Sebastian Janata

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Sebastian Janata (* 1988 in Eisenstadt ) is an Austrian musician, author and producer. He lives and works in Berlin and Vienna .

Life

childhood and education

Sebastian Janata grew up in Burgenland and Vienna . Although he his musical skills for the most part self-taught learned he attended, among others, the Haydn Conservatory in Eisenstadt . He dropped out of high school a year before graduating from high school . His father is Herbert Janata , head of the Austropop group Worried Men Skiffle Group .

Career

Yes, panic

In 2006 Sebastian Janata became a member of the group Ja, Panik . In 2009 he moved to Berlin with the other members of the group.

The necessity of producing individual band merchandise brought Sebastian Janata and Stefan Pabst to the plan to produce their own, individually tailored clothing items: The fashion and craft label Jein, Ganik was founded in 2012.

In 2016, after five successful studio albums, the group released the collective book FUTUR II at Verbrecher Verlag .

Activity as a producer and Worried Man & Worried Boy

In 2015 Sebastian Janata founded the band Worried Man & Worried Boy together with his father Herbert Janata. Together with the Viennese singer Der Nino from Vienna, the two recorded the song The Most Beautiful Man of Vienna and released it as the first single. The song produced by Sebastian Janata became a commercial success. At the beginning of 2016, Sebastian Janata founded Worried Boy Productions . In summer 2016, the singer Voodoo Jürgens released the song Heite grob ma Tote aus, produced by Sebastian Janata . The single reached number 1 on the Radio FM4 charts; the album Ansa Woar , on which the song can be found, rose from 0 to number 1 in the album sales charts in Austria. In autumn 2016 Worried Man & Worried Boy released their second album, which is called Staying Calm and, like the first album, was produced by their son Sebastian.

Contribution as a producer

  • Singles
    • The most beautiful man in Vienna - Worried Man & Worried Boy feat. The Nino from Vienna (2015)
    • Roughly clear the dead - Voodoo Jürgens (2016)
  • LPs
    • Worried Man & Worried Boy (self-titled) - Worried Man & Worried Boy (2015)
    • Keep Calm - Worried Man & Worried Boy (2016)

Activity as an author

Janata's debut novel Die Ambassadorin will be published by Rowohlt Verlag in July 2020 . Der Spiegel writes about the debut: “Sebastian Janata updates the principle of Heimatroman by completely dispensing with the transfiguration that so often characterizes the genre and instead distributing bells with healthy disrespect and astonishing linguistic power; of nationalism , patriarchy and toxic masculinity. "

Works

Individual evidence

  1. Interview on the Faux Fox Magazine website . Retrieved September 22, 2016
  2. Article on the Musikexpress website . Retrieved September 22, 2016
  3. ^ Website of the publisher with a description of the book . Retrieved September 22, 2016
  4. Interview on the Music Austria website . Retrieved September 22, 2016
  5. Music video on Youtube . Retrieved September 22, 2016
  6. Website with the Radio FM4 Charts from June 4, 2016, accessed on September 22, 2016
  7. Website with the Ö3 Austria Top40 Longplayer Charts from October 14, 2016 . Retrieved October 13, 2016
  8. Janata, Die Ambassadorin (hardcover). Retrieved June 4, 2020 .
  9. Jochen Overbeck, DER SPIEGEL: Homeland novel of Yes, Panic Drummer: Back in the Asshole - DER SPIEGEL - Culture. Retrieved July 29, 2020 .