The nightingale an inconspicuous little bird. But her singing is the most beautiful sound that may bring about the nature. When Udo Lindenberg it is rather the reverse. Its visual appearance is unmistakable, but his singing – well, forget it. That he calls himself for over 40 years “panic Nightingale” is more than just a freak of nature. Udo is cult – today he turns 70
It’s back to the old
Really 70th? It is hard to believe! The saw ten years ago was very different from when he – seemingly irretrievably – hung on the bottle. But do not panic: He has packed up and pulled up by the hair. “I can hardly believe it myself, because I dragged my body like a dog chasing me. Now we are one … I’m as lean as 1973, when I started as a panic Nightingale. The clothes from the evidence room fit again today. “
So he is again the old man, that is, it is better now than ever. The voice has again its Nuschelwucht, his gait is casual and elegant depressed, the main hair flows him on the shoulder, and what growing up, no one knows for sure, because there sits decades his slouch hat.
His face has become more angular, the view is clear and not so veiled as before, as the one or the other “Konjäkchen” followed the next. He felt “timeless,” he says. And it also looks.
If you wanted to divide his multifaceted life in sections, you would loose in seven chapters.
Udo and the music
It is the engine in his life. And his purpose weapon. As a child he showed a keen sense of rhythm and drummed on gasoline barrels. He was one of the best German jazz drummer and played in bands such as The City Preachers, Free Orbit (with Peter Herbolzheimer), Emergency, Niagara and in Klaus Doldinger’s legendary jazz rock formation Passport, with he recorded the theme song for the “crime scene”.
his actual solo career began in the early 1970s with his Panikorchester, for which he initially did not find a singer. That was his luck, for now he had to work himself. The first album “Andrea Doria” was a success – and a star Udo
he has produced 35 albums
Meanwhile, his penultimate “Strong as two” first reached # 1 on the German charts.. Since April 29 is his latest album “Stronger than the time” in the trade. And next week begins on May 24, his “Do not panic! Tour 2016 “with a concert at the Olympic Hall in Munich.
Udo and the Art
Udo Lindenberg is certainly not only an entertainment musician. His lyrics are aptly and original. “Image” he said, “I’ll get my people I meet so in the smokers’ lounge in the hotel or the diner on the corner. Talk to them about the texts, see if the belt that. This is supposed to come across as wide sport excessively, the world is already encrypted enough, as the text must be clear. “
The writer Benjamin von Stuckrad-Barre, one of the closest friends, considers him” the greatest post-war German poets ” – a praise which is confirmed by a number of literary awards. 2007 he got Lindenberg, Carl Zuckmayer Medal, 2010, Jacob Grimm Prize
In addition, has Udo Lindenberg -. Incidentally, the author of the musical “Beyond the horizon”, which until today in Berlin Theater am Potsdamer Platz have seen more than two million people – successfully operated as a painter. His series of paintings “The 10 Commandments” was issued in Hamburg St. Jacobi Church. Other works of the “prostitute of St. Pauli”, as he calls himself, are located in the Federal Chancellery and the Bonn House of History.
His style, a mixture of cartoon and caricature, he has been patented , In the colors it can incorporate some alcohol, the works he calls then “Likörelle”. “It paints through me. I sit in front of the white paper, watch and marvel at what emerges there – got a lot kesse Jokerei and visions for tomorrow. The painting has the people forward accompany such a good song … pictures should be fun until the hat flies away. Then an eggnog -. Quickly it becomes a Likörell “
Also Udos older brother Erich Lindenberg (1938-2006) was a painter and taught intermittently at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich as a lecturer. The brothers have 70 pictures created together. In 2006, she opened in Cottbus the exhibition “The unequal brothers”.
Udo and Policy
Lindenberg has known early on to social democracy. The proximity to the SPD, he demonstrated with an appearance at a birthday party of former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder. became famous his musical call “special train to Pankow”, as he wished an appearance in East Berlin from the GDR leadership. In fact, he was allowed after long discussions in the Politburo in October 1983 playing all 15 minutes in the Palace of the Republic -. Under the supervision of numerous Stasi agents
In 1987, the former GDR State Council Chairman Erich Honecker visited the Federal Republic, gave him Lindenberg a leather jacket and a guitar with the inscription “guitars instead creaking”, in return he received from Honecker a shawm. For his efforts in understanding between East and West In 1989 he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit.
