Marcel Lehmann

Marcel Lehmann (born March 11, 1953 in Niederschopfheim ) is a German songwriter and teacher.

Live and act

As a high school student, Marcel Lehmann learned various instruments and played in several bands. After graduating from high school, he trained in pedagogy, music and mathematics in Karlsruhe. After he had passed the 1st and 2nd state examinations, he studied theology in addition to his work as a teacher for music and mathematics in Freiburg and in this way acquired the Missio canonica.

At the end of the 1970s, texts by Friedrich Hölderlin inspired him to write his first compositions. There were songs like Half of Life , Since I was a boy and people applauded . At the beginning of the 1980s he founded the religious music groups "REMU" and "Leuchtsignale", with which he performed at Catholic and Church Days, among others.

His love for music and his religious interest prompted him to set religious texts to music in the first years of his career. He made songs from psalm texts transferred by the Graz theologian Albert Höfer , which the publishing group "engagement" made available to interested parties in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

In the second half of the 1980s and 1990s he focused on the new secular nursery rhyme without forgetting its roots. In parallel to his mostly secular publications, which were featured in newspapers, specialist and children's magazines, he wrote new religious songs. Seven days of creation was born, a musical game for children and young people. His compositions were used in seminars, concerts, in school lessons and in church services. He worked with artists and copywriters such as Ludger Edelkötter , Siegfried Fietz and Hermann Schulze-Berndt .

Since 2000 he has been producing and distributing his newly created secular and religious works under the name "Bärenstarke Musik".

In 2008 he met the religious educator Jutta Nowak . With her he created the work Who sings, prays twice (sounding church year: Christmas - Easter - Pentecost), which was published in the Institute for Religious Education in Freiburg.

Marcel Lehmann gives concerts nationwide and is active in the further training of teachers, educators, community officers and gymnastics club group leaders. Marcel Lehmann has also made guest appearances in France and Austria in recent years.

Marcel Lehmann is married, has a daughter and a son and lives in Hohberg (Baden-Württemberg).

Publications

• Sing and play with us. Group educational literature, Wehrheim.
• Christmas' strikes the hour. Group educational literature, Wehrheim.
• The fun is there. Group educational literature, Wehrheim.
• Always sing praises to him. Lahn-, Studio-Union, Limburg.
• New psalm songs. IRP Freiburg.
• Music movement dance. Music as strong as a bear, Hohberg.
• Holistic movement education "Movement keeps us fit!" ALS, Dietzenbach.
• God got a face. Steyler, Nettetal.
• My kitty, kitty, come and pass me your paw. Impulse, Drensteinfurt.
• Come on, give him your hand! Abacus, Greifenstein.
• He doesn't leave us alone. Music as strong as a bear, Hohberg.
• A strong year. Music as strong as a bear, Hohberg.
• I want to thank him with my song. Music as strong as a bear, Hohberg.
• Fit like a bear. Music as strong as a bear, Hohberg.
• Who sings, prays twice. IRP, Freiburg.
• Come play with us! Eifelkrone publishing house, Neroth

Songs by Marcel Lehmann were also published by Persen-Verlag (Horneburg), Kösel-Verlag (Munich), Projektion / Musikverlag (Asslar), Auer-Verlag (Donauwörth), Oncken-Verlag (Kassel), and Steyler Missionare (Nettetal), published by Schott-Verlag (Mainz), Herder-Verlag (Freiburg) and Ernst Klett Verlag (Stuttgart, Leipzig).

Web links

• Works by and about Marcel Lehmann in the catalog of the German National Library
• Website of "Bärenstarke Musik"