Renate Knaup

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Renate Knaup, also Renate Knaup-Krötenschwanz or Henriette Kroetenschwanz, (born July 1, 1948 as Renate Aschauer-Knaup) is a German singer and pioneer of Krautrock , or cosmic music .

Life

Knaup grew up in the Allgäu as the daughter of a musician who also worked as an accompanist for Lale Andersen at times. Her brothers Karl (* 1950) and Herbert Knaup (* 1956) are known as actors.

At the age of 19 she went to Munich, where she moved into an art commune and in 1968 became the singer of the Amon Düül 2 music group . The Krautrock band had their breakthrough with their album Yeti, first in England, then in the rest of Europe and Germany. Various studio and live albums, tours, festivals and TV appearances followed.

In the mid-1970s she also became a singer in the group Popol Vuh .

In 2017 she performed with the electronic project Dot Product by Chris Jarman and Adam Winchester from Bristol .

Knaup has lived in Berlin since 2013. She has a daughter from her marriage to the actor Philipp Sonntag .

Discography

  • 1968: Amon Düül II - plays Phallus Dei
  • 1969: Amon Düül II - Phallus Dei
  • 1970: Amon Düül II - Yeti
  • 1971: Amon Düül II - Dance of the Lemmings
  • 1972: Amon Düül II - Carnival in Babylon
  • 1973: Amon Düül II - Wolf City
  • 1973: Amon Düül II - Utopia
  • 1973: Amon Düül II - Live in London BBC 1973
  • 1974: Amon Düül II - Vive la Trance
  • 1974: Machine No. 9 - Headmovie
  • 1975: Amon Düül II - Hijack
  • 1975: Amon Düül II - Made in Germany
  • 1975: Popol Vuh - Live in Milan
  • 1976: Popol Vuh - Last Days, Last Nights
  • 1979: Popol Vuh - The Night of the Soul
  • 1981: Popol Vuh - Shut up, I know I AM
  • 1981: Amon Düül II - Vortex
  • 1983: Popol Vuh - Agape Agape Love Love
  • 1985: Popol Vuh - Spirit of Peace
  • 1987: Popol Vuh - Cobra Verde
  • 1991: Popol Vuh - For You and Me
  • 1995: Amon Düül II - Nada Moonshine
  • 1996: Amon Düül II - Live in Tokyo

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Renate Knaup. Retrieved July 15, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Jens Uthoff: Amon Düül singer on new project: "A kind of primal scream" . In: The daily newspaper: taz . July 29, 2017, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed July 15, 2020]).
personal data
SURNAME Knaup, Renate
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Knaup-Toad Tail, Renate; Kroetenschwanz, Henriette; Aschauer-Knaup; Renate (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German singer, pioneer of Krautrock
DATE OF BIRTH July 1, 1948