Stephan Trepte

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Stephan Trepte, 2014
Stephan Trepte (center) during an electra concert in August 2009

Klaus-Stephan Trepte (born July 20, 1950 in Biehla near Kamenz; † July 22, 2020 in Panketal ) was a German rock musician .

Life

Stephan Trepte received classical piano training as a child and also played the guitar . Beginning around 1966/67, during his apprenticeship as a mechanical engineer in mill construction with a high school diploma, he played keyboard and sang in the amateur bands Quintanas and Stereo-Club. In between there were one and a half years of military service with singing group activity. After that he worked as a mechanical engineer and also performed with his band. As was customary at the time, mainly international titles were played along with the dance.

On one such occasion, in 1972 in Pockau in the Erzgebirge , he received an offer from the Dresden band electra to join as a singer. This engagement brought him forward musically; his singing, his stage presence and vitality made him known nationwide. Above all, the play Step into the Cathedral contributed to this. However, the text caused political irritation because of its subject matter and was hardly played on the radio. At electra, Trepte wrote his first own compositions, but these have not yet been published.

In 1974, after tensions at electra, Trepte switched to the newly formed band Lift . Here, too, titles quickly emerged that established Trepte's reputation as an expressive singer (Soldat vom Don, Atlantis). After an unsatisfactory tour for him, however, he decided in 1976 to leave Lift.

This was followed by a short interlude with the band Neon, before Jörg Blankenburg, head of the Magdeburg band Reform , offered him in 1977 to work as a singer and composer for Reform. Trepte moved to Magdeburg and released three albums with Reform. He composed most of the pieces, partly worked on Ingeburg Branoner's texts and also wrote the lyrics himself.

In 1986 Reform dissolved. Trepte then sang in projects with musicians such as Peter Werneburg , Horst Krüger and former colleagues from Lift and electra (1989 to 2015). In 2015 he gave his last concert. He also worked in theater productions such as The Rocky Horror Show and in readings.

He has four sons; the youngest is the actor Ludwig Trepte . Stephan Trepte died on July 22, 2020, two days after his 70th birthday.

Discography

Singles

  • 1973 with Electra-Combo: That comes because your soul burns (Ludewig) / Der Musikant ( Amiga )
  • 1974 with elevator: Just come with me / Every day is a long journey (Amiga)
  • 1975 with elevator: My heart should be water / Red stone (Amiga)
  • 1975 with Klosterbrüder / Lift: Song of an old city / Soldier vom Don (Amiga)
  • 1978 with reform: I'm looking for you / my friend (Amiga)
  • 1981 with reform: Der Löwenzahn / Beautiful Dream (Amiga)

Albums

  • 1974 with Electra combo: electra combo (Amiga; new edition 1994)
  • 1979 with reform: Reform (Amiga)
  • 1980 with electra: electra 3 (only: step into the cathedral ) (Amiga)
  • 1982 with reform: Löwenzahn (Amiga)
  • 1985 with reform: clocks without hands (Amiga)
  • 1989 with electra: Der aufrechte Gang (Amiga; only published in 2004)
  • 2002 with reform: Best Of (Buschfunk)
  • 2005: My heart shall be a water (sampler with pieces that are sung by Trepte; Choice Of Music)
  • 2007 with reform: The greatest hits (Amiga)
  • 2008 with elevator: Hits & Raritäten (contains five pieces with Trepte as singer; Buschfunk)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ GDR cult band "Electra": Mourning the singer Stephan Trepte († 70). Retrieved July 23, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Ostbeat.de ( Memento of 19 June 2012 at the Internet Archive )
  3. ^ GDR musician Trepte died. In: Volksstimme . Magdeburger Verlags- und Druckhaus, July 23, 2020, accessed on July 23, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Stephan Trepte: My heart should be water (text by Luise Mirsch)
personal data
SURNAME Trepte, Stephan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Trepte, Klaus-Stephan (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German rock musician
DATE OF BIRTH July 20, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Biehla , Saxony , German Democratic Republic
DATE OF DEATH July 22, 2020
Place of death Panke Valley