Maike Rosa Vogel

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Maike Rosa Vogel live 2012

Maike Rosa Vogel (* 1978 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German singer-songwriter .

Career

Maike Rosa Vogel grew up in a left household in Frankfurt am Main. She owes her middle name to Rosa Luxemburg . Her parents mainly listened to classical music and songs from the political movement, for example Wolf Biermann or the butterflies . She herself describes Tocotronic , Björk and Sinéad O'Connor as her greatest influences , but above all attaches importance to the lived punk attitude.

At the age of 14, she founded the first punk band with her friend and wrote her own songs for them. After dropping out of school, she worked at the post office and as a bicycle courier and began to teach herself how to produce on the computer. In 2004 she began studying at the Pop Academy . With her fellow student Konstantin Gropper , she founded the electronics project The Grand Mirage in the first week. After completing her studies, her solo album, Golden , which she wrote, recorded and produced herself during her studies , was released on the Berlin label Salon Mondial in 2008 . She also started a collaboration with the director Milan Peschel for a production of Die Glasmenagerie at the Maxim-Gorki-Theater in Berlin and was booked as support for Element of Crime . Sven Regener produced her second album Imperfect , which was released on her own label in 2010.

In 2011 there was another collaboration with Milan Peschel at the Maxim-Gorki-Theater for the play The Little Brother based on the novel by Sven Regener. In the same year she wrote music for the documentary film Whores' Glory by Michael Glawogger , and she sang one of the songs based on a poem by Michael Glawogger in a duet with Konstantin Gropper.

In 2012 her third album 5 Minuten , produced by Sven Regener, was released again on her own label. In the same year she wrote a song with Doris Dörrie for their film Glück , which was sung by actress Alba Rohrwacher and Thees Uhlmann .

In 2013 she was awarded the prize of the song best list .

In 2015 her album was released anyway , which is also distributed exclusively by her for the first time, produced by herself and Sven Regener. In 2016 she set songs for the play Johnny Breitwieser by Thomas Arzt , directed by Mathias Schönsee at the Schauspielhaus Graz and wrote the music for the children's book adaptation Der Mondmann by Tomi Ungerer , which was also premiered under the direction of Mathias Schönsee at the Schauspielhaus Graz.

In 2017 her album Alles was ich want was released from its own production and distribution.

In 2020 she brought out her sixth solo album Eine Reality . It includes collaborations with Cäthe , Felix Meyer and Sven Regener .

Maike Rosa Vogel lives in Berlin with her husband and two children.

Music genre

In addition to Björk , Sinéad O'Connor and Hole , Ton Steine ​​Scherben , Tocotronic and Violent Femmes are among her influences. She mostly accompanies herself with the acoustic guitar, but is less interested in defining certain styles of music, but sees herself as a representative of the punk attitude, according to which it is more important that you say something than how you say it. Her songs are also accompanied by piano , harmonica and strings on the albums . Her texts deal with both personal and political issues.

Discography

Albums

  • 2008: Golden (Salon Mondial)
  • 2011: Imperfect (Our Choice)
  • 2012: Five Minutes (Our Choice)
  • 2015: Still good
  • 2017: Everything I want
  • 2020: a reality

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ taz.de : "For a song to be political, politics doesn't have to be in it" , January 12, 2013, last accessed: January 19, 2018.
  2. ↑ Thomas Winkler: Romantiks next top model. Die Zeit , April 26, 2011, accessed on April 28, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Vogel, Maike Rosa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German singer-songwriter
DATE OF BIRTH 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main