Martin Klingeberg
Martin Klingeberg
Trumpet, tenorhorn, vocals, composition
Born 1961 in Braunschweig, West-Germany, as the seventh child of the Seventh-Day–Adventist preacher Johannes Klingeberg and his wife Helene. Early musical education, flute-, piano- and guitarlessons, trumpet since 1973.
1981 Baccalaureat, then civilservice at the Red Cross, followed by the education as a carpenter, short studies in pedagogics at the university.
1986 musicstudent at the „Hermann-Zilcher-Conservatory“, first classical music and pedagogics , later jazz.
1992 successful final examination.
1988-1996 co-owner of a club and a beergarden in Würzburg/Germany, besides numerous musical activities („D-I-Project, „Swim-Two-Birds“, „Seven Minds“ „Collaborators“ and more).Work as a teacher of a private jazzschool.
,1996 move to Berlin, working as a teacher and as a free musician in numerous projects from soloperformances up to bigbandwork, several works for television and film and as a studiomusician.
1998 teacher at the „Jazz-School-Berlin“.
2000 two theatreproductions at the „Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz“, “Herr Kolpert” and “Supermarket”, directed by Thomas Ostermeier, another theatre coproduction in Basel and Frankfurt, “Helden des 20. Jahrhunderts”, and
2003 engagement at the „Berliner Ensemble“, a production with Robert Wilson and Herbert Grönemeyer. In 2005 another production at the Schaubühne Berlin, „Die Dummheit“ by Rafael Spregelburd ( working as composer, bassplayer and singer) and another production with Robert Wilson, Shakespeare`s „Wintermärchen“.
2007 the next work with Robert Wilson,the „THREE PENNY OPERA“,
which played in Berlin,Poland, Norway, Paris, Tel Aviv, Amsterdam, New York, Hongkong, Perth and so on.
2012 „DANTONS DEATH“ (Georg Büchner), directed by Claus Peymann, work as musical director, composer and musician.
2013 Composer and Musician (tenorhorn, guitar, vocals, slide-guitar) for “Hans im Glück”, written by Berthold Brecht, under direction of Sebastian Sommer, at the Berliner Ensemble.
August 2014 first appearance ever as an actor, playing Bela Lugosi and Donald McCoy in the theatreadaptation of the film “Ed Wood” by Tim Burton, besides playing trumpet and singing.
Short after that Peter Miklusz, who also directed the theatre piece, hired me for his short film “Maulwurfkuchen”.
In February 2016 Premiere of
“VICTOR oder DIE KINDER AN DER MACHT” under direction of Nicolas Charaux, where I played on stage, composed all the music and created the sounddesign (with ableton live).2017 I worked with Philip Tiedemann for his piece “Herzstück” as composer, musical director and musician.
In spring 2018 I returned to the “Schaubühne” for “Italienische Nacht” (Horvath), directed by Thomas Ostermeier.
In August 2018 I worked on “Der Gute Mensch von Sezuan” at the Potsdam Theatre, directed by Malte Kreutzfeldt, as musical director, composer and musician.
Actual theatre work is “Brechts Gespenster” at the Berliner Ensemble, premiere 2022-09-21, with Suse Wächter and Matthias Trippner.
March 2023 premiere of “Das Fest”, an adaptation of the dogma film for theater at the Hans-Otto-Theater Potsdam, directed by Bettina Jahnke, where I am musical director and musician and composed the music for a quartet.
Actual collaboration with Oderbruch Museum Altranft “Tagpfauenauge im Februar”, a text- and sound installation with Kay Dietrich.
Lots of bandprojects :„Shank“,„TheBOOst“,„BABY BONK“,„BenBecker und die ZERO TOLERANCE BAND“,„NasserKilada`s Groove of the Nile“,„NADA“ (Vokalprojekt),„SevenMinds“,„MUSIKA“ „The Pachinko Fake“,„Swim-Two-Birds“,„Materia“,„Andy Winter Band“,„Jazzclub2000“,„TAAL TANTRA“,„TANGOCRASH“,“RANIN“, „EBO TAYLOR AND AFROBEAT ACADEMY“,“UliGumpertWorkshopband“, “C.v.d.Goltz and Friends” ,”ALPHA ALPHA” , “phonON 3” and others.
Recent project is my pocket brass band PHON-O-RAMA, with Johannes Lauer on trombone, Martial Frenzel on drums and Orlando de Boeykens on tuba, recordings have been made and will be mixed and released soon.
Tours and Festivals in Brasil, India, Poland,France, Argentina, Italy, Austria, Greece, Belgium, Norway, Israel, Marocco, USA, China, Russia, Netherlands, Switzerland, Germany, Turkey and so on…..
Worked with John Tchicai, Conny Bauer, Uwe Kropinski, Rudi Mahall, Jan Roder, Uschi Brüning, Baby Sommer, Andreas Willers, John Schröder, Martin Zenker, Uli Gumpert, Potsch Potschka (Spliff), Jean Louis Rassinfosse (10 years the bassplayer of Chet Baker),Tanmoy Bose(Tablaplayer of Ravi Shankar), Kalle Kalima and many others.
Discographie:
1990: „Landesjugendjazzorchester Bayern“, „You better know it“, bei Balance-Music
1991: „Swim-Two-Birds“, „Not Serious“ bei STB-Records
1991: „Ron Spielman Band“, „Skin and Wire“, bei Powersound- Records
1991: „Roberto Magris and the D-I-Project“, „Music of Today“ (Italien)
1992: „Swim Two Birds“, „Apsion“ bei Call-It-Anything (VeraBra Records)
1993: „Eugen de Ryck and the Funkomatic Hippies“, „Take You Higher“ bei Schneeballrec.
1994: „Dharma Drums“, „Kumquat Combat“, bei Strangeways
1994: „Swim Two Birds“, „The Bloody Thumb Cookbook“, bei Call-It-anything
1994: „Ron Spielman Band“, „Solution“, bei PowersoundRecords
1998: „Torsten Zwingenberger“, „Drivin`you crazy“, bei RecyclingRec
1999: „Seven Minds“, „BONK“, bei RecyclingRec,
1999: „Potsch Potschka“, „Sahara“, bei BSC-Music
1999: Udo Jürgens, bei Ariola
2000: „Dead Bodies in the Box“, „Kolpert“ (Soundtrack zum gleichnamigen Theaterstück)
2001: „Ben Becker und die Zero Tolerance Band“, „Wir heben ab“, bei BMG
2001: „Shank“, „Soundtrack“, bei United-One-Records
2001: „Nada“, „Panta Rei“, bei NaxosRecords
2002: „Andy Winter Group“, „Delicate Move“ (feat. Hiram Bullock), bei ZYXmusic
2002: „Nasser Kilada“, „Samah“, bei BSCmusic
2003: „Wir sind Helden“, „Aurelie“ (Single), bei ReklamationRecords
2003: „Cosmic Dogs“, „Contact“ (Schweiz)
2004: „Taaltantra“ (Indien)
2004: „Shank“, „DO“ produziert von Burnt Friedmann, bei Nonplace Records
2005: „Baby Bonk….sagt die Wahrheit“, bei Konnex Records
2005: „Wir sind Helden“, „Von Hier An Blind“ bei Reklamation Records
2008: „UBU REX SAXONIA“ Hörspiel mit Musik von „BABY BONK“,
Hörspieledition Words and Music,
2008: „ULRICH GUMPERT WORKSHOPBAND“, „SUITES“, BEI JAZZWERKSTATT
2008: BABY BONK, „MAMA“, bei NRW-Records
2010: GEEZER, “Deepwater Blackout”, bei Souls United
2012: TANGO CRASH , „ACCIDENTE DE TANGO“, bei Galileo
2012: BLOFISH , bei Laika
2014: Ranin
2014: Ulrich Gumpert Workshop Band plays Mingus
2015: K.I.Z. (Goldene CD)
2016: CvdG Projekt, “Paradise”, bei Trouble In The East Records
2017: phonON 3 “CYBORG”
2020: Brüning und Betancor, ICH MEIN DICH, bei Kurtmusik
2023: CvdG Projekt “Limbo”
