Ulrich Klan

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Ulrich Klan (born March 17, 1953 in Hof ) is a German musician , composer , comprehensive school teacher and libertarian author .

Life

As a teenager, Klan was an extraordinary participant in the international summer courses for new music in Darmstadt. Through concerts and tours in France, Austria, Israel, Switzerland and Italy, he became known as a musician and composer beyond the country's borders. Klan also gave concerts at the songwriter festival in Rheinsberg, at the Rudolstadtfestival and in the House of World Cultures , at WDR , SWR , NDR and at Radio Bremen . In 1983 he co-founded the Wuppertal workshop - a free school for music and dance that still exists today. In November 2000, Klan presented the Lebenslaute project in Berlin's Mehringhof . “Lebenslaute against death silence” - non-violent concert blockades against war and environmental destruction. For the 10th anniversary of the magazine Schwarzer Faden , the Wuppertal trombone group around Ulrich Klan played.

Klan studied music and social sciences in Wuppertal from 1978 to 1984 and has completed a teaching degree for secondary levels I and II, for children from the 5th grade to the Abitur. Before starting as a teacher at the Else-Lasker-Schüler-Gesamtschule in Wuppertal-Elberfeld, he had worked as a freelance music teacher. One focus of his work was and is on voluntary, creative projects, for example in the working groups Ethics and Music, International Choir, Orchestra, Theater, Children's Opera and Musical.

He is a co-founder of the international Armin T. Wegner Society (Wuppertal), the musicians 'initiative Lebenslaute and the citizens' initiative Freie Heide . The magazine Der Spiegel about the initiative: “ After 17 years the citizens' initiative Freie Heide had landed so many hits in their fight against the air-to-ground firing range Bombodrom that their opponent, the Federal Minister of Defense, had to give up. ". The initiative received the Göttingen Peace Prize in March 2007 . Lebenslaute , “for music in civil disobedience against war and environmental destruction”, organized, among other things, three concert blockades against the “nuclear (garbage) program” in Gorleben, at the US air base in Frankfurt / M. at the beginning of the second Gulf War in 1991 and a blockade with classical music to the Pershing missile depots in Mutlangen (1986), this was the nationwide "premiere" of Lebenslaute . From 1992 to 2009 Lebenslaute had the initiative "FREIe HEIDe" accompanied musically several times on "forbidden terrain" by the Bundeswehr when they wanted to set up a bomb dropping area.

“Concert blockade” by the group Lebenslaute

Klan initiated and managed the international music, remembrance and communication projects Europe meets Australia (1999), Picture of a voice / Görünen Ses / Patker me Zaini / Zelem schel Hakol / Surat e Saut (2003 to 2008) and is the project manager and initiator of International Albert Camus Days 2010 . Also co-founder of “ FORTSCHROTT - Musiksatire ” (since 1980). The group was awarded the WDR Music Prize. He also founded the Trio Con Voice (Wuppertal piano trio) with a classical repertoire and new music of the 20th and 21st centuries and the DUO DADA .

He composed new Orient - Occident music to texts by Else Lasker-Schüler and Armin T. Wegner, which were premiered in 2008 in a concert with Konrad Hupfer in Wuppertal with the renowned “ Nova Ensemble ”. Klan also conducted the finale of the Poetic Light Play under the Müngstener Bridge , with over 400 young musicians from Remscheid, Wuppertal and Solingen. In May 2005 the world premiere of a Turkish-German concert entitled Storks over the Bosporus took place with the participation of the Ensemble Mondial by the Turkish composer Betin Güneş and the Ensemble “ Yusuf ” by Ulrich Klan.

On April 2, 2011, the trilingual (German, Turkish , Armenian ) oratorio for the murdered journalist Hrant Dink : " Wie ein Taube / bir güvercin gibi / aghavnii me neman " was premiered in Wuppertal in front of an international audience and guests of honor from Istanbul and Armenia. Music: Ulrich Klan. According to the words of Hrant and Rakel Dink, from the Talmud , Sermon on the Mount and the Koran as well as from west-east poets: Else Lasker-Schüler, Dschallaludin Rumi, Armin T. Wegner and Bertolt Brecht . For mixed choir, string orchestra, speaker and instrumental solos : duduk , baglama, violin , violoncello , piano and percussion instruments. The work triggered a “standing ovation”, according to the Westdeutsche Zeitung.

