Paul Bartsch (musician)

Paul Bartsch 2018 in the Theatrale Halle (Saale) - Photo: Horst Sulewski

Paul Detlev Bartsch (born June 30, 1954 in Wernigerode ) is a German songwriter and media educator.

Life

Paul Bartsch grew up in Danstedt , a village in the Vorharz region. At the age of 14 he went to the advanced secondary school in Halberstadt , where he sang in a school band and played the guitar . After high school studied Bartsch at the Bauhaus University Weimar architecture but this stopped after three semesters and worked in Halberstadt in the timber industry . From 1976 to 1980 Bartsch studied music education in Halle . In 1981 he received his professional license as a chanson singer . At the same time, Bartsch was an aspirant at the German Institute of the University of Halle and did his doctoratethere in 1988 as a literary scholar. From 1991 to 2017 Paul Bartsch worked as a media educator at the State Education Institute Saxony-Anhalt. In October 2009, he was also appointed to the professorship for "Educational Science: Childhood and Media" at the University of Merseburg . Paul Bartsch lives today in Halle (Saale); he has been married since 1978, has a daughter and a son and two grandchildren.

Songwriter and author

As a student, Bartsch played rock music by the Stones , CCR , Deep Purple , Led Zeppelin , Bad Company and Wishbone Ash in various amateur bands , as well as his own compositions and wrote his first lyrics in German. Since 1981 he has been on the road with his own songs, initially in the “HörBar” duo with Detlef Hörold (piano, vocals), from 1984 as a soloist or with various musicians. From 1987 to 1990 he was a singer and lyricist in the professional band FAM in Halle. In the 1990s, Bartsch was initially artistically active in a duo with guitarist Thomas Fahnert (ex FAM), and later in a trio with bassist Gerd Hecht. The "BARTSCH & BAND" project has been running since 2003 (Thomas Fahnert - git, voc; Gerd Hecht - bg; Sander Lueken - keyb, voc; Ralf Schneider - dr, perc), which the audience and critics like to put in the gap that the Death of the songwriter Gerhard Gundermann tore into the East German song scene. Bartsch sees himself less as an epigone , but as a kindred spirit of his generation companion and mentions the GDR band Renft , which was very popular at the beginning of the 1970s and then banned, as his initial musical spark .

In addition to songs, Bartsch writes and publishes poetry and prose. Since 1993 he has also been writing the textbook and the lyrics for the annual Christmas revue in Halle's Steintor-Varieté , which attracts tens of thousands of visitors each season. Bartsch has unauthorized recordings of his concerts removed from video platforms.

Media educator

Bartsch has been head of the media education department of the State Education Institute of Saxony-Anhalt (LISA) since 1991. Under his leadership, one of the first curricular concepts for subject integrative school media education was created in 1996 with “Paths to Media Competence”. He also initiated the compulsory elective course “Modern Media Worlds”, which has been taught in Saxony-Anhalt since 2000. As part of the professorship in "Educational Science: Childhood and Media" held by him at the University of Merseburg since 2009, he is responsible for the BA module 1/3 upbringing, education and socialization as well as some related areas.

From 2006 to 2012 he was deputy spokesman for the “Länderkonferenz Medienbildung” (LKM), with which he developed and published the “Competence-Oriented Concept for School Media Education” in 2008. As a member of an editorial group, he was involved in drafting the declaration of media education in schools published by the Standing Conference (KMK) in March 2012 .

In 2014, Paul Bartsch was appointed to the state's literary advisory council by the Saxony-Anhalt Ministry of Culture.

Awards

• 2006/2007 City Clerk of Halle (Saale)

