Volker Rebel

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Volker Rebel

Volker Rebell (born April 25, 1947 in Offenbach am Main ) is a German moderator , music programmer and author . Rebell worked as a radio presenter in the third program of the Hessischer Rundfunk until the end of 2008 . There he was the author and presenter of the music journalistic themed program hr3 rebell , a mixture of narrative radio and infotainment, which was previously known as Volkers Kramladen . Volker Rebell is considered to be "the veteran" among the music presenters of the Hessischer Rundfunk.

Life

Volker Rebell completed an apprenticeship, graduated from high school and completed a degree in mechanical engineering at the State Engineering School in Frankfurt as a Dipl.-Ing. from. In addition, he began in the 1960s with appearances as a hobby cabaret artist and " beat musician " - as a local "pop star en miniatur" ( singer , guitarist and songwriter with "The Cheats"). From 1964 to 1969 he performed on the weekends in Hessian gyms and hall construction locations. In 1965 he won the " German Beatband Competition " in Kassel with self- written German-language songs . The first single records were released . He later played street theater . He described himself as a "little 68er rebel with a lot of red fizzy head" . As a guitarist and singer he was involved in the album production "Harlekins Singsang" by Michael de la Fontaine ( Christopher & Michael ). His first LP release in 1969 under his own name "Der große Krakeeler" was not a success.

In 1969, Volker Rebell took over his parents' tool manufacturing company in Offenbach. The activity as a Dipl.-Ing. and owner of the business is his financial base to this day. In contrast, he pursues music, radio and cabaret as a hobby.

In the 1970s , Rebell worked as an actor and author in the theater genre . For example, he wrote the children's play “Good for nothing?” He produced textual and musical pieces and appeared sporadically in cabaret theaters. In addition to his radio work, he was a presenter and stage announcer at various festivals, such as the “Open Ohr” in Mainz or the “German Rock Festival” in the Festhalle Frankfurt. Between 1974 and 1980 he wrote concert reviews in the features section of the Frankfurter Rundschau . Rebell's essays appeared in book publications.

From 1970 Volker Rebell took part in various productions of the Hessischer Rundfunk. From 1970 until the program was discontinued in April 1973, he worked as a presenter and writer in "Teens Twens Top Time". The show was later renamed "Thoch4" and finally "T4". He then worked as a presenter and author of the programs "rumms" (May 1973 to April 1977) and "Top Time" (May 1977 to December 1985 - "Rock theoretical", "Avant-garde", "Portrait", "Volkers Kramladen", respectively) in weekly change). He also moderated the programs "German Rock" and "Black Music".

From May 1977, Volker Rebell received his own personality show: “Volkers Kramladen”, which was initially heard every four weeks and from January 1986 weekly on hr3. Rebell chose the title "Darlene" by L. Shankar as the theme music for this program . Sporadically he produced programs for Radio Bremen and contributions for West German radio .

Volker Rebell & The Frankfurt Spring Collection 2006

In the 1980s , Volker Rebell produced 18 records and founded the special label "RillenWerke" for this purpose. For the Süddeutscher Rundfunk he produced a three-part television series on the history of rock music. He was a co-designer on "100 Minuten Rock", "Singer Songwriter", "Rock Pop", "From 3 in III." And "Sounds, Texts, Artists". From January 1985 to September 1991 he belonged to Werner Reinke , Thomas Koschwitz and others on the group of moderators of the hr3 program "Kuschelrock" and worked from 1980 to 1982 on the hr2 program "Blickpunkt Musik - Classical and Pop with Different Omens". From 1987 to 1989 he also contributed to the “Info-Laden” (hr3). In 1980 he released the LP "Liebe-aus-im Eimer".

In the 1970s and 1980s Rebell occasionally worked on other ARD radio stations: he designed themed programs for Radio Bremen (“Pop Shop”, 1972–75) and produced individual contributions for WDR, SWF, SDR.

In the 1990s , Rebell worked on the hr programs “Graffitti”, “Ton-Art”, “Töne, Texts, Interpreters”, “Die Crew”, “Piazza”, “ Radio Unfrisiert ”, “Music Hall”, “LP -Special "," Pop Remember "," Meridian "," Album Charts "and others with. In 1992 Rebell released the CD "Paradyssee". From 1995 to 1999 he produced on-board radio programs for Deutsche Lufthansa . From June 1996 the hr1 music magazine “Black and White - Music in Color” went on air, whose profile was significantly shaped by Rebell. Since 1997 he has moderated the world music stage, later called the Latino stage, at the Sound of Frankfurt festival .

