Nikko Weidemann

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Nikko Weidemann with Antje Zynga at the 2018 Grimme Prize

Nikolai "Nikko" Weidemann (born October 13, 1961 near Cologne ) is a German musician and composer .

Life

Weidemann was already on stage with Frank Zappa at the age of 17 . He has been part of the Berlin music scene since the early 1980s and worked a. a. with Einstürzende Neubauten (including on their album Halber Mensch ), Nena , Rio Reiser and Nick Cave . He was a member of the funk formation Escape Forward , as well as the bands 1. Futurological Congress and Mad Romeo .

In 1991 Weidemann moved to London to record the album Bird in a Cage , co-produced by Moses Schneider with the songwriter Guy Chambers , which was released under the band name Nikko & the Passion Fruit . In the late 1990s he moved to New York, where he made contacts with Yoko Ono , Sean Lennon and Jeff Buckley bassist Mick Grondahl. During this time, a second Passion Fruit album was created, but due to a legal dispute it was only released in 2006 under the alias King Capsule .

After five years in New York, Weidemann returned to Germany at the beginning of 2003 and subsequently composed more and more for film and television, including for Fatih Akin's Gegen die Wand und Schwerkraft by Maximilian Erlenwein . He worked with Rufus Wainwright on the recording of his album Release the Stars . He formed a songwriting duo with the Selig guitarist Christian Neander . In 2005 he lost his right eye in an incident in front of a Berlin bar and has been wearing an eye patch ever since. In 2010 he published his first solo album in German, Schöne Zeiten .

Weidemann has been responsible for the Babylon Berlin series as an onscreen music supervisor since 2016 . Together with Mario Kamien he wrote a. a. the title song To Ashes, To Dust . Since 2018 he has also toured several times with the Moka Efti Orchestra .

His autobiographical, musical one-man show Ich seh 'Monster premiered at the Ruhrfestspiele in June 2019 and subsequently appeared at the Zurich Theaterspektakel , the Kammertheater Stuttgart and the Volksbühne Berlin .

Awards

Discography

  • 1994 Bird in a Cage (as Nikko & the Passion Fruit)
  • 2006 Somersault (as King Capsule)
  • 2010 Beautiful pain (CD, Wanderlust)

Web links

Commons : Nikko Weidemann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Grimme Institute: Nikko Weidemann. Retrieved December 29, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Conrad Wilitzki: Nikko Weidemann - beautiful pain. In: Popmonitor. January 30, 2010, accessed on December 29, 2019 (German).
  3. ↑ a b c Nikko Weidemann & Mario Kamien for Babylon Berlin. In: LISTEN TO BERLIN: AWARDS. Accessed December 29, 2019 (German).
  4. ↑ Stuttgarter Zeitung, Stuttgart Germany: Songwriter Nikko Weidemann in the Kammertheater: In the head of an incorrigible. Retrieved December 29, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Schauspiel Stuttgart: Ich seh 'Monster, by and with Nikko Weidemann A coproduction with the Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen, the Zürcher Theaterspektakel and Pop-Kultur Berlin | Stuttgart theater. Retrieved December 29, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Weidemann, Nikko
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weidemann, Nikolai
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musician and composer
DATE OF BIRTH October 13, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH near Cologne