Lindenberg today committed to the Africa aid and projects against neo-Nazism, 2000, he founded “Rock against right-wing violence”. His Udo Lindenberg Foundation’s culture politically active, promotes young bands with German lyrics by competitions and directed the Hermann-Hesse-Festival from.
Udo and women
He often and intensely sung about love, but who were devoted to these songs, about the singer is silent politeness. After all, he told me that he was sharp end of the 1970s to Romy Haag. The had a nightclub in Berlin and was with David Bowie. Actually called the travesty artist Eduard Frans Verbaarschott, and Lindenberg said about the alleged love triangle of “Bild am Sonntag”: “In silence the Gentleman. David Bowie and I, we say so, met a friendly arrangement. “
In the 1980s, he had an affair with the pop star Nena. Even one that he kept. Later both the press told that their love had been a “great fun”. Nena: “I dressed up again and again when I was with Udo. Time as a harem girl, sometimes I hid in the trunk. “After a year was again closing.
Shrouded in mystery was Lindesbergs relationship with his private secretary and traveling companion Gabi flash, and 1986 with 33 on a cocktail of alcohol drug died. He dedicated her ballad “Beyond the horizon”. It says: “You and me / that was simply unbeatable / a pair like thunder and lightning / two as we / can never lose you to”
The song from “Girl from East Berlin” (. 1973) should also have a real background. This woman Lindenberg have even an illegitimate son. “He’s a twentysomething, in the 20s,” he years ago “Bunte” said.
For nearly 20 years he has been with the photographer Tine Acke (39) dating. It is regarded as his closest adviser. Udo Lindenberg in an interview with the “Berliner Kurier”: “There are already arisen sellers because it has brought me from the trash songs. That was with ‘I do my thing’ like that. She has a hit-nose, is a great privy councilor. “
Udo and alcohol
He has accompanied him throughout most of the career. At 13 he had his first drunken. After his one-year musician Intermezzo on a US airbase in Libya (1963-64), he had (Westphalia) in therapeutic treatment age of 17 in his hometown of Gronau. The time in the army – Gunner in a rocket artillery unit in Wesel – made it no better. In retrospect, Udo says, “I had only residual blood in alcohol.”
In 1989 he suffered a heart attack, but he continued drinking. With 50 he was an alcoholic, at 55 you gave him with 4.7 per thousand a hospital. But only to 2006 his brother, the painter Erich Lindenberg, died at 67, the rocker remembered. No more alcohol. I wanted to serve the Rock’n’Roll again on the big stages: 300 meter catwalk for the trolley. Have me detoxifies! “
Udo and the coal
Udo Lindenberg has no lock and no yacht. The former busboy at the Breidenbacher Hof in Dusseldorf, the first house on the square, living for decades in the Atlantic Hotel in Hamburg. Since 2012, he has an apartment on Potsdamer Platz in Berlin. It affords a black Porsche 911 Turbo and good Cuban cigars. His personal fortune is vermoegen.org estimated at 30 million euros from the portal
Udo and death
He has witnessed how narrowly it was sometimes. “What I have my body everything done , But just as it had to be just. Was not different. The voice is only now fully matured thanks drinks and cigars. If there really was once closely, me a secret force has pulled at the last minute out of danger “
An encounter he sings in his new album:”. I sit at the bar, with NEM Drink and flexi Cigar because sneaks in the grim reaper makes me stupid from the side. “now it is not, my friend, Udo mumbles casually. “Nah, prefer to go again to the houses, drinking a. And come in 30 years. “After that one to talk about it. Finally the Lord Lindenberg has its own obituary already written and set to music: “When the nightingale tune, goes all over Germany heavily disguised, to mourn, to weep, in black cloth and linen.” In
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