Manfred Kindel

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Unmada Manfred Kindel at the autumn festival in the children's forest in Hanover on September 13, 2014

Manfred Kindel (pseudonym Unmada , * 1954 in Empelde ) is a German composer, author, interpreter, singer, children's choir director and teacher .

Life

Manfred Kindel grew Ronnenberger district Empelde on and completed after graduating from high school to community service . After an internship abroad at the Het Zilveren Schor education center in Arnemuiden in the Netherlands , he studied pedagogy at the University of Hanover from 1975 to 1981 with a focus on extracurricular youth and adult education . During his studies Kindel performed as a street musician with the group Atomic Musicians in Hanover , was involved as an activist in the "Independent Youth Center Movement" and was an honorary member of the board of the Independent Youth Center in Kornstrasse until 1981 .

After successfully completing his studies, Kindel headed the tea room in the drug advice center drobs in Hanover from 1981 and then lived and worked from 1984 to 1986 in the " Osho Communes" in Hanover, Hamburg and Oregon ( USA ).

Back in Hanover, Kindel worked from 1986 to 1988 as a sex educator at Pro Familia , the Lower Saxony state association. At the same time, Kindel played at the children's music theater energie-Theater in Hanover from 1986 to 1993 , and by 1991 he completed a part-time course in musical rhythm at the Remscheid Academy . In 1990 he also founded the company UNiKUM MUSIK, music production and distribution , through which he published CDs with children's songs he composed and interpreted himself.

Accompanied by several advanced training courses in the field of "Music for Children", Manfred Kindel appeared as a musician and actor at the Marmelock puppet theater in 1994 , took part in the UNICEF "Maschsee Pirates" campaign in 1995 and initiated the Children's Forest in Hanover in 1996, where he started the Children's forest choir conducted. In 1997 and 1998 Kindel composed and directed the musical The Five Demons in line with Agenda 21 . Also in 1998, Kindel co-founded the website kindermusik.de , which provides information about the activities of various children's song makers and activities, particularly in Germany .

In 1999, Manfred Kindel initiated the first summer camp on a seven-hectare site in the north-west of Hanover near the Mecklenheider Forest , which was officially designated as a children's forest in 2000. Also in 2000, Kindel initiated the Ene mene music participation festival .

In 2001 he initiated the Masala children's caravan , in 2002 he founded the children's cultural association Alles Banane eV, which in the same year organized the first Alles Banana children's song festival. In 2003 Kindel wrote the anthem for the Reading Is Fun campaign . Since 2005 Kindel has been offering musical training courses nationwide in cooperation with Kein Tag ohne Musik . Also in 2005 he carried out the project Everyone is different at the Selma Lagerlöf School , a school for intellectual development . In 2008 he appeared in Bonn at the UN Nature Conservation Conference .

In 2009 Kindel started the initiative “ German Sign Language DGS in Children's Songs”; has worked at the Come Together Song Festival in Bad Belzig since 2010 and in 2011 carried out a first theater and music project on the subject of Indians at the “St. Vinzenz Family Center”. The musical project LINIE 100 followed in 2012 and 2013 .

In 2013 Kindel was increasingly involved in integration and inclusion projects and participated in various sign language workshops at chor.com as well as at the 4th children's song congress . From the same year Manfred Kindel took over the patronage of the Linden-Süd project - a district and its cultural ambassadors .

Awards

  • 2003: 1st Children's Song Prize for the work Behind Us The Mountains
  • 2007: Citizens' Prize from the Hanover City District Council Center
  • 2008: Nomination for the muna environmental award from ZDF and the German Federal Environment Foundation
  • 2011: City Culture Prize from the Friends of Hanover
  • 2013: 1st prize as co-author (text) at the nationwide song competition "Tolerance" with the song by Mai Cocopelli "We are here"

Works (selection)

From 1990 to 2013 eighteen CD productions were published by the company UNiKUM MUSIK, music production and distribution , either self-published or by Ökotopia Verlag, Münster, including:

