bild.html
  7. ↑ Konstantin Wecker: The whole terribly beautiful life. The biography . 2nd Edition. Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2017, ISBN 978-3-579-08644-6 , p. 267 .
  8. ↑ Dieter Hildebrandt , Peter Ensikat : How did we laugh. Views of two clowns. Edited by Franziska Günther and Thomas Grimm, edited by David Ensikat. Construction Verlag, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-351-02760-5 , blurb.
  9. ↑ Konstantin Wecker supports young artists with Sturm & Klang. In: mediabiz.de. September 3, 2013, accessed May 2, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Tour with Angelika Kirchschlager. In: nuernbergmusik.de
  11. ↑ a b Konstantin Wecker godfather of this year's home + on the go competition. In: presse.wdr.de
  12. ↑ Helen Roth: Professor Unreason. Students explain to Konstantin Wecker what his texts still tell them today. In: neue-deutschland.de
  13. ↑ Interview with Konstantin Wecker: "In the end we sang an Arabic peace song" , Interview with Holger Kulick on Spiegel Online, January 15, 2013 [1]
  14. ↑ Konstantin Wecker in Baghdad: Dog biscuits for peace , commentary by Henryk M. Broder on Spiegel Online, January 11, 2003 [2]
  15. ↑ About us. In: BEHIND THE HEADLINES. Retrieved November 29, 2019 .
  16. ↑ mut- gegen-rechte-gewalt.de ( Memento from July 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  17. ↑ Konstantin Wecker in an interview: Graswurzelrevolution No. 348 / April 2010 (Part 1), p. 10 ff., Online version
  18. ↑ What is it worth fighting for? - The songwriters and protest veterans Konstantin Wecker and Hannes Wader on the disagreement, interview by Nahuel Lopez , Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung , August 8, 2010.
  19. ↑ Konstantin Wecker supports Christian Ude on YouTube
  20. ^ Website of the declaration ( Memento of September 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  21. ↑ "Testimonial" on the CBG website
  22. ^ Goldener Rathausmann for Konstantin Wecker , Rathauskorrespondenz from December 19, 2009
  23. ↑ A Warner in Junge Welt from June 23, 2015
  24. ↑ humanprojects.de: The previous winners
  25. ↑ Message from Konstantin Wecker on the Göttingen Peace Prize (youtube)
  26. ^ Peace Prize for Konstantin Wecker . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . Munich March 13, 2018 (DPA).
  27. ↑ Songwriter Konstantin Wecker comes to the University of Landau
  28. ↑ Konstantin Wecker received the Albert Schweitzer Medal in the Paulskirche. Evangelical Frankfurt and Offenbach, September 4, 2019, accessed on September 10, 2019 .
  29. ↑ Charts DE Charts AT Charts CH
  30. ↑ The darling is called "Wader / Wecker Vaterland"
Albums by Konstantin Wecker


Studio albums

• 1973 - The sadopoetic chants of Konstantin Amadeus Wecker • 1974 - I always live on the beach • 1976 - Alarm clock lights • 1977 - Enough is not enough • 1978 - A lot of life • 1981 - Love flight • 1982 - That gives me courage • 1982 - Alarm clock • 1984 - Warm inside • 1986 - Back home • 1988 - Very nice alarm clock • 1989 - Quiet happiness, sweet home • 1993 - Shoreless • 1994 - When you're gone • 1996 - Gamsig • 1998 - Brecht • 2001 - Vaterland • 2005 - On the river bank • 2006 - I allow myself a revolt • 2008 - Good morning Mr Fischer - a Bavarian look • 2011 - Anger and tenderness • 2015 - Without a why • 2017 - Poetry and resistance • 2018 - Say no! Antifascist songs 1978 to today

Live albums

• 1975 - I sing because I have a song - Live at Onkel Pö • 1979 - live (in Hamburg) • 1981 - Live in Munich • 1983 - In the name of madness Live '83 • 1986 - Now find an island - Live • 1987 - Live (in Vienna and Graz) • 1990 - Concert '90 • 1994 - Uferlos in Salzburg Live • 1998 - Live '98 • 2002 - Vaterland live 01/02 • 2005 - Am Rußufer, Live in Munich • 2008 - Encores - Live • 2011 - Stormy times, my darling (live) • 2012 - Anger and tenderness (Live) • 2016 - No why - live

Compilation albums

• 1978 - song book • 1986 - so much remains unwritten • 1991 - Classics • 1999 - love songs

personal data
SURNAME Alarm clock, Constantine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wecker, Konstantin Alexander (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musician, songwriter, composer and author
DATE OF BIRTH June 1, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich