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Piatkowski & Rieck
Joachim Piatkowski, born in 1954, and Wolfgang Rieck, born in 1953, founded the duo Piatkowski & Rieck in Rostock in autumn 1975. Both had been musically trained at the Rostock Conservatory and had met at the KuBa Singing Club in Rostock. At first they worked out programs with German and international songs. Inspired by records by Helmut Debus, they began to play songs in Low German in 1977. At first these were primarily traditional songs, but soon also their own settings of dialect poetry.
In 1979, Piatkowski & Rieck won the main prize of the Minister of Culture at the
In 1982 they became freelance and in 1983 their first record 'Plattdeutsche Lieder' was released by Amiga. In 1985 both received the cultural award of their hometown Rostock and for the first time had the opportunity to go on a concert tour to Germany. In 1987 they were awarded the Bad-Bevensen-Prize (Lower Saxony) for special interpretation in the field of Lower German songs. Her second LP 'Utkiek' with Low German songs was released.
Joachim Piatkowski quit making music in 1993, because he
to concentrate entirely on his medical profession. From 1992 to 2001 Wolfgang Rieck was '4th third' in the Hamburg trio Liederjan. Since 2001 Rieck has mainly been working as a soloist, doing concert programmes for children and adults, readings and seminars.
www.wolfgang-rieck.de
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Various - songwriter in Germany
Vol.2, For whom we sing (3-CD)
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