  • Unmada Manfred Kindel (lyrics, music): Pi-Pa-Po. Pirate and other songs for children , CD with supplements and songs (recording from 1995): Hey hello you there. Pi-Pa-Po pirates. Üstralala. Emma & Hennriette. Yes, we are the ants. Heppo. The fur seal. Starssenba (h) nane. Donkey hunt. Fritze Farbian. Everyone is different. Wiwi wipp. Heppo and Meer and interstitial texts, interpreted by the Maschsee pirates. the chickpeas and mabon. Unikum-Musik 1003 [1999]
  • Unmada: Uni and the Alles-Banana-Singers. Nursery rhymes. CD with supplement, with the songs Alles Banane. Paula. 1, 2, 3 mashed potatoes. Schluggi-Schlupp. Baby blues. Comfort song. Good ride. No, no cheese. Mario is playing birthday. Knight song. But I have in me. Ranga de. Mangio tutto. Unikum-Musik 1001 [1999]
  • Unmada Manfred Kindel: Wonderful water . Songs, dances, games and stories from the children's forest. with a foreword by Fredrik Vahle, illustrations by Jule Ehlers-Juhle and Noten, Münster: Ökotopia-Verlag, 2001, ISBN 3-931902-65-X .
  • Unmada Manfred Kindel (music, texts and arrangement): Erdenkinder. with the songs hello, hello! Huhu quiver quiver. Utungeubas. Bamboo. Eibel. Children of one earth. Dream catcher. Time busters. The forest makes music. Children's forest song. Fly like a butterfly. Earth is my body. and all around. based on a recording from 1997, Hanover: ABC-Roxxon-Tonstudio, Unikum-Musik 1004 [2002], CD with supplements
  • Unmada Manfred Kindel: catchy tunes. The children's song practice book. Encourage singing fun with new ideas, catchy songs, musical and playful instructions and valuable information about singing with children. with illustrations by Jule Ehlers-Juhle, Münster (Westphalia): Ökotopia-Verlag, 2006, ISBN 3-936286-95-7 .
  • Birgit Butz, Anna-Kristina Mohos, Unmada Manfred Kindel: Singing, playing, telling stories with children's gestures . Accompany songs, finger games and rhymes with your hands - for children aged 0-4. with illustrations by Vanessa Paulzen, sheet music and a CD, 1st edition. Münster: Ökotopia-Verlag, 2012, ISBN 978-3-86702-180-7 .

literature

  • Susanne Wildermann, Irmtraud Lohs, Silke Beck (Red.): Kinderwald Hannover. illustrated brochure DIN A5 (50 pages), ed. from the state capital Hanover, the Lord Mayor, Department of Environment and Urban Green. with texts by Katja Arff, Udo Büsing, Astrid Hölzer, Ernst Klingenberg, Unmada Manfred Kindel, Angelika Liebrecht and others, Hannover: Landeshauptstadt Hannover, December 2011.

Web links

Commons : Manfred Kindel  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b GND 135092701 at the German National Library
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q Vita Unmada Manfred Kindel ( Memento of the original from March 4, 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. , PDF document on the unmada.de site @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.unmada.de
  3. ↑ NN: This is the children's forest. In: Susanne Wildermann, Irmtraud Lohs, Silke Beck (Red.): Kinderwald Hannover (see literature)
  4. ↑ Children's songs practical seminar on the page kein-tag-ohne-musik.de , last accessed on September 14, 2014.
  5. ↑ Press release by the Freundeskreis Hannover dated November 23, 2011 can be downloaded ( Memento of the original from December 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. as a PDF document @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.freundeskreis-hannover.de
  6. ↑ Laudation by Erwin Schütterle on November 22, 2011; downloadable ( memento of the original from December 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. as a PDF document @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.freundeskreis-hannover.de
personal data
SURNAME Kindel, Manfred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Unmada (pseudonym); Kindel, Unmada Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pedagogue, composer, author, interpreter, singer and children's choir leader
DATE OF BIRTH 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Ronnenberg