Stefan Waggershausen

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Stefan Waggershausen (born February 20, 1949 in Friedrichshafen ) is a German music producer , songwriter and author .

life and work

In 1971 Stefan Waggershausen moved to Berlin to study psychology. During his studies he worked as an assistant director for TV productions for the SFB , among others , wrote his first TV music and composed his first songs for various productions by CBS , Teldec and Metronome Records . For several years in the 1970s, Waggershausen was also part of a group of musicians who lived in the same house in Berlin-Halensee . These included artists such as Ewald Lütge ( pensioner band ) and Gunter Gabriel , with whom Waggershausen worked on songs during this time. In addition, her own compositions and productions with various other musicians, which have not been published before, were created. During this time, Stefan Waggershausen often visited the Jazz -Café York palace in Berlin-Kreuzberg where he played his first own concerts. At the same time he began his work as a lyricist and producer for other artists, and he also wrote German cover versions of English-language hits, for example together with the film composer Martin Böttcher for the work Maybe by Thom Pace or the German version for the work Bette Davis Eyes by Kim Carnes .

Waggershausen signed his first recording contract as a solo artist in 1974 with CBS Records (Columbia Records), and as a result Waggershausen produced his debut album Traumtanzzeit in Hamburg (Windrose Studios), Munich (Union Studios), Berlin (Audio Recording Studios) and London (Orange Studios) ). Even with this first production by Stefan Waggershausen, some musicians were represented with Udo Arndt , Gottfried Böttger , Sigi Schwab , Paul Vincent , Keith Forsey , Mal Luker and Christoph Busse , who later played a key role in various other albums. The title Traumtanz is a German cover version of his title Desolation Row approved by Bob Dylan .

From 1976 Waggershausen worked for several years as a radio presenter at the Sender Freies Berlin and RIAS , where he presented the programs SF-Beat, Nachtcafé and Softrock-Café.

In 1980 Waggershausen published the album Hallo Engel about Ariola , which was awarded a gold record after 37 weeks in the charts and more than 250,000 copies sold. In addition to the single Hallo Engel of the same name, the album also contains the title Verzeih'n Sie, Madame, with which Waggershausen took part in the preliminary decision for the Grand Prix Eurovision and took fourth place.

In 1981 he received the German Record Award of the German Phono Academy as "Artist of the Year". Hallo Engel was awarded the Golden Europe. In October 1981, Fang mich auf was released , an album about losers and independents, melancholy and ironic. In winter, the first major live appearance followed on "ROCKPOP IN CONCERT - Night of Songs" ( ZDF ), alongside Wolfgang Ambros , Lucio Dalla , Chris de Burgh , Randy Newman and Sally Oldfield .

From 1982–83, Stefan Waggershausen toured Germany for the first time with his own band. The single Too Close to Fire , sung with the Italian pop singer Alice , was released in January 1984. After the fifth Waggershausen production appeared, another tour took place. In autumn, the live CD Mitten ins Herz followed as a résumé of the tour . The two albums Touché d´amour and In the Heart of the Storm established Waggershausen in the German music scene. He produced for fellow musicians and wrote film scores.

In 1987 Waggershausen worked together with artists such as David Knopfler , Gitte Haenning , Bläck Fööss , Inga Rumpf and Heinz Rudolf Kunze in the benefit project Water is Life , the proceeds of which were donated to Greenpeace .

In 1990 the album Deep in the South of My Heart was released. Again there was a musical duet, now with the singer Viktor Lazlo , with whom Waggershausen produced the two tracks The first time it hurts and Jesse produced in Brussels and Paris. The album was placed in the German charts with 4 successful single releases over a period of 5 months and the single Das first Mal tat's noch weh reached number 6 in 23 chart weeks. For this, Stefan Waggershausen was awarded the Silver RTL Lion , the Golden Europe and RSH Gold honored.

In 1991, Stefan Waggershausen released the best-of album Herzsprge , which, in addition to hits from various albums, also contained new titles.

In 1993 the eleventh album Wenn dich die Mondfrau küsst and the single Jenseits von Liebe was released in collaboration with the Israeli singer Ofra Haza in the Berlin audio studio.

The album Louisiana followed in 1995 . Waggershausen used the two years to spend several months in Louisiana and the album there especially in New Orleans and Lafayette with the help of local musicians such as Willy DeVille , Zachary Richard, Freddy Koella or Al Berard from the Grammy-nominated band The Basin Brothers to produce. Part of the production was also done in the Master Trak Studio in Crowley , the oldest recording studio in Louisiana, with the collaboration of studio operator JD "Jay" Miller who has already recorded music with mainstream artists such as Paul Simon and John Fogerty at this location . The album contains rock elements , some mixed with blues and Cajun music, and in 1996 brought Waggershausen an echo as Artist of the Year in Rock / Pop.

In 1997 the album The Bill always comes out. Many of the songs on it were written in Louisiana at the time. In contrast to its predecessor, this album was completed in Berlin and supplemented by a few songs that were exclusively produced in Berlin. Especially the duet with the American actress and former Miss Teenager of the World María Conchita Alonso entitled Bienvenido a Salomé surprised with its elements of South American salsa and Mexican mariachi music . The violins are by Freddy Koella and the mariachi trumpets by Till Brönner . The vocal recordings for this duet were made at Westlake Recording Studios in Los Angeles.

In 2003 the best of album Duette & Balladen was released . In addition to Waggershausen's greatest hits, three new songs were released. 2004 At the end of October, the best-of album was released, entitled Under the Cajun Moon . It contained the best songs of the "Louisiana era" and three unreleased works.

His 14th studio album was released on March 5, 2010, titled So ist das Spiel . The album contains twelve new songs, in which Peter Weihe and Till Brönner participated and Alice , Nena & Annett Louisan can be heard as musical guests . In addition, Jan Josef Liefers , Sasha and Henning Wehland worked on the track "Endlos Sommer" as part of Stefan Waggershausen's fictional band Lily and the Home Boys.

On February 8, 2019, the 15th studio album entitled "Fallen Out of Time" will be released. The recordings for the album were made over several years in different studios in Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, New Orleans, Los Angeles and Spain. The fictional band "Traveling Homeboys", consisting of Otto Waalkes , Tobias Künzel and Peter Freudenthaler , is also a guest again this time for several songs on the album.

Waggershausen has been a member of GEMA's supervisory board since 1993 and chairman of the professional group of lyricists since May 2017. He was a member of the board of trustees of the German Phono Academy and deputy president of the German Association of Text Writers . He is married and has a son.

Productions

In addition to his work as a singer and songwriter, Stefan Waggershausen also appears as a music producer and wrote songs for other artists such as Daliah Lavi , Otto Waalkes , Etta Scollo , Wolfgang Petry and Peter Kraus .

In 1981 Waggershausen and Udo Arndt produced the artist Ernst Schultz ( your children ) and the album "Happy Losers" at the Audio Studio Berlin.

In 1987 Waggershausen produced the album with open arms by Wolfgang Petry together with Werner Schüler and Udo Arndt . In the same year Waggershausen and Achim Reichel produced the album Tief aus'm Bauch for Berlin rock singer Gottfried Kalle Kalkowski . 

In 2000 he produced the music fairy tale Cloud 7, on which artists such as Nena , Die Prinzen , Michael Schanze , Erste Allgemeine Verunsicherung , Laura, Enie van de Meiklokjes , Die 3. Generation , Ingolf Lück , Wolfgang Fierek and Loona played a role.

Stefan Waggershausen has also been working as a songwriter and music producer for various TV productions for many years. In addition to producing songs for various episodes of the Tatort series (e.g. Tatort: ​​Schimanski's weapon , Tatort: ​​Deserters, etc.) , Stefan Waggershausen also produced the soundtrack for the TV series Mission Eureka together with Paul Vincent . Since 2004, Stefan Waggershausen has also been responsible for the music for the ZDF / KiKA TV series Siebenstein and, in his role as songwriter, continues to write new songs that are tailored to the content of the respective episode. The musical style of the children's songs is deliberately very different and includes cajun, samba, tango, blues and waltzes.

In 2014 Waggershausen produced the album Sid & his friends - cool & easy with 15 songs for the Ice Age film series. The original German voices of the main characters Otto Waalkes (sloth Sid), Thomas Fritsch (saber-toothed tiger Diego) and Arne Elsholtz (Mammut Manni) took part as musical protagonists. The song I would love to be so much in love was the theme song for the movie Ice Age - Collision Ahead .

With his work on the album Kids auf Abenteuerreise , Waggershausen appears again in 2016 as a producer of a children's song project.

