Misha Schoeneberg

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Misha G. Schoeneberg ( real name : Michael Georg Steinmetz ; born October 10, 1959 in Berlin ) is a German author , songwriter and language teacher.

Life

Career

Misha Schoeneberg was born in Berlin-Lichterfelde into a German-Jewish family; his father had survived the concentration camp in Auschwitz , his mother came from Pomerania. After attending the Goethe-Gymnasium in Essen, Schoeneberg studied theater studies and German studies in Cologne.

After his time "as the last hippie in Europe" in Goa, India, he joined the music commune Ton Steine ​​Scherben, which lives in North Friesland . In collaboration with today's Green politician Claudia Roth , he took over the tour management until the band broke up in 1985. He also worked as a stage and light designer for Ton Steine ​​Scherben (later also for Rio Reiser). During this time Schoeneberg wrote lyrics for the band. He also released the last album of the David Volksmund production Sternschnuppen , rock poetry in German, produced by Rio Reiser , who became his partner, as a solo artist . Schoeneberg was involved in the last Ton Steine ​​Scherben album " Scherben " and in the first three solo productions by Rio Reiser, for whom he wrote lyrics. On November 9, 1989 , Schoeneberg left the municipality of Fresenhagen.

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, Schoeneberg resumed his studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin (East). He earned master's degrees in Southeast Asian Studies, International Politics and Modern German Literature, as well as a degree in German as a Foreign Language. He got an assistant as a research assistant in a DFG project in Laos and Northern Thailand and was considered "missing in Asia" for years. In 1999 he founded in cooperation with the interpreter and Thai artists Aod_Chumpon , the Thai team teach. Various scientific publications on the history and politics of Thailand as well as a textbook on the Thai language as well as short stories and photo exhibitions originate from this time.

Leonard Cohen project

Schoeneberg got Cohen 's personal approval in 1993 through the mediation of Andreas Budde, who was then the publisher of Leonard Cohen , to translate his songs into singable German versions. Rio Reiser's early death in 1996 (Reiser was scheduled to be the singer) put the project on hold. But Schoeneberg's lyrical transmissions found Leonard Cohen's favor, he granted the approvals song for song.

On Cohen's 80th birthday in September 2014, the lavishly produced double album: Poem - Leonard Cohen was released in German . The selection of songs, a retrospective of the most important songs from Leonard Cohen's 50-year oeuvre, is just as much part of the concept as the colorful mix of German-speaking performers - old & young, newcomer & star: Peter Maffay , Tim Bendzko , Alin Coen , Nina Hagen , Reinhard Mey , Fehlfarben , Anna Loos a . v. a.

Schoeneberg is the founder of the artist initiative “Berlin celebrates Leonard Cohen”, a live concert event with Cohen songs in a biennial cycle (2013/2014/2017); The initiative also focuses on the publication of the second album of the German broadcasts approved by Cohen.

Other artistic activities

Schoeneberg was the guitarist of the trade union band Desire (Cologne), founded Happy End with Marius del Mestre and Peter Radszuhn and played with Wolfgang Seidel and Rio Reiser for the cover boys . He also works as a text coach for young musicians; he was the mentor of Max Prosa , for whose second album Rangoon Schoeneberg was largely responsible for. On top of that, Schöneberg played theaters in Cologne and Salzburg under the direction of Kurt Palm .

Literary works

In 2007 he published his debut novel Geister der gelb Blätter , a travel and political novel set in Laos & Thailand, which became a cult book among travelers to Asia. He went on a reading tour with Aod_Chumpon (slide show) and the violinist of the Thai Queen Mokkaphan Pongphit .

In 2013 Schoeneberg's humorous political-psycho-thriller La Le Lu was published , which takes place in Myanmar against the background of the Shan massacre.

In 2015 Schoeneberg was the only non-Thai with 220 Thai monks to be invited to a large pilgrimage (1,500 kilometers on foot through India) to the holy sites of Buddhism. He processed the experiences in the 'subversive-socially critical pilgrimage novel' (ND) Siddhartha Highway (VÖ 2017). Schoeneberg is on a reading tour through Germany with Kidd Viciouz, and he also appears in the opening act for Ton Steine ​​Scherben .

Social & political engagement

Schoeneberg is a member of the Giordano Bruno Foundation, the German-Thai Society, he is listed for the PEN and he founded the FirstTheMen - ThenTheMachine initiative in Nepal to ban car traffic from Kathmandu .

Publications

Solo album

Collaboration on albums by other artists

  • 1983: Shards / clay stones shards
  • 1987: Stowaway / Rio Reiser
  • 1990: *** / Rio Reiser
  • 1990: Tenant of madness / The epidemic
  • 1999: Death Memory Dreams / The Moths
  • 2005: Family album II / VA
  • 2013: RANGOON / Max Prosa
  • 2014: Poem - Leonard Cohen in German
  • 2016: Black Box / Rio Reiser
  • 2017: Radio for millions / tone stones shards

Novels and travel stories

Non-fiction

  • Siam in 2475 (1932): The end of absolute monarchy. Southeast Asia Studies of Humboldt-University, Berlin 2000. (online)
  • with Aod_Chumpon: Farang is learning Thai. The Thai textbook. Berlin 2004.
  • Cult songs & evergreens. 55 hits and their story. Edited by Kai Sichtermann. Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86964-029-7 .

Fonts (selection)

  • The Jungle War - Aspects of the Thai Civil War at the end of the 1970s against the background of international developments in Indochina. In: M. Klein, J. Krause (Hrsg.): Umbruch in Südostasien. Hamburg 1996, ISBN 3-931567-03-6 .
  • The Thai 'Wai' - culture-specific symbol in intercultural communication. In: Tai Culture. Vol. II, No. 1. Berlin 1997. ISSN  1431-1240
  • Thai nationalism and the Malay Muslim minority. Reflections on historical sequences relevant to domestic and foreign policy. In: K. Lutter, P. Ziegenhain (ed.): From the old Javanese temple to the Internet. Cologne 1997.
  • with Jens Peter Richnow: Thai in Berlin. Living together in Berlin. The Senate's Commissioner for Foreigners (Ed.) Berlin 2001.
  • Thai Nationalism and the Malay Muslim Minority: Reflections on the domestic and foreign policy aspects of relevant historic sequences. In: Thomas Engelbert, Hans Dieter Kubitscheck (eds.): Ethnic minorities and Politics in Southeast Asia. Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2003 (also Heinrich Böll Foundation, Berlin 2003)
  • with Aod_Chumpon: Golden Rice and White Lotus. Documentation of the same named photographic exhibition. Berlin 2003.
  • From agitrock singer to king of Germany. In: Der Tagesspiegel. Berlin, August 13, 2006.
  • When the earth opens up ... Highway 1091 revisited - A visit to the Mlabri. In: Thailand-Rundschau. No. 2, Cologne 2008, p. 56ff. ISSN  0934-8824
  • A kiss for Rio Reiser. Contribution to the Teddy Award. Berlin 2010.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Anita Bolte: Spirits of the yellow leaves by MG Schoeneberg. Book review. (No longer available online.) In: siamheute.de. Archived from the original on October 23, 2012 ; accessed on May 4, 2020 .
  2. ↑ SPIEGEL Online
  3. ↑ New Germany
  4. ↑ www.giordano-bruno-stiftung.de
  5. ↑ www.dtg.eu
  6. ↑ About FirsttheMen ThentheMachine
personal data
SURNAME Schoeneberg, Misha
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schoeneberg, Misha G .; Steinmetz, Michael Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author, songwriter and language teacher
DATE OF BIRTH October 10, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin