Knut Kiesewetter is a German

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 jazz

Jazz

Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...

 musician, singer, songwriter and producer.

Kiesewetter was born in Stettin (Szczecin)

Szczecin

Szczecin , is the capital city of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship in Poland. It is the country's seventh-largest city and the largest seaport in Poland on the Baltic Sea. As of June 2009 the population was 406,427....

. He began his career in the age of 14, playing trombone and singing. He issued his first single at the age of 19. As a songwriter, his songs were recorded by Gitte Haenning and Eartha Kitt

Eartha Kitt

Eartha Mae Kitt was an American singer, actress, and cabaret star. She was perhaps best known for her highly distinctive singing style and her 1953 hit recordings of "C'est Si Bon" and the enduring Christmas novelty smash "Santa Baby." Orson Welles once called her the "most exciting woman in the...

, among others. As a producer he worked together with Hannes Wader

Hannes Wader

Hannes Wader is a German singer-songwriter . He was an important figure in German leftist circles from the 1970s on, with his songs covering such themes as socialist and communist resistance to oppression in Europe and other places like Latin America...

, Volker Lechtenbrink

Volker Lechtenbrink

Volker Lechtenbrink is a German television actor and singer.Lechtenbrink grew up in Hamburg and Bremen and started his career at the age of 15 acting in the anti-war movie The Bridge by Bernhard Wicki...

, and Fiede Kay. He became very popular throughout the 1970s with his songs in Low German

Low German

Low German or Low Saxon is an Ingvaeonic West Germanic language spoken mainly in northern Germany and the eastern part of the Netherlands...

, such as "Fresenhof" or "De Möhl".

He taught at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg

Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg

The Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg is one of the larger universities of music in Germany.It was founded 1950 as Staatliche Hochschule für Musik on the base of the former private acting school of Annemarie Marks-Rocke and Eduard Marks.Studies include various music types from church music...

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Discography

• 1964: Songs und Balladen (mit Hartmut und Sigrun Kiesewetter)
• 1964: Halleluja - Deutsche Spirituals (Polydor)
• 1968: The Gospel Train
• 1968: Happy Dixie
• 1972: Das darf doch nicht wahr sein (Somerset)
• 1972: Die besten Ostfriesenwitze vertellt vun Knut Kiesewetter
• 1973: Ihr solltet mich nicht vergessen (BASF)
• 1974: Keiner hat mich richtig lieb (Polydor)
• 1976: Leeder vun mien Fresenhof (Polydor)
• 1976: Vom Traum ein großer Mann zu sein
• 1978: Wo büst du ween
• 1980: Jazz Again (Polydor)
• 1982: So sing ich nur für dich
• 1987: Wiehnachtstied op uns Fresenhof
• 1989: Wenn man nicht in ist (BMG Ariola)
• 1991: Morgenlicht (Dino, Knut Kiesewetter und Familie)
• 2005: Wiehnachtstied (4 CD)
• 2007: 50 Years on Stage (4 CD)

External links

• www.knutkiesewetter.de - Official Homepage
• NFR – Nordfriesland Records