Even with his solo albums, Stefan Waggershausen himself always had a great influence on the productions. He produced the debut album Traumtanzzeit together with Christoph Busse . Between 1979 and 1997 he produced his albums together with Udo Arndt . Waggershausen himself produced all the works that have appeared since 1998.

As a solo artist, but also as a producer, Stefan Waggershausen is known for combining a variety of musical genres with predominantly melancholy storytelling texts in his music. The genres used include a. Elements from rock'n'roll , ska , blues and swing as well as southern sounds from southern rock and elements from Cajun music . In his later works such as Louisiana and So ist das Spiel, he added elements from Zydeco and Country to his musical style .

Awards

Discography

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Hi Angel
  DE 10 
gold
gold
September 15, 1980 (37 weeks)
catch me
  DE 23 11/16/1981 (29 weeks)
Gentle rebel
  DE 11 11/29/1982 (21 weeks)
taboo
  DE 10 03/12/1984 (15 weeks)
  AT 16 03/12/1984 (14 weeks)
  CH 13 03/12/1984 (7 weeks)
Right in the heart - live
  DE 43 09/17/1984 (7 weeks)
Touché d'amour
  DE 54 07.10.1985 (4 weeks)
Deep in the south of my heart
  DE 17th March 19, 1990 (19 weeks)
Heart leaps
  DE 39 12/09/1991 (13 weeks)
When the moon woman kisses you
  DE 78 05/10/1993 (8 weeks)
Louisiana
  DE 74 07/03/1995 (7 weeks)
That's the game
  DE 21st 03/19/2010 (8 weeks)
Fallen out of time
  DE 15th 02/15/2019 (5 weeks)
40 years later - Best of Collection
  DE 99 December 06, 2019 (1 week)
Singles
Hi Angel
  DE 26th 29.09.1980 (19 weeks)
Too close to the fire
  DE 13 02/13/1984 (18 weeks)
  AT 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link 03/15/1984 (14 weeks)
  CH 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link 03/18/1984 (12 weeks)
The first time it hurt
  DE 6th 03/12/1990 (23 weeks)
  AT 3 April 15, 1990 (15 weeks)
  CH 17th 06/17/1990 (6 weeks)
Deep in the south of my heart
  DE 55 07/23/1990 (12 weeks)
Jesse (douce et innocente)
  DE 25th 01/14/1991 (20 weeks)
Rikki and Rosi
  DE 56 12/02/1991 (12 weeks)
  CH 16 01/26/1992 (2 weeks)
Beyond love
  DE 71 04/05/1993 (9 weeks)

Albums

  • Dream Dance Time (1974)
  • Hello Angels (1980)
  • Catch me (1981)
  • Gentle Rebel (1982)
  • Taboo (1984)
  • Right in the Heart - Live (1984)
  • Touché d'amour (1985)
  • In the Heart of the Hurricane (1987)
  • Deep in the south of my heart (1990)
  • Heart leaps (1991)
  • When the moon woman kisses you (1993)
  • Louisiana (1995)
  • The Bill Always Comes (1997)
  • Duets & Ballads (2003)
  • Under the Cajun Moon (2004)
  • That's the Game (2010)
  • Fallen Out of Time (2019)
  • 40 Years Later - Best of Collection (2019)

Singles

  • Heart of Gold (1972)
  • Hollywood Looks Different in the Morning (1974)
  • Someday the rain falls (1974)
  • Cafe Royal (1978)
  • She's Back (1979)
  • Forgive Madame (1980)
  • Hello Angels (1980)
  • Please Doctor (1981)
  • Everything used to be much earlier (1981)
  • I'm fine (1981)
  • And the devil is looking over my shoulder (1982)
  • Bang Bang (1982)
  • The color film in me (1983)
  • Too Close to the Fire (with Alice ) (1984)
  • Right in the Heart (1984)
  • Touché d'amour (1985)
  • I've got an overdose of you in me (1985)
  • Like a cork on the ocean (1986)
  • Anna with an alarm in her heart (1987)
  • The First Time It Hurt (with Viktor Lazlo ) (1990)
  • Jesse (with Viktor Lazlo) (1990)
  • Deep in the south of my heart (1990)
  • Rikki and Rosi (1991)
  • Laura (1991)
  • Beyond Love (with Ofra Haza ) (1993)
  • Huckleberry Finn (1995)
  • I don't care about you (1997)
  • As long as you're young in your heart (2000)
  • Today is not my day (2002)
  • Luka & Laura (2003)
  • Winter moon (2003)
  • You send your heart on a journey (2004)
  • Cassandra (2005)
  • The old wolf is slowly turning gray (2010)
  • Endless Summer (radio single, 2010)
  • For you (feat. Nena, 2010)
  • Wind force 10 (2012)
  • I know my way around the blues (2018)
  • Sunday Child (2019)
  • Hank Williams (2019)
  • Girls of a special kind (2019)
  • Too beautiful for me (2020)

