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Sigi Maron
"Slowly / lift it there nebl / slowly / it's like kloa / it hot si nothing changed / it's ollas so wia's woa" (Sigi Maron)
One must be the column saint of the Austrian singer-songwriter scene. Sigi Maron, then. Born in Vienna in 1944 and suffering from polio in 1956, Sigi Maron appeared in more than 1,800 live concerts from 1973 to 1997, most of which he performed solo. His tours took him across Austria, the Federal Republic of Germany and the GDR - among others to the Festival des politischen Liedes in Berlin, he translated songs of the English songwriter and rock musician Kevin Coyne, with whom he also performed - and incidentally he was regarded as a subversive element, which was expressed in the fact that Maron was spy on by the Austrian state police from 1975. After the (health-related) termination of his active musical career in 1997, Sigi Maron received a contract for work at BMG Ariola, which was dissolved with the merger into SonyBMG. Maron in an open farewell letter (addressed to the then Director Finance & Business Planning, Stefan Klimek): "I was allowed to produce twelve albums, yes, I was allowed to, because my songs were not what the music industry wanted to have as part of the capitalist world order. Rebellious, bristly, hard to digest, with the vocabulary of the street and much too direct. [...] Silence in public broadcasting. "Politically hostile and terrorized." Dead silent and hostile - the consequences of his protest actions were not always funny, but at least legendary. Maron: "Just like at the time when I brunzte (brunzen = piss) in front of the Funkhaus, out of solidarity to the songwriter Charly Kriechbaum, who was on hunger strike in Argentinierstraße, because he, like many other critical Austrians, was not even ignored by Ö3. I was arrested and taken to psych ward." What remains are memories. Memories of his songs, which are still as powerful today as they were at the song birth, no matter if De Mizzitant, Da Hausmasta, Heite kann i, heite derf i, He, Taxi, Ballade von ana hoatn Wochn and what they are all called. And again Maron: "I like to remember. To lost and won battles. Interceptors, Arena, Gassergasse, Zwentendorf, Hainburg. On nights full of discussions, alcohol, smoke and sex. In fact, I had sex once, more often actually. Today I am freed from the scourge of potency. That leaves ten fingers and one tongue. That's enough."
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Various - songwriter in Germany
Vol.3, For whom we sing (3-CD)
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