Shooting star (music project)

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Shooting star
General information
origin Germany
Genre (s) Children's music
founding 1993
Website sternschnuppe-kinderlieder.de
Founding members
singing
 Margit Sarholz
Guitar , vocals
 Werner Meier

Shooting Star is the name of a children's song music project founded in 1993 by Werner Meier and Margit Sarholz. By 2017 the artist duo had released 26  CDs and written three musicals .

People involved

Werner Meier and Margit Sarholz

Werner Meier (born May 24, 1953 in Reichertsheim ) was the seventh of eight children to a farming family. Meier attended the Gymnasium Gars and there obtained the general university entrance qualification. Meier then studied social pedagogy and graduated with a diploma thesis. In addition to his studies, he played guitar in various bands and wrote his first cabaret program from the marginal notes of his thesis. After completing his studies, Meier performed as a cabaret artist with increasing success . In addition to working with the shooting stars and as a cabaret artist, Meier also writes plays, for example Mir san mir - A strong piece of Bavaria for the Ingolstadt theater .

Margit Sarholz (born January 31, 1959 in Nassau an der Lahn ) founded the children's theater Sternschnuppe in 1986 and wrote plays for it and was on stage herself. Meier and Sarholz have lived together for more than 30 years and have a daughter.

Live and studio musicians

Meier and Sarholz are accompanied on their tours by a live band consisting of the musicians Wolfgang Lohmeier and Csaba Schmitz (drums, percussion), Knud Mensing (electric guitar, accordion), Christof von Haniel and Andreas Sterr (keyboard) and Joe Warrlich ( Bass). In the studio, the project is supported by guest musicians such as violinist Martina Eisenreich , harpist Evelyn Huber and Mulo Francel on saxophone. The CDs are also always sung with children.

Band history

In the early 1990s, Sarholz played and wrote for the Sternschnuppe children's theater , which she founded in 1986. With her partner Werner Meier, she wrote and composed the first songs together in 1993. In the same year the first CD Taxi Maxi of the newly founded Sternschnuppe project was released. The second CD, Die Brez'n-Beißer-Gang , was published like the first CD by Patmos-Verlag. The third CD was then published by the Sternschnuppe Verlag, founded in 1997 by Sarholz and Meier. The artist duo wrote three musicals and put them on stage by 2011. The musicals Die Kuh, die Kuht go to the cinema and Ritterland both had their premieres at the Ingolstadt Theater and have since been on the program of the Munich Comedy Theater. The musical Ristorante Allegro premiered in Munich in October 2011. Sarholz and Meier are working with the Munich Philharmonic on this piece . The musical is conducted by Ludwig Wicki . In 2018 the artist duo Margit Sarholz and Werner Meier will celebrate 25 years of shooting star children's songs.

Sarholz and Meier go on tour either in pairs, with Meier taking over the musical design on the guitar, or with their live band. The tours are mostly limited to southern Germany.

style

Meier and Sarholz make use of different musical styles from song to song in their compositions. The shooting star project plays tango, rap, salsa, reggae, jazz and waltz as well as traditional Bavarian folk music. The language is mostly Upper Bavarian in color, some songs are sung entirely in the Upper Bavarian dialect, such as The Cow who wants to go to the cinema . The musicians like to use small radio plays during production, spoken by Sarholz, Meier and the children in the studio. The radio plays have a length of 20 to around 60 seconds and prepare for the following song or relate to the basic theme of the CD.

Awards

The lullaby CD Nina Nana was awarded the Leopold Media Prize in 2001 . In December 2009, the Institute for Applied Children's Media Research has named at the Hochschule der Medien in Stuttgart production Who stole the coconut? to the CD of the month. In September 2011 the shooting star children's song project won the Leopold for the second time , this time for the CD Who stole the coconut? .

Publications

  • 1993: Taxi Maxi
  • 1995: The Brezn-Beißer gang
  • 1997: Tiger Rap & Rubber Twist
  • 1998: Knightland
  • 1998: Winter songs
  • 2000: summer songs
  • 2000: Nina Nana. Lullabies from around the world, 1st trip
  • 2001: LaLeLu. Lullabies from around the world, 2nd trip
  • 2001: All the best!
  • 2002: Mmh! Delicious songs & raped recipes
  • 2003: Schlawuzi
  • 2003: The Bavarian Bird Wedding (in cooperation with Rolf Zuckowski )
  • 2003: What a fun! (with Rolf Zuckowski)
  • 2004: On the wall, on the lookout
  • 2005: A refrigerator was taking a walk
  • 2006: The cow that wants to go to the cinema
  • 2007: ten wishes free!
  • 2008: Oh Christmas tree
  • 2009: who stole the coconut?
  • 2010: I want to dance!
  • 2012: Ristorante Allegro
  • 2012: Töff töff töff ... the railroad
  • 2013: Autumn songs
  • 2014: Funny animal songs
  • 2015: Bavarian children's songs: Drunt in der greana Au
  • 2016: Funny hits for school children
  • 2017: Spring songs
  • 2018: Bavarian winter and Christmas carols

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ About me at wernermeier.com, accessed on September 27, 2011.
  2. ↑ Questions to Werner Meier on wernermeier.com, accessed on September 27, 2011.
  3. ↑ Family musical Die Kuh, she wants to go to the cinema on kinder-musicals.bayern, accessed on April 24, 2018.
  4. ^ Family musical Ristorante Allegro on kinder-musicals.bayern, accessed on April 24, 2018.
  5. ↑ 25 years of shooting star children's songs from the BR media library, accessed on April 24, 2018.
  6. ↑ Nina Nana - Leopold 2001 on musikschulen.de, accessed on September 28, 2011.
  7. ↑ Leopold winners list 2011 , accessed on November 8, 2012.