Stephan Sulke

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Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Stephan Sulke 5
  DE 49 11/24/1980 (6 weeks)
Stephan Sulke 6
  DE 48 10/12/1981 (6 weeks)
Stephan Sulke 7 - Cookies
  DE 26th 11/01/1982 (17 weeks)
There is love in the cinema
  DE 47 02/27/1984 (4 weeks)
Singles
Uschi
  DE 22nd 06/28/1982 (12 weeks)

Stephan Sulke (born December 27, 1943 in Shanghai ) is a Swiss songwriter , keyboardist , pianist and guitarist .

Life

Sulke, son of Berlin Jews , was born in China in the so-called Shanghai Ghetto because his parents had fled from the National Socialists . In 1949 the family wanted to return to Germany, but the father died and his mother married in Switzerland , so that Sulke mainly grew up there. Occasionally he came to live with his grandparents in Berlin and also in the USA .

In 1963 his first single Mon tourne-disque appeared in Paris under the pseudonym "Steff" , for which he received the Grand Prix du Premier Disque . This award was presented to him by the French actor and chanson singer Maurice Chevalier . In 1965 he published the single He, Little Blondie (Little Honda) in Germany , and another Where Did She Go in the USA , which was particularly successful in the southern states. That is why he published more singles in the USA, but also in France until 1967 . In 1967 he returned to Switzerland and studied law at the universities of Zurich and Bern without obtaining a degree. At the same time he published records in English and French under various pseudonyms .

In 1969 he built his own recording studio in Biel , where he made recordings for artists from the jazz and pop scene. In 1972 he founded an electronics company for studio technology in London , which was later relocated to Biel. In 1974 he published his first own songs in German under his real name. He soon became known in the whole of German-speaking countries and was also a guest on numerous television programs. His first television appearance in Germany was on October 23, 1976 in the live Saturday evening entertainment program Amlauf Band with Rudi Carrell , where he performed the song Lotte from his first and then current LP Stephan Sulke . In addition to his own songs, he also wrote texts for other artists such as Katja Ebstein or Erika Pluhar . Sulke's song I just loved you was covered in 1983 by Herbert Grönemeyer on his LP Mixed feelings .

In 1981 his best-known song Uschi appeared on the Stephan Sulke 6 record . In July 1982 he reached number 3 on the ZDF hit parade . Later other titles appeared, but they could no longer build on Uschi's success . In 1982 he also made a name for himself as a book author. His work was called biscuits , followed by love there in the cinema (1984).

1989 Sulke moved, for the time being after his last published CD all Have I still like to , first of all from the industry back. From 1991 he worked with the architect Kurt Feldweg in Berlin on various construction projects.

In the spring of 1994, Sulke reported to the police in Frankfurt (Oder) at the Polish border with severe head injuries ; he claimed to have been kidnapped and beaten. Since his 500 Mercedes was later found burnt out, the police speculated on the so-called auto mafia as the perpetrator. After that, Sulke temporarily withdrew from the public.

In 1999 he released a new CD (minor & major), and in 2000 he was back on stage and toured successfully through Germany and Switzerland. On this tour, the concert was recorded on March 17th, 2000 in the Alte Oper event hall in Frankfurt am Main and released in the same year with the double CD Live . Since his musical comeback in 1999, Sulke has been releasing albums at (un) regular intervals, in 2017 his new record Liebe ist nothing for beginners was released by the German music label Staatsakt , for him this was his first CD and LP production with this music publisher.

In 2001 Sulke hit the headlines because he had signed a contract with the MDR in his real estate business . In 1992, a housing project was agreed with the then head of the MDR, Udo Reiter , because after the reunification, the housing shortage was also noticeable for MDR employees, but the bottom line was that the MDR lost several million euros by 2005. In 2002 Sulke also appeared as a painter and sculptor . His exhibition Pictures and Sculptures by Stephan Sulke was on view in Frankfurt am Main . In 2005 Sulke wrote the music, Christian Berg the lyrics, for the children's musical Heidi ... a mountain musical .

In 2017 his album Love is not for beginners was released .

Sulke completed another concert tour in 2018 and 2019.

He lives with his Italian partner in the south of France .

Awards

  • 1977 - German Record Prize for Young Artists .
  • 1982 - German Record Award Artist of the Year .
  • 1985 - Honorary Award of the Belgian Radio (BRF) for excellent text, composition and interpretation.

