Jan Degenhardt is a German Lawyer

Lawyer

A lawyer, according to Black's Law Dictionary, is "a person learned in the law; as an attorney, counsel or solicitor; a person who is practicing law." Law is the system of rules of conduct established by the sovereign government of a society to correct wrongs, maintain the stability of political...

 and folk

Folk music

Folk music is an English term encompassing both traditional folk music and contemporary folk music. The term originated in the 19th century. Traditional folk music has been defined in several ways: as music transmitted by mouth, as music of the lower classes, and as music with unknown composers....

-singer. His father is the political poetry and singer Franz Josef Degenhardt

Franz Josef Degenhardt

Franz-Josef Degenhardt was a German poet, satirist, novelist, and – first and foremost – a folksinger/songwriter with decidedly left-wing politics. He was also a lawyer, bearing the academic degree of Doctor of Law.Degenhardt was born in Schwelm, Westphalia...

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Life and career

Born in Saarbrücken

Saarbrücken

Saarbrücken is the capital of the state of Saarland in Germany. The city is situated at the heart of a metropolitan area that borders on the west on Dillingen and to the north-east on Neunkirchen, where most of the people of the Saarland live....

, he studied jurisprudence

Jurisprudence

Jurisprudence is the theory and philosophy of law. Scholars of jurisprudence, or legal theorists , hope to obtain a deeper understanding of the nature of law, of legal reasoning, legal systems and of legal institutions...

 in Hamburg

Hamburg

-History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...

 from 1983 to 1990. After that he moved to Greifswald

Greifswald

Greifswald , officially, the University and Hanseatic City of Greifswald is a town in northeastern Germany. It is situated in the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, at an equal distance of about from Germany's two largest cities, Berlin and Hamburg. The town borders the Baltic Sea, and is crossed...

 and worked as a docent at the Grone-school and the University of Greifswald until 1993. 1992 Degenhardt established as a lawyer in Greifswald.

1999 he published his first album with the title „Aufbruch“. His same-named Song gets to the highscore list of the SFB

Sender Freies Berlin

Sender Freies Berlin was the ARD public radio and television service for West Berlin from 1 June 1954 until 1990 and for Berlin as a whole from German reunification until 30 April 2003...

 in 2000. The same year he reached the second place at Deutscher FolkFörderpreis.

After a promotion tour Jan Degenhardt published his second album called „Stimmen hinter'm Spiegel“ in summer 2004. The contained song "Marathon Berlin" reached the 9th place at the Liederbestenliste of the society for German-language music.

In February 2011 follows his third album named „Schamlos“. which was chosen as CD of the month in June. The same month the song "Demokratie" reached the 8th place at the Liederbestenliste, even in July, it moved to second position.

Beside his father Franz Josef Degenhardt his brother Kai Degenhardt makes musik, too.

Honors and awards

• Deutscher FolkFörderpreis 2000
• "Schamlos" CD of the month at Liederbestenliste June 2011

External links

• Jan Degenhardt on last.fm
• Interview on Folker!
  Folker (music magazine)
  Folker is a German music magazine. It deals with folk, traditional and world music. The newspaper is published two-monthly by the Christian-Ludwig-Verlag in Moers since 1998. Publisher is Mike Kamp, editor in chief is Michael Kleff and the final editing is leaded by Stefan Backes. The office is...