Luci van Org

Luci van Org
Luci van Org in 2009
Born
Ina Lucia Korch

(1971-09-01) 1 September 1971 (age 53)
Berlin, West Germany
Other names
  • Ina Lucia Hildebrand
  • Eena
Occupations
  • Musician
  • writer
  • actress
Years active1987–present
SpouseAxel Hildebrand [de]
Musical career
Genres
Member of
Formerly of

Ina Lucia Hildebrand (born 1 September 1971), known professionally as Luci van Org, is a German musician and writer. She is best known as the singer of the group Lucilectric, whose song "Mädchen" was a hit in Germany in 1994. Since then, she has written music for other artists and her own projects Das Haus von Luci, Üebermutter, Meystersinger and Lucina Soteira, which span over multiple genres. She has written and acted in films and television series and is the author of several novels inspired by Germanic mythology.

Early life

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Ina Lucia Korch was born in Berlin's Tempelhof district on 1 September 1971.[1][2] Her parents were the sculptor and graphic artist Claus Korch [de] and the painter Katharina Korch.[3] She grew up listening to punk, industrial and gothic music and founded her first band when she was 13.[4][5] At the age of 15 she played in a new wave punk band.[4]

Music career

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Korch's first contact with the music industry happened when she was 15 and Anke Wendland, a former backing vocalist for Falco, heard her at an open mic performance and hired her as backing singer for Wendland's debut solo album.[5] Shortly after her 16th birthday, Korch signed a contract with Hansa Musik Produktion and began to release disco house under the stage name Eena.[4][5] Under this name, she released the singles "18 – so what!" and "Gates of Eden". The latter was used in the film Go Trabi Go (1991).[6] In retrospect, she regretted not having opposed the genre the company chose for her.[4]

Under the name Luci van Org, which she has kept using throughout her career, she went on to form the band Lucilectric with Ralf Goldkind [de], who came from the milieu around the band Einstürzende Neubauten.[4] Lucilectric had a mainstream hit with the song "Mädchen" (lit. 'Girl'), which was released in 1993 and reached second place in the German single chart in 1994. With its playful theme of independence and sexuality, it became an anthem for Germany's Girlie movement, which has been compared to the girly girl, girl power and riot grrrl concepts of the English-speaking world.[5][7] It has remained what Org is best known for.[5] Another Lucilectric song, "Hey Süßer" (lit. 'Hey sweetie'), also charted in 1994, and the same year the band released its debut album Mädchen. Lucilectric released two more albums—Süß und Gemein (1996, lit. 'Sweet and Mean') and Tiefer (1997, lit. 'Deeper')—before disbanding in 1999. Org said the first album turned out the way the members wanted, but the following albums were "catastrophic" due to compromises, which made her regard artistic freedom as something sacred for her future projects.[4]

Org continued to perform her own music, releasing the solo single "Waterfalls" in 1999, and wrote for other artists including Nena, Nina Hagen, Eisblume, Terrorgruppe and Panda [de].[5] Her next band, Das Haus von Luci, had its basis in pop music but moved between genres, labelling itself a "Latin–disco–pop–country crossover".[8] It released two albums, Der verbotene Raum (2003, lit. 'The Forbidden Space') and Der Tod wohnt nebenan (2006, lit. 'Death Lives Next Door').[5]

Org with Üebermutter at Wave-Gotik-Treffen 2017

In 2006, Org formed the Neue Deutsche Härte band Üebermutter which released its debut album Unheil! through Roadrunner Records in 2008.[2] Üebermutter is characterised by a satirical use of militaristic and totalitarian aesthetics.[4][9] It was described by Die Tageszeitung as a "fetish metal project" with "feminist-agitational lyrics".[10]

In 2010, Org created the electropop duo Meystersinger together with Roman Shamov [de]. It has released three albums: Trost (2012, lit. 'Consolation'), Haifischweide (2014, lit. 'Shark Pasture') and Frieden (2017, lit. 'Peace').[6] In 2020 she launched the solo project Lucina Soteira.[11] Org is featured on Yaenniver [de]'s 2022 single "Mädchen, Mädchen", which references Lucilectric's "Mädchen".[12]

Other works

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Org co-wrote the film Lollipop Monster.

For several years, Org had her own radio programmes on the Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg station Fritz [de]. She has acted in German films and television series, including the 2002 drama film Führer Ex.[1] She debuted as a screenwriter for the television series Notruf Hafenkante in 2007[5] and has written for ARD television series including In aller Freundschaft and WaPo Bodensee [de].[13] She co-wrote the feature films Lollipop Monster [de] (2011) and Electric Girl [de] (2019), both directed by Ziska Riemann [de].[5]

Org has been a columnist for the Berliner Morgenpost.[5] She debuted as a fiction writer with a short story in the 2002 anthology Taxigeschichten (lit. 'Taxi Stories') and published her ghost story collection Der Tod wohnt nebenan in 2006, together with Das Haus von Luci's album of the same name.[5] She wrote the play Die 7 Todsünden oder die Hochzeit der Wetterfee (lit. 'The 7 Deadly Sins or the Weather Fairy's Wedding') which premiered at Berlin's Theater am Kurfürstendamm [de] in 2006.[5] She has written several novels inspired by folklore and stories about Germanic gods.[13][14] These include the horror story Frau Hölle (lit. 'Lady Hölle') from 2013 and the comedic and feminist Vagina dentata (lit. 'Toothed Vagina') from 2019.[14][15] Her 2015 novel Schneewittchen und die Kunst des Tötens (lit. 'Snow White and the Art of Killing') is about BDSM, something she has been involved in "on and off".[16] With this book, she wanted to change the public image of the sex-fetish scene created by works such as Fifty Shades of Grey, which she says portrays abuse and mentally broken people rather than "real BDSM".[16] In 2023 she published the autobiographical novel Wir Fünf und ich und die Toten (lit. 'We Five and Me and the Dead'), which is inspired by her childhood.[17]

Personal life

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Org married the filmmaker Axel Hildebrand [de] in 2001. The wedding was held in a fetish club.[14] They live in Berlin and have one son. Her legal name is Ina Lucia Hildebrand.[13] She describes herself as bisexual and supports a form of feminism where all tasks should be split evenly between men and women.[4][14] She became a pagan in 2006 and is responsible for the Berlin South-West section of the Germanic neopagan organisation Eldaring.[14][18]

Selected discography

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Year Project Title Format Label Ref.
1990 Eena "Gates of Eden" Single Hansa Musik Produktion [5]
1993 Lucilectric "Mädchen" Single BMG Ariola [19]
1994 Lucilectric Mädchen Album BMG Ariola [20]
1996 Lucilectric Süß und Gemein Album BMG Ariola [21]
1997 Lucilectric Tiefer Album EMI-Electrola [22]
1999 Luci van Org "Waterfalls" Single Virtual Volume [23]
2003 Das Haus von Luci Der verbotene Raum Album [5]
2006 Das Haus von Luci Der Tod wohnt nebenan Album [5]
2008 Üebermutter Unheil! Album Roadrunner Records [2]
2012 Meystersinger Trost Album [6]
2014 Meystersinger Haifischweide Album [6]
2017 Meystersinger Frieden Album [6]

Selected filmography

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Year Title Format Function Ref.
1996 Liane [de] TV film Role: Marion Michael
1999 Latin Lover TV film Role: Evi
2002 Führer Ex Film Role: Elisabeth [24]
2007 Notruf Hafenkante TV series Writer [5]
2007–2010 In aller Freundschaft TV series Writer [13]
2011 Lollipop Monster [de] Film Role: art teacher; writer [24]
2019 Electric Girl [de] Film Writer [24]
2017–2019 WaPo Bodensee [de] TV series Writer [13]

Selected bibliography

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Year Title Format Publisher ISBN Ref.
2006 Die 7 Todsünden oder die Hochzeit der Wetterfee Play — — [5]
2006 Der Tod wohnt nebenan. Spukgeschichten aus der großen Stadt Short stories Parthas [de] ISBN 978-3-86601-599-9 [25]
2013 Frau Hölle. Ragnarök' deine Mudda! Novel U-Books ISBN 978-3-939239-82-6 [26]
2015 Schneewittchen und die Kunst des Tötens. Spieglein, Spieglein an der Wand, welches ist das fesselndste Märchen im ganzen Land? Novel Salax ISBN 978-3-944154-33-6 [27]
2019 Vagina dentata Novel Edition Roter Drache ISBN 978-3-946425-64-9 [28]
2023 Wir Fünf und ich und die Toten Novel Edition Outbird ISBN 978-3-948887-51-3 [29]

References

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  1. ^ a b Tholl, Gregor (12 April 2008). "'Mädchen' Luci van Org mag's jetzt rockig". Mitteldeutsche Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 14 February 2023.
  2. ^ a b c "Üebermutter" (in German). Laut.de. Retrieved 14 February 2023.
  3. ^ Wienecke, Rudi-Michael (10 June 2014). "Die Korchs kamen mit Stillleben aus Stein und auf Leinwand". Volksstimme (in German). Retrieved 14 February 2023.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h Florian (8 April 2008). "Üebermutter: Interview mit Sängerin Luci van Org" (in German). Metal.de. Retrieved 14 February 2023.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q Fowler, Jessica (27 January 2022). "28 Jahre nach 'Mädchen': Was wurde eigentlich aus… Lucilectric?". Musikexpress (in German). Retrieved 14 February 2023.
  6. ^ a b c d e Schmidt, Peter (24 August 2017). "Was macht eigentlich... ... Luci van Org?". Forum – Das Wochenmagazin (in German). Retrieved 14 February 2023.
  7. ^ Kauer, Katja (2009). Popfeminismus! Fragezeichen! Eine Einführung. Kulturwissenschaften (in German). Vol. 7. Berlin: Frank & Timme [de]. pp. 20–22. ISBN 978-3-86596-245-4.
  8. ^ Heymann, Nina (15 December 2002). "Das Haus von Luci van Org". Berliner Morgenpost (in German). Retrieved 14 February 2023.
  9. ^ Kopanski, Reinhard (2022). Bezugnahmen auf den Nationalsozialismus in der populären Musik: Lesarten zu Laibach, Death in June, Feindflug, Rammstein und Marduk. Populäre Kultur und Musik (in German). Vol. 35. Münster: Waxmann Verlag. pp. 291–292, 307. ISBN 978-3-8309-4252-8.
  10. ^ Kedves, Jan (19 February 2007). "Autos, Alk, Antiaids". Die Tageszeitung (in German). p. 23. Retrieved 14 February 2023.
  11. ^ Linder, Armin T. (12 January 2021). "Lucilectric-Sängerin: Comeback! So sieht der 90s-Star inzwischen aus: Neue Bilder". Tz (in German). Retrieved 14 February 2023.
  12. ^ "Yaenniver: 'Mädchen, Mädchen' feat. Luci Van Org" (in German). Laut.de. 28 January 2022. Retrieved 14 February 2023.
  13. ^ a b c d e "'Weil ich ein Mädchen bin': Das macht Lucilectric-Sängerin Luci van Org heute" (in German). RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland. 5 February 2022. Retrieved 14 February 2023.
  14. ^ a b c d e Brier, Ronja (12 August 2013). "Luci van Org ('Lucilectric') über ihr wildes Leben: 'Ich will, dass es knallt'". Bild (in German). Retrieved 14 February 2023.
  15. ^ "Bestseller-Autorin und Sängerin Luci van Org". Saarbrücker Zeitung (in German). 12 February 2020. Retrieved 14 February 2023.
  16. ^ a b Würzbach, Nele (9 September 2015). "Luci van Org: SM und Blümchen-Sex sind genau das Gleiche". B.Z. (in German). Retrieved 14 February 2023.
  17. ^ Cossham, Lisa Frieda (16 March 2024). "'Weil ich ein Määädchen bin' – Sängerin Luci van Org über ihre brutale Kindheit und ihren Weg auf die Bühne". Stern (in German). Retrieved 1 June 2024.
  18. ^ "Herde und Stammtische" (in German). Eldaring. Retrieved 14 February 2023.
  19. ^ "Mädchen / Nur wer im Heute lebt". Katalog der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek (in German). German National Library. 1993. Retrieved 20 February 2023.
  20. ^ "Mädchen". Katalog der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek (in German). German National Library. 1994. Retrieved 20 February 2023.
  21. ^ "Süss und gemein". Katalog der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek (in German). German National Library. 1996. Retrieved 20 February 2023.
  22. ^ "Tiefer". Katalog der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek (in German). German National Library. 1997. Retrieved 20 February 2023.
  23. ^ "Waterfalls". Katalog der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek (in German). German National Library. Retrieved 20 February 2023.
  24. ^ a b c "Luci van Org" (in German). filmportal.de. Retrieved 20 February 2023.
  25. ^ Der Tod wohnt nebenan : Spukgeschichten aus der großen Stadt ; Buch + CD / Luci van Org (in German). German National Library. 2006. ISBN 978-3-86601-599-9. Retrieved 22 February 2023. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
  26. ^ Frau Hölle : Ragnarök' Deine Mudda! / Luci van Org (in German). German National Library. October 2015. ISBN 978-3-944154-33-6. Retrieved 20 February 2023. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
  27. ^ Schneewittchen und die Kunst des Tötens : Spieglein, Spieglein an der Wand, welches ist das fesselndste Märchen im ganzen Land? / Luci van Org (in German). German National Library. July 2013. ISBN 978-3-939239-82-6. Retrieved 20 February 2023. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
  28. ^ Vagina dentata / Luci van Org (in German). German National Library. 2019. ISBN 978-3-946425-64-9. Retrieved 20 February 2023. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
  29. ^ Wir fünf und ich und die Toten : eine Novelle für alle von schlechten Eltern - und die sie überlebt haben / Luci van Org (in German). German National Library. 2023. ISBN 978-3-948887-51-3. Retrieved 1 June 2024. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
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