Uta Pilling

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Uta Pilling (born November 1, 1948 in the Eastern Harz Mountains ; † June 8, 2020 in Leipzig ) was a German musician , songwriter and painter .

Life

Uta Pilling was born in 1948 as the daughter of a teacher couple; In 1969 she began to paint and write. In the same year she married the painter and graphic artist Günter Pilling (1918–2001); this marriage resulted in five children. In 1975 works by Pilling were shown for the first time in the Berlin church Ss. Corpus Christi exhibited, after 1990 exhibitions of her paintings followed throughout Germany.

In 1990 she got to know the Leipzig singer, poet and lecturer Jens-Paul Wollenberg , with whom she lived until her death and from 1992 on recorded some chanson and songwriter albums. Uta Pilling mainly worked as a street musician with her own songs in Leipzig, and she played an accordion as an instrument . Between 1990 and 1996, Pilling, Wollenberg and three of their children traveled through Germany, Holland , Luxembourg and Austria as street musicians at times . Pilling went blind in the last years of his life .

Uta Pilling's unorthodox life close to the subsistence level has been the subject of several television and cinema documentaries.

Works (as an illustrator)

Discography (together with Jens-Paul Wollenberg and other artists)

Filmography (documentaries)

  • 1990: Cinématon N ° 1184. Uta Pilling , directed by Gérard Courant
  • 1998: "I slaughtered my aunt ..." - Uta Pilling and Jens Paul Wollenberg. CVs, episode 5 (MDR)
  • 2015: Act. 4 Leben ein Akt , directed by Mario Schneider
  • 2020: Uta , director: Mario Schneider

literature

  • Martin Lamss: "I am rural and moral, upright - just an idiot". An interview about press phobia, bitter chansons and Leipzig's educated citizens. Final questions for Uta Pilling . In: Kreuzer (2007), No. 12, ISSN  0943-0547 , p. 122 ( online at kreuzer-leipzig.de, accessed on June 16, 2020).
  • Uta Pilling: Rebecca . In: Karsten Krampitz , Markus Liske , Manja Präkels (eds.): Kaltland. A collection . Rotbuch-Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-86789-144-8 , pp. 191-194.
  • Karsten Kriesel: Leipzig artist Uta Pilling died (71) . In: Leipziger Volkszeitung 126 (2020), No. 138 of June 16, 2020, ISSN  0232-3222 , p. 18.

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personal data
SURNAME Pilling, Uta
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musician, songwriter, poet and painter
DATE OF BIRTH November 1, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Eastern Harz
DATE OF DEATH June 8, 2020
Place of death Leipzig