Lutz Kerschowski

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Lutz Kerschowski (* 1953 in Berlin-Pankow ) is a German guitarist and composer. His career began in the 1980s in the GDR ( see also Music of the GDR ). Since the 1990s he has made a name for himself primarily through film music .

Life

Kerschowski is a trained car mechanic. His career as a rock musician began in the amateur band Regenmacher . In 1985 he founded the rock band Kerschowski in East Berlin . The band was recognized as the best newcomer band and received an offer from Amiga to produce a long-playing record in the year it was founded , which was unusual for GDR conditions. The band included Lutz Kerschowski (vocals), Lexa Thomas (bass guitar), Jörg Mischke (keyboard), Jörg “Wilkie” Wilkendorf (guitar), Tina Tandler (saxophone) and Thomas Pilz (drums). Later Thomas was replaced by Kay Lutter (today: In Extremo ) and Pilz by "Delle" Kriese (today: Klaus Renft Combo ). Musically, the band was initially based on Bruce Springsteen . In addition to his own compositions ( Monday morning , Mensch Junge ), Kerschowski drew attention to himself with titles by Springsteen, for which Lutz Kerschowski had written German texts. Lutz Kerschowski later added German lyrics to other international hits and added them to the band's repertoire. Among them were mom's birthday ( Birthday ) and a tough day (A Hard Days Night) by the Beatles . Kerschowski's recipe for success was down-to-earth rock music and the renouncement of an elaborate stage show. Although the band had another production offer from Amiga shortly after the release of the LP Weiterstieg , Kerschowski decided against and preferred to continue playing live.

A close friendship developed from Kerschowski's first encounter with the West German musician Rio Reiser in 1988 at a joint concert in East Berlin's Werner Seelenbinder Hall .

At the beginning of 1989 Lutz Kerschowski looked for new musical ways, broke up the band, gathered high-profile musicians around him and started the Blankenfeld boogie band project . This band project, in which Peter Glasses (Caesar), Heiner Witte ( Engerling ) and Jürgen Ehle participated, was a short-term project, similar to the Gitarreros and the Amiga blues band . With the only LP of this band, Kerschowski decided not to record it in the Amiga studios, recorded the record in an improvised "garage studio" and had Rio Reiser mix it in the Federal Republic of Germany . Kerschowski wanted to achieve that the recordings come close to the sound of the live concerts.

In the fall of 1989 he co-authored the protest resolution of rock musicians and songwriters . In 1990 he became a guitarist in Rio Reiser's band. After his death in 1996 he took care of his artistic estate. He was responsible for the David Volksmund Production label .

Kerschowski works for the Möbius Rekords label . Since 1999 he has also devoted himself to jobs in the film industry, for example for Police Call 110 and Tatort . Above all, he writes film music for TV feature films for public television companies .

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Discography

  • 1986: Moving on ( Amiga )
  • 1989: Kerschowski & Blankenfelder Boogie-Band (Amiga)
  • 1994: Over is over ( Buschfunk )
  • 2004: Kerschowski - The 3 original albums on CD ( Hansa Amiga / Sony BMG )

Film music (selection)

Unless otherwise stated, TV films:

literature

  • Waltraud Heinze: Kerschowski. In: Melodie und Rhythmus , Berlin, issue 1/1986
  • Ralf Dietrich: A new beginning in Blankenfelde. In: Melodie und Rhythmus , issue 1/1990
  • Nadine Kraft: Kerschowski. In: Melodie und Rhythmus , Berlin, issue 3/2004

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Torsten Hampel: The immortal tone In: Der Tagesspiegel from October 5, 2008
  2. ↑ Portrait of Kerschowski , accessed on May 19, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Kerschowski, Lutz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German rock musician and composer
DATE OF BIRTH 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin-Pankow