Christian Dörge

Biography

Christian Dörge (born July 11th, 1969, Hannover, Germany), a writer and dramatist since the early (19)80s. His first novel 'Phenomena' was published in 1987, followed by 'Opera', a collection of poems, short storys and theatre experiments, published in 1988. Having already formed the ORPHÉE DRAMATIQUES, a theatre company, with his childhood friend Nadine Wenzel, Dörge attracted attention as an actor and stage director during the (19)90s. His debut album 'Lycia', setting his literature to music,...

Christian Dörge (born July 11th, 1969, Hannover, Germany), a writer and dramatist since the early (19)80s. His first novel 'Phenomena' was published in 1987, followed by 'Opera', a collection of poems, short storys and theatre experiments, published in 1988. Having already formed the ORPHÉE DRAMATIQUES, a theatre company, with his childhood friend Nadine Wenzel, Dörge attracted attention as an actor and stage director during the (19)90s.
His debut album 'Lycia', setting his literature to music, was released in 1993; he remained active as a musician and singer ever since (and is still recording with his projects SYRIA and BORGIA DISCO). He´s now writing a new novel entitled 'Box' (his first full-length novel since 'Paradigma' to be published in 2009), while Black October-Records announces the release of a package of DÖRGE-CDs - the albums 'Lycia. Redux' and 'Antiphon 2.0' (with all-new material included) and the re-worked and re-mastered version of the double album 'Moldavia'. This package will be released on Oct. 10th 2008.


TIMELINE


1987
Aug. Novel 'Phenomena' is published.

1988
May. Novel fragments 'Vier Geister in Hamlet' and 'Van Gogh´s unvollendetes Porträt des Königs der Schmerzen' are published combined in a book entitled 'Inferno'.
Dec. 'Opera', a collection of poems, short storys and theatre experiments, is published.

1989
July. Christian Dörge performs some readings throughout Germany to promote the current releases.

1990
Feb. A further book of poems, 'Automatik', is published.
March. Stage plays 'Eine Selbstspiegelung des Poeten' and 'Das Testament des Orpheus' are published.
April. Stage premiere of 'Eine Selbstspiegelung des Poeten' and 'Das Testament des Orpheus' (both directed by Christian Dörge who also plays the main-characters) in Marburg, Germany.

1991
April. Christian Dörge joins Nadine Wenzel on stage at the 'Off Cameras'-Theatre Festival in Marburg, Germany, performing and directing 'Das Gesicht', a two-person stage play written by Dörge.
May. Christian Dörge performs some readings.
June. After one year of rehearsals and preparartions, stage premiere of 'Das Gefängnis', again written and directed by Christian Dörge.

1992
Nov. Teaming with Oswald Henke (from GOETHE'S ERBEN) and Tilo Wolff (from LACRIMOSA), Christian Dörge prepares recording his debut album 'Lycia'.

1993
Jan. Christian Dörge brings in Troy (from CATASTROPHE BALLET) as a guitar player; the 'Lycia' album is recorded in Bayreuth, Germany and Basel, Switzerland (produced by Dörge).
May. 'Gift', a book of poems and short storys (and also including the novel 'LSD Astronauten mit der Hoffnung auf rationale Scherben'), is published. Christian Dörge embarks on a 24-dates reading tour across Germany, Austria and Switzerland
Aug. Hall Of Sermon/SPV releases 'Lycia'.
Sept. One more book of poems and short storys, 'Lichter von Paris', is published.

1995
Aug. Now teaming with Patrick Sayer (keyboards), Andy Hägler (guitars) and Mala Mukherjee (sharing vocals with Christian Dörge), Christian Dörge is recording the album 'Antiphon'.

1996
Jan. Derriére-Records/SPV releases 'Antiphon' (including a strictly updated version of 'Mystische Rosenmadonna' with vocals performed by Christian Dörge).

2003
Oct. While touring with his band SYRIA, Christian Dörge starts recording the double album 'Moldavia'.

2004
Nov. Radio Etienne/Zero Defects releases 'Moldavia'.

2005
Jan. Christian Dörge begins working on demos for 'Lycia.Redux'.

2006
Aug. While Recording the SYRIA album 'The Kafka Syndrome', Dörge finishes recordings for 'Lycia.Redux'; the songs remain un-mixed for quite a while.

2007
June. Karen Park is doing the mix-down of 'Lycia.Redux' in a studio in Linköping/Sweden.
July. Christian Dörge is writing and recording two new songs for 'Lycia.Redux' entitled 'Automatik' and 'Kopernikus'.
Sept. Christian Dörge starts re-recording some 'Moldavia' songs for a upcoming re-release of the album.

2008
May. Christian Dörge enters the Parkland-Studio for the recording of five new songs (to be included on 'Antiphon 2.0').
June. Christian Dörge drops the recordings and mixings of 'Lycia.Redux' an re-starts the whole production.
August Christian Dörge finishes the recordings of the 'Antiphon 2.0' extra tracks. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.