Wendrsonn

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Wendrsonn
Wendrsonn live at the blacksheep Festival 2016
Wendrsonn live at the blacksheep Festival 2016
General information
Genre (s) Folk rock , dialect rock
founding 2005
Website www.wendrsonn.de
Current occupation
Vocals, accordion, guitar, keyboard, ukulele, jaw harp, blues harp
 Markus Stricker
Singing, piano, flutes, washboard, glockenspiel
 Biggi Binder
Guitars, banjo, Irish bouzouki
 Michael Schad
Violin, electric violin, mandolin, guitar, keyboard, viola
 Klaus Marquardt (since 2010)
Bass, double bass, vocals
 Ove Bosch (since 2009)
Drums, percussion
 Robert "Rob" Wittmaier (since 2019)
former members
Drums, percussion
 Ingo Schmidinger (2005-2006)
Drums, percussion
 Svend Renkenberger (2007)
Drums, percussion
 Horst Künzel (2007-2011)
Violin, electric violin
 Daniela Elisabeth Müller (2005-2010)
Bass, vocals
 Ulrich Doderer (2005-2009)
Drums, percussion
 Heiko Peter (2015-2019)

Wendrsonn (winter sun) is a Swabian folk rock - band from the Rems-Murr-Kreis .

history

Wendrsonn was founded in 2005 by Markus Friedemann Stricker from Sulzbach an der Murr and Michael Schad from Backnang . Both were good friends of Wolle Kriwanek , who became known as a singer of blues and rock music with Swabian lyrics and who only one week before his death inspired Markus Stricker to write songs with Swabian lyrics as well.

Wendrsonn made their first appearance in February 2005 at a benefit festival for the victims of the tsunami disaster. Shortly after this concert, Biggi Binder joined Wendrsonn as a singer.

In 2008, Wendrsonn played as a newcomer on Rock for Nature in the opening act for Joe Cocker and Roger Hodgson .

In 2009 bassist Uli Doderer left the band for personal reasons and was replaced by Ove Bosch, who u. a. with Paul Gilbert , TM Stevens , John Lawton , Chuck Rainey and Phil X from Bon Jovi .

Violinist Klaus Marquardt joined Wendrsonn in 2010 and has a lasting impact on the band's sound with his virtuoso playing. Marquardt played a. a. with Die Fantastischen Vier , Jon Lord from Deep Purple , Ray Wilson from Genesis , Woodstock legend Miller Anderson , Joy Denalane and Pur .

Drummer Heiko Peter joined Wendrsonn in 2011 after his band Submarien , with which he won the German Rock & Pop Prize in 2006, broke up.

Wendrsonn are actively committed to maintaining and preserving the Swabian dialect . They participated in dialect projects at several schools and a. together with elementary school students. Together with the Backnang Valley School, Wendrsonn won the Baden-Württemberg Student Prize in 2008 from the Baden-Württemberg Kinderland Foundation for the “Songs from dahoim” project.

Since 2006, Wendrsonn have been the patrons of the children's and youth hospice service Pusteblume of the Rems-Murr-Kreis eV hospice foundation

Wendrsonn have been with the brothers Vilko and Edo Zanki on the Brother Records label since 2014 .

The fifth band album Geile Zeit was presented on November 7, 2015 in the Theaterhaus Stuttgart .

In 2016 Wendrsonn appeared at the Blacksheep Festival in Bonfeld in the opening act of Jethro Tull and Manfred Mann's Earth Band .

Four years in a row, Wendrsonn made it into the top 50 of the SWR1 hit parade for Baden-Württemberg with their song Da ben i dahoim . In 2015 they took 46th place, 42nd place in 2016, 39th place in 2017 and 38th place in 2018.

In 2016, Wendrsonn won 1st place in four categories at the German Rock & Pop Prize and 2nd and 3rd place in each category.

In June 2017, Wendrsonn recorded their sixth CD "Ondrwägs" in the Kangaroo Digital Audio Studio in Karlsdorf-Neuthard . The CD was recorded live in front of an audience on two days. The band supported a string quartet on some of the songs.

In 2019 Wendrsonn performed again at the Blacksheep Festival in Bonfeld u. a. with Mando Diao , BAP , Ten Years After , Doro Pesch , Hans Söllner and Albert Hammond .

In October 2019 drummer Heiko Peter left the band for personal reasons and was replaced by Robert "Rob" Wittmaier from Ludwigsburg .

style

Wendrsonn mix rock, blues, ska and folk with old traditional melodies and Swabian folk songs, some of which are changed rhythmically and melodically. Most of the band's repertoire, however, is their own compositions, mostly from the pen of Markus Stricker, with clear borrowings from bluegrass , American folk and Irish folk .

Especially the violin sound, alienated by effects and guitar amplifiers, and the often two-part lead vocals shape Wendrsonn's musical style. In addition to classic instruments from rock music such as electric guitar , keyboard , drums and bass , instruments such as banjo , western guitar , Irish bouzouki , mandolin , ukulele , tin whistle , recorder , blues harp , washboard and accordion are increasingly used.

Most of the band's lyrics are in Swabian . Wendrsonn likes to deal with historical events, old legends, fairy tales and traditions from the Swabian and Alemannic culture.

Wolfgang Wulz, author, historian, Germanist and chairman of the association "Schwäbische mund.art eV" wrote in the Backnang district newspaper "Striker's texts have a high poetic quality, they represent home culture in today's world".

Typical for Wendrsonn is the energetic stage show, in which Markus Stricker stands out. Another trademark is the extensive moderation between the songs, in which Stricker allows cabaret elements to flow in or provides detailed information about the historical background of the individual texts.

Another item on the program are the so-called Wendrlieder (winter songs), a collage of the band's titles, songs from the Renaissance , old folk and church songs, all of which deal with the topic of winter and its emotional perception.

  • Markus Stricker

  • Biggi Binder

  • Micha Schad

  • Klaus Marquardt

  • Ove Bosch

  • Rob Wittmaier

Discography

Albums

  • 2006: Songs by Dahoim (FV)
  • 2009: Woisch no (Mäule & Gosch)
  • 2011: S'Läba isch koin Schlotzer (Mäule & Gosch)
  • 2013: Reigschmeckter (Brother Records)
  • 2015: Geile Zeit (Brother Records)
  • 2017: Ondrwägs (Brother Records)

Prizes and awards

  • 2008: Baden-Wuerttemberg School Prize from the Baden-Wuerttemberg Kinderland Foundation together with the Backnang Valley School and the "Songs from dahoim" project
  • 2014: German Rock & Pop Prize - Second place in the category "Best Folk Rock Album" (Reigschmeckter)
  • 2016: German Rock & Pop Prize - first place in the category "Best Folk Rock Singer" (Biggi Binder)
  • 2016: German Rock & Pop Prize - first place in the category "Best Folk Rock Singer" (Markus Stricker)
  • 2016: German Rock & Pop Prize - first place in the category "Best Folk Rock Album" (Geile Zeit)
  • 2016: German Rock & Pop Prize - first place in the category "Best Instrumental Soloist" (Klaus Marquardt)
  • 2016: German Rock & Pop Prize - Second place in the category "Best Folk Rock Band"
  • 2016: German Rock & Pop Prize - Third place in the category "Best Folk Rock Song" (Geile Zeit)

Web links

Commons : Wendrsonn  - collection of images, videos and audio files

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Thomas Schwarz: New Wendrsonn CD: Declaration of love to "Backena" , Stuttgarter Zeitung , October 16, 2015.
  2. ↑ German Rock & Pop Prize 2016. Special Prize Winner (pdf), accessed on July 26, 2019.
  3. ↑ Andreas Sommer and Ranjo Doering: That was the second day of the Blacksheep Festival , web portal of the Heilbronner Voice. Independent newspaper, June 29, 2019, accessed July 26, 2019.
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