After an artistic break, Ramon Bessel (46) returns to the stage.
On Friday, November 26th, he will play a concert in Ismaning.
Ismaning
- Dreamy wandering with a bit of melancholy, depth and bittersweet humor, all of this can be found in the songs of Ramon Bessel (46), who has lived in Ismaning for some time and is giving a concert here this Friday.
When he looked at the attic apartment with a view of the blue-colored silo for the first time, the feeling arose of standing on board a steamer with a chimney.
Ramon Bessel also wrote a song about the overheated housing market in Munich.
In reality, the Bessel family found accommodation in a small part of a former farm in Ismaning.
The studio was originally designed as a kitchen, but then the grand piano made it into the small room as if by magic.
Here the cat Nora sporadically roams by, who, like the instrument, is completely black.
A life full of music
The Ismaninger's life has been filled with music for as long as he can remember. The parents took care of the singing, the father among other things in choirs at the Tegernsee. Singing was just part of it. The father wanted to give his children the chance to learn an instrument, and in fifth grade the young Ramon was already singing the flute in the school orchestra, back then in the Tegernsee high school. The director of the orchestra: Rudolf Maier-Kleeblatt, who is now director of the Free State Theater of Bavaria. Bessel: “He was strict, but we also achieved something.” There were excursions to lonely villas in northern Italy. They rehearsed for eight hours, simple orchestral pieces, for example musicals. Offenbach's barcarole had to be seated, and at the end you were allowed to pack the flute.In the evenings, the young ensemble members played a little football. “Free time was slicing Parmesan cheese for everyone.” The young musician's choir work ran parallel, and he was already singing the Struwwelpeter cantata in elementary school. The curly hair matched the role perfectly: "The mane was still complete back then."
Here the music mixed with the drama, which the 46-year-old is still drawn to today. For him, the great thing about the 80s and 90s was that a subculture of bands was alive in the Tegernsee valley. Small festivals sprang up in the summer in some field near Tölz. Or: Between Weyarn and Miesbach there was a valley basin somewhere in the middle of nowhere where someone would put a stage because he knew the farmer well. That was enough for three days of permanent festival. The teenager could choose whether he wanted to start a band or join a formation. Renowned bands such as the Banana Fishbones also come from this atmosphere. “I knew her as a spectator and admirer.” It was clear to him that he wanted to go there. The practice took place in a boiler room in Rottach-Egern.His first grooves and beats are still associated with the smell of heating oil. The aim was to get an appearance at the carnival in the parish hall. Cover songs were taboo, you only played your own. Ornate rock music, for example. The whole area of popular music was Wild West, you couldn't study that at that time. During his high school years, the talented musician noticed that school was holding him back from his own vocation: music combined with drama, theater and the stage.that the school keeps him from his own vocation: music in combination with drama, theater and stage.that the school keeps him from his own vocation: music in combination with drama, theater and stage.
Study with the pianist from Roberto Blanco
Therefore, he turned his attention to the promotion.
Victor Savant, Roberto Blanco's pianist, was his most important piano teacher in the years that followed.
After his community service he wanted to expand his piano playing.
The first call said that Savant had no time for another student and had no nerves either.
But a recorded record, on which Bessel played along, persuaded him to accept in the end.
“I soaked up the class like a dry sponge.
We played Debussy, Beethoven but also modern masters like Bartok.
For me it was like discovering America. "
Savant understood his student's pop-rock background, but insisted, now we're really making music.
According to his wisdom: "Rock music is burning gasoline without an engine." His pupil is still infinitely grateful to him for his help.
After graduating in music education and later at the music academy in Munich, he began playing in a Munich private theater, the summer theater at the English Garden.
For many years, comedies were consistently given, into which musical couplets were woven.
They were very popular at open airs.
This became a guest company with 60 to 70 appearances across Germany.
As Artistic Director August Everding used to say: "We have inspired the text."
The Zero Hour
But then came zero hour. Ramon Bessel experienced a life change six years ago. He gave up his main artistic project, packed his things and moved to Tegernsee, his sister's unrenovated house, for a year. She was unable to move in at the time because she was in Macau. “At first I didn't plan to make the stage.” The artist was no longer able to interpret, arrange and execute the works of others. It felt wrong. Instead, he read books, the Russian classics, and had an experience on an autumn walk on Lake Tegernsee. The sun rose over the Wallberg and seemed to enter the lines of the text of the first song. So Bessel picked up a piece of paper and enjoyed the freedom to go to work without a scheme.With the first three songs he applied briskly for the German Chanson Prize and promptly took fourth place. Being ennobled as a result, I had the necessary ounce of self-confidence to set up my own stage program.
The “songs to hold onto” are currently being performed. They come from a time when the composer really had to hold on to them mentally. They gave him direction. In addition, hopefully you really have to hold on from time to time while listening, as they contain amazing things. “The songs were all created on the basis of the total loss of future planning and the reality of life. Once everything is set to zero. "
The result will be seen by viewers
on Friday, November 26th at 8 p.m. on YouTube in the black box concert
streamed from the basement of the VHS Ismaning.
With several cameras and one picture control room.
The stream can be found on Youtube under the name of the artist.
It is also played in front of a small audience with the necessary 2G plus rule.
Masks on site are required.
You can find more news from Ismaning and the district of Munich here.