Publications

Sound carrier

• "Leben in der Stadt", LP, SCALA Halle, 1990 (Paul Bartsch & FAM; Ein Liedermacher. Eine Band)
• "A German / German top salad", cassette, METRIX Halle, 1992 (Fahnert & Bartsch)
• "Germany. An Autumn Fairy Tale", cassette, METRIX Halle, 1994 (Fahnert, Bartsch & Hecht)
• "Beloved G.", CD, 1995 (Fahnert, Bartsch & Hecht)
• "68er", CD, FunDomMusic, 1997 (Paul Bartsch & BleyFrey)
• "When I stop starting", CD, 2000 (Paul Bartsch solo)
• "White Cross on Red Background", CD, 2001 (Paul Bartsch solo - live in Denmark)
• "BRUCHPILOTEN", CD, House Master Records, 2003 (BARTSCH & BAND) - "CD of the month" in the German best song list from February 2004
• "HEIMATREVUE of a different kind", CD with songs based on texts by Fritz Otto Hartmann, 2004, "CD of the month" in the German list of best songs from January 2005
• "Stechen in See", CD, caesar music, 2005 (BARTSCH & BAND)
• "1990 - 2005 / A Selection", double CD, 2007
• "Who knows how", CD, dunefish / EDEL, 2008 (BARTSCH & BAND)
• "Live im Objekt 5", CD, Bluebird Café Berlin Records, 2010 (BARTSCH & BAND)
• "Wolkenkuckucksheimerbauer", CD, Bluebird Café Berlin Records, 2011 (Paul Bartsch & Band)
• "Strange Game", CD, Bluebird Café Berlin Records, 2012
• "Dancing Dogs - The Songs of the Bordkapelle", CD, Bluebird Café Berlin Records, 2013 (Paul Bartsch & Band)
• "Being a friend", CD, Bluebird Café Berlin Records, 2016 (Paul Bartsch & Band)
• "LiebesLand", CD, Bluebird Café Berlin Records, 2018 (Paul Bartsch & Band)
• "All questions open", CD, Bluebird Café Berlin Records, 2020 (Paul Bartsch & Band)

Books (selection)

• Paul Detlev Bartsch: Sparring . In: Entry. Stories of new authors (anthology). Berlin 1987, pp. 156-160 (= first publication by Paul Bartsch in a book). ISBN 3-355-00322-0
• "Tell me where you are - a country in its songs", Winklers Verlag, Darmstadt 1997
• "... sometimes it turns into a song", Lieder 1978–1998, Janos Stekovics Verlag , Halle / Zurich 1999
• "Big brothers cast long shadows", narration, projekte verlag 188, Halle 2002, ISBN 3-931950-54-9
• "Office of the Singer", song book, 24 texts & sheet music, projekte verlag 188, Halle 2003
• "The water on the neck or 20 sentences about indolence", narration, Anderbeck-Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-937751-38-2
• "Two thousand plus. The songs 2000 - 2010 | A selection", 70 texts, 40 of them with sheet music (vocals / guitar), photographs by Heiko Fiedler, foreword by Christian Kuno Kunert (ex Renft), Projekt Verlag Halle, 2011, ISBN 978- 3-86237-276-8
• "Big brothers throw long shadows", novella, new edition, Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 2018, ISBN 978-3-96311-026-9
• "The water on the neck. 20 sentences about indolence", narration, new edition, Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 2019, ISBN 978-3-96311-137-2

Media educational publications (selection)

• Media competence in the school field. In: Schell / Stolzenburg / Theunert (Hrsg.): Medienkompetenz. Basics and pedagogical action, KoPäd Verlag, Munich 1999
• Media education - a competence-oriented concept for elementary school with sample tasks and a media pass, LISA, Halle 2008 (project management)
• Home - media - identity. Information, suggestions and materials on a complex (teaching) topic, LISA, Halle 2007/08 (editor)
• From media use to sustainable media education. In: COMPUTER + UNTERRICHT 77, Verlag Friedrich in Velber, I / 2010

Projects

• BARTSCH & BAND - various concert programs with scenic elements between rock and folk, blues and reggae, tango and swing
• HEIMATREVUE of a different kind - multimedia program with Low German songs (Ostfälisches Platt), the texts of which are by Fritz O. Hartmann (1891–1974) and which presents an interesting emigrant life (Hartmann went to Brazil for 12 years in 1923 ) in a contemporary context

Web links

• Homepage of the songwriter Paul Bartsch
• University website for Paul Bartsch
• Portrait at the support group Halle
• Works by and about Paul Bartsch in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Mitteldeutsche Zeitung: New album by Paul Bartsch; A touch of Titanic. Retrieved December 2, 2013 . 
2. ↑ deutsche-mugge.de. Retrieved December 2, 2013 . 
3. ↑ lkm.lernnetz.de , "Competence- oriented Concept for School Media Education"
4. ↑ Media education in schools (decision of the Standing Conference of March 8, 2012) , accessed on July 2, 2018 (PDF; 191 kB)
5. ↑ liederbestenliste.de
6. ↑ liederbestenliste.de ( Memento from December 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive )