Walter Thielsch

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Walter Welke (* May 28, 1950 in Hamburg as Walter Thielsch ; † January 13, 2011 ibid) was a German graphic designer , musician , singer , songwriter , writer , filmmaker and photographer .

Live and act

Walter Thielsch studied graphic design with Professor Hans Weckerle and polyesthetics with Natias Neutert at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences . He then moved to the HfbK Hamburg , where he met Holger Hiller and Thomas Fehlmann and recorded his first pieces with them. For the Neue-Deutsche-Welle- Band Palais Schaumburg , founded by Hiller, Fehlmann and FM Einheit alias Mufti in 1980, Thielsch wrote some texts that were strongly based on Kurt Schwitters and his Merz (term of art) with nationally known titles such as Children, Death Is Not At All so bad . When singer and composer Holger Hiller left the band after the debut LP because of his own solo projects, Walter Thielsch took over his part. He was not only a songwriter and innovator of the band, but also their singer for a short time (1982-1983). The result of this period was the LP Lupa (1982), whose musical mix of funk , bossa nova , tango and, last but not least, elements of avant-garde music was way ahead of the development at the time. Without Walter Thielsch's film experiments, which he undertook with the then completely unknown music comedians Wigald Boning and Olli Dittrich in the late 1980s and early 1990s, their careers would probably not have started so successfully. In 1998 Walter Thielsch married Marina Welke. He took her last name and called himself Walter Welke from then on.

With Thanks Walter - a large-scale event in the legendary Gruenspan in Hamburg - posthumously hundreds of closest friends, artistic colleagues and many of the clients of his graphic arts who are also very close to him, including the members of Astrid's Farm , Dirk Darmstädter from the Jeremy Days and Mary Roos .

Works

literature

  • Prose . In: Boa Vista 4 (editor D. Dubbe / N. Neutert / P. Waldheim), Hardebek, April 1977, pp. 7-84.
  • Rita Noir 34 x / C. In: Journal 5 (Eds. D. Dubbe, M. Hennig, N. Neutert, P. Waldheim), Edition Boa Vista Hamburg, October 1977, pp. 102-103.
  • Hope . In: Boa Vista 7 (Eds. Natias Neutert / Peter Waldheim / Manfred Hennig), Edition Boa Vista Hamburg, June 1978, pp. 78-85.
  • Nothing without beefheart. In: Steffen Radlmeier (ed.): My song. Lyrics to the soundtrack of life. 2nd edition, ars vivendi verlag, Cadolzburg 2005, pp. 324–328.

Graphic design

Thielsch designed around two hundred covers for LPs and CDs, including for artists and bands such as

Web links

References and footnotes

  1. ↑ An ironic allusion to the Federal Chancellor's residence, which was then still in Bonn.
  2. ↑ a b Kai-Hinrich Renner: Ingenious and mostly in the background. In: Hamburger Abendblatt, March 16, 2011.
  3. ↑ Lupa - Italian for she-wolf.
personal data
SURNAME Thielsch, Walter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wilt, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German graphic designer, musician, singer, songwriter, writer, filmmaker and photographer
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH January 13, 2011
Place of death Hamburg