Wolfram Eicke

Wolfram Eicke (born November 7, 1955 in Lübeck ; † June 5, 2019 in Neustädter Bucht in front of Haffkrug ) was a German writer and songwriter .

Life

Wolfram Eicke visited the Katharineum in Lübeck . After graduating from high school, he began training as a journalist at the Holsteinischer Courier in Neumünster in 1975 . He worked for three years for the German language program of the BBC in London . He worked as an editor and presenter for youth programs for the broadcaster Free Berlin , RIAS , Südwestfunk , Radio Bremen and Norddeutschen Rundfunk . In 1982 he published his first book with fairy tales, drawings and poems When the chameleon turns red - who believes he is ashamed? Since 1984 he has lived as a freelance writer and songwriter. Together with the pianist Hans Niehaus he formed the cabaret duo "Die Lachenden Erben".

He had greater success with his fairy tale Der kleine Tag , published in 1985 , which had five editions by 1988. In 1999 it became a musical with music by Wolfram Eicke, Hans Niehaus and Rolf Zuckowski . The piece was staged more than 500 times, the CD sold over 150,000 times and was awarded a gold record in 2012. Audio book and music album for his historical adventure novel Das silberne Segel , which takes place in the Thirty Years' War , was created in collaboration with Uwe Ochsenknecht , Werner Becker , Annett Louisan , Achim Degen, Rolf Zuckowski, Stefan Gwildis , Michy Reincke , Tim Mälzer , Nina Hagen , Joachim Witt and Mellow Mark .

Eicke's musical radio play Die Himmelskinder-Weihnacht , written together with Dieter Faber, was published by Rolf Zuckowski in November 2013. The premiere of the stage version took place on December 14th, 2013 with the musical group Junge Musical Braunschweig (JuMuBS) in the Lessingtheater in Wolfenbüttel . Eicke himself worked as a narrator and astrologer. For the Wolfsburg Planetarium he developed the programs The Miracle of Attraction , Stars, Sun and Cannon Ball , Gods, Myths and Legends and The Little Prince .

Eicke published more than 30 books and CDs; he performed over 3,500 appearances in schools, libraries and bookshops, partly in collaboration with the Friedrich-Bödecker-Kreis , and performed for the Goethe-Institut in Sweden, Finland and South Africa.

With his wife, a music teacher, Eicke had two sons. He lived with his family in Haffkrug, where he drowned while bathing in the Baltic Sea on June 5, 2019 at the age of 63 .

Awards

• 1988: Friedrich Hebbel Prize
• 2001: Handset Price Poldi the WDR . Awarded by the papageno children's jury. Special prize for the Leopold media prize for the musical Der kleine Tag

Works (selection)

Novels and picture books

• The little day. A fairy tale. Partisch and Röhling, Bad Segeberg 1985, ISBN 3-925197-09-5 .
  • With illustrations by Ursula Kirchberg under the title: The small day visits the earth , Ellermann, Munich 1988, ISBN 3770762878
• Coma coma. Science fiction novel. Nautilus / Nemo Press, Hamburg 1987, ISBN 3-922513-35-2 .
• The Santa Claus boot. Picture book, illustrated by Ursula Kirchberg . Ellermann Verlag, Munich 1987, ISBN 3-770762-78-9 .
• The Pauker book: know your teacher and you help yourself! rororo tomato, Reinbek 1990, ISBN 3-499121-59-X .
• Blitzlicht - as a child star in advertising. Youth novel. Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, Reinbek 1993, ISBN 3-499-20649-8
• Jump through the window. Youth novel. Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, Reinbek 1995, ISBN 3-499-20765-6
• The silver sail. Historical adventure novel. Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, Reinbek 2005, ISBN 3-499213-19-2
• ... like a flower in the wind. Illustrated by Wolfgang Behrend . Partisch and Röhling, Bad Segeberg 1996, ISBN 3-925197-43-5 .
• With us in the monkey stable. Narrative. Rowohlt Rotfuchs, Reinbek 1999, ISBN 3-499209-56-X .
• The plum jam catcher. Picture book, graphics and illustration by Susanne Smajić. Thienemann Verlag, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-522434-41-2 .
• Math, girls, rock music. A didactic reading book. Klett, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-12-676342-1 .
• A smile in the sky. Narrative. Partisch and Röhling, Bad Segeberg 2005, ISBN 3-925197-57-5 .
• Survival trip. Story, together with his son Philipp Eicke, Schroedel Verlag, Braunschweig 2009, ISBN 3-507-47193-0 .
• Lint in happiness . Picture book, illustrated by Heribert Schulmeyer , Edelkids, Hamburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-89855-982-9 .
• The Heavenly Child Christmas . With Dieter Faber, illustrated by Julia Ginsbach , picture book, Loewe Verlag, Loewe, Bindlach 2014, ISBN 978-3-7855-8126-1 .
• I have invited myself to heaven . Poetry with pictures by Michael Weigel, Mussack, Niebüll 2015, ISBN 978-3-00-051059-5 .

Songs

• The egg - an egg movie
• The guilty toad
• Wildings

Musicals

• The note tree. Musical by Inge and Wolfram Eicke and Dieter Faber, as CD and piano album, Bosworth Musikverlag, Berlin 2009.
• The little day. Musical by Wolfram Eicke, Hans Niehaus and Rolf Zuckowski , as CD (Polydor / Universal 1998) and piano album, orchestral score, tape set, playback CD and text book (Sikorski Musikverlag 1998).
• Don't trust your eyes Musical with Hans Niehaus , a Variété for marionettes, performed regularly for 14 years in the Lübeck Marionette Theater (1988 to 2003).
• The silver sail. Musical (Eicke / Niehaus), CD 2006 from Sony BMG, piano album from Bosworth Musikverlag, Berlin 2007.

Non-fiction

• Media children - about dealing with diversity. Knesebeck-Verlag, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-926901-67-5 . (with Ulrich Eicke)

Web links

• Publications by Wolfram Eicke in the catalog of the German National Library
• Official website of the author on wolfram-eicke.de
• Catalog of works at sikorski.de
• Portrait on the website of Writers in Schleswig-Holstein eV (archive version from November 17, 2016)
• Author portrait on erlesen.tv

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Editorial report and obituaries in the Lübecker Nachrichten of June 9, 2019
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Peter Intelmann: Lübeck songwriter Wolfram Eicke drowned in the Baltic Sea. In: Lübecker Nachrichten. June 10, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Wolfram Eicke's website
4. ↑ Gold record for Wolfram Eicke . Article from August 19, 2012 on HL-live.de
5. ↑ The Silver Sail on Discogs
6. ↑ About me on Wolfram Eicke's website
7. ↑ Poldi 2001 on musikschulen.de
8. ↑ WolframEicke: Wolfram Eicke - the egg - an egg movie. In: YouTube . June 20, 2007, accessed March 10, 2018 . 
9. ↑ schuldkroete: The guilty toad. In: YouTube. February 24, 2009, accessed March 10, 2018 . 
10. ↑ WolframEickeTV: Wolfram Eicke - Wildungen. In: YouTube. November 16, 2009, accessed March 10, 2018 .