Rainer A. Schmidt

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Rainer Hans Albert Schmidt (born July 11, 1963 in Hennigsdorf near Berlin ) is a German trombonist , musician and film editor .

life and work

During his school days he attended a music school in addition to his lessons, where he learned to play the trombone. After finishing the polytechnic high school , however, he decided to do an apprenticeship with the merchant marine in Rostock . Among other things, Schmidt used the MS Radeberg to travel to Cuba and the Soviet Union as well as England and South America until he was forbidden to continue to the NSW for political reasons . Schmidt resigned and left the GDR's merchant fleet .

In 1984 Wolfgang Grossmann brought him to Dresden , where he accepted a position as chief machinist at the Staatsschauspiel . At the Schauspielhaus he got to know Ray van Zeschau and HGGriese , among others . In addition to his work, he continued external training on the trombone with Hans Hombsch. In 1986 he founded the underground film group FESA (feige sau) with the painter Wolf Götz Richter and Ray van Zeschau and in the same year organized what was probably the first independent film festival in Dresden, which took place in 1987 and 1988.

In the mid-1980s he joined "The New Fantastic Art Orchestra Of North", a side project of the Dekadance group , where he met the drummer Tom Gross and the guitarist Friedemann "Fizzi" Baumgärtel and founded a band. While looking for a singer, he was able to persuade Ray van Zeschau to take on this role. After half a year of rehearsals and minor changes in line-up, the band, Friends of Italian Opera , emerged. In 1988, director Wolfgang Engel became aware of them and engaged the FDIO for his three-night production of Faust at the Dresden State Theater . In 1989, Rainer A. Schmidt fled to the Federal Republic of Germany via Hungary after a failed application to leave the country. As a replacement for Schmidt, Roger Baptist joined the “Friends”. In 1991 Rainer A. Schmidt, now living in Munich, came back to FDIO and recorded the record Um Thron und Liebe . On the LP, Rainer A. Schmidt sings, among other things, the title Boatswain, which he also wrote. In the early 1990s, FDIO was considered by many journalists to be the best and most innovative band in the new countries .

In 1992, FDIO dissolved for a long time. Schmidt temporarily joined a big band and went on tour through France and Spain. He then became self-employed as a freelance film editor and worked for Megaherz Film und Fernsehen GmbH , among others, where he met the film director and screenwriter Klaus Lemke , for whom he subsequently edited some of his films . On April 17, 2004, twelve years after FDIO's last appearance, Ray van Zeschau managed to bring almost all of his former members back to the Dresden Ballhaus Gare de la Lune on the occasion of his 40th birthday . A year later, FDIO worked with Schmidt in the ARTE documentary Der Bass René Pape - My Heart Burns with director Sibylle Muth.

Rainer A. Schmidt lives and works in Munich and Berlin.

Sound carrier

Friends of the Italian Opera

  • 1990: Suspected terrorists in custody ... / God save the interior minister (tape)
  • 1990: Live in Munich (tape)
  • 1991: Il Grande Silenzio (tape)
  • 1991: Live at the Schauspielhaus Dresden (tape)
  • 1991: Live in Dresden (tape)
  • 1991: To Throne and Love (LP)
  • 1996: Noble simplicity, quiet size (CD, Strandard63 )
  • 1997: Um Throne und Liebe (CD, Strandard63 / What's So Funny About )
  • 1997: Rare, rare and enigmatic recordings with Um Thron und Liebe / Edle Einfalt Stille Größe (CD-Box, Strandard63 / What's So Funny About)

Sampler

  • 1990: Dresden History 2 1988-89 (tape)
  • 1990: Dresden 1990 (tape)
  • 1991: Breakout attempt number 3 (tape)
  • 1992: A society of its own with its own moral code (CD, What's So Funny About)
  • 2001: Music in Germany 1950–2000 (CD, RCA / Bertelsmann )
  • 2006: voltage power resistance - magnetic tape underground DDR 1979-89 (CD, zigzag )
  • 2007: Children of the Machine Republic (CD)

Filmography (selection)

  • 1993: The composer Nino Rota (Director: Vassili Silovic)
  • 2001: I think of Germany - Leopoldstrasse kills me (Director: Klaus Lemke )
  • 2002: Willi wills Wissen (unknown number of episodes) with Willi Weitzel (Director: Ralphwege)
  • 2003: Last Minute Jamaica (Director: Klaus Lemke)
  • 2005: Dream on, Julia! (Director: Klaus Lemke)
  • 2005: 3 Minutes Heroes (Director: Klaus Lemke)
  • 2007: Undercover Ibiza (Director: Klaus Lemke)
  • 2008: Dancing with Devils (Director: Klaus Lemke)
  • 2011: For the duration of a journey (Director: Frauke You)
  • 2011: Mixed area (Director: Josef Mayerhofer)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Claus Löser : Strategies of denial. 2012, ISBN 978-3-00-034845-7 .
  2. ↑ Ulf Krüger: Besides anger there has to be something. Scene / Portrait, In: Sächsische Zeitung . February 17, 1999.
  3. ^ Andrew Brachyura: Pioneer of Dresden independent and underground film. Dresden cinema calendar, February 2001.
  4. ↑ Britta Stobbe: Drawn from the subculture. Dynamite Magazine, No. 3 2012.
  5. ↑ Benjamin Heinrichs: Two fists and no alleluia. The time of September 7, 1990.
  6. ^ Andreas Kohl: Music, records, CD criticism. In: cruiser . 12/1997.
  7. ↑ Manuela Ludwig: From the "Faust" to the "Throne of Love" The friends of Italian opera do not come to Potsdam until 1992. In: Potsdam's latest news . November 19, 1991.
  8. ↑ Michael Pilz: Secure in a cage: The legendary underground band is now in a rustic slipcase. Kultur extra, Spiegel Online from March 26, 1998.
personal data
SURNAME Schmidt, Rainer A.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmidt, Rainer Hans Albert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German trombonist, musician and film editor
DATE OF BIRTH July 11, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Hennigsdorf near Berlin