swell

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  2. ↑ a b fritz51163: Bernhard Brink - The best hits of all time 2018 (3). July 12, 2018, accessed August 13, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Barbara Jänichen: The old Wolf Waggershausen is back . ( Morgenpost.de [accessed on April 23, 2018]).
  4. ↑ Video: Brisant from February 13th - Brisant - ARD | The first. Retrieved February 18, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Martin Böttcher - film music database. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 23, 2018 ; accessed on April 23, 2018 .
  6. ↑ coverinfo.de - Cover versions and music quotes database. Retrieved April 23, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Ute Berling - As If She Were Bette Davis. Retrieved April 23, 2018 .
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  10. ^ Stefan Waggershausen. Retrieved August 8, 2018 .
  11. ^ Stefan Waggershausen - dream dance time. Retrieved June 8, 2018 .
  12. ↑ a b c Stefan Waggershausen - German Mugge. Retrieved May 5, 2017 .
  13. ↑ Stefan Waggershausen - Hello Angels. Retrieved August 13, 2018 .
  14. ↑ a b c Awards: DE
  15. ↑ Backstage - the show for trash, kitsch and cult. Retrieved August 13, 2018 .
  16. ↑ www.concertarchiv.net. Retrieved December 27, 2018 .
  17. ^ Water Is Life Band - Water Is Life. Retrieved May 2, 2018 .
  18. ↑ Waggershausen with "Music that breathes". Retrieved December 27, 2018 .
  19. ↑ Discography | Waggershausen. Retrieved on August 13, 2018 (German).
  20. ^ Carsten Henkelmann: Stefan Waggershausen: Louisiana - CD, 1995. Retrieved on August 13, 2018 .
  21. ^ Al Berard Music Festival - Al Berard. Retrieved August 13, 2018 .
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  27. ↑ Personnel 2017/06 | Edition: 6/17 | nmz - new music newspaper. Retrieved January 15, 2018 .
  28. ↑ GEMA: Supervisory Board. Retrieved January 15, 2018 .
  29. ^ KulturPort.De Kultur-Magazin Hamburg: GEMA: Election of the Presidium and Advisory Board. Retrieved January 15, 2018 (German).
  30. ↑ Daliah Lavi - C'est La Vie - So Is Life. Retrieved May 5, 2017 .
  31. ↑ tz interview: Where have you been for so long, Stefan Waggershausen? In: https://www.tz.de . June 5, 2015 ( tz.de [accessed May 5, 2017]).
  32. ^ A b Warner / Chappell Production Music: Stefan Waggershausen: Kids on an Adventure Journey • Warner / Chappell Production Music . In: Warner / Chappell Production Music . July 12, 2016 ( warnerchappellpm.com [accessed May 12, 2017]).
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  34. ↑ Wolfgang Petry - With Open Arms. Retrieved August 7, 2018 .
  35. ↑ Take the next magic carpet to me | NENA.de | Official website. Retrieved May 5, 2017 .
  36. ↑ Music stations | Waggershausen. Retrieved April 9, 2017 .
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  38. ↑ composer Paul Vincent Gunia has died. In: Bavaria Film . October 27, 2016, accessed August 24, 2018 .
  39. ↑ DerWesten - derwesten.de: Rabe Rudi celebrates his birthday . ( derwesten.de [accessed on April 9, 2017]).
  40. ↑ The official music album for the film . In: vox.de . ( vox.de [accessed on February 11, 2017]).
  41. ↑ Otto Waalkes: Ice Age - Sid & his friends - I'd love to be in love (title track - COLLISION AHEAD!). July 1, 2016, accessed February 11, 2017 .
  42. ↑ Steffen Hung: Stefan Waggershausen - austriancharts.at. Retrieved May 12, 2017 .
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  44. ↑ Charts DE Charts AT Charts CH

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personal data
SURNAME Waggershausen, Stefan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German singer, composer and author
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Friedrichshafen