Michael Stein (Author)

Michael Stein (1998)

Michael Joachim Willi Oskar Stein (born July 9, 1952 in Berlin ; † October 24, 2007 in Zweibrücken ) was a German musician , cabaret artist and author .

Life

Pill Palle and the Ötterpötter

In 1978 Michael Stein founded the band Pille Palle and the Ötterpötter together with Jochen Staadt , Rainer Glienke, Dieter Westmeier, Gerd Udo Heinemann and Frank Augustin . The band was closely associated with the self-managed Mehringhof project center, which has been based in a former machine factory in Berlin-Kreuzberg since 1979 . The group also made a brief appearance in the feature film The Heartbreakers (1982). Michael Stein worked on new recordings of the group's songs in 2006/2007.

Michael Stein also played temporarily in the Berlin bands Bleibtreu Revue , Z and Dildo took a taxi .

Work with Manfred Maurenbrecher

Michael Stein was a member of Manfred Maurenbrecher's band around 1984 . There he played saxophone, bass and electric guitar. His “introverted emotional” jazz sounds were a “brilliant musical” counterpart to a number of song texts. It was always reserved for Stein to talk about a picnic peppered with pitch-black humor in a chant interlude.

Mocking newsreel

Because he was a member of the Höhnenden Wochenschau from 1989 to 1991 (including Klaus Nothnagel , Wiglaf Droste , Cluse Krings , Wolfgang Kröske alias "Dr. Seltsam") - the mother of all Berlin reading stages - he is considered a veteran of this type of event, which he up to had actively shaped the end of his life. Since then, he has appeared on all reading stages that were created in Berlin in the early 1990s with his prominent help.

Benno Ohnesorg Theater

At the Volksbühne Berlin he organized the monthly political show Benno-Ohnesorg-Theater (1991-1994) together with Wiglaf Droste . The character Kommissar Schulz (“We want you to live safely”) was developed, which was also produced for a separate radio show in Berlin (Radio P, Radio Fritz ).

“Like his friend Wiglaf Droste, he could have pursued a successful career as a writing musician, singing writer or saxophone-playing guitarist, but Michael Stein left whenever there was a threat of success or continuity. He was a special, unique cross-border commuter, sociable and affable, uncompromising to the point of rigidity and madness. "

- Falko Hennig : Accelerated dialogue

Home & World reform stage

In 1995 he was one of the co-founders of the Reformbühne Heim & Welt .

Surf poets

Between 1996 and 1997 he developed the idea of the surf poet , together with Ahne , Robert Weber , Lt. Surf and Hans Duschke in the mine .

Prayer against work

Prayer against work (original)

He fought his whole life against the "illusory worlds".

For years he fought in a kind of S-Bahn cabaret with the BVG controllers . If he was asked for the ticket, he said: “I am a Buddhist and you are an illusion!” Only to show his ticket after the longest possible conversation.

Michael Stein was of the opinion that unemployment should be taken for granted in society and that every person should actually be a need. In this context he wrote the prayer against work around 1998 , which he said together with the audience during his performances. In doing so, he wanted to spread the idea that “work for everyone” is no longer a contemporary requirement. He liked to explain how the prayer works by saying that those involved who say the prayer generate a morphic field that can later capture other people.

The prayer against work became an integral part of every surf poet event.

plant

1973: Co-founder of the Communist League in Berlin
Co-founder of the printer cell
1989: Co-founder of the Mocking Newsreel
1991: Founder of the Benno-Ohnesorg-Theater
1995: Co-founder of the Reformbühne Heim & Welt
1997: Founder of the Surf Poets

Publications

music

Pill Palle and the Ötterpötter: CrashPunkSkaBeatMauerPowerPopPogo - anyway . Staadtsmusik, 1981
Pill Palle and the Ötterpötter: It doesn't matter . Teldec, 1982
Pill Palle and the Ötterpötter: Hopefully nothing goes wrong . Teldec, 1984
Robert Weber: I am the novel . Voland & Quist, Dresden, ISBN 3-938424-06-0 (soundtrack to the book by Michael Stein).

Texts Michael Stein published several short stories in the literary magazine Salbader .

