Ulrich Roski

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Ulrich Roski (born March 4, 1944 in Prüm in the Eifel ; † February 20, 2003 in Berlin ) was a German songwriter who had his greatest successes in the 1970s.

biography

Ulrich Roski grew up in the Berlin district of Wedding . During school at the French Gymnasium in Berlin , he and the later songwriter Reinhard Mey were classmates.

Ulrich Roski described the pitfalls of everyday life in his songs with a mixture of laconic humor and puns. He was a prizewinner at the International Essen Song Days for his song Description of a Bullfight . Since 1970 he has released more than 20 records and CDs. Some of his songs made it to the top of the charts in the mid-1970s. During this phase he performed in the Hamburg Music Hall and the Berlin Philharmonic, among others . He performed most of his performances alone, accompanying himself on the piano or guitar. As part of a joint tour, he also played with Schobert and Black and Hannes Wader .

Later he returned to cabaret and cabaret stages. Direct contact with the audience is important to him and provides material for new texts, he explained at the time. Most of the time Roski wrote his music and lyrics himself. Only on the record So has it nature wanted , he published, in addition to three songs of his own, eight poems by the Austrian writer Andreas Okopenko from his book of poems Why are the Latrines so sad, whimsy songs and one by Georg Bungter (who is mainly known for his limericks performed by Schobert & Black ).

In the 1980s he composed instrumentals on various synthesizers and used the pseudonym Riko Chruils , an anagram of his name.

In addition to songs and stage texts, Roski also wrote skits and short radio plays for radio and television (including for Diether Krebs in Voll Daneben ).

Grave of Ulrich Roski in the Heerstrasse cemetery in Berlin-Westend

In 2002 he published his autobiography To The Fullest . In several interviews and his last stage programs, he had reported with Gallows Humor about his experiences with his longstanding cancer .

Ulrich Roski died twelve days before his 59th birthday on February 20, 2003 of an internal bleeding caused by a tongue carcinoma . His grave is on the state's own cemetery in Heerstraße in Berlin-Westend (grave location: 4-B-embankment-1), next to Paul Wegener's last resting place .

aftermath

Since then, his daughter Sandra Roski has invited artists to Ulrich Roski memorials in the Berlin Kalkscheune and the tipi at the Chancellery in April 2004, October 2005, March 2009, March 2013 and November 2019 . Companions and members of the Berlin cabaret scene ensured his memory with their interpretations of Roski's songs.

Discography

LPs

  • Cheers to the liberal Berliner , (in-house production), (EP), 1969
  • ... that the pigs don't bite you , (TELDEC SLE14593 – P), 1970
  • That's what my athletic physique makes , (TELDEC SLE14629 – P), 1971
  • First aid , (TELDEC SLE14667 – P), 1972
  • Concerto Grosso , (TELDEC SLE14718-P), 1973
  • The little man on the street , (TELDEC SLE14754 – P), 1974
  • That is the thanks , (TELDEC 6.22087AS), 1975
  • 'n Abend , (live), (TELDEC 6.28345DX), (double LP), 1975
  • Next please , (TELDEC 6.2300AS), 1977
  • You get around a lot , (live), (TELDEC 6.28456DT), (double LP), 1978
  • This is how nature wanted it , (TELDEC 6.23548AS), 1978
  • The cow has to get off the ice , (TELDEC 6.23995AS), 1980
  • Spinach quail in a dressing gown , (live) (TELDEC 6.28541), 1981
  • Rough shell, soft biscuit , (TELDEC 6.24826), 1981
  • But please not so loud , (TELDEC 6.25 296), 1982
  • Always in the middle , (Intercord 160.195), 1984
  • There is another way - but it also works like this , (live), (Koch International E 130 025), (double LP), 1987
  • Something like that only exists in life , (Bellaphon), (MC), 1984
  • Schwoche spoke to his Schwochen , (Ingrid Richter I&R 26198), (MC), 1986

CDs

  • There is another way - but it also works like this , (live), (Conträr Musik 82966-2), (double CD), 1992
  • Years later - Werkschau 1 , (Conträr Musik 89620-2), 1998
  • A nice catch , (WIM), 2000
  • I learn to speak , (live), (BMG Wort), 2001
  • Review - Werkschau 2 , (Conträr Musik 81357-2), 2002
  • Schwoche spoke about his Schwochen - Werkschau 3 , (Conträr Musik 85919-2), 2005
  • Unforgotten - Werkschau 4 , (Conträr Musik 90199-2), 2007
  • Request concert - Werkschau 5 , (Conträr Musik 82668-2), 2010
  • Original Album Series , (Warner Music 5054197-01513-2-6), (5-CD box set - contains: That makes my athletic physique , First Aid [with 2 bonus tracks], Concerto Grosso [with 2 bonus tracks], That is thanks , next please ), 2016

Books

  • The little man from the street . Ingrid Richter Musikvertrieb and Verlag, Berlin 1977, DNB 821263072 .
  • To the fullest - From life on wheels - The autobiography . Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 3-8218-3921-X .
  • You shouldn't see it all so doggedly . Ingrid Richter Musikverlag, Teltow 2010, ISBN 978-3-00-029425-9 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. DER SPIEGEL: Songwriter legend Ulrich Roski: The anti-stupid bard - DER SPIEGEL - history. Retrieved March 27, 2020 .
  2. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 . P. 493. Ulrich Roski. Songwriter . Short biography at http://www.berlin.friedparks.de/ . Retrieved November 18, 2019.
  3. Berliner Bühnen, Roski reloaded 2019. The Gagala in honor of Ulrich Roski's 75th birthday . Retrieved November 18, 2019