Ray van Zeschau

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Ray van Zeschau

Ray van Zeschau (aka RJKK Hänsch ; born April 12, 1964 in Sofia , Bulgaria ) is a German singer , photographer , filmmaker and journalist .

biography

In 1984 he started his first photo and film work and in 1985 founded the Friedrichstadt artist group “Strand” with the seaman and trombonist Rainer A. Schmidt and the painter Wolf Götz Richter and at the same time the film group “ FESA (feige sau) ”. In 1986 they organized the first illegal film festival in Dresden with over 100 visitors. In 1987 van Zeschau experimented together with the Chilean painter Juan Hernando León with the medium of film at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts . This was followed by film work for the production “Marsyas or the price is nothing third” by Carsten Ludwig (director) and Matthias Bolz (set designer) at the Dresden State Opera . In 1988 he became the singer of the revived music legend Friends of Italian Opera (FDIO) in which he did his cinematic works a. a. continued with HG Griese and wrote almost all of the lyrics. Until the temporary separation of the band he gave himself the stage name RJKK Hänsch in honor of his stepfather Wolfgang Hänsch , the chief architect of the reconstruction of the Semperoper.

In 1989 Wolfgang Engel engaged the Friends of the Italian Opera for his Faust I & II production at the Dresden State Theater with Ray van Zeschau in the role of Euphorion. Van Zeschau played there alongside such greats as Marita Böhme , Hasko Weber and Horst Krause .

In 1990 the FESA film "Frustratorische Associations 86" was shown for the opening of the exhibition "Body Search" and for the inauguration of Martin Roth as director of the German Hygiene Museum in the Steinsaal with the "Friends of the Italian Opera" and triggered a scandal. In 1991, the acting director of the Dresden State Theater approved for a short time that Dieter Görne was able to courageously perform the FDIO's project in his own unique review on the boards of the State Theater. With 1200 visitors they then reached the capacity of the house. This makes the FDIO the first rock band in the company's history. She was followed by bands and performers like Die Toten Hosen and Nina Hagen .

In 1992, thanks to Alfred Hilsberg , Ray van Zeschau and the Friends of Italian Opera were the first Dresden band to take part in the largest international music fair, Popkomm , in Cologne. In the early 1990s, FDIO was considered by many journalists to be the best and most innovative band in the new countries . At the end of 1992 the band broke up, so that the second record deal for Alfred Hilsberg's What's So Funny About with ex- Yello Carlos Perón as producer no longer came about. Ray van Zeschau retired to the countryside in Rockau , bought a horse, became a “cowboy” and riding instructor and trained, among other things, drama students from the Dresden State Theater. Once he loaned his horse “Cheyenne” to Rik Battaglia , the “murderer of Winnetou”. From 1996 he devoted himself intensively to photography and showed his first exhibition "Lö Big Macke".

In 1997 he returned to music and founded the rock'n'roll and rockabilly band Ray & The Rockets with Jens Gouthier . A year later he started working as a freelance journalist and wrote and photographed for various magazines and journals. He also continued to devote himself to film art. From 1997 to 2000 he created film collages for Hasko Weber's “ Hamletmaschine / Hamlet ” or the horror video for András Fricsay's A-Clockwork-Orange production. The film Hamletmaschine was shown in 1998 at the opening of the exhibition "Acts of Violence - 12 Positions on Violence" in the bunker in Cologne-Ehrenfeld . In 2002 Ray van Zeschau shot and produced with Ralf Kukula from the company “Balancefilm” the film “… you save yourself the way to Venice / Little Friedrichstadt Flood Stories”. The film portrays the events of the so-called flood of the century in Dresden-Friedrichstadt . On April 17, 2004, on the occasion of his fortieth birthday, Ray van Zeschau performed again with the friends of Italian opera in the traditional Dresden ballroom “Gare de la Lune” together with Die Art . In November 2005, Ray van Zeschau and the Friends of Italian Opera stood together again in front of the camera in the studio for the ARTE documentary film "The Bass René Pape - My Heart Burns", and Ray van Zeschau and opera singer René Pape in front of the microphone. In 2005 van Zeschau's last film so far, "Statt Dresden", was made for the "Dresden Rolle", which premiered on the occasion of the 800th anniversary and was shown at the 18th Dresden Film Festival and at the MDR . In 2007 he formed the 50s psychometal project The Distorted Elvises , which was actually only intended for one evening , but which he then revived as a permanent band three years later with Rajko Gohlke , Tex Morton and Boris Israel Fernandez.

Five years after the last appearance by the Friends of the Italian Opera, the journalist and art scholar Alexander Pehlemann and the Schauspiel Leipzig succeeded in bringing FDIO back to the stage in the hall of the Centraltheater Leipzig on November 17th, 2009 . Since it was no longer possible to perform in the last line-up from 1992, singer RJKK Hänsch brought an almost new line-up on board, with Rajko Gohlke on bass, Tex Morton and Alex Anthony Faide on guitars and Boris Israel Fernandez on drums.

In 2012 he founded the acoustic duo Ray'n'Rajko with Rajko Gohlke .

Ray van Zeschau works alongside his musical projects as a freelance photographer and journalist. He lives and works in Dresden, Berlin and Sofia.

Movies and videos

  • Ines
  • We love
  • labyrinth
  • Playhouse
  • Frustratory Associations 86
  • Apparently it was
  • Waiting for Bodó
  • Brut (with Suheer Saleh)
  • The first five minutes after death
  • D is still dreaming
  • machine
  • unlimited surprises (with Susanne Hoss )
  • surreal minds
  • holiday
  • memory (with Susanne Böwe )
  • for vincent (with Susanne Böwe & Katherina Lange )
  • 1989
  • run my love
  • Teddy goes to Golgotha
  • Hamlet machine
  • ... you save yourself the trip to Venice / Little Friedrichstadt flood stories
  • Instead of Dresden (with Kiyo Kamei, Ralph Qno Kunze , Roger Baptist )
  • The new Dresden, on the trail of a loss. (Participation)
  • Good Morning, Captain , Director: Jacky Stoev (Photos)

Bands

  • Feces MPi
  • Friends of the Italian Opera
  • Ray & The Rockets
  • The Legendary Rockin 'Satellites
  • The Distorted Elvises
  • Ray 'n' Rajko

Sound carrier

  • 1990: Friends of the Italian Opera - Suspected terrorists in custody ... / God save the Minister of the Interior (tape)
  • 1990: Friends of Italian Opera - Live in Munich (tape)
  • 1991: Friends of Italian Opera - Il Grande Silenzio (tape)
  • 1991: Friends of Italian Opera - Live at the Schauspielhaus Dresden (tape)
  • 1991: Friends of Italian Opera - Live in Dresden (tape)
  • 1991: Friends of Italian Opera - For Throne and Love (LP)
  • 1996: Friends of Italian Opera - Noble Simplicity, Silent Size (CD, Strandard63 )
  • 1997: Friends of Italian Opera - Um Throne and Love (CD, Strandard63 / What's So Funny About )
  • 1997: Friends of the Italian Opera - Around Throne and Love / Noble Simplicity, Silent Size (CD-Box, Strandard63 / What's So Funny About)
  • 1998: Ray & The Rockets - Rock the Universe (7 "- Vinyl - EP , Strandard63)
  • 1999: Ray & The Rockets - The Truth About Rosswein 47 (7 ″ vinyl single , Strandard63)
  • 2000: Ray & The Rockets - Boogie from Outer Space (7 ″ vinyl EP, Strandard63)
  • 2001: Ray & The Rockets - Kosakabilly from Baikanur (7 ″ vinyl EP, Strandard63)
  • 2002: Ray & The Rockets - The EP & Single Collection (CD, Strandard63)
  • 2018: Friends of Italian Opera - Via Dolorosa (CD, Strandard63)
  • 2020: Friends of Italian Opera - Via Dolorosa (LP, Major Label & Strandard63)
  • 2020: Friends of the Italian Opera with Die Art , Brothers to the Sun for Freedom - 12 Inch Vinyl Picture Split EP (Major Label)

Sampler

  • 1990: Dresden History 2 1988–1989 (tape)
  • 1990: Dresden 1990 (tape)
  • 1991: escape attempt no.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 background DDR 1979-89 (CD, zigzag )
  • 2007: Children of the Machine Republic (CD)

Bootlegs

  • 1991: Live in the theater club Karl-Marx-Stadt (tape)
  • 1991: Live at OJH Riesa (tape)
  • 1991: Live at JFZ Neuruppin (tape)
  • 1991: Live in the B-Plan Karl-Marx-Stadt (tape)

Guest Posts

In film and TV

Exhibitions

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Ulf Krüger: Besides anger there has to be something. Scene / Portrait, In: Sächsische Zeitung . February 17, 1999.
  2. Cornelia Resik: Dresdner Filmfest shows film counterculture from the GDR era. In: SZ . 1994.
  3. ^ "Scandal in the Hygiene Museum: the guests lost their appetite" Morgenpost (Saxony) . October 21, 1990.
  4. ^ Andreas Kohl: Music, records, CD criticism. In: cruiser . 12/1997.
  5. 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.
  6. Michael Pilz: Secure in a cage: The legendary underground band is now in a rustic slipcase. Kultur extra, Spiegel Online from March 26, 1998.
  7. Thomas Thieringer: The Zeitgeist in the clockwork. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . March 4, 1998.
  8. Twelve artists showed acts of violence. In: Kölner Wochenspiegel. April 1, 1998.
  9. Thomas Hübener: The Celebration of Others. In: spex . 324, JAN / FEB 2010.
  10. Biba Kopf attends a reunion of underground musicians in Leipzig and hears traces of the city's East German past. In: THE WIRE. (British journal for experimental and avant-garde music) 311, Rewind 2009, January 2010.
  11. ^ ARD night magazine November 18, 2009.