Michael Heubach

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Annual hit parade of the GDR
title
You forgot the color film (Nina Hagen with automobile)
  GDR 40 1975
Water and wine (lift)
  GDR 7th 1976
Daughter Courage (lift)
  GDR 12 1976
Once at the top (Ute Freudenberg & Elefant)
  GDR 40 1980

Michael Heubach (born October 4, 1950 in Leipzig ) is a German rock musician and composer . As a member of well-known rock bands and a successful composer, he played an important role in GDR rock music. Well-known compositions like You forgot the color film , water and wine and day trip come from Heubach.

Musical development

Michael Heubach took piano lessons as a five-year-old and, noticed by his talent for improvisation , was delegated to a special school for music in Halle (Saale) at the age of 13 . He began to compose while still studying, initially in the classical field. Various piano pieces and a commissioned work for the Handel Festival in Halle (Saale) were created . In addition to his classical music training, he played dance music in various amateur bands during his school days . From 1967 to 1971 he studied bassoon and composition at the Leipzig University of Music .

After completing his studies, Heubach became a professional musician and began as a keyboardist in the Klaus Renft Combo , where he gave the band his personal touch with the arrangement of the successful title Wer die Rose Ehrt , and his first rock compositions were produced on GDR radio .

Just a year later he switched to the Bürkholz formation . The band, to which Thomas Bürkholz , Wolfgang Suhle Zahn, Heinz Geisler , Frank Czerny and Hans-Jürgen Beyer belonged alongside Heubach , was considered to be the least adapted band of that time. Because of the numerous riots during the band's concerts, most of the band members were banned from performing in July 1973 . Thereupon Bürkholz broke up the band. Heubach, who also played keyboard in this band, was able to continue his career unhindered. The majority of the original compositions of this band, including a rock cantata , came from Heubach. The first of his compositions were published by the GDR record label Amiga with Be not a volcano and find ourselves new . In 1973 he switched to the Horst Krüger Band for a short time . With her he also recorded the title day trip , which he had already composed for the Bürkholz formation. This was published twice by Amiga, in 1975 with the Horst-Krüger-Band and in 1979 with Lift .

When the excitement about the band ban of the Bürkholz formation had subsided and the GDR leadership began to accept rock music, Heubach tried to revive the band and founded his first band, Automobil, in early 1974. The band included:

Heubach discovered Nina Hagen as a singer in the Alfons Wonneberg Orchestra .

Heubach wrote five compositions for Automobiles, including the title You forgot the color film , which immediately landed at number one, became a hit classic and made singer Nina Hagen famous. In 1975 Nina Hagen left the band spontaneously and went to Fritzens Dampferband . Since automobile was in the meantime inseparably linked to the name Nina Hagen in public, Heubach broke up the band and went to Lift in October 1975.

There Heubach composed titles like Daughter Courage , And Man created the earth and water and wine. In November 1978, while on tour through Poland, there was a car accident in which his colleagues Gerhard Zachar and Henry Pacholski were fatally injured and he himself was seriously injured.

After a year of recovery and a short interlude with Veronika Fischer , Heubach joined Ute Freudenberg & Gruppe Elefant as a keyboardist in early 1980 . During this time, among other things, the titles once at the top , where the sea begins, and the long-playing record Jugendliebe , the band's most successful recording, was produced by Amiga. The band received offers to work in the West. Heubach did not become a travel group , which was justified by the fact that he was responsible for the accident in Poland, and had to leave the band in 1981.

From 1980 he was a mentor for young performers at the committee for entertainment arts . One of his protégés was Elke Martens . For them he put together the backing band Megaphon , which broke up in 1983 due to Martens' frequent failures due to illness.

In 1984 Heubach returned to Lift, the band with which he was most likely to realize his own musical ideas. Singer and drummer Werther Lohse and Till Patzer returned to the song-like band concept after a jazz-oriented phase. In addition to Heubach, Hans Wintoch also came to Lift at that time .

In 1985 Michael Heubach left the band and from then on worked exclusively as a composer. Today he works as a freelance composer and music producer .

Discography

Singles

  • 1974: You forgot the color film / When I think of you / Nina Hagen & Automobil ( Amiga )
  • 1975: Hey we're going to the country / Nina Hagen & Automobil (Amiga)

Long-playing records, some samplers

  • 1973: Don't be a volcano / Let's find new / Bürkholz formation on hello 10 (Amiga)
  • 1975: What on Hello 1/1975 (Amiga)
  • 1975: You forgot the color film on 20x Beat (Amiga)
  • 1975: Hey we're going to the country for 2x10 Beat successes (Amiga)
  • 1975: Horst Krüger-Band (Amiga)
  • 1977: If you lie on your back, tap Disco (Amiga)
  • 1977: Lift (Amiga)
  • 1979: Sea trip / lift (Amiga)
  • 1981: Youthful love / Ute Freudenberg & Elefant (Amiga)

Filmography

See also

literature

  • Michael Heubach in conversation In: Melodie und Rhythmus , Berlin, issue 12/1976
  • Melody and Rhythm, Berlin, issue 12/1978
  • Melody and Rhythm, Berlin, issue 1/1979
  • Melody and Rhythm, Berlin, issue 9/1984
  • Götz Hintze: Rock Lexicon of the GDR. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-89602-303-9

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Götz Hintze: Rock Lexicon of the GDR . 2nd Edition. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-303-9
  2. ↑ Interview with Hans-Jürgen Beyer, passage after about 40 percent of the text; Retrieved November 2, 2009
personal data
SURNAME Heubach, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German rock musician and composer
DATE OF BIRTH 4th October 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig