Stephen
Saint Stephen (detail) by Giacomo Cavedone Saint Stephen was the first saint in the Catholic church.
Gender	Male
Origin
Word/Name	Greek
Meaning	Wreath, Crown, Honour, Reward
Other names
Nickname(s)	Steve, Stevie
Derived	Στέφανος (Stephanos)

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Stephen or Steven ( /ˈstiːvən/) is a masculine first name, derived from the Greek name Στέφανος (Stephanos) meaning "crown, garland", in turn from the Greek word "στέφανος", meaning "wreath, crown, honour, reward", literally "that which surrounds or encompasses".^[1][2] In ancient Greece, a wreath was given to the winner of a contest (from which the crown, symbol of rulers derived). The use of the noun was first recorded in Homer's Iliad.^[3] The name is significant to Christians: according to the Book of Acts in the New Testament, Saint Stephen was a deacon who was stoned to death and is regarded as the first Christian martyr. The name has many variants, which include Stephan, Stevan, Stefan and Stevon.

In Middle English, the name Stephen or Stephan was pronounced as a bi-syllabic word — Step-hen or Step-han — much like a Scandinavian surname. Steve was pronounced as it is in Modern English. This etymological usage began a decline in the mid-19th century.

Steve is the common short form, while various diminutives such as Stevie are also used. Many family names are derived from Stephen: the most common are Stephens/Stevens and Stephenson/Stevenson (others include Stephen, Stephan, Staphan, Stefan, Stevin and Stever).

The name was ranked 201 in the United States in 2009, according to the Social Security Administration.^[4] The name reached its peak popularity in 1951 but remained very common through the mid 1990s, when popularity started to decrease in the United States^[5]

In the United Kingdom, it peaked during the 1950s and 1960s as one of the top ten male first names (ranking third in 1954) but had fallen to twentieth by 1984 and had fallen out of the top one hundred by 2002.^[6]

The female version of the name is Stephanie.

For Stephen as a surname see Stephen (surname), Stephenson and Stevenson.

List of alternatives[link]

• Estevan (old Spanish)
• Esteban (Spanish, Filipino, Basque)
• Estebe (Basque)
• Estêvão, Stefen (Portuguese)
• Esteve (Catalan)
• Estevo (Galician)
• Étienne ("Estienne" is an obsolete spelling), Stéphane (French)
• Êtiên (Vietnamese)
• İstefanos, Stefan (Turkish)
• İstfan, Stepan (Azeri)
• István (Hungarian)
• Kepano, Kiwini (Hawaiian)
• Shtjefën or Stefan (Albanian language)
• Sitiveni (Tongan, Fijian)
• Staffan, Stefan (Swedish)
• Steafán, Stiofán (Irish)
• Stefán (Icelandic)
• Stefano (Esperanto)
• Stefano (Italian)
• Ștefan (Romanian)
• Štefan (Slovak)
• Štefan (Slovene)
• Stefan, Stefaan, Stefanus, Steven, Stephan (Afrikaans, Dutch)
• Stefan, Stephan, Steffen (German)
• Ephenstay, (Pig Latin)(Unofficial)
• Stefan, Szczepan (Polish)
• Steffan, Stifyn, Stîfyn (Welsh)
• Steffen (Norwegian)
• Steffen, Stephen, Stefan, Stephan (Danish)
• Štěpán (Czech)
• Stefanus, Stephanus (Latin)
• Stepans, Stepons (Latvian)
• Steponas, Stepas (Lithuanian)
• Steven (Breton)
• Stiefnu (Maltese)
• スティーブン、スティーブ、スティーヴン (Stiibun, Stiibu, Stiivun; Japanese)
• Stìobhan, Stìophan, Stèaphan (Scottish Gaelic)
• Stjepan, Stipan, Stipe, Stipo, Štef (Croatian)
• Tapani, Teppana (Finnish)
• Tehvan (Estonian)
• Tipene (Māori)
• Istfanous, إستفانوس, ستيف, ستيفن (Arabic)
• סטיבן (Stiven; Hebrew)
• Στέφανος (Stephanos, Stefanos, Greek)
• Степан, Стефан (Stepan, Stefan, Ukrainian; Стефан [Stefan] is a more western Ukrainian usage^{[citation needed]})
• Стефан (Stefan), diminutive: Стефчо (Stefcho), (Bulgarian)
• Стефан/Stefan, Стеван/Stevan, Степан/Stepan, Шћепан/Šćepan, Стијепо/Stijepo, Стево/Stevo (Serbian)
• Стефан/Stefan, Стеван/Stevan, Шћепан/Šćepan (Montenegrin)
• Стефан/Stefan, Стеван/Stevan, Стево/Stevo, Стефче/Stefche (Macedonian)
• Степан (Stepan, Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian)
• Ստեփանոս, Ստեփան (Stepanos, Stepan, Armenian)
• სტეფანე (Stepane, Georgian)
• ஸ்டீபன் (Sṭīpan, Tamil)
• Eapen (Malayalam)
• Steephan (South Indian)
• Steeve or Styve (Québec)

Notable people known by the name Stephen[link]

Note: to find people with the given name Stephen who are also known by another name, see All pages beginning with "Stephen".

Saints[link]

• Saint Stephen (died c. 35), the first martyr (Protomartyr) of the Christian church
• St. Stephen of Sugdaea, also on Bravlin
• Stephen, one of the pair of Christian saints and martyrs Socrates and Stephen
• Stephen the Younger (ca. 715–765), Byzantine iconodule martyr
• Stephen I of Hungary (c. 965–1038), canonized in 1083
• Stephen of Obazine (1085–1154), Cistercian, first Abbot of Obazine Abbey, France
• Stephen Harding (died 1134), English, one of the founders of the Cistercian Order
• Stephen III of Moldavia or Stephen the Great and Holy (c.1432–1504), son of Bogdan II
• Stephen Theodore Cuenot, a bishop from France, see Vietnamese Martyrs
• Stephen Vinh, also of the Vietnamese Martyrs

Royalty[link]

• Stephen of Armenia (died 1165), marshal, son of Leo I
• Stephen of England or Stephen of Blois (c.1096–1154), grandson of William the Conqueror
• Stephen I of Hungary (c. 965–1038), Grand Prince of the Magyars, first king of Hungary
• Stephen II of Hungary (1101–1131), elder son of King Coloman
• Stephen III of Hungary (1147–1172), eldest son of King Geza II
• Stephen IV of Hungary (c.1133–1165), third son of King Béla II
• Stephen V of Hungary (1239–1272), elder son of King Béla IV
• Stephen I of Moldavia (1394–1399), son of Costea
• Stephen II of Moldavia (died 1447), prince, son of Alexandru cel Bun
• Stephen III of Moldavia or Stephen the Great and Holy (c.1432–1504), son of Bogdan II
• Stephen Báthory of Poland (1533–1586), prince of Transylvania, king consort of Poland, grand duke consort of Lithuania
• Stefan Nemanja or Stefan I, Nemanja (c.1109–1199), grand prince of Serb state of Raška
• Stefan Nemanjić or Stefan II, Nemanja (1176–1228), proclaimed king of Serbia in 1217
• Stefan Radoslav of Serbia (c.1192-c.1235), king of Serbia, son of Nemanjić
• Stefan Vladislav I of Serbia (died after 1264), son of Stefan Nemanjić
• Stephen Uroš I of Serbia (died 1277), son of Stefan Nemanjić
• Stefan Dragutin (died 1316), son of Stefan Uroš I
• Stefan Uroš II Milutin of Serbia (1282–1321)
• Stefan Vladislav II of Syrmia (1321-c.1325)
• Stefan Uroš III Dečanski of Serbia (1321–1331)
• Stefan Uroš IV Dušan of Serbia (Dušan the Mighty) (1331–1355), king 1331–1346; tsar 1346–1355
• Stefan Uroš V of Serbia (Uroš the Weak) (1355–1371), tsar
• Stefan Lazarević (1374–1427), Serbian despot
• Stefan I Crnojević (1426–1465), lord of Zeta (Montenegro) 1451–1465
• Stefan II Crnojević, lord of Zeta (Montenegro) 1496–1498
• Stjepan Držislav of Croatia (died 997), king 969–997
• Stjepan I of Croatia (died 1058), king 1030-1058
• Stjepan II of Croatia (died 1091), king 1089–1091, last member of the Trpimirović dynasty
• Ivan Stephen of Bulgaria (died after 1343), tsar 1330–1331

Church figures (Stephen or Stephanus)[link]

• Pope Stephen I (died 257), Bishop of Rome from 254–257
• Pope-elect Stephen (died 752), elected Pope but died before being ordained
• Pope Stephen II (died 757), pope from 752–757
• Pope Stephen III (720–772), pope from 768–772
• Pope Stephen IV (died 817), pope from 816–817
• Pope Stephen V (died 891), pope from 885–891
• Pope Stephen VI (died 897), pope from 896–897
• Pope Stephen VII (died 931), pope from 929–931
• Pope Stephen VIII (died 942), German, pope from 939–942
• Pope Stephen IX (c. 1020–1058), pope from 1057–1058
• Esteban, bishop of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Zaragoza, Spain, from 1128 to 1130
• Ecumenical Patriarch Stephen I of Constantinople (867–893), patriarch from 886 to 893
• Ecumenical Patriarch Stephen II of Constantinople, from Amasea, patriarch from 925 to 928
• Stephanus I, Archbishop of Aquileia, Italy, c. 515
• Stephanus II, Patriarch of Grado, Italy, c. 670
• Stefan (Archbishop of Uppsala), Sweden, (before 1150–1185), first archbishop from 1164 to 1185

Other[link]

• Stephen F. Austin (1793–1836), Empresario that settled Texas
• Stephen Baldwin (born 1966), American actor
• Steven Ballmer (born 1956), CEO of Microsoft
• Stephen Vincent Benét (1898–1943), American author
• Steven Best (born 1955), American activist and presenter
• Steven Francis "Steve" Cantwell (born 1986), American mixed martial arts fighter
• Stephen Chow (born 1962), Hong Kong actor, comedian and director
• Stephen Cochran (born 1979), American Country music singer/songwriter
• Stephen Colbert (born 1964), American political satirist, comedian, and television host
• Stephen Corry, Director of the British indigenous rights organisation Survival International
• Stephen Crane (1871–1900), American novelist and journalist
• Stephen Farrelly (born 1978), Irish professional wrestler and actor.Sheamus
• Stephen Foster (1826–1864), known as the "Father of American music"
• Stephen Fry (born 1957), British actor, comedian, television presenter
• Stephen Jay Gould (1941–2002), American paleontologist/biologist
• Stephen Victor Graham, 18th Governor of American Samoa
• Stephen Harper (born 1959), Canadian Prime Minister
• Stephen Hawking (born 1942), British theoretical physicist
• Stephen Hawkins (born 1971), Australian rower
• Stephen Hendry (born 1969), British snooker player
• Steven Herzberg, English-born Australian cricketer
• Stephen Kenyon (born 1951), English long-distance runner
• Stephen King (born 1947), American horror fiction and screenplay writer
• Stephen Maguire (born 1981), British snooker player
• Stephen Malkmus (born 1966), indie rock musician
• Stephen Merchant (born 1974), British writer, director, radio presenter, and actor
• Stephen Milligan (1948–1994), British politician and journalist
• Stephen Campbell Moore (born 1979), British actor
• Stephen Morris (born 1957), British drummer and musician
• Stephen Sackur (born 1964), British BBC journalist
• Stephen Timms (born 1955), British politician
• Stephen Wallem (born 1968), American theater/television actor and singer
• Steve Case, founder of America Online
• Steve Davis (born 1957), British snooker player
• Steve Dubinsky (born 1970), Canadian NHL center
• Steve Dublanica (born 1968), American author and blogger.
• Steve Irwin (1962–2006), Australian TV personality, nicknamed "The Crocodile Hunter"
• Steve Jobs (1955-2011), American co-founder of Apple Inc
• Steve Stone (disambiguation)
• Steve Wozniak (born 1950), American co-founder of Apple Inc
• Steve Yeager (born 1948), American major league baseball catcher
• Steve McQueen (1930–1980), American actor
• Steven Gerrard (born 1980), English footballer
• Steven Herzberg (born 1957), English-born Australian cricketer
• Steven Seagal (born 1952), American actor
• Steven Shields (born 1972), Canadian NHL goalie
• Steven Spielberg (born 1946), American film director
• Steven Tyler (born 1948), American singer songwriter and Aerosmith frontman
• Stevie Ray Vaughan (1954–1990), American guitarist, singer and songwriter
• Steven Parris Ward (born 1963), English poet and philosopher
• Steve "Boomstick" Wilson, current drummer of T.A.T.u. and former drummer of Dead Kennedys and Against All Will
• Stevie Wonder (born 1950), American multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter
• Stephanus of Byzantium, 6th century author of Ethnica, a geographical dictionary
• Stephanus Med., 7th century physician (see List of ancient European doctors)
• Stephanus, Phil, 7th century physician (see List of ancient European doctors)
• Stephanus, pupil of Pasiteles (fl. 33 BCE) sculptor in the time of Caesar Augustus
• Stefan Mappus (born 1966), German politician

Fiction[link]

• Steven Hyde, a character on the TV show That 70s Show
• Steven Freeling, a character in the first two Poltergeist films from the 1980s
• Steve McDonald, a character from popular English Soap Opera Coronation Street
• Stefan Salvatore, a character on the TV show The Vampire Diaries based on the novel of the same name
• Steve Urkel or Stefan Urquelle, a character on the TV show Family Matters
• Stephen Wilkins, a character in the movie Trick 'r Treat

Popularity[link]

The spelling "Stephen" reached its peak of popularity in the United States in the period 1949–1951, when it was the 19th most popular name for newborn boys. It stayed in the top 100 boys' names from 1936 through 2000, and for most years between 1897 and 1921. In 2008 it was the 192nd most common name for boys.^[7]

The spelling "Steven" reached its peak of popularity in the United States in the period 1955–1961, when it was the 10th most popular name for newborn boys. It stayed in the top 100 boys' names from 1941 through 2007. In 2008 it was the 104th most popular name for boys. Before the 20th century, the "Steven" spelling was heavily outweighed by "Stephen", never reaching above 391st.^[7]

In England and Wales, neither "Stephen" nor "Steven" was among the top 100 names for newborn boys in 2003–2007.^[8] In Scotland, "Steven" and "Stephen" were the 8th and 10th most popular names for newborn boys in 1975, but were not in the top ten in 1900, 1950 or 2000.^[9] "Stephen" was 68th in 1900,^[10] and 46th in 1950,^[11] while "Steven" was not in the top 100 either year. Neither spelling was in the top 100 names for newborn boys in Scotland in 2008.^[12] Neither "Stephen" nor "Steven" was among top 25 most popular baby boys' names in Ireland in 2006 or 2007.^[13]

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Anne Clark
Anne Clark live in concert (Castle Party festival) in Poland 2008
Background information
Born	(1960-05-14) 14 May 1960 (age 52)
Origin	Croydon, London, England
Genres	New Wave, Dark Wave, electronic, avant-garde
Occupations	Poet, singer, songwriter
Years active	1982–present
Labels	Red Flame (Ink) Virgin/EMI (Virgin SP, Ten) Sony BMG (Columbia Records) SPV (Germany) netMusicZone (Germany)
Associated acts	Eyeless in Gaza, Martyn Bates
Website	www.anneclarkofficial.com

Anne Clark (born 14 May 1960, Croydon, London, England) is an English poet^[1] and songwriter. Her first album, The Sitting Room, was released in 1982, and she has released over a dozen albums since then.

Her experimental music occupies a region bounded roughly by electronic, dance (techno applies on occasion) and possibly avant-garde genres, with varying hard as well as romantic and orchestral styles.

Clark is mainly a spoken word artist. Many of her lyrics deal critically with the imperfections of humanity, everyday life, and politics. Especially in her early works she has created a gloomy, melancholy kind of atmosphere bordering on weltschmerz.

Early life[link]

Anne Clark was born the daughter of an Irish mother and a Scottish father. At the age of 16, she left school. She took various jobs, one of which was as a nurse in a psychiatric hospital. Clark then got a job at the local record store (and label), Bonaparte Records. Punk rock was finding its way into London's music scene and perfectly matched Anne Clark's emotions.

Clark soon became involved with the Warehouse Theatre, an independently financed stage for bands, that was always low on cash. Although the theater's owners initially objected to the strange, pierced punk scene characters and their leather outfits, Anne was able to successfully arrange the program. Anne Clark managed to fill the theatre with artists like Paul Weller, Linton Kwesi Johnson, French & Saunders, The Durutti Column, Ben Watt (who is now a member of Everything But The Girl), and many others. She experimented with music and lyrics herself and first appeared on stage in Richard Strange's Cabaret Futura with Depeche Mode.

Career[link]

In 1982, Anne Clark published her first album, The Sitting Room, with songs written by herself. On the following albums, Changing Places (1983), Joined up Writing (1984) and Hopeless Cases (1987), Clark benefited from an acquaintance from the Warehouse: keyboardist David Harrow contributed as the co-author. The songs created by this team, such as “Sleeper in Metropolis,” “Our Darkness,” and “Wallies,” have since been considered milestones of the 1980s and 1990s.

In 1985, Clark released the album Pressure Points. It was created in collaboration with John Foxx, who wrote the music and plays on the first five tracks..

In 1987, Clark went to Norway for three years, where she worked with Tov Ramstad and Ida Baalsrud, among others. In cooperation with Charlie Morgan, she released the album Unstill Life in 1991 on SPV Records. Tracks included The Moment, Unstill Life, Abuse and Empty Me. This album was also released in the USA on Radikal Records. During 1992, she released a non-album collaboration on maxi-CD (SPV) with Ida Baalsrud, who both played the violin part and co-wrote If I Could; furthermore, there was also a remix of Our Darkness included on the last track of the CD. At the very end of 1992, in December, Charlie Morgan unexpectedly died of cancer at the age of only 36, which caused many planned collaboration projects to be abandoned.

After several months of reorientation, Clark eventually released The Law is an Anagram of Wealth in 1993, once again in collaboration with Tov Ramstad; the other musicians involved were Paul Downing, Martyn Bates (of the band Eyeless in Gaza), and Andy Bell (not of Erasure fame but talented musician and programmer) and completed a major European Tour.

Just one year later, in 1994, Anne Clark ventured into a style that she had not experimented with before: acoustic music. This eventually culminated in the release of Psychometry (1994), which featured a concert recorded live on stage in the Passionskirche in Berlin-Kreuzberg.

Continuously, Clark went on following her musical roots and the influences of folk and classical music. Her 1998 album, Just After Sunset, a collaboration with Martyn Bates, featured poems by German poet Rainer Maria Rilke translated into English. This album was re-released four years later in 2002 when Clark regained the rights to the album. The re-release included some additional video footage, although it was of rather poor quality.

In 2003, another album joined her series of acoustic albums: From The Heart - Live In Bratislava, which she recorded together with Murat Parlak (vocals/piano), Jann Michael Engel (cello), Niko Lai (drums and percussion) and Jeff Aug (guitars) in Bratislava, Slovak Republic.

Anne Clark live in concert (M'era Luna Festival) in Hildesheim (Germany) 2004

In 2005, Clark joined up with the Belgian act Implant for the album Self-inflicted, on which she delivered guest vocals. The album was released via Alfa Matrix Records, which in the meantime had become her home label outside of Germany. She also appeared on the Implant EP Too Many Puppies.

2006 saw Clark back again in the recording studio with Implant for the EP Fade Away, on which she delivered guest vocals and performed a duet with Leæther Strip's Claus Larsen. And she also appeared on the album Audioblender by Implant, again released via the Alfa Matrix record label.

In 2008 Clark was in Germany to record her next album The Smallest Act of Kindness, which was released in September 2008. At the end of 2010, Anne Clark released the first chapter of an on-going project Past & Future Tense, the first release on her own label, After Hours Productions.

In January 2011 Anne contributed an arrangement of the Charles Baudelaire poem Enivrez-Vous (Be Drunk) to the audio book and radio play Die künstlichen Paradiese ("The artificial paradises"), (Hörbuch Hamburg/Radio Bremen).

Band[link]

Anne Clark's live band 2008 (from left to right): Jann Michael Engel, Murat Parlak, Anne Clark, Niko Lai, Jeff Aug

Current live band members:

• Anne Clark, Vocals
• Jeff Aug, Guitarist
• Tobias Haas, Drums & Percussion
• Murat Parlak, Piano
• Jann Michael Engel, Cello
• Steve Schroyder, Keyboards & Programming

Discography[link]

Anne Clark live in concert in Germany, 2008

Albums[link]

• 1982 – The Sitting Room (UK: Red Flame, Germany: Virgin Schallplatten, later: Virgin/EMI; LP)
• 1983 – Changing Places (UK: Red Flame, Germany: Virgin Schallplatten, later: Virgin/EMI; LP)
• 1984 – Joined Up Writing (UK: Ink, later: Virgin/EMI; EP)
• 1985 – Pressure Points (UK: Ten, Germany: Virgin Schallplatten; later: Virgin/EMI; LP)
• 1987 – Hopeless Cases (UK: Ten; Germany: Virgin Schallplatten, later: Virgin/EMI; LP)
• 1988 – R.S.V.P. (UK: Ten; Germany: Virgin Schallplatten, later: Virgin/EMI; LP – recorded live at the Music Centrum, Utrecht, Holland, 1987)
• 1991 – Unstill Life (SPV, later: Virgin/EMI; LP/CD)
• 1993 – The Law Is An Anagram Of Wealth (Germany: SPV; CD)
• 1994 – Anne Clark and friends: Psychometry (SPV, later: Virgin/EMI; CD – Live at the Passionskirche Berlin)
• 1995 – To Love And Be Loved (SPV, later: Warner Chappell; CD)
• 1997 – Wordprocessing: The Remix Project (Columbia Europe/Sony BMG, later: Warner Chappell; CD)
• 1998 – Anne Clark & Martyn Bates: Just After Sunset – The Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke (Labor/Indigo, later: Warner Chappell, re-release 2002: netMusicZone; CD)
• 2003 – From the Heart – Live in Bratislava (netMusicZone – Recorded at the studios of Slovak National Radio Broadcast during the European acoustic tour on 17 November 2002)
• 2004 – Notes Taken, Traces Left (netMusicZone – Audiobook, song lyrics and commentary from Anne Clark's book)
• 2008 – The Smallest Acts of Kindness (netMusicZone)

Singles[link]

• 1984 – Sleeper in Metropolis (Rough Trade Germany)
• 1984 – Our Darkness (miscellaneous, licensed from Red Flame)
• 1984 – Self Destruct (Germany: Ten)
• 1985 – Sleeper in Metropolis (Remix with David Harrow) (UK: Ink)
• 1985 – Wallies (UK: Ink)
• 1985 – Heaven (UK: Ten; Germany: Virgin Schallplatten)
• 1986 – True Love Tales (UK: Ink)
• 1987 – Hope Road (UK: Ten)
• 1987 – Homecoming (UK: Ten, Germany: Virgin Schallplatten)
• 1988 – Our Darkness/Sleeper in Metropolis/Self Destruct (UK: Ink)
• 1990 – Abuse (Germany: SVP)
• 1991 – Counter Act (SVP)
• 1991 – Counter Act (Remixes) (SPV; single/EP)
• 1992 – If I Could/Our Darkness (Remix) (SPV)
• 1993 – The Haunted Road: Travelogue Mixes (SPV)
• 1994 – Elegy For A Lost Summer (SPV)
• 1994 – Elegy For A Lost Summer (Remix) (SPV)
• 1996 – Letter Of Thanks To A Friend (SPV; Bill Laswell remixes)
• 1997 – Our Darkness ('97 Remixes) (Columbia Records/Sony BMG)
• 1997 – Sleeper In Metropolis ('97 Remixes) (Gang Go, Columbia Records/Sony BMG)
• 1998 – Wallies (Night of the Hunter) ('98 Remixes) (Columbia Records/Sony BMG)
• 2002 – Blank & Jones featuring Anne Clark: The Hardest Heart (Gang Go/Warner)
• 2003 – Sleeper In Metropolis 3000 (Gang Go/Warner)
• 2008 – Full Moon (netMusicZone)

Compilations[link]

• 1986 – An Ordinary Life (UK: Great Expectations/Ink; 15 tracks drawn from her first three albums LP/CD)
• 1986 – Trilogy (UK: Ink; compilation of the first three albums, omits two tracks from Joined Up Writing; CD)
• 1986 – Terra Incognita (Spain: Ink; LP)
• 1991 – The Last Emotion (Beehive Productions; 3 CD box set: The Sitting Room/Changing Places/Joined Up Writing)
• 1994 – The Best of Anne Clark (UK: Beehive Productions)
• 1996 – Anne Clark: Nineties - a Fine Collection (Germany: Steamhammer, later: SPV; CD)
• 2003 – Dream Made Real (Noble Price/TIM)
• 2007 – Remix Collection (netMusicZone)
• 2010 - Past & Future Tense Chapter One (After Hours Productions/Believe Digital)
• 2011 - "Die Künstlichen Paradiese" (Hörbuch Hamburg/Radio Bremen)

Videos[link]

• 1992 – Iron Takes the Place of Air: Live in Berlin (SPV; Live Video, VHS)
• 2008 - 2009 Anne Clark Live at Frankfurter Hof, Mainz (MMM Film GMBH)

Further reading[link]

• Anne Clark: Notes Taken, Traces Left. Fotografien – Texte – Interviews. Edited by Jeff Aug, translated by Martin Müncheberg. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, 2003. ISBN 978-3-89602-463-3. (328 pages, in English and German)

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Anne Clark

• Official website
• Official Anne Clark label home: netMusicZone / After Hours Productions

Conrad ("Conny") Schnitzler (17 March 1937 – 4 August 2011) was a prolific German experimental musician. Schnitzler's father was German, his mother was Italian. He had a wife and they had three children,^[1] one of whom is son Gregor Schnitzler, who was born in 1964 in Berlin and who is a film director.^[2]

Life[link]

Schnitzler was born in Düsseldorf. He was an early member of Tangerine Dream (1969–1970) and a founder of the band Kluster. He left Kluster in 1971, first working with his group Eruption and then focusing on solo works. Schnitzler participated in several collaborations with other electronic musicians.^[3]

Conrad Schnitzler died from stomach cancer on 4 August 2011 in Berlin.^[4]

Discography[link]

Note: Schnitzler's full discography would be difficult to catalog, as he had many private, limited and one-off releases.

