PeterLicht

PeterLicht, 2016

PeterLicht (* as Meinrad Jungblut) is a German indie pop musician and author from Cologne .

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PeterLicht presents his work in different formats. Pop music has been on recordings since his first EP 6 songs , which he published under his real name Meinrad Jungblut in 2000.

Preceding his third album Songs from the End of Capitalism (published on Motor Music , produced by Jochen Naaf ), his book Wir wird siegen was released in March 2006 . Book from the end of capitalism ( Blumenbar Verlag), a collection of stories, poems, scraps of diaries, slogans, song texts and drawings. In addition, the 2003 theater project brought Karoshi . Death due to reworking at the Münchner Kammerspiele PeterLicht's music on the theater stage for the first time. In 2006 the director Christiane Pohle presented the world premiere of Wir wird siegen. And that is just the beginning of the Münchner Kammerspiele, a piece based on the music and lyrics by PeterLicht.

Until March 2006, neither photos nor other biographical details were known. PeterLicht made his first public live appearance for the presentation of his book at the Leipzig Book Fair , and in September 2006 he started his first live tour. Still, he declined to have photos taken or to appear on television. During an appearance with his band at Harald Schmidt on May 18, 2006, only his body, not his face, was filmed. In 2007 PeterLicht received the 3sat Prize and the Audience Prize at the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition for his text The story of my assessment at the beginning of the third millennium . When he was reading his text, he was only filmed from behind at his request, and at the award ceremony he was represented.

In October 2007 PeterLicht played in the Hamburger Schauspielhaus at the start of his 7-city tour of Germany, which took him to the radio show SWR Literatur in the foyer in Mainz, where, in addition to the conversation with PeterLicht, there were three live titles. In September 2008 the album Melancholie und Gesellschaft was released , on which PeterLicht can be heard for the first time with a band.

From January 24th to March 8th, 2009 PeterLicht organized the festival of the invisible people in the Münchner Kammerspiele , in which u. a. Concerts, plays and readings took place. The central theater play, Rooms Rooms , was staged by SE Struck (co-director PeterLicht) and is based on both his lyrics and his story, as I see it at the beginning of the third millennium . In 2010 he edited Molière's comedy Der Geizige on behalf of the Berlin Maxim Gorki Theater , its new version was played there from February to April.

In October 2011, PeterLicht's fifth album The End of the Complaint came out a year late. The FAZ reviewer described the release concert in Cologne's Cafe Wahlen as reminiscent of Niklas Luhmann's system theory. The song poet and social critic PeterLicht has undergone an exciting, self-reflective change over the years.

Because his record company no longer wanted to finance a new album, PeterLicht chose to use the crowdfunding platform Startnext . In this way, around 19,500 euros had been collected by April 2014. The first result is the live album Lob Der Reality , which was released on the Staatsakt label. On April 14, 2016, PeterLicht's second Molière overwriting, Der Menschen Feind, premiered at Theater Basel . Since March 2016 he has been writing the column Praise of Reality for the Süddeutsche Zeitung .

In October 2018 his sixth studio album When we are all different was released on the Hamburg label Mural Records .

Prices

• 3sat Prize and Audience Prize at the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize 2007 for the story of my assessment at the beginning of the third millennium
• Liliencron Lecturer 2018
• The play Tartuffe or Das Schwein der Wisen (staged by Claudia Bauer at Theater Basel , 2018), which he wrote based on Molière , was invited to the Berlin Theatertreffen in 2019

Discography

Albums and EPs

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)		Remarks
		DE	AT
2001	Fourteen songs	DE68 (2 weeks) DE	AT-AT	(BMG module)
2006	Songs of the end of capitalism	DE79 (1 week) DE	AT-AT	(Motor Music)
2008	Melancholy and society	DE34 (2 weeks) DE	AT52 (2 weeks) AT	(Motor Music)
2011	The end of the complaint	DE33 (1 week) DE	AT50 (1 week) AT	(Motor Music)
2018	When we're all different	DE28 (1 week) DE	AT-AT	(Wallpaper Records)

More albums

• 2000: 6 songs (cheating)
• 2003: Stratospheric songs (BMG module)
• 2014: In Praise of Reality (State Act)

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)		Remarks
		DE	AT
2001	Sun deck fourteen songs	DE63 (9 weeks) DE	AT-AT

• 2001: The Transylvanian relative is there // cheerfulness (BMG module) music and film
• 2002: cheerfulness (BMG module)
• 2003: Safari afternoon (BMG module)
• 2003: The story of summer (BMG module)
• 2006: Relaxing betting (Motor Music)
• 2006: Absolute Happiness (Motor Music)
• 2006: Song of the End of Capitalism (Motor Music)
• 2008: Everything You See Is Your Own (Motor Music)
• 2008: Style advice / residual sexuality (Motor Music)
• 2011: new idea

12 "vinyl

• 2003: Sonnendeck - Remixes (Mofa records / Neuton)
• 2002: Cheeriness - Remixes (Mofa records / Neuton)
• 2002: The Transylvanian Relative Is Here - Remixes (Mofa Records / Neuton)
• 2003: Safari afternoon (BMG module)
• 2003: The story of summer (BMG module)
• 2003: Antelopes (BMG module)
• 2006: Absolute Happiness - Remixes (Motor Music)

literature

• We will win! Book from the end of capitalism , Munich: Blumenbar-Verlag, 2006, 1st edition, ISBN 3-936738-23-8 .
• The story of my assessment at the beginning of the third millennium , Munich: Blumenbar-Verl., 2008, 1st ed.
• We will win! , Frankfurt, M .: Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verl., 2008.
• In praise of reality , Blumenbar-Verlag bei Aufbau, Berlin 2014, 1st edition, ISBN 978-3-351-05016-0 .

Plays

• Rooms, World Premiere on January 31, 2009, Münchner Kammerspiele
• New texts by PeterLicht, world premiere in 2009, Skala Leipzig
• The miser to Molière
• The disappearance of states , 2010
• The rush of the world , a conquest of space, world premiere on February 24, 2013 at the Schauspiel Köln
• Tartuffe or The Wise Men’s Pig according to Molière , Theater Basel , 2018

radio play

• 2013: The story of my assessment at the beginning of the third millennium , adaptation and direction: Patrick Wengenroth , composition: PeterLicht (Deutschlandradio Kultur)

Web links

Commons : Peter Licht  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website
• Works by and about PeterLicht in the catalog of the German National Library
• Peter Light in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Author page at the publisher schaefersphilippen
• Artist website at the Motor Music label
• PeterLicht at laut.de
• PeterLicht at Discogs (English)
• PeterLicht at SoundCloud
• PeterLicht on MusicBrainz (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The story of my assessment at the beginning of the third millennium. (PDF) Retrieved January 22, 2014 . 
2. ↑ Video portrait on the occasion of the Bachmann Prize 2007, on www.orf.at, 3min  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ Complete reading of the text, Bachmann Prize 2007, on www.orf.at, 27min  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ Jury discussion of the text, Bachmann Prize 2007, on www.orf.at, 15min  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ↑ Information on the festival of the invisible man on the Münchner Kammerspiele website ( memento of the original from June 15, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
6. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated February 6, 2009 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. 
7. ^ Criticism and press review of the world premiere of Der Geizige at Berlin's Maxim-Gorki-Theater on nachtkritik.de
8. ↑ Jan Drees in FAZ of October 28, 2011: PeterLicht's new CD “Above us the sky of goods arches” Making pop music with Luhmann?
9. ↑ Oliver Junge: There is no longer a market for what he does. Digitization deprived PeterLicht of his livelihood, and now he's trying crowdfunding. How does it work? . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. April 17, 2014. Features. Page 13.
10. ↑ powered by sitesystem, http://www.sitesystem.ch | created by webways ag, basel, http://www.webways.ch , [e-mail]: Der Menschen Feind - Theater Basel - schedule. In: www.theater-basel.ch. Retrieved November 9, 2016 . 
11. ↑ Berliner Festspiele: Theatertreffen - The selection of 10 2019. Accessed on May 15, 2019 . 
12. ↑ ^{a b} Chart sources: Germany / Austria