Michael de la Fontaine

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Michael de la Fontaine (* 1945 in Konstanz ) is a German songwriter and cultural scientist .

Life

Michael de la Fontaine was born as the son of the chamber singer Sophie de la Fontaine, b. Brandes and the lawyer Ferdinand de la Fontaine. He spent childhood and youth with his four siblings in Meersburg and Frankfurt am Main .

After graduating from the Freiherr-vom-Stein-Schule , he studied sociology, philosophy and musicology at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt. His teachers were Theodor W. Adorno , Ludwig von Friedeburg , Jürgen Habermas , Alexander Mitscherlich and Ludwig Finscher .

From 1965 to 1968 he formed the songwriting duo " Christopher & Michael " with Christopher Sommerkorn . In over 300 concerts all over Germany they appeared at events of the Easter marchers and the peace movement , for example at the Easter march on Frankfurt's Römerberg in April 1966 together with Joan Baez , at the Burg-Waldeck-Festivals in 1966 and 1967 together with Franz-Josef Degenhard , Walter Mossmann , Dieter Süverkrüp and Reinhard Mey , at the 13th German Evangelical Church Congress in Hanover in 1967 and at the Easter March in Ulm in 1968. After the duo broke up in 1968, Michael de la Fontaine released two more LPs. Concerts with the Frankfurt artist group Ludo A. Kaiser, Volker Rebell , Nils Selzer ( street boys ), Moritz Stoepel and Stephan Walla followed. All recordings by Michael de la Fontaine and Christopher & Michael have been available for download since 2013.

After obtaining his diploma in sociology in 1972, he received his doctorate from the University of Frankfurt in 1976 in musicology on the concept of artistic experience with Adorno. This was followed by teaching positions in Frankfurt am Main, a research year at the DAAD at Princeton University in the USA in 1978 and his doctorate. After training as a lecturer at the Goethe-Institut in Munich, de la Fontaine worked from 1980 to 2012 for the Goethe-Institut in Egypt, South America, Southeast Asia, and North and Northwest Europe. From 1992 to 1998 he was director of the Goethe Institute in Santiago de Chile . There he campaigned for the preservation of the ghost town of Chacabuco, where a concentration camp was set up for opponents of the regime who had to do forced labor in a saltpeter mine during the Pinochet dictatorship . From 1998 to 2002 he was program director at the Goethe Institute in Prague. He has been working at the Institute for Musicology Weimar-Jena at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena since the winter semester 2012/13 .

Michael de la Fontaine now lives in Berlin with his wife Eliana, whom he met in São Paulo and with whom he has been married since 1989. They have a son and a daughter. In his first marriage he was married to the Israeli Jaffa Canoush, with whom he has a son and a daughter.

Culture projects

  • "Violence - a very common crime", together with the Goethe-Institut São Paulo and a spokesman for the Indian peoples of Brazil
  • Internet chat room for pupils in Jewish schools in Prague, Vienna, Berlin and Frankfurt, together with Goethe-Institut Prague and Hagalil.com, 2000
  • “Prague City Talks”, together with Czech State Television, 2001/2002
  • Internet database on German dance history for the Singapore National Library, together with the German Dance Film Institute Bremen, 2007
  • Artistic expedition to the North Cape, together with Springer Parker, 2009–2010
  • Year of Germany in Brazil 2013/2014

Discography

Michael de la Fontaine

  • Harlequin Singsang - CBS 63 583 with Peter Baumeister (drums), Volker Rebell (electric guitar, vocals, recorder, harmonica, violin), Karl-Walter Reinhard (piano, organ, arrangements), Nils Selzer (bass, vocals)
  • 12 years, 12 songs - Rillenwerke MF 8204

Christopher & Michael

  • We're finished (Eve of Destruction) - Why? , CBS 1879
  • Don't Think Twice - should it never be otherwise? , CBS 2127
  • Moby Dick - My Little Freedom , CBS 2291
  • To the true, beautiful, good - Bi Ba Butzemann , CBS 2754
  • Come here all you people - Folklore Concert Live! , CBS S 62695
  • As the birds do ... , CBS S 62927
  • Live Concert - Episode 2 , CBS S63237
  • 1981: Christopher & Michael - A Documentation , RillenWerke CM8101.

Fonts

  • The concept of artistic experience in Theodor W. Adorno . University of Frankfurt am Main 1977, DNB 780738152 (Dissertation University of Frankfurt am Main, Faculty 09 - Classical Philology and Art History, 1976, 132 pages).
  • Artistic experience with Arnold Schönberg. On the dialectic of the musical material in: Suhrkamp o. O. o. J.
  • Experiência artística em Arnold Schönberg in: Novos Estudos CEBRAP, issue 27, 1990
  • Mein São Paulo (German / English / Portuguese), in: Minhasp , edition esefeld & traub, Stuttgart 2013.
  • How much freedom does cultural work abroad need? Cultural work in transformation processes, internal views of the Goethe-Institut's foreign policy . Editors: Schneider, Wolfgang, Kaitinnis, Anna (Eds.), Springer VS 2016.

Radio and television broadcasts

  • "Problems of our cities", broadcast series in the Saarländischer Rundfunk 1972
  • “Music Department”, HR 1979
  • “Is there a natural access to music for children”, HR 1979
  • “Chacabuco” with Leo Kocking for Chilean State TV and for WDR 1995
  • “Foreign in one's own country” (documentary in Spanish), with Carlos Puccio for Chilean State Television 1996
  • Interview broadcasts on the awarding of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2016 to the singer / songwriter Bob Dylan on ByteFM on December 1, 2016 (Part I) and on December 15, 2016 (Part II): "Did Bob Dylan deserve the Nobel Prize for Literature ?" ( Http: / /www.volker-rebell.de/radio2016.html )

literature

  • Detlef Siegfried: Time is on my side: Consumption and politics in the West German youth culture of the 1960s. Wallstein, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 3-8353-0073-3 .
  • Pop instead of pap . In: Der Spiegel . No. 16 , 1966, pp. 136-142 ( online - 11 April 1966 ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Goethe Institute in Santiago
  2. ↑ Jens Holst White Gold , Latin America News No. 273 / March 1997
  3. ^ A b Alan Levy : A German named de la Fontaine in Prague Post, April 12, 2000
  4. ^ Profile of Michael de la Fontaine in the online study administration of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena.
  5. ↑ Ailton Krenak 1992, published in rororo ISBN 3-499-20654-4
  6. ↑ 9 goals
  7. ↑ Dance on Demand ( Memento of the original from February 11, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / blogs.nlb.gov.sg
  8. ^ Memoria Norway
  9. ↑ discography
  10. ↑ 12 years, 12 songs on the label RillenWerke .
  11. ↑ Entry on Christopher & Michael - A documentation in the DMA .
  12. ↑ Dissertation on Google Buch
  13. ↑ Minhasp PDF
  14. ↑ [1] How much freedom does cultural work abroad need? Cultural work in transformation processes, internal views of the Goethe-Institut's foreign policy
personal data
SURNAME La Fontaine, Michael de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German songwriter and cultural scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Constancy