1970

• Electronic Meditation (with Tangerine Dream)
• Klopfzeichen (with Kluster)

1971

• Zwei-Osterei (with Kluster)
• Schwarz (a.k.a. Eruption)

1973

• Rot
• Slowmotion

1974

• Blau
• Work in Progress
• The Red Cassette
• The Black Cassette

1978

• Con

1980

• Auf Dem Schwarzen Kanal (EP)
• Consequenz (with Wolfgang Seidel)
• Die Wandelnde Klangwolke Aus Berlin

1981

• Contempora
• Con 3
• Conrad & Sohn (with Gregor Schnitzler)
• Conal
• Control
• Gelb (reissue of The Black Cassette as an LP)
• Grün
• Context

1982

• Convex
• The Russians Are Coming (EP)
• Container

1983

• Con 3.3.83

1984

• Con '84

1985

• Con '85

1986

• Concert
• Consequenz II (with Wolfgang Seidel)
• Micon in Italia (with Michael Otto)
• Face On Radio (with Wolfgang Hertz)
• Con '86
• GenCon Productions (with Gen Ken Montgomery)
• Conversion Day

1987

• Congratulacion
• Contrasts (with Wolfgang Hertz)
• Black Box 1987
• Contra-Terrene
• Conditions of the Gas Giant

1988

• ConGen: New Dramatic Electronic Music (with Gen Ken Montgomery)
• CS 1 – CS 13: January 1988 – December 1988
• Concho (with Michael Chocholak)
• GenCon Dramatic (GenCon Live) (with Gen Ken Montgomery)

1989

• Constellations
• CS 89/1 – CS 89/12: January 1989 – December 1989
• The Cassette Concert (with Gen Ken Montgomery)

1990

• Kynak (Camma) (with Giancarlo Toniutti)
• CS 90/1 – CS 90/12: January 1990 – December 1990
• Confidential Tapes
• 00/001 – 00/004: Confidential Tapes

1991

• Contempora 00/014 – 00/031

1992

• Tolling Toggle (with Jorg Thomasius)
• Tonart Eins (with Tonart)
• Ballet Statique (reissue of Con)
• Contempora 00/032 – 00/039

1993

• Clock Face (with Jorg Thomasius)
• Tonart Zwei (with Tonart)
• Con Brio
• Contempora 00/040 – 00/044

1994

• Blue Glow
• Con Repetizione
• Contempora 00/045 – 00/053

1995

• Charred Machinery
• Electronegativity

1997

• 00/106
• The Piano Works 1
• 00/44

1999

• Construction
• 00/071: Piano
• 00/063: Piano
• Con/Solo/1
• 00/121: Piano
• 00/139: Concert
• Con/Solo/2
• Computer Jazz

2000

• The 88 Game
• 5.5.85 (Concert)

2001

• Conal2001
• Acon (with Hans-Joachim Roedelius)

2002

• Con '72

2003

• Live Action 1997
• Gold
• Contakt

2004

• Con '72 Part II

2005

• Mi.T.-Con 04 (with Michael Thomas Roe)

2006

• Moon Mummy
• Zug
• Aquatic Vine Music (with Michael Thomas Roe)
• Conviction
• Con 2+
• ElectroCon
• Klavierhelm
• Trigger Trilogy

2007

• Mic + Con 07 (with Michael Thomas Roe)

2008

• Kluster 2007 (with Michael Thomas Roe and Masato Ooyama)
• rare tracks 1979–1982 (with Remixes by Dompteur Mooner) Erkrankung durch Musique Records
• 20070709 (with Bernhard Woestheinrich)

2009

• Aquafit (with Big Robot) – Karisma. Norway
• Kluster 2008: Three Olympic Cities Mix (with Michael Thomas Roe and Masato Ooyama)
• Horror Odyssee (with Big Robot) – TIBProd. Italy