Discography

Albums

  • 1976: Stephan Sulke
  • 1977: Stephan Sulke 2
  • 1978: Stephan Sulke 3 - Andermann who could ...
  • 1979: Stephan Sulke 4
  • 1980: Stephan Sulke 5
  • 1980: live
  • 1981: Stephan Sulke 6
  • 1982: Stephan Sulke 7 - Cookies
  • 1983: Selected (compilation)
  • 1984: There is love in the cinema
  • 1985: reconciliation
  • 1986: Stephan Sulke '86
  • 1987: Stephan Sulke 13
  • 1989: Everyone loves me
  • 1997: Best Of Vol. 1 (compilation)
  • 1997: Best Of Vol. 2 (compilation)
  • 1999: minor & major
  • 2000: I'll do it again
  • 2000: Live
  • 2004: 60
  • 2005: Pop & Poetry: Falling Far Away Stars - The Most Beautiful German Ballads
  • 2005: Heidi ... a mountain musical (music: Stephan Sulke; texts: Christian Berg)
  • 2005: I sing myself
  • 2009: Essential (compilation)
  • 2009: Man, it was quick
  • 2011: The first 8 (his first eight studio albums in an eight CD box).
  • 2011: I should have raised ducks
  • 2017: love is not for beginners
  • 2018: Die Box 1976 - 1986 (His ten first studio albums in a compact five CD box).

EPs

  • 1963: Jolies filles / Mon tourne-disque (as Steff)
  • 1964: Ce jour là / Elle sera belle (as Steff)
  • 1964: On me dit / Depuis ton départ (as Steff)
  • 1964: Écris un mot / Dis moi, tu m'aimes (as Steff)
  • 1964: On me dit (as Steff)
  • 1967: I'm a Simple Man (as Steff Sulke)

Singles

as Steff
  • 1963: Mon tourne-disque
  • 1963: Jolies filles
  • 1964: Nobody but me (Whouh-Ouee)
  • 1964: Hey, Little Blondie (Little Honda)
  • 1965: You turned my head (with orchestra)
  • 1965: Ce jour là
  • 1965: Depuis ton départ
  • 1965: Where Did She Go
  • 1966: She's All Right
  • 1966: Had a Dream
as Steff Sulke
  • 1967: I'm a Simple Man
  • 1967: Oh, What a Lovely Day
  • 1967: Broken Dreams
  • 1968: Strings of My Heart
as Stephan Sulke
  • 1976: Lotte
  • 1976: You're still breaking my heart
  • 1977: The man from Russia
  • 1982: Uschi
  • 1982: At school you only learn quark anyway
  • 1983: Lulu
  • 1984: There is love in the cinema
  • 1984: Papierlischwizer
  • 1985: And I'll just do it all over again
  • 1986: I want to be your home
  • 1986: Well, you Kleene
  • 1988: Grandpa
  • 1989: Certo che ti amo (with Rosanna)
  • 2000: It doesn't matter
  • 2004: strange
  • 2004: Oxygen license
  • 2011: Happy Christmas

Contributions to compilations

as Stephan Sulke

literature

Web links

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  1. ↑ Chart discography albums
  2. ↑ Hit record, German chart singles on CD-ROM, Taurus Press
  3. ↑ 2017 Sulke said in an interview that he "always hated" the term songwriter because of its associations with an "unshaven and often unwashed left anarchist". "I like the term singer-songwriter best." (Der Sonntag, June 25, 2017, p. 6)
  4. ↑ Stephan Sulke in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
  5. ↑ a b The great Reibach on Spiegel online from January 29, 2001 from Der Spiegel 5/2001
  6. ^ Stephan Sulke with an exclusive concert in Ortenberg - Kunstmelder. Retrieved on August 3, 2020 (German).
  7. ↑ And again and again songwriter - Stephan Sulke turns 75 Report of the Leipziger Volkszeitung from December 26, 2018, accessed on November 3, 2019
  8. ^ Frank Ehrlacher: Stephan Sulke 3 - Andermann, who could | Stephan Sulke | CD album | 1978 | cd-lexikon.de. Retrieved August 3, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Sulke, Stephan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sulke, Stefan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss singer and composer
DATE OF BIRTH December 27, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Shanghai , China