Simon & Jan
Simon & Jan is a songwriter duo founded in 2006 , consisting of Simon Eickhoff (* 1980) and Jan Traphan (* 1981).
Career
Eickhoff and Traphan met in 2001 at the beginning of their music teacher training course in Oldenburg . They combine gentle, melodic compositions played on two acoustic guitars with often ironic lyrics.
Simon & Jan became better known as support for Götz Widmann and Monsters of Liedermaching . In 2013 they released their first full-length program The Last Schrei on CD. They had appearances, for example, in Nightwash , in the Quatsch Comedy Live Club and in the institution . At the end of 2013 they started their second program Ach Mensch . The premiere of their third program Hallelujah! took place on October 23, 2016 in the Comedia in Cologne.
In 2018 they released an album with the string quartet "Vielharmoniker", with which they also appeared on the anniversary broadcast of Pufpaff's Happy Hour .
Awards
- 2010: Jugendkulturell : Promotion Prize Cabaret & Co
- 2012: Obernburger Mühlstein : Jury and audience award
- 2013: St. Ingberter Pfanne : 1st jury prize
- 2013: Reinheimer Satirelöwe : Audience Award
- 2013: Krefelder Krähe : 2nd jury prize
- 2013: Troubadour : audience award and 2nd jury award
- 2014: Prix Pantheon : Jury Prize
- 2014: Young Talent Award of the Hanns Seidel Foundation, presentation with songs on a summer evening
- 2016: German Cabaret Award from the City of Mainz
- 2016: Bavarian Cabaret Prize: Music Prize
- 2018: Minden stickleback : Category group
- 2019: Salzburg bull
- 2019: Thuringian Cabaret Prize : Culture Prize of the City of Meiningen
Discography
- 2009: Simon & Jan
- 2013: The latest craze - live
- 2015: Oh man!
- 2018: Hallelujah! live
- 2018: Simon & Jan with many harmony: Because I can
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ebba Hagenberg-Miliu: Simon & Jan come back to the Pantheon. In: Generalanzeiger. August 15, 2014, accessed June 24, 2017 .
- ↑ Interview with Simon and Jan on thomann.de, accessed on June 24, 2017
- ↑ Götz Widmann with Simon & Jan "Give me something of your grass" on youtube.de, Livevideo Club SO36 Berlin, 2012
- ↑ What are actually… Simon & Jan doing? at jugend-kulturell.de, accessed on June 24, 2017.
- ↑ Previous winners on reinheim.de, accessed on 24 June 2017th
- ↑ http://www1.wdr.de/fernsehen/unterhaltung/comedy/sendung/prixpantheon/simonundjan100.html, page no longer available on August 18, 2019, also no archive version available.
- ↑ The “Songs on a Summer Evening 2014” on studio-fuer-veranstaltungen.com, accessed on June 24, 2017.
- ↑ The "Salzburger Stier 2019" goes to Lisa Eckhart . OTS announcement of October 17, 2018, accessed October 18, 2018.
- ↑ Salzburger Stier for Simon & Jan. Recording from May 11th, 2019 from the Kurhaus Meran. In: Deutschlandfunk. June 19, 2019, accessed February 17, 2020 .
- ↑ Simon & Jan receive the Thuringian Cabaret Prize , accessed on November 23, 2018.