Uschi Brüning

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Uschi Brüning (September 2018)
Uschi Brüning in concert with Stephan König (Grimma, Gymnasium St. Augustin , September 14, 2018)
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Chosen (with Manfred Krug )
  DE 54 02/06/2015 (4 weeks)

Uschi Brüning (* 4. March 1947 in Leipzig ) is a German jazz - and soul - singer and song writer.

Life

Brüning made his public debut in 1960 with hits. At the age of 17 she sang in the amateur band Studio Team , with whom she toured in Saxony over the next few years. At first she was not allowed to study music at the Conservatory in Zwickau and became a court secretary. Then from 1969 she attended the special class dance music and singing at the Friedrichshain Music School in Berlin-Friedrichshain and sang with the Klaus Lenz Band . Since 1970 she has worked as a professional singer. That year she undertook her first GDR tour with the Günther Fischer quintet and Manfred Krug . In 1972 she received the second prize at the International Schlager Festival in Dresden .

Since 1975 she has been working with her own band, Uschi Brüning & Co. , which includes saxophonist Helmut Forsthoff . She withdrew her signature against Wolf Biermann's expatriation in 1976 after the Stasi put her under pressure. In 1977 she appeared on the 1st Jazz Stage in Berlin and in 1981 received the third prize at the Festival Kärnten International in Austria. Since then she has been working with Ernst-Ludwig "Luten" Petrowsky , with whom she has been married since 1982. In 1985 she took part in the 1st Jazz Days of the GDR in Weimar and in 1986 in the 1st International Women's Jazz Festival in Frankfurt am Main . In 1989 she was on tour with the European Jazz Ensemble and appeared in the program Ich mach ein Lied aus Silence with Eva Strittmatter . In 1993 she took part in the JazzFest Berlin and appeared in Programm Vier in concert with Annekathrin Bürger , Barbara Kellerbauer and Carola Nossek . In 2008 she sang with Georgie Fame in the Berlin Philharmonic .

From 2015 until his death in 2016, Brüning performed with Manfred Krug under the title Manfred Krug reads and s (w) ingt . Her album As wie ich , produced by Andreas Bicking, was nominated for the Echo Jazz 2017 in the singer / national category. In the 32nd episode of the Augustiner concerts at the St. Augustin High School in Grimma, Uschi Brüning performed her program Herzenslieder with Stephan König on September 14, 2018 , which she developed together with Stephan König .

Discography

Albums (selection)

  • 1972: Uschi Brüning and the Günther Fischer quintet
  • 1974: Uschi Brüning and Günther Fischer
  • 1982: Uschi Brüning
  • 1988: Contrasts - Uschi Brüning / Ernst-Ludwig Petrowsky
  • 1992: Features of Usel
  • 1992: Enfant
  • 2000: White mouth frogs
  • 2002: your name, the portrait
  • 2005: Swingin 'Ballads
  • 2010: Uschi Brüning: The Portrait (Original Amiga Masters)
  • 2013: Ernst-Ludwig Petrowsky / Uschi Brüning / Michael Griener A résumé
  • 2014: Chosen (together with Manfred Krug) ( German Jazz Award in Platin, Germany)
  • 2015: Just like me
  • 2016: Live (with Engerling featuring Ernst-Ludwig Petrowsky )

Singles

  • 1971: Come to me / A shiny wheel
  • 1972: Your name / Colorful pictures
  • 1974: It was nice of you / The fear in the night
  • 1974: I'm going up on the roof / Close your eyes
  • 1975: wedding night / someone like you

Autobiography

Varia

The writer Ulrich Plenzdorf immortalized in his work The New Sorrows of Young W. Uschi Brüning:

"[...] Uschi Brüning! When the woman started, I always broke. I think she's no worse than Ella Fitzgerald or any. She could have had everything from me if she stood in front with her large glasses and slowly joined the troop. […] The way she communicated with the boss without a look, that could only be a migration of souls. And how she thanked her with a look when he let her in! I could have cried every time. He held her back until she could hardly take it any longer, and then he let her get in, and she thanked her with a smile, and I almost never got back. "

- Ulrich Plenzdorf (1973)

literature

Web links

Commons : Uschi Brüning  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Uschi Brüning in the German charts
  2. ^ Christoph Dieckmann : Uschi Brüning: Ella Fitzgerald from Leipzig. In: ZEIT ONLINE . March 25, 2019, accessed on November 18, 2019 : “ I hardly knew Biermann. For me he was the courageous man who poked at the sting in the GDR. I was outraged by the injustice of being expelled. I signed with full conviction. But then ... the fear came, with goosebumps. My job, my old mom ... Pressure followed, I revoked. That's dishonorable and embarrassing to me, but now that I've done it, I don't have to hide it. "
  3. ↑ Torsten Wahl: Uschi Brüning sings beautifully again and again. In: Berliner Zeitung . December 7, 2015, accessed November 18, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Georgie Famie with Uschi Brüning & Alan Skidmore Quartet A Declaration of Love (ITM 2015)
  5. ^ Program of the National Theater Weimar , accessed on October 27, 2016.
  6. ↑ Karim Saab: Hard to believe: Uschi Brüning is 70. In: Märkische Allgemeine . March 2, 2017, accessed November 18, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Awards: DE
  8. ↑ https://www.tagesspiegel.de/kultur/pop/jazz-alles-fuehlbare-in-einem-schrei/1325598.html - accessed on August 26, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Brüning, Uschi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz and soul singer
DATE OF BIRTH March 4, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig