Schorsch Cameroon

Schorsch Cameroon with the Golden Lemons at the Haldern Pop 2013

Schorsch Cameroon (* 1963 in Timmendorfer Strand ; real name Thomas Sehl ) is a German singer , author , theater director and club operator.

Live and act

Schorsch Cameroon ( MQ , Vienna 2008)

Schorsch Cameroon grew up in Timmendorfer Strand and chose the DKP in his youth . He has lived in Hamburg since the early 1980s and now also in Munich . He was a founding member in 1984 and is still the singer of the Hamburg punk band Die Goldenen Zitronen . He has also released solo albums . Together with Rocko Schamoni he also runs the Golden Pudel Club in Hamburg. In the mid-1990s they had the television series Pudel Overnight together on 3sat (which was continued in a modified form in winter 2001). In the winter semester 2010/11 he was visiting professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich .

theatre

For several years he has also worked as a theater director and writer. Among other things, he staged his play Macht eressen Würde at the Schauspielhaus Zurich (world premiere May 22, 2003), which was about increasing right-wing populism in Switzerland , and Hubert Fichte's novel Die Palette am Hamburger Schauspielhaus (2000), and Eisstadt an der Berliner Volksbühne (2005).

At the beginning of 2006 his so-called orientational operetta The Chinese in the Children's Bed had its world premiere at the Lower Saxony State Theaters in Hanover ( Ballhof Eins). In the 06/07 season, Schorsch Kamerun premiered the play Macht und Rebel based on the novel by Norwegian author Matias Faldbakken at the Münchner Kammerspiele . Since January 2008, the play The Cold Heart (based on the fairy tale by Wilhelm Hauff ) has been performed in Hanover . As a production as part of the Ruhrtriennale 2008, Schorsch Cameroon staged the theater experiment Westwärts with 150 extras in the machine hall Zeche Zweckel in Gladbeck.

His piece MS ADENAUER - The first anti-authoritarian State Opera had on March 6, 2009 at the Cologne Theater premiered in May he staged for the Vienna Festival With all due caution , a verification walking under professional guidance . On July 7, 2009, his production of Leonard Bernstein's Trouble in Tahiti under the musical direction of Kent Nagano premiered at the Bavarian State Opera . In October 2009 the Konzert zur Revolution , a music theater for the 90th anniversary of the Munich Soviet Republic , premiered at the Münchner Kammerspiele. In 2010 his plays Abseitsfalle ( Theater Oberhausen ) and Vor uns die Sintflut ( Thalia Theater Hamburg ) followed. On the basis of the plays he also wrote several radio plays for WDR . There he made his radio debut in 2003 with the play Hanns Eisler (1898–1962) - Hollywood Elegien and was nominated for the Prix ​​Italia . In 2007 he was awarded for his radio play A human picture that emerges in his sum zero to Hörspielpreis the Kriegsblinden . In the 2007/2008 theater season he directed his project Biology of Fear at the Schauspielhaus Zurich .

In 2007 Cameroon played in Raymond Pettibons and Oliver Augst's musical “The Whole World Is Watching” (with Keiji Haino and Marcel Daemgen) as part of the MaerzMusik festival at the Berliner Festspiele .

In December 2010, Cameroon started a series of “Invention Evenings”, a mixture of conversation, concert and performance. The first evening with the title Get me out of here (I'm here in front of the wall) took place on December 11, 2010 in the arcade of the Münchner Kammerspiele . At the beginning of March 2012 he brought his latest project, a “music theater research” entitled Die Verschwundenen von Altona , to the Hamburg Thalia Theater . On October 5, 2012, his concert installation Sender Freies Düsseldorf was premiered at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus , in which he deals with modern communication. In March 2016, The Disparate City premiered at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg , a chronicle of resistant movements in Hamburg in the form of a walk-in installation with drama, acrobatics, singing and reading. In June 2019, for the 100th Bauhaus anniversary, The Bauhaus - A Saving Requiem was performed at the Volksbühne in Berlin .

novel

In March 2016 Cameroon's first book “The youth is the most beautiful time in life” was published ( Ullstein Verlag ). The stories of his protagonist Horsti are reminiscent of Cameroon's own biography: At the end of the 1970s, Horsti, who later calls himself "Tommi from Germany", fights with his clique against the bourgeoisie and repression of the German small town idyll, is part of left-wing structures and ultimately a well-known director and musician . It's about dealing with authorities and rebellion, about the principle of deception, about the balancing act between subculture and high culture, punk and theater.

Cameroon's debut novel was received positively in the media and widely discussed.

Bands / projects

• The golden lemons
• Motion
• Baby man
• New Years Boy

Discography

• 1996: Why Change Slept
• 1997: Now: Sex Image
• 2000: Schorsch Cameroon (as Sylvester Boy) - Monsters Rule This World
• 2013: People are slacking off

• Vinyl maxi single: 1996: The people from Kiel (remixes)
• 2013: Independence is not the solution for modern babies

Filmography (selection)

• 1992: Rollo Aller! 2 ( short film ), (actor, film music)
• 1994: Swingpfennig / Deutschmark ( TV film ), (actor)
• 1995: Pudel Overnight ( TV series ), (Participation)
• 1999: Park Fiction - Desires will leave the apartment and take to the streets ( documentary ), (film music)
• 2003: Golden Lemons (documentary), (participation)
• 2003: Klappling (short film, director: Franz Wanner ), (actor)
• 2007: Remaining mature attitudes (documentary), (participation)
• 2008: A Fleeting Moment (short film), (actor)

Compilation Contributions

• 1996 Youth is the most beautiful time in life and people have no idea about better times sounds good (L'Age D'Or)
• 1997 Agree to music for young people (L'Age D'Or)
• 2000 Die Menschen Vom Kiel (EC8OR Remix) on Sauerkraut nicht Sushi (Let's Forget All About This) (L'Age D'Or)
• 2003 So Much (Turtlebay Country Club feat. Schorsch Cameroon) on Must all with (Wallpaper Records)
• 2016 " Fugen im Parquet" on "Anarchy and Everyday Life" of the " Antilopen Gang"
• 2019 Shine in the ditch on The sweet scent of contradiction (we vs. me) by Kettcar

Radio plays

• 2003 Hanns Eisler (1898–1962) - Hollywood Elegies , directed by the author (WDR)
• 2005 Eisstadt , director: the author (WDR)
• 2006 An image of man that adds up to zero , director: the author (WDR) ( radio play award of the war blind )
• 2010 The wind stands still in the series Deutschland 2089 of the Bayerischer Rundfunk, directed by the author (BR)
• 2012 Can't imagine that it will continue , directed by: the author (WDR)
• 2013 Paul Plamper : Silent Night (rest 3) , (as speaker), director: the author (WDR)
• 2014 Fathers Have Seven Lives , together with Martin Becker , directed by the authors (WDR)
• 2017 Kreiskolbenmotorhase - Extra-theatrical radio play about the end of all diversity , directed by the author (WDR)

Web links

Commons : Schorsch Cameroon  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Works by and about Schorsch Cameroon in the catalog of the German National Library
• Schorsch Cameroon - Official Website
• Schorsch Cameroon at Discogs (English)
• Schorsch Cameroon in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ I don't need naked people on stage (PDF; 110 kB) schorschkamerun.de. Archived from the original on July 18, 2013. 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. Retrieved April 18, 2012. 
2. ^ Neon, January 2018, p. 38.
3. ^ Neon, January 2018, p. 40.
4. ↑ 1997: Now: Sex Image (L'Age D'Or)
5. ↑ ^{a b} Schorsch Cameroon: Bio . schorschkamerun.de. Archived from the original on March 7, 2012. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved April 18, 2012. 
6. ↑ MS Adenauer - The first anti-authoritarian state opera . Cologne theater . Retrieved April 18, 2012.
7. ↑ Missing what you fought . taz.de . March 8, 2009. Retrieved April 19, 2012.
8. ↑ With all due caution! - Security, Cameroon, Hello Vienna . Kulturwoche.at. Retrieved April 18, 2012.
9. ^ Trouble in Tahiti . Bavarian State Opera . Archived from the original on December 10, 2009. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved April 18, 2012. 
10. ↑ Schorsch Cameroon proclaims the theater revolution . World online . October 26, 2009. Retrieved April 18, 2012.
11. ^ Radio plays by Schorsch Cameroon at WDR . WDR . Retrieved April 18, 2012.
12. ^ Eisstadt - radio play by Schorsch Cameroon . Deutschlandradio Kultur . October 16, 2006. Retrieved April 18, 2012.
13. ↑ The birth of a stage set: greenish-translucent plastic balls . taz.de. May 3, 2009. Retrieved April 19, 2012.
14. ↑ The Disappeared from Altona . Thalia Theater (Hamburg) . Retrieved April 18, 2012.
15. ^ Sender Free Düsseldorf - A concert installation by and with Schorsch Cameroon . Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus. Retrieved October 10, 2012.
16. ↑ Birgit Reuther: Schorsch Cameroon on a sensual search for community . Hamburger Abendblatt . March 6, 2016. Accessed March 11, 2016.
17. ↑ The disparate city: Bold stubbornness or a comfortable tourist attraction? . Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg. Retrieved March 11, 2016.
18. ^ Esther Slevogt: The Bauhaus. A saving requiem - Volksbühne Berlin - Schorsch Cameroon's quirky and beautiful Bauhaus fantasy celebrates the absurd and imperfect. Retrieved February 2, 2020 (German). 
19. ↑ Schorsch Cameroon. Youth is the most wonderful time in life (review notes). In: Perlentaucher.de. Retrieved November 21, 2018 .