Thomas Quast

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Thomas Quast (2019)

Thomas Quast (born December 2, 1962 in Cologne ) is a German judge , musician and composer of New Spiritual Songs .

Life

Parental home and childhood

Thomas Quast was born into a reform-friendly and ecumenically open Catholic family. On his mother's side he was given a good portion of Alemannic musician blood, and on his father's side with a certain Oberberg inclination towards consistency.

schooldays

He first attended a grammar school in Cologne and in 1975 switched to a Pallottine boarding school in Rheinbach near Bonn. Vinzenz Pallotti's idea of ​​the calling of all people to help shape the church as God's people was infected here.

Legal education

After completing his law degree in 1988, he went on to study musicology and history .

After completing his legal clerkship from 1992 to 1994, he was able to become a judge in 1995.

Judge

Quast is the presiding judge at the 1st, 2nd, 4th and 5th Penal Enforcement Chamber of the Cologne District Court , a judicial body that decides on the question of whether part of the prison sentence can be suspended for the purpose of rehabilitation . As a judge guide him with the people about whom he is supposed to speak right, according to his own statement, the biblical phrase “Let no one rise above the other” ( Eph 4,2  NGÜ ). Not infrequently he hears from the convicts: "For the first time someone really listens to me". Quast attracted attention in early April 2019 when, during a verdict in a trial involving police violence , he said to the accused: “I am really ashamed because people have violated you on behalf of this state. And I apologize for this state. "

Work as a lecturer and in commissions

Quast was a lecturer at the Catholic University for Church Music St. Gregorius Aachen from 1994 until its closure in 2007. Thomas Quast has been a member of the AK SINGLES in the BDKJ in the Archdiocese of Cologne since 1989, and in the Commission for Church Music and Liturgy in the Archdiocese of Cologne since 1999 . The name "SINGLES" stands for "Singen International New Spiritual Songs - A Service Offer". Founded in 1971, AK SINGLES is one of the oldest initiatives of its kind in Germany, committed to the New Spiritual Song and youth choirs and bands.

family

Thomas Quast is married and has three children.

Musical career

Musical influences

When he was ten and twelve years old, the community's youth bands played the song program by Peter Janssens , Oskar Gottlieb Blarr and the others, as well as the school and band in the Catholic youth group at the school.

In 1975 Quast moved from a high school in Cologne to a Pallottine boarding school in Rheinbach near Bonn, where he sang Gregorian chant in the Schola , German liturgy chants with the organ and New Spiritual Songs in the school and youth mass.

First band experiences

When the études and sonatas in piano lessons became too boring for him, he - at around 14 or 15 years of age - took the song sheets from church services with him, played the melodies and found harmonies. Soon he and a friend founded the first band that performed in church services, prayer nights, but also at carnival. After graduating from high school in 1982 he was accepted into the youth band “Agape” in his home community, and from 1983 he was able to play with the choir and band “Ezechiel” in Cologne under the direction of Hans Florenz .

Foundation of Ruhama

There he met his soon to be fellow musicians with “ Ruhama ” Maria Wilberz (Manderscheid), Andrea Rolfes (Hommelsheim), the theologians Thomas Laubach , Hanspeter Hommelsheim and Michael Scholl. In Advent 1984 they got together, in 1985 Klaus Theißen, Gregor Linßen and Thomas Nesgen joined them. Thomas Quast has been traveling to Catholic and Protestant parishes with the Cologne band Ruhama since 1984. The band Ruhama stands for liturgical and spiritual rock and pop music. Ruhama is involved in the beat masses of the Johanneskirche in Cologne.

Live performances

With Ruhama he organized the closing services of the Catholic Days in 1992, 1994, 2000 and 2008 as well as the closing services of the Ecumenical Church Conference in Berlin in 2003 , and (most recently) the opening of the Catholic Conference in Regensburg in 2014. At the largest hall concert of the Archdiocese of Cologne to date with almost 15,000 believers by Jung to Alt from all church music groups in the archdiocese, Ruhama appeared in a superlative stage program with groups such as the world-famous King's Singers from London in June 2018 in Cologne's Lanxess Arena .

Congenial partners

The intensive collaboration with his friend, the lyricist Thomas Laubach, began very cautiously in 1984/85 and found a significant expression in the "Ruhama" songbook (2nd edition 2001). He also works with the text authors Uwe Seidel , Hanns Dieter Hüsch and Raymund Weber.

Works (selection)

Church songs

For almost thirty years as a composer, Thomas Quast has shaped the New Spiritual Song like hardly anyone else with songs such as “No day shall exist”, “Harvesting in jubilation” or “The face of hope”. Around 100 church songs have been written over the years. Here are a few examples

  • Breath of love
  • You be with us (1991; Text: Thomas Laubach)
  • Harvest with jubilation (1987; Text: Thomas Laubach)
  • There shouldn't be a day (1997; Text: Uwe Seidel 1995)
  • Hope's face
  • Under the skin
  • Life is a gift
  • Over walls
  • Song of homecoming
  • You think about hope
  • You care
  • Under God's protection
  • Give me god
  • We bring you
  • This morning
  • We live by God's power
  • To survive

Kirchentag songs

Thomas Quast's songs became known through countless closing services and concerts at church and Catholic days. Thomas Quast's song "Du kommst zu uns" was selected by an expert jury as the Catholic Day song. Andrea Monreal (Chair of the AK Musik-Theater-Kleinkunst) explains that Thomas Quast's song could become a catchy tune for the Catholic Day.

Music games / musicals

  • Into the promised land (music game 1987)
  • Bartolomè de Las Casas (music game to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the conquest of America in 1992)

Church cabaret songs

  • Hello you mammals, cabaret and songs with Hanns Dieter Hüsch

A program that invites everyone not to take themselves so seriously.

reception

In the SWR2 program "Lied zum Sonntag", Prof. Dr. Thomas Weißer on the song "Keinen Tag es shall give" and describes that Thomas Quast's music increases the desire that my life is blessed and alive. The simple melody mills its way into your ears like a catchy tune.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.musica-e-vita.de/viplounge/quast
  2. ↑ https://www.musica-e-vita.de/viplounge/quast
  3. ↑ http://blog.ak-singles.de/verbindungen/
  4. ↑ https://www.musica-e-vita.de/viplounge/quast
  5. ^ Regional Court of Cologne: Penal Enforcement Chamber. Retrieved February 19, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Regional Court of Münster: Penal Enforcement Chamber. Retrieved February 19, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Thomas Quast | DOMRADIO people | DOMRADIO.DE - Catholic News. Retrieved February 14, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Bernhard Krebs: "Please excuse the state": Cologne judge fights with tears before verdict. April 7, 2019, accessed on April 9, 2019 (German).
  9. ↑ https://www.tvd-verlag.de/autor-details/thomas-quast.html
  10. ↑ https://www.tvd-verlag.de/autor-details/thomas-quast.html
  11. ↑ https://www.bdkj-dv-koeln.de/engagement/ngl.html
  12. ↑ https://www.tvd-verlag.de/autor-details/thomas-quast.html
  13. ↑ https://www.musica-e-vita.de/viplounge/quast
  14. ↑ https://gemeinden.erzbistum-koeln.de/stifts-chor-bonn/service/verbindisten/Quast.html
  15. ↑ https://www.musica-e-vita.de/viplounge/quast
  16. ↑ "One bear the burden of the other". Retrieved February 15, 2019 .
  17. ↑ Thomas Quast. Retrieved February 19, 2019 .
  18. ↑ Church Music Week "Simply heavenly!" | June 16-23, 2018 | Archdiocese of Cologne. Retrieved February 15, 2019 .
  19. ↑ Join-in choir festival in the Lanxess Arena | Church Music Week 2018 | Archdiocese of Cologne. Retrieved February 15, 2019 .
  20. ↑ https://www.musica-e-vita.de/viplounge/quast
  21. ↑ Thomas Quast. Retrieved February 19, 2019 .
  22. ↑ "One bear the burden of the other". Retrieved February 15, 2019 .
  23. ↑ https://www.musica-e-vita.de/viplounge/quast
  24. ↑ Ruhamalive: Ruhama - Breath of Love. April 15, 2011, accessed February 19, 2019 .
  25. ↑ kathisch.de : Gotteslobvideo (GL 443): Harvest in jubilation, sow in tears. October 24, 2014, accessed February 19, 2019 .
  26. ↑ Ruhama - there shouldn't be a day , Ruhamalive on YouTube
  27. ↑ Uwe Seidel died. The idea generator: Obituary in: Musica e-Vita, issue 2/2008, p. 7
  28. ↑ Ruhamalive: Ruhama - Life is a gift. December 2, 2011, accessed February 19, 2019 .
  29. ↑ Ruhamalive: Ruhama - You cover the hope. March 18, 2017, accessed February 19, 2019 .
  30. ↑ Ruhamalive: Ruhama - God grant me. February 20, 2017. Retrieved February 19, 2019 .
  31. ↑ Ruhamalive: Ruhama - We live by God's power. June 26, 2011, accessed February 19, 2019 .
  32. ↑ "One bear the burden of the other". Retrieved February 15, 2019 .
  33. ↑ https://www.domradio.de/nachrichten/2006-05-22/die-lieder-zum-katholikentag
  34. ↑ https://gemeinden.erzbistum-koeln.de/stifts-chor-bonn/service/verbindisten/Quast.html
  35. ↑ https://www.ruhama.de/details/portfolio/hallo-ihr-saeugetiere.html
  36. ↑ https://www.kirche-im-swr.de/?page=manuskripte&id=27543
personal data
SURNAME Quast, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German judge, musician and composer of new sacred songs
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd December 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne