Schorsch Kamerun

Schorsch Kamerun (* 1963 in Timmendorfer beach; actually Thomas Sehl ) is a German singer, writer, theater director and club owners. His stage name is a parody of the naming of the singer of the ( dissolved 1986), American punk band Dead Kennedys, Jello Biafra of the calls himself.

Life and work

Schorsch Kamerun has lived since the early 1980s in Hamburg, now also in Munich. He was a founding member in 1984 and is still lead singer of the punk band Hamburger Golden lemons. In addition, he has also released solo albums. Together with Rocko Schamoni he also operates the Golden Poodle Club in Hamburg. The mid-nineties they had in common the television series poodle Overnight on 3Sat ( was modified in the winter of 2001 continued ). In the winter semester 2010/11 he is a visiting professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich.

Theater

For several years he has also worked as a theater director and author. So he directed, among others, dignity eat his piece of power at the Schauspielhaus Zurich (premiered May 22, 2003 ), which concerned about the increasing right-wing populism in Switzerland, and Hubert Fichte's novel The range at the Hamburg Schauspielhaus (2000), and ice city in the Volksbühne in Berlin ( 2005).

Beginning of 2006, his so-called orientation operetta The Chinese in a cot at the Lower Saxony state theaters Hanover ( Ballhof one) premiered. In the season 06/ 07 Schorsch Kamerun has the power and Rebel piece based on the novel by the Norwegian author Matias Faldbakken at the Munich games premiered chamber. Since January 2008, the piece is The Cold Heart listed (after the fairy tale by Wilhelm Hauff ) in Hanover. As a central production in the Ruhr Triennale in 2008 staged Schorsch Kamerun the elaborate theater experiment westward with 150 extras in the machine hall Zeche Zweckel in Gladbeck.

His play M. S. ADENAUER - had the first anti-authoritarian State Opera on 6 March 2009 in Cologne Theatre premiered in May, he directed the Vienna Festival With all due caution, a verification walk under professional guidance. On 7 July 2009 his production of Leonard Bernstein's Trouble had under the baton of Kent Nagano at the Bavarian State Opera debut in Tahiti. In October 2009, the concert for the Revolution, a music theater for the 90th anniversary of the Munich Soviet Republic was premiered at the Munich Chamber games. 2010 followed his pieces offside trap ( Theater Oberhausen ) and Before the Flood (Thalia Theater Hamburg ). Based on the plays he also wrote several radio plays for the WDR. There he gave his 2003 debut radio play with the piece Hanns Eisler ( 1898-1962 ) - Hollywood Elegies and was nominated for the Prix Italia directly. In 2007 he received an image of man, which in its sum to zero yields the Hörspielpreis the Kriegsblinden for his radio play. In the theater season 2007/2008 he led the Schauspielhaus Zurich directed his project biology of anxiety.

In December 2010, Cameroon launched a series of " invention evenings ", a mix of conversation, concert and performance. The first evening was titled Get me out of here (I'm here in front of the wall) on December 11, 2010 in the arcade of the chamber Games in Munich. In early March 2012, he released his latest project, a " musical theater " search with the title The Disappeared of Altona, in Hamburg's Thalia Theatre on the Bühne.Am October 5, 2012 his concert installation Sender Freies Dusseldorf was premiered at the Düsseldorf Schauspielhaus, in which he deals with modern communication.

Bands / projects

  • The Golden Lemon
  • Motion
  • Baby Man
  • New Year's Boy

Discography

  • Vinyl maxi -single: 1996: People from Kiel ( remixes )

Compilation posts

Radioplay

  • 2003 Hanns Eisler ( 1898-1962 ) - Hollywood Elegies, WDR
  • 2005 ice city, WDR
  • 2006 A human image resulting in its total zero, WDR ( Hörspielpreis the War Blind )
  • 2012 Can not imagine that it goes on, WDR
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