Uli Führe - An Unexpected Reunion

Through musical settings of his own songs, Uli Führe brings new immediacy to the poems of Johann Peter Hebel. Hebel was a man of sensuality. His verses about drunkards and ever-contented tobacco smokers testify to an almost un-Protestant joy of life. He wrote against superstition and for tolerance. He conveyed his observations of nature - the beetle, the spider - with such vividness that even Goethe was deeply moved by his poems.

Führe interspersed his readings with illuminating passages from letters that offer glimpses into everyday life between 1800 and 1826.

Texts like The Wayfarer or The Man in the Moon reveal more the side of the admonishing preacher in his work. With solace and contentment, he created two compact poems that, in their finished grandeur, testify to the highest poetry.

And it is a reunion with the calendar stories that were still represented in many schoolbooks not long ago. These stories, through their linguistic precision, became a stylistic model for many renowned authors.

Hebel was an enlightener, theologian, natural scientist, politician, and poet.

Uli Führe, born in 1957 in Lörrach, studied music and lives as a musician, composer, and Alemannic poet in Buchenbach. Numerous publications including Muul uf, Dank Hebel, Himmel us Stei, D'Fledermuus, D'Staumacher, Ikarus, Himmel us Stei.

Führe has received many awards, including the Annual Prize of German Record Critics for his Alemannic dialect CD Ikarus based on texts by M.M. Jung, the Baden-Württemberg Small Arts Prize, and most recently the Hebel Plaque from the municipality of Hausen and the Alemannen Ring in Lörrach.