Wolfgang Rieck (musician)

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Wolfgang Rieck (2015)
Wolfgang Rieck in 2015 at an appearance in the Kulturspeicher Dörenthe

Wolfgang Rieck (born March 30, 1953 in Rostock ) is a German poet, singer and songwriter.

Life

Wolfgang Rieck has been musically active since 1970. From 1969 to 1971 he was an able seaman on GDR merchant ships . He then studied electrical engineering at the University of Rostock . He was a member of the Rostock singing club KuBa , where he met Joachim Piatkowski. In 1975 he began training in singing and classical guitar at the Rostock Conservatory, a predecessor of the Rostock University of Music and Theater , which he completed in 1985.

From 1975 to 1993 he performed together with Joachim Piatkowski as the duo Piatkowski & Rieck , which mainly performed songs in Low German and produced two Amiga albums, Low German songs and Utkiek. In 1991 the CD Old Meklenburg for Ever was released. Soon after, Piatkowski decided to give up his musical career and work as a practicing doctor.

In 1992 Rieck joined the Liederjan music trio , where he replaced Edzard Wagenaar and was the "fourth third" alongside long-time members Jörg Ermisch and Anselm Noffke. He stayed with this band until 2001.

Since then, Wolfgang Rieck has appeared mostly alone and also organizes seminars. His concerts include High German and Low German songs, some of which he writes himself and some of which come from other authors. It also offers several children's programs, including “The Mouse in a Telescope” with “true stories, songs and fairy tales from seafaring”. He also sings traditional Christmas carols , interpretations by Ernst Barlach from the Christmas and winter season as well as his own texts on this topic.

In December 2003 his solo CD Alles muss sich wandeln came out with 19 guest musicians.

In 2003 Rieck gave joint concerts with the former Wacholder member Jörg Kokott (program with love songs “No way too far”). With the Berlin musician Heike Kellermann he presented settings of poems by Theodor Kramer (“Red drops sprinkles the poppy seeds”) and also released a CD with her (22 poems by Theodor Kramer: What should we still begin ). Rieck occasionally gives concerts with Heike Kellermann.

For the Hinstorff Verlag Rostock Rieck worked on an audio book based on a Low German novella by John Brinckman , Mottche Spinkus un de Pelz, which is settled in the Jewish milieu of Güstrow in the middle of the 19th century. In 2016 his album The Singing Man was released . For the title Forgotten Heroes contained on it , he received the 2017 song award .

Rieck plays guitar, banjo , flutes, harmonica , mandolin and concertina .

Awards

Discography

Solo CD

  • Moth Spinkus and fur . Novellistic cabinet piece by the Low German poet John Brinckman - a story from the Jewish milieu of the city of Güstrow (audio book)
  • Peter Lurenz bi Abukir . A Rostock braggart writes world history (audio book)
  • Everything has to change - 16 songs from my own pen as well as lyrics by various poets (2003)
  • The Singing Man (2017)

CD with Heike Kellermann

  • What should we still begin - 22 songs in settings by Heike Kellermann and Wolfgang Rieck based on texts by Theodor Kramer (2006)

Children's CD

  • The mouse in a telescope - songs and fairy tales from seafaring (2002)
  • Adele ukulele - or why everything works better with music (2007)
  • We can become anything (2014)

Duo Piatkowski & Rieck

  • LP Low German songs - traditional and original songs from the North German-speaking area (1983)
  • LP Utkiek - own Low German songs in elaborate, artistic arrangements (1987)
  • CD Old Meklenborg for ever - 18 new Low German songs, arranged in a modern way, by my own pen and by other lyricists (1991)

DVD

  • Life Tones - a professionally produced film about the singer and songwriter Wolfgang Rieck

literature

Web links

Commons : Wolfgang Rieck  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Artist / Rieck. ( Memento from September 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Buetzow-Schwaan.de
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Rieck's website , accessed on February 2, 2015
  3. ↑ Piatkowski & Rieck on the Wolfgang Riecks website , accessed on February 2, 2015
  4. ^ Band history , accessed on February 1, 2015
  5. ↑ Song award at liederbestenliste.de, accessed on June 11, 2017
  6. ↑ Poet Wolfgang Rieck receives the Gillhoff Prize , NDR news from March 23, 2020, accessed on March 23, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Rieck, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poet, singer and songwriter
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Rostock