Ahne , Spider, Michael Stein, Robert Weber, Lt. Surf, Tube : The surf poets . Voland & Quist, Dresden / Leipzig 2004, ISBN 3-938424-01-X .

Ahne, Bov Bjerg, Daniela Böhle, Hans Duschke, Uli Hannemann, Jakob Hein, Falko Hennig, Wladimir Kaminer, Manfred Maurenbrecher, Sarah Schmidt, Michael Stein, Heiko Werning, Jürgen Witte: 10 years of reform stage Heim & Welt: The historical sound documents . Satyr / Reptiphon / ZYX Music Vertrieb, Berlin / Merenberg 2005, ISBN 3-9809464-8-7 .

Hans Duschke, Bov Bjerk, Jürgen Witte, Michael Stein, Manfred Maurenbrecher, Sarah Schmidt, Ahne, Falko Hennig, Jakob Hein, Wladimir Kaminer, Daniela Böhle, Heiko Werning, Uli Hannemann, Jochen Schmidt, Tanja Dückers, Wiglaf Droste, Judith Hermann, Angelika Klüssendorf: Full Pulle Life: 10 years of reform stage Heim & Welt . Goldmann, Munich 2005, ISBN 978-3-442-54228-4 .

Ahne, Spider, Michael Stein, Robert Weber, Lt. Surf, Tube: The Return of the Surf Poets . Voland & Quist, Dresden / Leipzig 2007, ISBN 978-3-938424-24-7 .

Michael Stein: "I am a Buddhist and you are an illusion": Texts by and about Michael Stein . Edition Tiamat, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-89320-124-2 .

Radio plays

Michael Stein: Pointer and the gentlemen in the dark . Director: Bernd Lau, Production: Sender Freies Berlin, 1988 (Awarded as radio play of the month , Oct. 1988, German Academy of Performing Arts ).

literature

Bov Bjerg, Jakob Hein, Manfred Maurenbrecher , Dan Richter , Jochen Schmidt: There is no wrong grade . In: Jungle World . No. 49 , December 6, 2007 ( jungle-world.com ).
Heiko Werning: One step further - to the death of Michael Stein . In: TAZ . October 30, 2007 ( blogs.taz.de ).
Falko Hennig: Accelerated dialogue . In: Berliner Zeitung , October 26, 2007; Michael Stein, reading stage pioneer and extreme cabaret artist, is dead
Dr. Strange: Michael Stein dead . In: young world . October 25, 2007, p. 12 ( online ( memento of October 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive )).
Robert Weber: Robert Weber on the death of Michael Stein . In: tazblog . October 24, 2007 ( taz.de/blogs - Robert Weber, member of the Surfpoeten, is a close friend of Michael Stein and has also accompanied him in his last weeks).
Jochen Reinecke: Michael Stein is dead . In: The time . October 26, 2007 ( blog.zeit.de ).
Anne Hahn: 10 years of reform stage Heim & Welt . In: satt.org . January 2005 ( satt.org ).

Web links

Commons : Michael Stein - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Literature by and about Michael Stein in the catalog of the German National Library
Michael Stein with the surf poets

Individual evidence

^ Andreas Kopietz: Schneider Hansel and the Beat . In: Berliner Zeitung , August 22, 2000
↑ Much irony and left-wing melancholy in thoughtful song lyrics . In: Ulmer Kulturspiegel . June 1984.
↑ Jörg Schröder, Barbara Calendar: Michael Stein's red caterpillars . In: tazblog . October 30, 2007 (text about the last broadcast on Radio Fritz).

personal data
SURNAME	Stein, Michael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Stein, Michael Joachim Willi Oskar (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German musician, cabaret artist and author
DATE OF BIRTH	July 9, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin
DATE OF DEATH	October 24, 2007
Place of death	Zweibrücken

[1] Andreas Kopietz: Schneider Hansel and the Beat . In: Berliner Zeitung , August 22, 2000

[2] Much irony and left-wing melancholy in thoughtful song lyrics . In: Ulmer Kulturspiegel . June 1984.

[3] Jörg Schröder, Barbara Calendar: Michael Stein's red caterpillars . In: tazblog . October 30, 2007 (text about the last broadcast on Radio Fritz).