Manfred Ulrich

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Manfred Ulrich (born June 12, 1949 in Bad Sobernheim ) is a German folk singer , musician , songwriter and composer . He plays the guitar, button harmonica and harmonica. In addition to his musical activities, he was the owner of the publishing house, producer and editor of books with sound carriers.

Career

Manfred Ulrich grew up in Merxheim an der Nahe . In his early school days he got to know the German folk songs , which gave him lasting inspiration. In 1964 he began a three-year apprenticeship as a baker and obtained a journeyman's certificate. Also in 1964 he became a member of the " Nerother Wandervogel " association, which is based at Waldeck Castle in the Hunsrück. This encounter with the Bundestag youth shaped both his personal and musical development and his later work. At the beginning of the 1970s he was called up for the German Armed Forces in Munsterlager / Lüneburger Heide. During this time he began his first public appearances as a “folk singer” in folk clubs, for example at Danny's Pan (Danny Marion) in Hamburg and Düsseldorf.

On his musical path he met artists such as Klaus Hoffmann , Hannes Wader , Otto Waalkes , Ulrich Roski , Hein & Oss Kröher and Ingo Insterburg . In addition to his work as a commercial clerk in Wuppertal, other appearances as a folk singer followed. In 1979 he moved to Neroth in the Eifel region and in 1984 his first record, “Soldiers Demokrats”, was released by Autogram Records, Nottuln.

In 1985 he founded his own publishing house, the Eifelkrone music publishing house. In the same year he met the violinist and multi-instrumentalist Thomas Kagermann at a concert. In 1986 the two founded the “Duo Vulkan” and the first studio recordings and appearances followed in the Eifel, the Moselle and the Rhineland. In 1988 Manfred Ulrich was engaged as an exclusive artist through the record deal with Teldec / East-West-Records (Hamburg). Together with Thomas Kagermann, a new formation with other musicians was brought into being. “Manfred Ulrich and the rascals” were born. They developed a new style of music with traditional folk songs as well as their own songs and presented them in a new modern electric-acoustic guise. Thanks to the special arrangements, well-known melodies were combined with new musical elements and a new and up to then unique sound was created in the folk music scene: “Folk music of the third kind”. Manfred Ulrich and the rascals were pioneers here for other music formations.

Folk singer

Manfred Ulrich (1984)

As a folk singer, Manfred Ulrich is associated with traditional German folk songs. For him, this includes songs of the youth movements, ballads, moritats, mercenary songs, soldiers’s songs, popular songs, artisan and peasant songs, kitchen songs, monastery songs, hunter’s songs and many other folk song sections. From this treasure trove of songs, the first sound carrier recording as a vinyl record was made in 1984, the LP Soldiers Democrats . At the same time he wrote almost 200 compositions with the following content: Moselle songs, Eifel songs, Rhine songs, near songs, romantic songs and craft songs. There followed poem settings, z. B. Texts by the Eifel poet Peter Zirbes , texts by Wilma Herzog and Theo Pauly, descriptions of the homeland of the Vulkaneifel and the town of Gerolstein and the surrounding area. His song “ Daun , Meine Stadt” appeared in 1994 in the Vulkaneifel's homeland yearbook. The music video of the same name “Daun, Meine Stadt” was produced with him as a singer and guitarist in a duet with the soprano Gisela Ginsberg. An article by Matthias Thömmes with the title "In the footsteps of Peter Zirbes" also appeared in the 2002 Heimatjahrbuch on page 70. It is quoted: "In the meantime, various composers have also discovered the beauty of Peter Zirbes' works and found them suitable for setting. One of the first was the popular singer Manfred Ulrich from Neroth, who became known through radio and television. He has been working with Peter Zirbes for years and his work and has already sensitively set 18 poems to music. "

Manfred Ulrich worked with many musicians in the course of his artistic path. He has been active in concerts, LP and CD productions and television appearances in the following formations for years, partly until today.

  • Manfred Ulrich, folk singer - since 1974
  • 1986: Manfred Ulrich & Thomas Kagermann as "Duo Vulkan"
  • 1988: Manfred Ulrich and the Spitzbuben (with Thomas Kagermann , Volker Vaeßen (later followed by Urs Fuchs ), Stefan Wiesbrock and Wolfram Cramer von Clausbruch )
  • 1993: Manfred Ulrich Trio (with Thomas Kagermann and Wolfram Cramer von Clausbruch)
  • 2012: Manfred Ulrich & Cordelia Carola Geitler as "Duo Troubadour"

Record contracts and discography

  • 1984: Autogram-Records Nottuln "Soldiers-Democrats"
  • 1988: Teldec / East-West-Records - First release: "Oh Mariechen" (Producer: Manfred Ulrich & Thomas Kagermann, Performers: Manfred Ulrich - guitar & vocals, Thomas Kagermann - violin, guitar & vocals, Volker Vaeßen - bass, Stefan Wiesbrock - guitar and Wolfram Cramer von Clausbruch - keyboard instruments, sound engineer: Klaus Eisner, recorded in the "National" studio and Solingen and Haan tanning studio)
  • 1989: Teldec - "Listen what comes in from outside" (Producer: Manfred Ulrich & Thomas Kagermann, Performers: Manfred Ulrich - guitar & vocals, Thomas Kagermann - violin, flute, guitars, mandolin & vocals, Urs Fuchs - bass, Wolfram Cramer von Clausbruch - keyboard instruments, Stefan Wiesbrock - concert guitars, sound engineer: Klaus Eisner, recorded in Wuppertal, studio in the Eich)
  • 1991: East-West-Records - "Vagabund" (producer: Klaus Eisner, interpreters: Manfred Ulrich - harmonica & vocals, Thomas Kagermann - violin, flute, banjo & vocals, Stefan Wiesbrock - guitar & vocals, Urs Fuchs - bass & vocals , Wolfram Cramer von Clausbruch - keyboard instruments, accordion & vocals, Tom Schäfer - drums, sound engineer: Klaus Eisner, recorded in Wuppertal, studio in the Eich)
  • 1993: Manfred Ulrich & die Spitzbuben - "Zugvögel" (producer: Klaus Eisner, interpreters: Manfred Ulrich - vocals & Styrian harmonica , Thomas Kagermann - violin & vocals, Stefan Wiesbrock - guitar & vocals, Wolfram Cramer von Clausbruch - keyboard instruments, accordion & Vocals, Urs Fuchs - bass, Tom Schäfer - drums & percussion, sound engineer: Klaus Eisner, recorded in the "Eisner Sound Studio" in Haan / Rhineland)
  • 1999: Trio Manfred Ulrich - "We drove through Germany"
  • 2001: Manfred Ulrich sings songs & ballads by Peter Zirbes
  • 2007: Trio Manfred Ulrich - "Hello friends"

editor

Manfred Ulrich founded his own publishing house in 1985, the "Eifelkrone-Musikverlag" in Neroth in the Eifel . Initially this was a pure music publisher and was then expanded in 2001 to “Verlag Eifelkrone Musik & Buch eK”. As editor, Manfred Ulrich planned all music productions and books with and without CD supplements. Sound carriers with regional reference, children's sound carriers, children's song books with sound carrier supplements, song books with different topics were published. From 1992 his own CD productions appeared as publications on Melotron Records by Verlag Eifelkrone, Neroth.

Publications

From 2003 to 2014, Manfred Ulrich was the editor of various book publishers in the field of children's books with and without sound carrier insert as well as sound carriers for children.

The publishing house Warlich - Druck Meckenheim - published the song book Vagabund - Volkslieder , Hardcover - 224 pages, ISBN 3-9802429-5-1 in 1992

The Pabel-Moewig Verlag KG Rastatt published among others: The most beautiful children's songs. Volume 1, 2003, ISBN 3-8118-1987-9 and Volume 2, 2003, ISBN 3-8118-1480-X , The most beautiful fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm , 2004 ISBN 3-8118-3865-2 , My most beautiful stories and songs zur Gute Nacht 2005, ISBN 3-8118-1051-0 and My Guardian Angel is with me. Songs, poems, etc. Stories f. Children 2006, ISBN 3-8118-1909-7 .

Published by Urania Verlag Stuttgart: Let's sing and jump - The most beautiful play & dance songs 2005, ISBN 3-332-01615-6 , The most beautiful children's songs for 2006, ISBN 3-332-01805-1 and fun and chatting songs - Games and crafts with music for children 2008, ISBN 978-3-7831-6129-8 .

Published by tosa Verlag by Carl Ueberreuter: Songs and stories from the fire brigade / The most beautiful songs to sing and play Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-85003-095-3 , My first dance song book - with guitar fingerings, The most beautiful songs to sing, Dancing and Playing Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-85003-092-2 , My first songbook about craftspeople - The most beautiful songs to sing and play , Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-85003-093-9 and songs and stories from the farm Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-85003-094-6 .

Published by K75 Medienpark Fränkisch Crumbach: Funny adventures of the hardworking handicraft gnomes 2014, ISBN 978-3-95706-000-6 , rhymes, songs & finger games 2014, ISBN 978-3-95706-001-3 and happy songs and games to join in 2014, ISBN 978-3-95706-100-3 .

Other productions

Productions by Eifelkrone Musik & Buch e. S:

  • 1992: The sky is blue. For the 10th anniversary of the Eifel entertainment community - songs of the Eifel. (Production and musical concept: Manfred Ulrich & Wolfram Cramer von Clausbruch / various interpreters)
  • 1993: "Land of the Volcanoes" - songs from the Vulkaneifel and the surrounding area (Production: Manfred Ulrich & Klaus Eisner)
  • 1995: Do you see how the sun shines - CD single, Christian Steffen
  • 1996: Steilbachspatzen - Dora Laux, Christa Mohr, Michaela Schüller: vocals, Martin Hermes: accordion - songs from the "Enderttal" and surroundings / produced by Manfred Ulrich & Klaus Künne jun.
  • 1997: Production for book insert: for Helios Verlag, Aachen “Musikwelt Eifel”. Recorder music from the late Middle Ages to the Baroque (performers: recorder ensemble “ Flautando Köln ”. The sound recordings were made in October 1997 in the monastery church in Niederehe / Vulkaneifel. Produced by Manfred Ulrich and Klaus Eisner)
  • 2003: Eifel addict - City of Gerolstein - sampler songs such as “My beautiful Gerolstein” and other Eifel-related home songs
  • 2005: I love hiking for my life - the most beautiful folk, native and hiking songs for the 106th German Hiking Day of the Eifelverein in Prüm, published in the Eifel as a book ISBN 3-937640-19-3 and as a sound carrier ISBN 3-937640 -20-7

literature

Web links

Commons : Manfred Ulrich  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ German National Library Manfred Ulrich as musician, composer, arranger and editor - accessed on February 3, 2020
  2. ↑ Manfred Ulrich discogs.com - accessed February 9, 2020
  3. ↑ Consistency as a recipe for success Trierischer Volksfreund - accessed on February 9, 2020
  4. ↑ Article in Trierisches Volksfreund about Manfred Ulrich, his career, his proximity to the Wandervogel movement and his various music formations - accessed on February 10, 2020
  5. ↑ [1] Manfred Ulrich - a portrait, article in the 1990 edition of Heimatjahrbuch, page 109, written by Wilma Herzog, Gerolstein - accessed on February 3, 2020
  6. ↑ Article in Trierischer Volksfreund about the concert on July 8th, 2003 by the Manfred Ulrich Trio in Gerolstein - accessed on April 17th, 2020
  7. ^ [2] Song text "Daun, Meine Stadt" in the 1994 edition of the Heimatjahrbuch, page 195 - accessed on February 3, 2020
  8. ↑ Daun, my city - with Gisela Ginsberg and Manfred Ulrich - accessed on February 10, 2020
  9. ↑ [3] Matthias Thömmes mentions Manfred Ulrich's Zirbes settings in his article "In the footsteps of Peter Zirbes" on the 100th year of the Eifel poet's death in the 2002 edition of the Heimatjahrbuch, page 70 - accessed on February 9, 2020
  10. ↑ [4] The Peter-Zirbes-Kulturkreis mentions the setting of the stone pine poems and the Manfred Ulrich trio - accessed on April 26, 2020
  11. ↑ [5] Performances by the Manfred Ulrich trio at the Haaner Sommer - accessed on April 26, 2020
  12. ↑ Article in the Trierischer Volksfreund about the concert on August 13, 2005 by the Manfred Ulrich Trio in Traben-Trarbach on the occasion of the Moselfestwochen 2005 - accessed on February 10, 2020
  13. ↑ Article in the Kreuznacher Rundschau on page 6 about the concert in the Bad Kreuznach spa gardens on June 13, 2015 in the summer evening program "Saturday Special" - accessed on April 17, 2020
  14. ↑ Songs from the LP "Soldiers-Democrats" published on the CD "I am a free man and I sing: 150 Years of the German Revolution - Democratic Songs Vol.4 - accessed on February 10, 2020
  15. ^ Bibliography in the Rhineland-Palatinate Bibliography - accessed on April 17, 2020
  16. ^ Bibliography in the Rhineland-Palatinate Bibliography - accessed on April 17, 2020
  17. ↑ Article in the Trierischer Volksfreund on the publication of the CD "Eifelsuchtig" - accessed on February 9, 2020
  18. ↑ Text about the concert by the Manfred Ulrich Trio on the occasion of the 106th DWT of the Eifelverein, the Eifel presentation in front of the town hall in Bad Blankenburg and the publication of the book and CD "I love hiking for my life" in the magazine "Die Eifel / 2005" Pages 16 and 17 - accessed April 17, 2020
  19. ↑ Announcement of the publication of the book and CD "I love hiking for my life on the 106th German Hiking Day 2006 in the Eifel - accessed on April 17, 2020
  20. ↑ Concert of the Manfred Ulrich Trio for the 130th anniversary celebration of the Eifelverein on May 12, 2018 in the Forum Daun - accessed on April 17, 2020
  21. ^ Bibliography in the Rhineland-Palatinate Bibliography - accessed on April 17, 2020


personal data
SURNAME Ulrich, Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German folk singer
DATE OF BIRTH June 12, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Sobernheim