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Sören Sieg (born November 1, 1966 in Elmshorn ) is a German singer ( tenor ), songwriter , composer , arranger , satirist , columnist and author . He is co-founder of the a cappella group LaLeLu , with which he sang as a tenor from 1994 to 2012 and moderated the performances. From 2009 to 2013 he regularly wrote a front-page - Column for in Bremen appearing Courier on Sunday . In the meantime he is mainly active as a freelance writer and composer.

Life

Childhood, school and youth, political studies

Sören Sieg is a son of the teacher, writer and satirist Wolfgang Sieg (1936–2015) and also comes from a family of musicians. His mother Elisabeth Sieg, who later worked as a psychological psychotherapist, taught recorder at the State Youth Music School in Hamburg ; his grandfather Heinrich Paff directed a chamber orchestra. He grew up with his older siblings Katrin (now a theater scholar at Georgetown University, Washington, DC) and Sönke (now musical director on a cruise ship of the Hamburg shipping company TUI Cruises ) in Elmshorn. Sören Sieg learned languages ​​at an early age, started school at the age of five, skipped a class as a highly gifted person and, at the age of 17, completed his Abitur at the Elmshorn Gymnasium Elsa-Brändström -Schule in 1984 .

He got into music at an early age, learned to play music at preschool age and later to play several musical instruments such as recorder, violin, guitar, saxophone, trumpet and drums. In addition, Sieg began to write early, wrote his “first novel” about a family's journey to the moon at the age of six, later wrote for the Rote Elsa , the school newspaper of the Elsa Brändström School, and - after graduating from high school - from 1984 to 1986 for the taz . In 1983 he received second prize in the Hamburg Steinway music competition . In 1985, Sieg met the Dutch composer and pianist Ronald Poelman in the workshop for jazz, rock and new music in Hamburg , who encouraged him to compose and with whom he played in a duo for two years (Poelman: piano, Sieg: saxophone) and gave concerts . Sieg wrote numerous pieces for this line-up. In 1986, together with some like-minded people, he founded the Deserters , who together totally refused military service , including alternative service . From 1986 to 1991 he first studied politics, sociology, history and philosophy at the universities in Hamburg and Bielefeld . He financed his studies as a piano accompanist and toured Germany with Monty Arnold , Annette Mayer, Lilli Walzer , Joe Luga and many others.

Music studies, co-founder and head of the a cappella group LaLeLu

Sieg then switched to studying music and studied piano, composition and drums at the University of Music and Theater in Hamburg from 1991 to 1996 . There he met fellow students Jan Melzer, Tobias Hanf and Stefanie Hoffmann, with whom he founded the a cappella quartet LaLeLu in 1994 . The four-member a cappella comedy group, in which Sieg took part as a tenor singer and moderated as the “head of the group”, soon became known nationwide and had numerous appearances in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. LaLeLu gave around 130 concerts a year, won numerous awards, had several television and radio appearances and released several CDs .

Most of the compositions, texts and arrangements are by Sieg; he has now written a total of 11 programs with over 200 pieces for LaLeLu. In the meantime, 5 songbooks with mostly works by Sieg have been published for the LaLeLu programs and pieces  . In June 2012 he left the a cappella group after a total of around 2000 concerts; but he continues to write and arrange for LaLeLu.

Composer, satirist, columnist, author

In addition to his work for LaLeLu, Sieg composed numerous music and choral pieces, in which he a. a. African music combined with European recorders. His African suites have been published by Tonger and Moeck since 1996 . He also wrote several commissioned compositions, such as for the Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet , the Utrecht Recorder Festival and the Ensemble Pipelife .

In addition, Sieg worked as a satirist, columnist and author. In his first, as yet unpublished novel, Das Milchstraßenpalais , which he wrote while studying at the Hamburg Music Academy, he processed impressions from his music studies. Excerpts from his second and third unpublished novel appeared in the Hamburger Jahrbuch für Literatur ( Hamburger Ziegel and later Ziegel ) in the editions for 2000/2001 and 2008/2009. From 2009-2013 Sören Sieg regularly wrote a front-page - column for the Sunday edition of the Bremen Weser-Kurier , the courier on Sunday in which he under the collective title Happy Sunday reported on his "chaotic family life." The roughly 200 stories were well received by readers, and a collection of selected columns was published in book form in both 2010 and 2012. In 2012 he also published a partially autobiographical novel on a similar subject, as well as two books with various co-authors, each with satirical and literary material , which came out in 2011 and 2013. Siegs books were also published partly as e-books and audio books; he has also been invited to numerous book readings .

In addition, Sieg wrote various satirical texts, such as u. a. for the Berlin cabaret Die Distel , as well as occasional contributions for the taz, which, for example, published an interview he conducted with the British author Tom Hodgkinson in April 2012 (including instructions for idleness , Rogner and Bernhard Verlag, Berlin 2005) in a special taz edition recorded as well as partially published in the normal print edition.

Since leaving LaLeLu, Sieg has been working increasingly as a freelance writer and composer.

reception

The Badische Zeitung characterized Sören Sieg's comedy talent as a tenor singer and moderator as well as a lyricist, composer and arranger of the a cappella quartet LaLeLu as follows:

"Sören Sieg is a mixture of Wigald Boning , Charlie Brown and Herbert Feuerstein ."

- Badische Zeitung : (quoted after a program announcement by the Kleinkunstbühne Haus 13 , Elmshorn)

The book Come in and burn out from 2012, written by Sören Sieg together with LaLeLu co-founder Jan Melzer, was discussed in detail by Michael Lehmann-Pape in his online portal Book and Audiobook Reviews - Review Service (www.rezensions-seite.de). Lehmann-Pape rated the “ Denglisch für Beginners” book as an “amusing, humorous and not entirely serious journey through the current language development or language aberrations” and as “a thoroughly entertaining reading experience”. Siegs book Superdaddy , which was also published in 2012, was u. a. reviewed by the Sankt Michaelsbund ; its reviewer Helmer Passon pointed out that the "secret of Sören Siegs spelling" is not the "caricature exaggeration", but on the contrary, the "precise observation and precise working out of the comical aspects of everyday life and the accurate punch line", and recommended the book as an “exciting entertaining novel with depth”, which consistently maintains its “comedic, but also content-related level”.

The non-fiction book "I'm a lady, you asshole!" , The Sören Sieg jointly authored with Axel Krohn and at the beginning of 2013 Ullstein appeared, was a total of 12 weeks on the paperback - seller list of Spiegel Online .

Awards and recognitions

Works

Books

  • Have a beautiful Sunday. Volume 1: The 88 best stories by Leo, Lina and Lukas. Bremer Tageszeitungen AG, Bremen 2010, ISBN 978-3-938795-19-4 .
  • Have a beautiful Sunday. Volume 2: The latest from Leo, Lina and Lukas. Bremer Tageszeitungen AG, Bremen 2012, ISBN 978-3-938795-42-2 .
  • with Jan Melzer: Come in and burn out. Denglisch, the survival guide (=  dtv. No. 24872 - Premium ). Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag (dtv), Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-423-24872-3 . (Illustrations: Helge Jepsen) ( review ).
  • Super daddy. Novel. List, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-471-35076-8 . ( Review ).
  • with Axel Krohn: “I'm a lady, you asshole!” German dialogues heard. Ullstein, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-548-37456-7 . ( Spiegel online bestseller )
  • Slightly in need of renovation. From the madness of buying a home. DuMont, Cologne 2013, ISBN 978-3-8321-6249-8 .
  • with Axel Krohn: “I didn't understand you from a visual point of view.” Heard German dialogues. Ullstein, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-548-37539-7 .
  • "Here too?" Totally useless questions that you should never ask, and answers that you will never hear. Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 2014, ISBN 978-3-451-06680-1 .

Book contributions

  • Excerpt from the unpublished novel Records from the Underground. In: Hamburger Ziegel Nr. 7. Jahrbuch für Literatur (=  Hamburger Jahrbuch für Literatur , 2000/2001). Published on behalf of the Hamburg cultural authority. Dölling and Galitz, Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-933374-65-0 . (with CD-ROM)
  • Excerpt from the unpublished novel Böse Geister. In: brick . No. 11. Hamburg Yearbook for Literature, 2008/2009. Published on behalf of the Hamburg cultural authority. Dölling and Galitz, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-937904-73-3 .

Compositions

  • African Suite No. 1 , consisting of:
    • Djaboué. An African suite. For three (alternating) recorders, for three (alternating) recorders. Tonger, Cologne 1998, (score, parts).
    • Djaboué. African Suite No. 1. In: Sören Sieg: Pina ya phala. African Suite No. 2. Kissing and Wildner, Hamburg / Musikwelt, Münster (Westphalia), each 2001 (performers: Flûtes en Bloc , recording from 1999; 1 CD with booklet).
  • Pina ya phala. African Suite No. 2. Kissing and Wildner, Hamburg / Musikwelt, Münster (Westphalia), each 2001 (performers: Flûtes en Bloc , recording from 1999; 1 CD with booklet).
  • Mavumo ya uana. African Suite No. 3. For recorder quartet. Moeck, Celle 2005, (music printing; score and parts).
  • Umlanjana. 20 African duets in increasing difficulty for recorder duo. 2014.
  • Ajo Oloyin. African Suite No. 6. For eight recorders (SSAATTBB). 2014.
  • 16 variations on an Irish jig, for recorder quintet (ATTBG). 2014 (premiered in January 2014 by the Ensemble Pipelife in Karlsruhe).

column

  • Front page - column that was published regularly on Sundays from April 2009 to June 2013 under the collective title Schönen Sonntag in Kurier am Sonntag , the Sunday edition of the Bremer Weser-Kurier . A total of 202 columns were published.
  • Selection of individual column articles as examples:
    • The art of the one-word sentence. Why my son should definitely be a government spokesman - Happy Sunday! Kurier am Sonntag, Bremen, May 16, 2010, p. 1
    • Parmesan 21. A movement is rolling through Germany - and it cannot be stopped: Have a nice Sunday! Kurier am Sonntag, Bremen, November 21, 2010, p. 1 ( online ; PDF, 382 kB).

Web links

Commons : Sören Sieg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information on Sören Sieg at Deutsches Taschenbuch Verlag (dtv); Retrieved May 7, 2013.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g According to own information on the homepage of Sören Sieg ; Retrieved May 6, 2013.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Information on Sören Sieg ( memento of the original from June 26, 2013 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. . On: website of the a capella comedy group LaLeLu ; Retrieved May 6, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lalelu.de
  4. ↑ a b c d Martina Goy: Juggling with words and notes. Sören Sieg is the head of the a cappella group LaLeLu . Interview with Sören Sieg in the daily newspaper Die Welt on June 6, 2011; Retrieved May 7, 2013.
  5. ↑ Dirk Wildgruber: A deserter reports. Documentation of a collective conscientious objection. Self-published, Hamburg / Heidelberg 1990, OCLC 84282780 .
  6. ↑ a b c d Stefan Reckziegel: A cappella comedy. The Superdaddy and his LaLeLu final . In: Hamburger Abendblatt from June 11, 2012; Retrieved May 6, 2013.
  7. ↑ a b (str): Farewell. Sören Sieg no longer sings for LaLeLu . In: Hamburger Abendblatt from 23 August 2011; Retrieved May 6, 2013.
  8. ↑ The Thistle : [ Archived copy ( memento of the original from May 18, 2015 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. Like clockwork! News from the lobby basement. →  Book: […] Sören Sieg ]. Press release on the 130th program of the Distel , premiere: October 25, 2012; PDF, 123 kB; Retrieved May 7, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.distel-berlin.de
  9. ↑ Sören Sieg: "Wage labor is slavery" . Excerpt from the interview with Tom Hodgkinson in: taz . dated April 13, 2012; Retrieved May 6, 2013.
  10. ↑ a b Quoted from the Badische Zeitung from: Reading with Sören Sieg . Program announcement for an author reading with Sören Sieg on February 8, 2013. On: Website of the Kleinkunstbühne Haus 13 , Elmshorn; Retrieved May 6, 2013.
  11. ↑ Michael Lehmann-Pape: Jan Melzer, Sören Sieg - Come in and burn out. Denglish for beginners . On: Online portal book and audio book reviews - review service (www.rezensions-seite.de), 2011; Retrieved May 6, 2013.
  12. ↑ Superdaddy  ( 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. . Review of Helmer Passon for the Sankt Michaelsbund . On: Medienprofile.de ( Borromäusverein , Bonn); Retrieved May 6, 2013.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.medienprofile.de  
  13. ↑ See information on the book Sören Sieg, Axel Krohn: I am a lady, you asshole! On: buchreport .de; Retrieved June 28, 2013.
  14. ↑ Sören Sieg: And bye! The last column in which I apologize, thank you and express three wishes: Have a nice Sunday! In: Kurier am Sonntag , Bremen, from June 30, 2013, title page.
personal data
SURNAME Victory, Sören
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German singer, songwriter, composer, arranger, satirist, columnist and author
DATE OF BIRTH November 1, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Elmshorn