From 2000 onwards Rebell developed multimedia radio broadcasts in "hr3-Rebell", with additional offers such as photos and video clips that can be called up parallel to the broadcast on the Internet at hr3.de. In autumn 2003, “Volkers Kramladen auf Reisen” toured as a club tour through Hessian cultural centers. The club tour “Reim & Rhythmus” followed in March 2005 and “Heine goes Pop” in November 2005. In March 2006 he went with the concert program he designed, “Alone and Together - German Rock Heroes on the hr3 Rebell Tour”, together with a specially composed, prominent band consisting of Anne Haigis , Ingo Bischof , Hellmut Hattler , Ali Neander , Mani Neumeier and Andreas Neubauer , on a 10 day tour.

"Hr3 rebel"

The concept of the hr3 program “Volkers Kramladen” - renamed “hr3-Rebell” in May 2004 - was conceived from the beginning as a mixture of “personality show”, a creative playground, music journalistic specialty program and “narrative radio”.

Thematically and musically, the program is not fixed. Sometimes “hr3-Rebell” is playful and cabaret, sometimes serious music-journalistic, sometimes bizarre-narrative, sometimes dreamy-poetic, sometimes socially critical and rousing, and the next time maybe completely different. Always based on pop music in the broadest sense, "hr3-Rebell" deals with topics such as B. Rock and noise, the beginning of spring, gods gurus financial affairs, new pop or rock books, pop music on the Internet, "War Child" - help for children in war regions, musical trips around the world, whale songs, eroticism in pop, "Rad off - the tour de Trance ”,“ Here comes the Flood ”- the great flood - in songs of pop history, tribute specials on the occasion of death or birthdays, flashbacks: 25, 30, 40 ... years ago, self-written short stories, slide shows in Radio? and other deliberately bizarre ideas.

Musically anything that is good and original can happen - whether historically from Beatles to Zappa or currently from Tori Amos and Björk to Zabine and 1 Giant Leap, or stylistically from blues rock and singer-songwriter to ambient, trip-hop, free-style and World Music. The leitmotif is always “I'm digging around, so I'm ... looking for ... the wonders of music” or “I am the people” .

Dismissed at the end of 2008

On October 27, 2008, a spokesman for the Hessischer Rundfunk confirmed a report by the Frankfurt city magazine, according to which the hr would split up with the three moderators Volker Rebell, Werner Reinke and Klaus Walter at the end of 2008 due to poor audience ratings . On December 28, 2008, the last episode of "hr3-Rebell" ran. While Werner Reinke switched to hr1, Klaus Walter and Volker Rebell are moderating programs on the Internet radio station ByteFM .

Works

Books

  • Frank Zappa - freak genius with tailcoat habit . In: Rocksession 1 , Rororo Sachbuch, 1977. ISBN 3-499-17086-8
  • From our point of view - an epilogue . In: "The Beatles" - an illustrated documentation, Melzers Rock Edition, 1976. ISBN 3-8201-0019-9
  • Volker Rebell - The Beatles 1968, song library in Heupferd Musik Verlag, 2008. ISBN 978-3-923445-68-4
  • Paul McCartney : YESTERDAY & heute - a (critical) homage in songs, words and lyrics . Oberursel (Taunus): Rebell, Volker, June 2017. Mediabox with 5 CDs, booklet and 2 books ISBN 978-3-9815456-0-9

Music recordings under his own name

  • "The great Krakeeler", 1969
  • "Liebe-aus-im Eimer", triple LP, 1980
  • CD "Paradyssee", 1992
  • DVD "Heine goes Pop", Volker Rebell & The Frankfurt Spring Collection, 2005

Further sound carriers

  • DVD “Volkers Kramladen - 15 minutes of fame” (recording of the public hr3 anniversary event “27 Years of Volkers Kramladen” on March 25, 2004)
  • DVD "hr3-Rebell - Reim & Rhythmus" (recording of the hr3 rebel event of the same name on March 19, 2005)
  • CD and DVD "Alone and Together - German Rock Heroes on the hr3 Rebell Tour", 2006

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Rebel, Volker
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German presenter, music programmer and author
DATE OF BIRTH April 25, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Offenbach