2010

• Kluster 2009: Three Voices (with Michael Thomas Roe and Masato Ooyama)

2011

• Consequenz 010B (with Wolfgang Seidel) – Mirror Tapes
• Kluster CMO 2010 (with Michael Thomas Roe and Masato Ooyama)
• Against The Grain (with Håvard Tveito, Ole Christensen, Kjetil Manheim, Johannes Stockhausen Hektoen, Fredrik Owesen, Tord Litleskare, Nils Martin Haugfoss, Marius Håndlykken, Shawn Ytterland and Vigleik Skogerbø)

References[link]

External links[link]

• Conrad Schnitzler Official
• Conrad Schnitzler Official (CON-tribute)
• Reviews of Schnitzler's work
• Schnitzler's entry in The Cassette Mythos
• Live at CTM08 in Berlin
• http://www.myspace.com/mitconmusic Mi.T.-CON
• http://mit-conmusic.com/ Mi.T.-CON

Skrzek at a concert

Józef Skrzek (born 2 July 1948 in Siemianowice, Silesia) – is a Polish multi-instrumentalist, singer and composer, an important figure in Polish rock.

Life[link]

In his early career, Skrzek was associated with the groups Ślężanie, Ametysty and Breakout. In 1971, he created the progressive-rock group Silesian Blues Band (with Jerzy Piotrowski and Apostolis Anthimos) and also recorded for a time with Czesław Niemen.

Over the following decades, Skrzek consistently showed independence. He performed with a number of artist and ad-hoc created bands, but mostly involved himself with theater and church music, as well as movie soundtracks. He is well-noted for his live performances not only on conventional concerts but also in a variety of other venues (e.g., his improvisations on summer solstice nights in Silesian Planetarium). Currently, he is a friend of the elementary school in his hometown (elementary school number 13 in Michalkowice) where he often plays or sings.

His younger brother, Jan Skrzek (pl:Jan Skrzek), is also a notable Silesian musician.

Performing at a benefit concert in Warszawa in November 2010

Discography[link]

• 2009-09 "Koncert Żywiołów"
• 2009-03 "Czas dojrzewania"
• 2008-05 "Józef Skrzek & Jan Skrzek "Dwa Braty" "
• 2007-03 "La Tempete"
• 2007-11 "Tryptyk petersburski" (as guest with Roksana Wikaliuk, Misha Ogorodov, Sasza Ragazanov, Michał Gierjo)
• 2006-07 "Maria z Magdali"
• 2005-05 "Viator - Znak Pokoju"
• 2005 "Planetarium" with Colin Bass
• 2004-11 "Anthology 1974-2004" (SBB)
• 2004-05 "Szczęśliwi z miasta N." (SBB)
• 2003-11 "U stóp krzyża"
• 2003-05 "Akustycznie"
• 2003-05 "Kantata Maryjna"
• 2003-05 "Epitafium Dusz - Koncert na cześć zaginionych..."
• 2002-06 "Koncert Świętokrzyski"
• 2001 "Jesteś, który jesteś"
• 2001 "Dzwonią dzwoneczki, muzyka gra, a kolęda nadal trwa"
• 1998 "Czas"
• 1998 "Pokój Saren Piano"
• 1998 "Warto żyć dla miłości" (Ks. Stanisław Puchała, Józef Skrzek, Michał Mitko)
• 1997 "Pokój Saren"
• 1997 "Kolędy"
• 1997 "Anioł się zwiastuje"
• 1997 "Kantata Maryjna - Live"
• 1993 "Twój dom wschodzącego słońca"
• 1993 "Piosenki ojca Aime Duvala" (Ks. Stanisław Puchała, Józef Skrzek, Michał Mitko)
• 1990-10 "Wracam"
• 1990 "Kolędowy czas" (Kiepurki and Józef Skrzek)
• 1989 "Live"
• 1987 "Kantata Maryjna"
• 1985 "Podróż w krainę wyobraźni"
• 1983 "Ambitus Extended"
• 1981 "Józefina"
• 1981 "Ogród Luizy" (with Halina Frąckowiak)
• 1980 "Ojciec chrzestny Dominika"
• 1979 "Pamiętnik Karoliny"
• 1979 "VIATOR box"
• 1977 "Swing & Blues" (with Krzysztof Sadowski)

See also[link]

• List of Poles

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Józef Skrzek

• YouTube--Józef Skrzek plays Minimoog solo
• Skrzek's home page