The five musicians who are invited to “Nahaufnahme” each year are former participants of the Treffen junge Musikszene.
The aim of “Nahaufnahme” is to further support the musicians in the development of their artistic identity and awareness, in their authorship and in their leap into professionalism. “Nahaufnahme” is a focussed support format for songwriters conceived by Alexander Riemenschneider and Ulrich Zehfuß.
The selected musicians are already taking their first steps towards professionalisation, impress with their continuous development and also play several gigs and concerts a year.
Loni Elle
Fredi Erdmann
Mali Liv Goldmann
Sophie Heuschkel
Marisa
Ulrich Zehfuß, born in 1973 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein. Lives as a freelance lyricist, author and singer-songwriter in Römerberg near Speyer. He studied literature, history and musicology, has published short stories and audio books as well as seven albums to date with his former band Bunt and under his own name. His story “Aiji, the little samurai, in search of the sun’s sleeping place” was published by Patmos-Verlag in 2012. He is a member of the singer-songwriter family Sago, was a long-standing jury member at the national competition Treffen junge Musikszene in Berlin and is a guest lecturer at the Popakademie Baden-Württemberg. Together with Alexander Riemenschneider, he developed the “Songhenge” workshop method. His solo debut “Dünnes Eis” was voted album of the month by the jury of the German Liederbestenliste 2016. In February 2021, the second solo album “Erntezeit” was released, which once again landed on the Liederbestenliste. Ulrich Zehfuß has been under contract with singer-songwriter Konstantin Wecker’s Sturm & Klang label since 2022.
Julia Geusch aka Marie Diot, born in 1993, is a singer-songwriter and lives near Hamburg. She studied popular music with a focus on songwriting at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media and works as a freelance artist. In 2014, she won a prize at the Treffen junge Musikszene and took part in Nahaufnahme in 2015. In 2017, she released her first album “Pinguin im Tutu – Weiß nicht, ob er Tänzer ist” and in 2020 the follow-up “Apfel im Strudel der ewigen Liebe”, for which she was honoured with sponsorship awards. In addition to her work on stage and in the studio, Julia is a workshop lecturer at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts and co-director of the songwriting school SAGO.