Thomas Friz
Thomas Friz (born March 5, 1950 in Stuttgart ) is a German musician .
Life
Thomas Friz sang as a child and was a member of the Stuttgart Hymn Choirboys for ten years . There he sang a. a. the St. Matthew Passion and the motets by Johann Sebastian Bach , mainly sacred music and received a solid vocal training. He took lessons in the flute, learned other instruments, including the guitar, of course.
His musical career began in 1971 with small solo tours through Germany, Austria and Switzerland. From 1974 to 1986 he played with Erich Schmeckenbecher as a duo under the name Zupfgeigenhansel (named after the Wandervogel song book Der Zupfgeigenhansl by Hans Breuer ). In 1978 she was named Artist of the Year by the German Phono Academy . Afterwards he was again active solo with Yiddish and German folk song programs.
In 1986 Thomas Friz presented his program with guitarist Gerhard Graf-Martinez with Yiddish songs and texts, other programs followed, as well as films and radio features. In 1992 he celebrated 20 years of song life on the stage, in 1993 he presented his church program I stand at your cribs here . With folk songs, Easter and Passion programs, resistance songs and Yiddish songs and texts, Thomas Friz can be heard on sound carriers and on stage.
His settings include a. Texts by Theodor Kramer , Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben and Kurt Tucholsky . In 2001 , in collaboration with Ingvo Clauder , the album Endlich was created , in which for the first time the focus is not on the guitar but on the piano as an accompanying instrument.
In January 1994 he was so brutally beaten up by right-wing radical skinheads in Göppingen that he then had to laboriously learn how to move his hand so that he could play the guitar again. As a result of his alcohol abuse , his voice was also badly affected. It was not until 2008 that he released another CD with the participation of the Dresden Quartet Pankraz with songs and texts by poets persecuted under the Nazi dictatorship .
In 2006 Thomas Friz received a record award from the Charles Cros Academy in Paris for a 2 CD production Seeds of Peace with international folk musicians from Belgium, France and Great Britain Comp de Cent .
Discography
- I stand at your cribs (1995) with Klaus Wuckelt
- Lieb Heimatland, Ade (1996) with Colin Weavill, Paul Harriman, Alex Papavergou, Martin Schrack
- Finally (Conträr Musik 80545-2) (2001) with Ingvo Clauder
- Lomir Ale Singen (2002) with Gerhard Graf-Martinez , Mic Oechsner , Christos Ziguras, Sigi Busch
- Wild Swans (2002)
- Reue dich, Christkind is coming soon (2003) with the children's choir Cantilen (Hamburg State Opera), Kaline Mütze, Jean Kleeb, Thomas Woitschek, Ulrike Schimpf, Elke Saller, Volker Hamel, Johannes Treml, Freddy Becker
- Dear, Good Santa Claus (???) with Rolf Nagel, Ulrich Maske, the Cantilene children's choir (Hamburg State Opera), Hamburg's Neuer Knabenchor
- Thomas Friz and Pankraz (Conträr Musik) (2008)
Web links
- Works by and about Thomas Friz in the catalog of the German National Library
- Thomas Friz at Allmusic (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Program of the TFF, Rudolstadt 2009, page 58
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Friz, Thomas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 5, 1950 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stuttgart |