Compositions (selection)

  • Be sand, not the oil in the world's gears , for choir and orchestra. Based on the poem of the same name by Günter Eich . (1988)
  • Ava , chansons to poems by Armin T. Wegner. For voice, clarinet, flute and piano. 1987, 2004, 2008
  • My blue piano . Song cycle based on poems by Else Lasker-Schüler for voice, bass clarinet, flute, piano, water and stones. 1988, 2007
  • Freedom is hard work , songs for singing and brass based on poems by Erich Mühsam . 1989
  • The Green Flute from Rio Beni , melodrama for speaker, synthesizer, guitar and percussion, based on the fairy tale of the same name by Paul Zech.
  • Arten , four survival phrases for plucked orchestra. (1994) Instrumental music for various groups.
  • Worn out words for voice and hurdy-gurdy. (1990)
  • I'm so wild for your strawberry mouth , songs and musical events for voice and brass to verses by Paul Zech. (2006)
  • Autumn evening. New Heimatlied from Exile , for choir and wind ensemble. Based on the poem of the same name by Paul Zech. (2006)
  • Wie eine Taube / bir güvercin gibi / aghavnii me neman , trilingual oratorio (German-Turkish-Armenian) in memory of the murdered journalist Hrant Dink for mixed choir, speaker and speaker, strings, duduk, baglama, violin, violoncello, piano and percussion instruments based on texts by Hrant and Rakel Dink, from the Bible, Talmud and Koran as well as on the words of west-eastern poets such as Jallaludin Rumi, Armin T. Wegner, Else Lasker-Schüler and Bertolt Brecht. (2011)

Film and incidental music

  • What You Want , Shakespeare Comedy (1998)
  • Wasif and Akif or the wife with two husbands , Turkish comedy by Armin T. Wegner and Lola Landau (2004, 2008)
  • Arthur Anonymus and his fathers , play by Else Lasker-Schüler

CD and DVD publications

  • Ulrich Klan (Ed.), Armin T. Wegner. Picture of a voice . Audio book with international settings, including in: German, Turkish, Armenian and Arabic. 2 audio CDs, Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2008. ISBN 978-3-8353-0405-5
  • Armin T. Wegner. Portrait of a voice , content text in the German National Library
  • Europe meets Australia , TUM Verlag, Wuppertal 1999
  • ... in the desert , a "three-song without words for Duduk, Baglama and Viola". The CD contains 100 Years of New Music . Verlag Kantorei, Barmen 2008 and in the audio book Portrait of a Voice .
  • A DVD film documentation of the trilingual oratorio: Wie ein Taube / bir güvercin gibi / aghavnii me neman , appeared with three different booklets. The film can be viewed in three languages: German, Turkish and Armenian with appropriate subtitles.

Publications by U. Klan (selection)

Book contributions

  • Ulrich Klan, Dieter Nelles: "There is still a flame", Rhenish anarcho-syndicalists in the Weimar Republic and under fascism . Nevertheless publisher , Grafenau-Döffingen 1990. ISBN 3-922209-72-6
  • Ulrich Klan, Dieter Nelles: Alternative designs in the Rhineland - using the example of the anarcho-syndicalist "Free Earth" . In: Herbert Baumann, Francis Bulhof, Gottfried Mergner (eds.): Anarchism in art and politics. For Arthur Lehning's 85th birthday . Oldenburg 1984
  • Ulrich Klan, Tobias Kiwitt (Ed.): Whoever speaks the truth must always have a saddled horse ready. A reader . Epilogue v. Günter Wallraff . Wuppertal 2008. ISBN 978-3-00-026295-1 and: Edition Rösner, Vienna 2010. ISBN 978-3-902300-50-8
  • Ulrich Klan: About political utopias with Else Lasker-Schüler . In: Cepl-aufmann, Krumeich, Sommers (ed.): War and Utopia , Essen 2006. ISBN 3-89861-619-3
  • Ulrich Klan: disobedience, laughing, civil ..., . In: Wolfram Beyer (Hrsg.): Refuse military service - Pacifism today . Berlin 2000. ISBN 3-924041-18-0
  • Ulrich Klan: Culture instead of CITY OF CULTURE . In: Wolfgang Haug , Herby Sachs (ed.): The fading out of reality . Nevertheless publishing house, Grafenau 1989. ISBN 3-922209-31-9
  • Ulrich Klan: Else goes Schiller or Occupy the Theater . In: Gerold Theobald (Ed.): Theater Zeit in Wuppertal , Wuppertal 2001. ISBN 3-87294-874-1
  • Ulrich Klan: Resistance in Düsseldorf - Gründgens among the anarchists . In: Stadtbuch Düsseldorf, Cologne 1988. ISBN 3-923243-83-9

Articles in magazines

  • Ulrich Klan: Because I longed for people . In Schwarzer Faden , No. 1, 1988
  • Ulrich Klan: Toni Binder. Obituary for an anarcho-syndicalist from Düsseldorf . In: Schwarzer Faden , No. 29, 1988
  • Ulrich Klan: The expulsion of the flesh from the music of the West . In: this side , no. 19, 20 and 21. Berlin 1992. Available online
  • Ulrich Klan: Armin T. Wegner - civil courage as a program . In: DIZ Nachrichten , No. 25, Papenburg 2005. Available online. With biographical information about U. Klan

literature

  • Hartmut Rübner : Freedom and Bread. The Free Workers' Union of Germany. A Study of the History of Anarcho-Syndicalism . For Ulrich Klan see pages: 31, 40, 44, 47, 54, 66, 68, 70, 72, 136, 163, 166f., 170, 176, 182–184, 186, 188, 190, 192–194, 200, 208, 224, 254, 273. Libertad Verlag , Potsdam 1994. ISBN 3-922226-21-3 .

Web links

Commons : Ulrich Klan  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Wuppertaler Werkstatt eV was founded in 1983 as a free school for music and dance by freelance artists
  2. ↑ Cf. on this: Graswurzelrevolution No. 255, January 2001, p. 5, report on the book presentation, reading & music: Wolfram Beyer (publisher for the Humanist Association of Germany and the International of Military Service Opponents ), Refuse War Service - Pacifism Today , Berlin 2000
  3. ↑ See on this: Ulrich Klan, Else goes Schiller or Das Theater occupieren
  4. ↑ Quote: "Spiegel Online". Author: Ulrike Demmer . Bombodrome - surrender inspires friend and foe . July 9, 2009. Retrieved November 25, 2009
  5. ↑ FREIe HEIDe defeats the Bundeswehr Author: Andreas Hauschild, in: Graswurzelrevolution , No. 255, January 2001. Retrieved on November 25, 2009
  6. ^ International Albert Camus Days, Wuppertal. Tum 50th anniversary of the death of the author, resistance fighter and Nobel Prize winner
  7. ^ Else Lasker-Schüler-Forum October 22-26, 2008 . Title: “I visited a city all over the world! Lola Landau 'My Three Lives' ”, by Hajo Jahn . Ulrich Klan's DUO DADA played. Retrieved October 8, 2012
  8. ↑ See on this: Veronika Pantel, "Standing Ovations". In: Westdeutsche Zeitung of April 4, 2011
  9. ↑ In the Turkish-Armenian newspaper Agos (Istanbul) on April 8, 2011 a positive review of the oratorio's world premiere appeared
  10. ↑ Author: Martina Thöne . In an interview with Ulrich Klan. In: Westdeutsche Zeitung of March 25, 2011. Ulrich Klan u. a. about the oratorio. Under: “A highlight of the days of the event will be the world premiere of your oratorio. How did the idea for the work come about? ” . Retrieved September 13, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Klan, Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musician, composer, comprehensive school teacher and libertarian author
DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH court