Thomas Schwebel

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Thomas Schwebel (* 1959 in Solingen ) is a German musician and screenwriter .

Life

In 1977 Schwebel founded the band SYPH together with Peter Braatz aka Harry Rag , with whom he had his first public appearance in 1978 in the Carschhaus in Düsseldorf . Another appearance was the first Wall Festival in August 1978 at Berlin's SO36 in the next SYPH bands like Male, Din A test image and Charley's Girls occurred. On the first day of the festival, Schwebel and Harry Rag performed together with Bernward Malaka and two musicians from Berlin under the name Dub-Liners. Part of the program consisted of medleys of well-known punk songs that were played in parallel in the style of mash-ups .

The SYPH concert was later released on the album Live here and there , two pieces from the Dub Liners concert were released on the live recording of the festival. On the second evening, after the concerts, there was an encounter with David Bowie and Iggy Pop , who were living in Berlin at the time and who went to SO36 after the concert.

In early 1979 Schwebel joined the band Mittagspause , which had emerged from the Charley's Girls. There he played together with Peter Hein , Franz Bielmeier and Markus Oehlen at numerous concerts, including in the Markthalle Hamburg at the Into-the-Future-Festival , which was organized by Alfred Hilsberg . There were also numerous appearances in Düsseldorf at the Ratinger Hof , where the band also rehearsed, and in Berlin. With the lunch break Schwebel recorded two records, in the spring of 1979 the "double single " lunch break with eleven songs, including two songs with Ernstfall and Militürk , which later appeared in the Fehlfarben , and in summer 1979 the single Herrenreiter with the piece Paff, the magic dragon on the B-side .

At the end of 1979 the group broke up and Schwebel founded the band Fehlfarben with Peter Hein. In early 1981 there was a short reunion, which resulted in some of the band's studio recordings, which were later released on CD under the title Herrenreiter . In 1983, at the invitation of the Dia-Art-Foundation , there was a last concert from lunch break in Cologne .

Fehlfarben started as an attempt to establish the British two-tone movement with ska music in Germany and therefore initially recorded the single Abenteuer & Freiheit b / w Große Liebe / Max i on her own label Weltrekord . The second track is an adaptation of the song Industriemädchen by Schwebel, which Schwebel had written for the band SYPH and which has been recorded over the years in numerous versions (including by Die Toten Hosen ).

After numerous concerts - including at the Wiener Festwochen - the debut album Monarchy and Everyday Life was released by EMI / Electrola in October 1980 .

After the band had advertised the album on a tour with the British band 999 , there were various withdrawals: saxophonist Frank Fenstermacher and singer Peter Hein left the group, guitarist Uwe Jahnke from the band SYPH joined them and Schwebel, who was next to the music Had written the group's lyrics with Hein right from the start, she also did the vocals. With this line-up, the band played the single in 1981 The word is outside b / w How please what ?! and the album in chains for 33 days . At the end of 1981, after bassist Michael Kemner had also left the group, two albums were in the German charts with Monarchy and Everyday Life and 33 Days in Chains .

In 1982 the group undertook their largest tour to date through Germany, the Netherlands, Austria and Switzerland, on which they played more than 40 concerts. At the time, the two singles One year (It goes ahead) and 14 days entered the German charts. Schwebel then recorded the third album Glut und Asche with Uwe Bauer, arranger Matthias Keul and Jahnke , which was released in the spring of 1983 and received the best reviews for the band since their debut. Glut und Asche was the first German record since Kraftwerk to be voted record of the month in the Musikexpress and also hit the German charts.

In the following year 1984 Schwebel went on tour in Germany with Fehlfarben and bassist Hellmut Hattler and recorded the band's fourth album, which was only released in 1994 under the title Popmusik & Hundezucht due to disputes with their record company .

Also in 1984 Schwebel founded the band Trashmuseum together with the artist Stoya, with whom he recorded the EP If Drinking don't Kill Me, Your Memory Will . In 1985 Pyrolator joined the band and produced the album I'd Rather Die Young (than Grow Old without You) , which only contains cover versions of songs by Nick Cave , Willie Nelson , Hildegard Knef , The Human League and Bill Withers .

1990 saw the first reunion of the original Fehlfarben line-up and the WEA released the album Die Platte des himmlischen Friedens . At the same time the band went on tour again, on which a first live album was created, which was released in 1993.

After there was a gold record for monarchy and everyday life in 2000 , the group decided to record a new record and, as a result, with the new drummer Saskia von Klitzing , the album Knietief im Dispo in 2002 , for which there were overwhelmingly positive reactions. The subsequent tour with sold-out concerts, including in the Berlin Volksbühne, also proved to be a great success. Schwebel stayed with the band until 2006 and can still be heard on the albums Handbuch für die Welt and 26 ½ .

It was not until the end of 2016, when the band wanted to perform the entire debut album at a festival in Düsseldorf, that Schwebel rejoined the band and accompanied them as a guest at a number of concerts in 2017 in Berlin, Munich, Düsseldorf, Cologne and Hamburg, among others.

Schwebel began writing screenplays as early as the late 1990s , after having contributed the music for the debut film by director Lars Becker , entitled TILT , with Fehlfarben . Schwebel wrote two films for Becker together with Daniel Schwarz for ZDF .

In addition, Schwebel has developed numerous films and film projects, mainly with Daniel Schwarz and Xaõ Seffcheque , which have been shown successfully on television.

From 2002 to 2005 Schwebel was a guest lecturer at the University of the Arts in Berlin in the Sound Studies course , where he worked with Carl-Frank Westermann and Holger Schulze . He has also contributed numerous publications in books, mainly on the subject of music, including in the anthology Rawums together with Peter Glaser ( Kiepenheuer & Witsch ), in the volume Damaged Goods | Damaged Goods - 150 contributions to punk ( Ventil Verlag ) and in the Book about the Ratinger Hof by Ralf Zeigermann .

Discography (selection)

With SYPH

  • Live here and there - Various live recordings from the band's early days in 1978
  • The sounding Syph book

Lunch break (selection)

  • 1979: Double single - 11 tracks (published by Pure Freude)
  • 1979: Herrenreiter b / w Paff 7 "(published by Rondo)
  • 1980: Punk makes a big ass - live recording from the Wuppertal Stock Exchange 1979
  • Herrenreiter - Reunion 1981 together with the Herrenreiter Single
  • Lunch break - various re-releases of the double single as an album

Wrong colors (selection)

  • 1980: monarchy and everyday life
  • 1981: 33 days in chains
  • 1982: 14 days - maxi EP with 4 songs
  • 1983: embers and ashes
  • 1985: Not a quiet minute b / w Heaven is crying - Maxi 12 "
  • 1991: The Heavenly Peace Panel
  • 1993: Live
  • 1994: Pop music & dog breeding
  • 2002: knee-deep in the dispo
  • 2004: Handbook for the World
  • 2006: 26 1/2

Trash Museum

  • 1984: If drinking don't kill me, her memory will
  • 1985: I'd rather die young (than grow old without you)

Various projects (selection)

  • 1981: John Lennon EP with Peter Hein - 4 songs (as Not mean themselves )
  • 1982: Frozen - Sampler contribution with Not mean themselves to Remember - Düsseldorf Christmas sampler
  • 1987: 1-0 St. Pauli ahead - 7 "with the Heiligengeist sextet

Filmography (selection)

Web links

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Munzinger Archive, Ravensburg: Fehlfarben - Munzinger Biographie. In: munzinger.de. January 6, 2015, accessed June 9, 2018 .
  2. ^ Günter Mahler: NDW archeology . Edition Blechluft.
  3. ↑ Jürgen Teipel: Waste your youth . Suhrkamp.
  4. ↑ Richard Gleim: Good print . Düsseldorf 1984.
personal data
SURNAME Schwebel, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musician and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Solingen