Michael Kernbach
Michael Kernbach (born November 3, 1965 in Trier ) is a German musician, author, composer and manager.
Life
In 1991 Michael Kernbach was bassist and lyricist under the stage name Oops! B. Benito founding member of Guildo Horn and the orthopedic stockings . As a songwriter, he wrote numerous ironic German lyrics for international hit songs for this formation, such as Ich find Schlager toll (I love Rock 'n' Roll / Joan Jett and the Black Cards), Das schönste Lied knows Guildo Horn (Up where we belong / Joe Cocker & Jennifer Warnes) or I like Steffi Graf (How deep is your love / Bee Gees), with whom the band took third place on the ZDF hit parade . With the orthopedic stockings Kernbach performed both in 1996 at Rock am Ring and in 1998 at the Eurovision Song Contest in Birmingham .
In 1998 Michael Kernbach left the group and from 1999 to 2005 wrote several hundred radio comedies as well as numerous song texts as a freelance writer, especially for the radio comedy show Die Gerd Show by Peter Burtz and Elmar Brandt, with which the comedy format made the top several times 20 of the German sales charts. The best known here is the control song (ketchup song), which was number 1 on the media control charts for 18 weeks in 2002 and 2003.
During this time Kernbach also worked as an author for well-known artists such as Werner , Klostertaler and Michael Holm , whose comeback he accompanied as an author, producer and manager. In 2007 Kernbach published together with the musicians Luci van Org , Michael Brettner and the musician and philosopher Michael Schmidt-Salomon under the project name Üebermutter, the first post-feminist metal album, which today enjoys cult status in the gothic scene.
Kernbach has been writing satire, comedy and gift books for various publishers since 2005 and, together with his wife, singer and author Anke Beuth, runs the Popfarm , a school for rock and pop music in Bonn.
Web links
- Personal details on popfarm.de
- Literature by and about Michael Kernbach in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kernbach, Michael |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ackermann, JR (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German musician, author, composer and manager |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 3, 1965 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | trier |