Uli Führe - An Unexpected Reunion

Uli Führe sets poems by Johann Peter Hebel to music, giving them new immediacy. Hebel was a man of sensuality - his verses about a drunkard and an ever-contented tobacco smoker testify to an almost un-Protestant zest for life. He wrote against superstition and for tolerance, and his nature observations (The Beetle, The Spider) were so vivid that even Goethe was deeply impressed.

Between songs, Führe reads illuminating passages from letters that offer a glimpse into everyday life between 1800 and 1826. Texts like The Wayfarer and The Man in the Moon reveal the side of an admonishing preacher; with solace and contentment, Hebel created two compact poems of the highest poetic density. And then there are the calendar stories - until recently featured in many schoolbooks and linguistically formative for numerous renowned authors.

Uli Führe, born in 1957 in Lörrach, works as a musician, composer, and Alemannic song poet in Buchenbach. His publications include, among others, Muul uf, Dank Hebel, Himmel us Stei, D'Fledermuus, D'Staumacher, and Ikarus. He has received, among other honours, the Annual Prize of German Record Critics for the dialect CD Ikarus based on texts by M.M. Jung, the Small Arts Prize of Baden-Württemberg, the Hebel Plaque of the municipality of Hausen, and the Alemannen Ring of the city of Lörrach.