Mona Mur

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Mona Mur (actually Sabine Bredy ; * 1960 in Hamburg ) is a German musician, actress, producer and taekwondo athlete.

Career

Mona Mur founded the band Mona Mur & Die Mieter in 1982 with Gode (civil: Godehard Buschkühl) and the members of Einstürzende Neubauten Mark Chung , FM Einheit and Alexander Hacke . The band became known in the German punk scene , but only released one 12 ″ EP called Jeszcze Polska . This received international attention and was "Single of the Week" in London's New Musical Express . Mona Mur then began a solo career and could only be seen live on stage from 1984 to 1986. Their backing band consisted of FM Einheit, Alexander von Borsig , Nikkolai Weidemann, Tomas Stern and Siewert Johannsen and the sound engineer Raymond Watts.

Mur then worked with Dieter Meier , who produced her debut album Mona Mur for RCA in 1988 . The second album Warsaw , on which she accompanied Grzegorz Ciechowski and the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra , was produced in 1990, but was not released until 2015 by Mystic Production Poland.

In the following years Mona Mur mainly dealt with the martial art Taekwondo , reached the 3rd  DAN and as a member of the German national team was twice international German runner-up.

In 1996 Mona Mur founded Mona Mur Musikproduktion and has since created the sound for film productions and computer games such as Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days (2010). Since 1997 she works as com. mur with Heiko Daxl alias adm. daxl as a composer for art videos and video installations. The feature film Gegen die Wand contains three of her pieces. She has been working with En Esch since 2007 . Since then the duo has played numerous concerts in Europe and North America as well as at festivals, including the Wave-Gotik-Treffen , the Kurt Weill Festival in Dessau , the Alternativa in Prague and the Wroclaw Industrial Festival in Breslau . In 2009 Mona Mur & En Esch released 120 days - The Fine Art of Beauty and Violence as a joint album . In 2011 their second album, Do With me What you Want, was released .

In 2019 Mona Mur released her solo album Delinquent together with Ralf Goldkind . As a guest musician, u. a. Bettina Köster from malaria! and Anja Huwe from Xmal Germany appear. Also in 2019 Mona Mur performed at the important Polish festival 4 Kultury in the city of Łódź. The German Music Council sponsors their experimental song recital Henker und Jäger - About hatred as collective obsession . A first performance with the line-up FM Einheit, En Esch, Simone Kermes and Mona Mur took place in December 2019 at the Muffatwerk in Munich .

Discography

  • 1982: Mona Mur & The tenants: Jeszcze Polska
  • 1983: Casablanca - Just Imagination (unpublished)
  • 1988: Mona Mur
  • 1991: Warsaw
  • 2004: Into Your Eye
  • 2009: Mona Mur & En Esch: 120 days - The Fine Art of Beauty and Violence
  • 2011: Mona Mur & En Esch: Do With me What you Want
  • 2013: Einheit, Esch & Mur: Terre Haute
  • 2015: Mona Mur: Warsaw
  • 2018: Mona Mur: Those Days Are Over
  • 2019: Mona Mur: Delinquent

Filmography

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jürgen Teipel : Waste your youth . Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt / Main 2001, ISBN 3-518-39771-0 .
  2. ↑ Video channel from admcom
personal data
SURNAME Mur, Mona
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bredy, Sabine (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German singer and actress, Taekwondo athlete
DATE OF BIRTH 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg ,