Schobert & Black
Schobert & Black (often also Schobert and Black ) was a German songwriter duo. It consisted of Wolfgang "Schobert" Schulz and Lothar "Black" Lechleiter and had its greatest successes in the 1970s.
Schobert & Black sang both critical political and nonsense songs, which they themselves described as "higher nonsense". According to their own statement, the "inventors of the higher nonsense" were Ulrich Roski and Hanns Dieter Hüsch , with whom they often appeared together. Her sung self-set Limericks became known , most of which came from the work Limerick Teutsch by the poet duo Georg Bungter and Günter Frorath . Also folding Horn verses were recited like. During their performances, most of the announcements and transitions were independent text works full of linguistic wit and acrobatics, which in length often significantly exceeded the songs performed.
biography
Wolfgang "Schobert" Schulz (* July 2, 1941 in Stettin , Pomerania Province ; † September 24, 1992 in Berlin ) sang English from 1961 with his schoolmate Reinhard Mey and a changing third man as "Les trois Affamés" (The Three Starved) , French and Spanish folk music as well as self-set ballads by François Villon and poems by Georg von der Vring , among others with Peter Rohland .
Lothar "Black" Lechleiter (born May 13, 1942 in Stallupönen, East Prussia ) has also been making folk music in various groups since 1961/62 and met Schobert in autumn 1965. Both hit it off right away and in autumn 1965 founded the duo "Schobert and Black". In the summer of 1966 they first appeared as Schobert & Black at the Festival Chanson Folklore International at Waldeck Castle . Her repertoire initially consisted of setting texts by Fritz Graßhoff and adaptations of French chansons . Later they mainly sang chansons as well as political-satirical and funny songs with texts by Günter Bruno Fuchs , Volker Ludwig , Felix Rexhausen or from their own pen.
Schobert provided the compositions and arrangements as well as many texts, some of which were created in collaboration with Black or Schobert's school friend Wolfgang Eickelberg. Schobert also wrote for colleagues such as Joana , Antonia Maass and Inga and Wolf and produced artists such as Hanns Dieter Hüsch , for whose album Abendlieder Schobert worked out the orchestral arrangements for all the titles.
In allusion to Black's homeland, songs in the East Prussian dialect were also in her repertoire.
Schobert & Black have been to Waldeck Castle four times. Black had already been to the castle in 1964 with the “Neussern”, later “Pontocs”, and had played mainly South American and African songs. In 1969 the first tour of Schobert & Blacks followed with Hannes Wader . After going on a concert tour with Hüsch in the early 1970s, they toured together with Ulrich Roski and Hannes Wader in 1973/74. In 1975 Schobert & Black were awarded the German Cabaret Prize in the Chanson category.
Wolfgang Schulz and Lothar Lechleiter released more than 20 long-playing records, including a double album with calendar songs based on texts by Fritz Graßhoff and Felix Rexhausen as well as two live double albums. Schobert & Black had up to 300 performances a year and also filled the largest halls, such as the Grugahalle in Essen and the Philharmonie in West Berlin. At the end of the 1970s, Schobert & Black jointly presented the television series Trickbonbons . In 1985 they decided to go their artistic separate ways in the future.
Black still appears from time to time, including at Burg Waldeck and with Ingo Insterburg as "Insterburg & Black". He also continues to publish records, for example a CD in 2004 with Pit Klein on the life and work of Fritz Graßhoff. Schobert died of sudden heart failure while working on a solo LP in 1992 in Berlin.
Discography
- 1967: The singing beards - with blasphemous songs and moral songs (xenophon)
- 1968: Germany or what is biting me there? (xenophon)
- 1971: Get me a green song (Philips)
- 1972: My only friend (Telefunken)
- 1972: The wood wool chipping plant (Telefunken)
- 1973: Schobert & Black & Roski: for your sake (Telefunken)
- 1973: Schobert & Black & Roski: hits of the bench bards (Telefunken)
- 1973: Alive (double album, live) (Telefunken)
- 1974: We're fine (Telefunken)
- 1974: Parsifal GmbH & Co KG (Telefunken)
- 1975: Star portrait (Intercord)
- 1975: The whole year (double album) (Telefunken)
- 1976: Radschlag (Telefunken)
- 1977: In our capacity as friends (Telefunken)
- 1978: Well then (double album, live) (Telefunken)
- 1979: Schobert & Black & Inga: ... because I am a subject (Telefunken)
- 2001: Lebend (best of live) (EBM)
- 2002: Na Denn (live episode 2) (EBM)
- 2004: So far, so homestead! (EBM)
- 2004: The singing beards / Germany or what is biting me? (Contrary to music)
- 2008: Higher nonsense, the fourth (EBM)
Web links
- Homepage of "Black"
- Works by Schobert & Black in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento from March 29, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Ingo Insterburg's website , accessed on September 2, 2017