Thomas Felder

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Thomas Felder 2015 at the German Evangelical Church Congress in Stuttgart

Thomas Felder (born on March 19, 1953 in Hundersingen near Münsingen ) is a German dialect poet and songwriter who is best known for his expressive, often time and socially critical songs in Swabian dialect . In addition, he expresses himself in other artistic and creative professions and is politically active in the left-wing alternative spectrum of the new social movements .

Felder has lived in Gönningen , a district of Reutlingen at the foot of the Albtraufs , since the early 1980s . He is the father of the musician Johanna Zeul .

Origin and education

Thomas Felder comes from a Protestant rectory . From childhood he was made familiar with various musical instruments. In a church boarding school, which he attended from 1966 to 1972, he chose the musical and cultural area as a focus. He studied English and fine arts in Stuttgart and London and was a teacher for several years . Up to the present day he has used his didactic and pedagogical skills in various artistic workshops and seminars, including those held at international level .

Act as a songwriter

Thomas Felder 1981 (appearance at a national VCP camp near Koblenz)

Thomas Felder has been a singer-songwriter since the beginning of the 1970s, initially as a sideline with appearances in folk clubs, on cabaret stages and as a street musician , over time as a full-time freelance artist . In order to remain independent of the commercial music industry and still secure his economic livelihood, he founded his own label with the “Kulturwerkstatt Musik & Wort ” .

In addition to his voice, Felder is familiar with various musical instruments : First and foremost, the acoustic guitar is his most frequently used accompaniment instrument in public appearances with songs and programs that are almost without exception written and composed by himself. Furthermore, harmonica , piano , hurdy-gurdy , monochord and others belong to the musical means he played and used.

Due to part of his musical style and content, Felder is sometimes referred to as "Swabian Bob Dylan " in the relevant scene circles .

In January 2010, Felder celebrated together with daughter Johanna Zeul and other musicians such as For example, the singer-songwriter colleague Christof Stählin celebrated his 40th stage anniversary with a performance in the sold-out event hall of Reutlingen's Spitalhof, accompanied by speeches from regional celebrities from culture and administration.

Awards

Thomas Felder was awarded cabaret prizes in Hesse, Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg and has so far received two German Record Critics' awards for his albums Never again get peace (1984) and 40 dissolute years (2010) . The most recent award in 2012 was the Sebastian Blau Prize for Swabian Dialect, named after the writer and publisher Sebastian Blau . His CDs have made it onto the top song list several times

review

The style and the musical repertoire Felder was found for example in the features section of the Hohenlohe newspaper the following section:

“In the course of three decades he has developed an unmistakable style, has matured from the songwriter archetype Dylanscher stamping to the dialect poet who plays with a wide range of stylistic and emotional means of expression. Artistically more of a pioneer than a mirror, influenced by folk , blues , jazz and church choirs , Felder ensures musical diversity on seven instruments. In addition to guitar , harmonica , piano and drum, he elicits floating spherical sounds from the 38-string monochord , tears raging runs out of the hurdy-gurdy , makes them cheer and moan, roars in his trombone and makes both sound like a host of whales. Wortwerker Felder opens windows into new linguistic landscapes, opens up unfamiliar perspectives and worlds of hearing. The apparently meaningless flow into meaning, and standstill becomes movement. "

Political commitment

Memorial - Installation of Thomas Fields on the Jewish cemetery Buttenhausen commemorating the in this town during the Holocaust in the extermination camps of Nazi dictatorship (established December 2000 Photography from October 2012) Murdered Jews

In addition to his work as an artist, Felder is also politically active: For example, in the peace movement , coming to terms with the Holocaust , especially in his Swabian homeland , and in the wider context of Judeo-Christian dialogue .

As a member of a Gönninger affinity group , he took part in the one-week sit-down at the Golf nuclear weapons camp near Großengstingen, which provided the impetus for the West German peace movement at the time . In this context, Fields came in addition to the headlines of the local press when he when more than a year later, taking place assault case against him and other blockers before Münsinger district court - instead of a statement on the assault charge  the wording of - penalty order in the sense of Persiflilierung the process sang . During Felder's lecture, the judge and the assessors left the meeting room with the words "The language of the court is German and not sung".

Thomas Felder, like the approximately 300 other accused participants in the blockade, was sentenced to a fine before and after him. The judgments were overturned in 1995 after several constitutional complaints , after the Federal Constitutional Court the broad interpretation ("overstretching") of the concept of violence in coercion paragraph 240 StGB for sitting blockades - carried out in the manner as before the Gulf nuclear weapons camp - as being in contradiction to the principle of certainty of the Basic Law , and the Convictions had thus been deemed unconstitutional.

In 1997, Felder ran for the mayor's office in Münsingen as a party independent , but lost to his rival Mike Münzing from the SPD in the election .

Since around 2010 he has been one of the prominent supporters of the protests against the Stuttgart 21 rail project .

Discography (chronological)

  • 1977: Athomare songs
  • 1978: Until everyone knows the other's happiness
  • 1979: Lang needs zom comma
  • 1981: Songs from dreams, hate and love
  • 1983: Land vol Läaba
  • 1984: never having peace again
  • 1986: A Lääberkääs in the elevator
  • 1991: Flood
  • 1995: Vesper platter
  • 1998: movement
  • 1999: seven things
  • 2000: Buttenhausen, my little Jerusalem
  • 2003: Flitterlampio
  • 2006: Spring bloom glow
  • 2010: 40 dissolute years
  • 2013: by no means
  • 2015: gotteS21segen
  • 2017: Kuhn in the typhoon
  • 2019: a stone's throw

Web links

Commons : Thomas Felder  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Press release from opponents of the Stuttgart 21 rail project on an appearance by Feld (as an example)
  2. ↑ Thomas Felder celebrated "40 dissolute years" article in the Schwäbisches Tagblatt from January 17, 2010 on Felder's appearance with daughter Johanna Zeul on the occasion of his 40th stage anniversary (integrates a 3-minute film report as a "flash video")
  3. ↑ Sebastian Blau Prize - qualification 2012 songwriter. sebastian-blau-preis.de; accessed on August 30, 2015
  4. ↑ The best songs list June 2013
  5. ↑ Thomas Felder plays in Gammertingen
  6. ↑ documented on gerdschinkel.de ( Memento from March 5, 2002 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ Quotation excerpt from Thomas Felder's website, accessed on May 10, 2013 (biography part with a detailed personal report by Felders on the conflict-laden emergence of the memorial over more than three years):

    “On New Year's Eve 2000, I met a group of helpers at the Jewish cemetery in Buttenhausen. We took the stakes from the roadside, planted daffodil bulbs in the holes and carried the wood into the cemetery area. Below the last graves, near the western exit, we erected a new, temporary memorial on behalf of the Israelite religious community of Baden-Württemberg. The 109 names are now in a four-fold circle with the radius of a stake length (1m) close together. The geometry of the installation is based on Jewish symbolism: the outer circle has thirty-six names, the inner twenty-four names. They stand in relation to one another in such a way that every sixth in the outer circle and every fourth inside mark the points or tangent centers of the Star of David. This of course remains hidden from the uninitiated observer. The two intermediate circles have three times seven and four times seven, so together seven times seven names. "

  8. ↑ Example of one of about 300 almost identical - containing the indictment - penalty orders for participating in the blockade of the special ammunition camp Golf (PDF; 189 kB)
  9. ^ Order of the First Senate of the Federal Constitutional Court of January 10, 1995
  10. ↑ alphabetical list of supporters of well-known personalities against Stuttgart 21, initiative "Yes to the terminus"
personal data
SURNAME Felder, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German dialect poet and songwriter
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Hundersingen (Münsingen)