Thomas Hojsa

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Thomas Hojsa (2015)

Thomas Hojsa , also Tommy Hojsa or Tomy Hojsa (born on January 4, 1967 in Vienna ) is an Austrian composer , musician and Wienerlied interpreter.

life and work

Hojsa is the son of the "Wienerlied legend" Walter Hojsa (* 1924). He went to school in Vienna- Brigittenau and graduated in 1986. He then began to work as a writer and composer and founded a recording studio . As an instrumentalist he plays the piano , keyboard and accordion , and as a singer he follows the tradition of the Viennese song, which he tries to renew.

With Helmut Emersberger, whom he had already met in school, he founded the Wienerliedduo "Hojsa-Emersberger" in 1991. The two folk singers included 1993 regular game of the 10-part ORF prime time production is Aufgspielt - In Joschi's Beisl with karl merkatz that made her known throughout the German-speaking countries. Numerous TV and radio appearances followed, and in 1994 a guest appearance in the Viennese trilogy on Georg Danzer's CD Close-Up . In 1995, the two appeared with new settings of a Jura-Soyfer drama cycle at the 1st Rorbas Reading Theater in Switzerland. In the same year, the two artists also set Andreas Okopenko's Schwänzellieder and Loosened and released them in 1996 under the title Mei Weanerlied in a limited cassette edition of Edition Freeboard . In 1999 they wrote the play Karajan's Neffe or Die Reise nach Linz with Christian Qualtinger , and in 2000 they founded the group 1. Wiener Pawlatschen AG with Tini Kainrath (from the Rounder Girls ) and Doris Windhager (from the Neuwirth Extremschrammeln ). At times the violinist Barbara Konrad strengthened this formation. The two wrote the successful song Laß mi zu dir for Kainrath and the Viennese ballad Das Vogerl for Windhager . The collaboration with the hip hop formation waxolutionists resulted in the FM4 hit Wiener Gspia in 2001 . Hojsa and Emersberger also created the highly popular song Badaschl in the Krapfenwaldbad and took over the musical part in numerous readings, among others. a. by Fritz Muliar , Andreas Okopenko, Gerhard Rühm and Ernst Hinterberger .

Since 2002 Hojsa has been increasingly used as a stage musician . From 2005 he was engaged as a pianist in the Karl Ratzer Night Club Band for six years , from 2007 he appeared with Emersberger and Ratzer in the formation Jazz meets Wienerlied. In 2012, alongside Uschi Nocchieri and Christoph Lechner, he was involved in Gerhard Blaboll's CD I am a Hernalser Bua , which u. a. The ballad of Tschick in love and the sentimental number There is nothing nicer than Vienna contains. Hojsa was always interested and involved in crossover projects, for example in 2013 when African A-Cappella and Wienerlied met Insingizi and Rudi Koschelu at the 13th Kasumama Africa Festival in the Waldviertel . In April 2014, he and his 90-year-old father Walter performed at the wean hean festival .

Together with Rudi Koschelu and Kurt Girk he appears as the Kurt Girk Trio.

Use for folk music, Wienerlied and Schrammel music

In 1996 he was the producer of the Millennium Project Music of the Regions together with Emersberger. On behalf of the Federal Ministry for Education and Cultural Affairs , the two created a box with ten CDs of authentic folk music from all over Austria, most of which were recorded by the around 200 interpreting groups at home.

In addition to the Wienerlied, from 1999 Hojsa also dealt intensively with classical Viennese instrumental music, which is generally referred to as Schrammelmusik . Together with Emersberger, he wrote the study Wienerlied 2003 on behalf of the City of Vienna's Department of Culture , in which the two authors called for this art form to be repositioned and promoted.

Work at the theater

From the 2001/02 season, Hojsa also worked as a stage musician, first in off-productions at the Theater am Spittelberg, in the Rabenhof Theater and in the Vienna Lustspielhaus, but from 2003 also at the Theater in der Josefstadt , at the Vienna Volkstheater , at the Nestroy Plays Schwechat , the Reichenau Festival u. a. He mainly worked in comedies and folk plays for the directors Philippe Arlaud , Florentin Groll , Peter Gruber , Adi Hirschal , Tim Kramer, Tamara Metelka , Nicholas Ofczarek , Ilse Scheer and Kurt Sobotka .

When Matthias Hartmann staged Nestor's Lumpazivagabundus in 2013 - for the Salzburg Festival and then for the Vienna Burgtheater - he asked his long-time theater musician Karsten Riedel to find a team. Riedel hired Bernhard Moshammer and Thomas Hojsa , and justified it like this: “Hojsa is a Viennese song specialist, he has a few hundred pieces in his head, and also plays at the Heuriger. He can explain a lot. As a citizen of the Ruhr area, I don't know exactly what it's about. "

In 2014 he was - together with Matthias Jakisic - responsible for the musical design of the Salzburg Festival production The Last Days of Mankind . For this he engaged the entire brass band of the Postmusik Salzburg, which was very well received by the public and the press. The director was Georg Schmiedleitner from Linz , instead of Matthias Hartmann originally planned , and the production will then be incorporated into the repertoire of the Burgtheater in Vienna .

Television and radio

Hojsa has been present on radio and television regularly since 1993, when he and Emersberger were part of the regular part of the 10-part ORF main evening show . In 2008, the two appeared with their formation 1. Wiener Pawlatschen AG in Karin Berger's TV documentary Herzausreisser - Neues vom Wienerlied ( ORF ). The multiple participation in the wean hean festival also led to a presence in the audiovisual media. Finally, the Salzburg Festival production of Lumpazivagabundus was recorded and broadcast for television.

Award

  • Robert Pride Medal

Discography (selection)

  • Young Buam spün oide dance , Bre-pro, 1991
  • Hojsa-Emersberger 1 , Bre-pro, 1995
  • I am a Hernalser Bua. New Viennese songs on CD, with Gerhard Blaboll, Christoph Lechner and Tommy Hojsa

Filmography

Web links

Commons : Thomas Hojsa  - collection of images, videos and audio files

proof

  1. ↑ Hojsa, do it!  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Announcement of an ORF CD, accessed on July 26, 2014@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / shop.orf.at  
  2. ↑ Gerhard Blaboll ( Memento of the original from August 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Audio samples, accessed July 27, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.blaboll.at
  3. ↑ 13th Kasumama Africa Festival ( Memento of the original from July 30, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed July 29, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.iradio.at
  4. ^ Wiener Volksliedwerk , accessed on July 29, 2014
  5. ↑ Michael Huber: Kurt Girk: "Aaa Liad scheena wia's others!" on kurier.at from November 16, 2015 (accessed October 26, 2016)
  6. ^ Thomas Hojsa, Helmut Emersberger: Wienerlied 2003 - A consideration of two practitioners on behalf of the cultural department of the City of Vienna. (PDF; 90 kB) Cultural Department of the City of Vienna, 2003, accessed on January 30, 2013 .
  7. ↑ Barbara Petsch: Riedel: “My heart is on reggae, ska and punk!” , Die Presse , July 14, 2013
  8. ^ ORF Vienna: Wienerlied-Reigen with a Jewish focus , April 19, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Hojsa, Thomas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hojsa, Tommy; Hojsa, Tomy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian composer, musician and Wienerlied interpreter
DATE OF BIRTH 4th January 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna