Thomas Schoppe
Thomas "Monster" Schoppe (born June 28, 1945 in Eisleben ) is a German guitarist , composer and singer of the Klaus Renft Combo .
Life
Schoppe grew up in Leipzig from 1948 . In 1967 he began an apprenticeship as a precision mechanic at VEB Medizintechnik in Leipzig. From 1967 Schoppe was the singer and guitarist of the Axel-Kühn quintet . In 1970 he joined the Klaus Renft Combo and composed, among other things, the hits Gänselieschen , When I was like a bird , rock ballad by little Otto and encouragement . Schoppe got his name Monster from his title Monster von Steppenwolf, which was covered in the Renft Combo .
After the Renft group was banned in 1975 and the protest resolution against Wolf Biermann's expatriation was signed in 1976, he moved to West Berlin in 1978 . There he played in 1980, alongside Klaus Renft and Christiane Ufholz , in the band Windminister, founded by Eberhard Klunker and Olaf Wegener .
Schoppe played on the reunification tour with Renft in 1990. After Klaus Renft had to leave the band in 1996 due to internal differences and he claimed the naming rights for himself, Schoppe temporarily renamed the band as Monsters Renft . In 1998, on the 40th anniversary of Renft, Schoppe was once again on stage with the entire Renft cast from 1975. Schoppe and his band gave up the name Monsters Renft and toured in 1999 as Thomas 'Monster' Schoppe und Band . In the same year his CD Kampf um Liebe and the single Der Moment were released . Guest appearances followed with Engerling , Jonathan Blues Band and Renft, of which he has been a permanent member again since 2005.
The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 inspired Schoppe to write his maxi CD Die Mauer in 2006 . The song is about a love in the late 1960s that failed at the wall. In the first two interpretations, one sung by Schoppe and the other by Meike Jürgens, the different points of view of those involved are presented. The third version is a duet with guitar accompaniment.
Schoppe lives in Zeulenroda today .
Discography
- 1999: The moment ,
- 2006: The Wall , Choice of Music (H'ART)
Web links
- Website Thomas Schoppe
- Interview with deutsche-mugge, accessed on October 1, 2012
- Audio of a radio portrait on MDR KULTUR von Bodo route
Individual evidence
- ^ Deutsche Mugge, accessed October 17, 2012
- ↑ Protests by more than 90 GDR artists against the expatriation of Wolf Biermann , on gegen-diktatur.de
- ↑ renft ( memento from January 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schoppe, Thomas |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Monster (nickname) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German guitarist, composer and singer of the Klaus Renft Combo |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 28, 1945 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Eisleben |