Françoise Cactus
Françoise Cactus (5 May 1964 – 17 February 2021), born Françoise van Hove,[1] was a French musician and author, active in Berlin, Germany, best known as co-founder, vocalist, and multi-instrumentalist in the band Stereo Total.[2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][excessive citations] Cactus wrote several novels as well as contributing to German papers such as Die Tageszeitung.[14][15][16][17][18] Prior to founding Stereo Total with Brezel Göring in 1993, Cactus played in the West Berlin band Les Lolitas with co-founder marquis de Coco Nut, one of only a few Western bands to play officially unsanctioned gigs in East Berlin during the final years of the dictatorship.[19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][excessive citations] She was originally from France, having moved to West Berlin in 1985.[29][30][31][32]
Françoise Cactus died aged 56 on 17 February 2021 in her Berlin home after having suffered from breast cancer.[1] She is buried in Berlin.
The inscription on her gravestone reads:
Hier liegt sie, so wie sie zu liegen pflegte, nur dass sie, solange sie lebte, den Po dazu bewegte.
An English translation might be:
Here she is reclined just as she was inclined, only so that she, so long as she was living, kept moving her behind.
Radio plays
[edit]- Weill jagt Fantômas (Oliver Augst/Cactus/Göring), Radio Berlin-Brandenburg, Radio France Culture 2018
- Alle Toten 1914 (Oliver Augst/John Birke), Deutschlandfunk Kultur, Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg, Volksbühne Berlin, Hessischer Rundfunk 2014 - participation as speaker, singer, musician
- City of the thousand fires (Augst/Birke), Hessischer Rundfunk/Südwestrundfunk 2012 - participation as speaker, singer
References
[edit]- ^ a b Niemeyer, Hannes (17 February 2021). "Françoise Cactus (Stereo Total) in Berlin gestorben - Stil prägte deutsche Musik-Szene". Frankfurter Rundschau (in German). Retrieved 17 February 2021.
- ^ Pareles, Jon (14 May 2005). "Crossing National Boundaries and Genres". The New York Times.
- ^ "Moving in Stereo – November 7, 2001". SF Weekly. 7 November 2001.
- ^ "Night Life". The New Yorker. 20 August 2007.
- ^ "Stereo Total: Do the Bambi". Pitchfork.
- ^ "Stereo Total Goes "Plastic"". 21 August 2007.
- ^ Savage, Emily. "Stereo Total: Show Preview". SF Weekly.
- ^ "Stereo Total". The Village Voice.
- ^ Shanley, Mike. "The Warhol hosts Stereo Total's multilingual mélange". Pittsburgh City Paper.
- ^ "Francoise Cactus – 2 Bücher – Perlentaucher". perlentaucher.de.
- ^ Berlin, Berliner Morgenpost- (16 September 2007). "Heute: Autorin und Musikerin Françoise Cactus über Berthe Morisot". morgenpost.de.
- ^ "Françoise Cactus - DFFB". dffb-archiv.de.
- ^ "5 Fragen an: Françoise Cactus". 1 December 2008.
- ^ tageszeitung, taz. die. "Artikel von 'Francoise Cactus'". die Tageszeitung.
- ^ Abenteuer einer Provinzblume: Amazon.de: Françoise Cactus: Bücher. ASIN 3499209500.
- ^ Neurosen zum Valentinstag: Amazon.de: Françoise Cactus: Bücher. ASIN 3871344990.
- ^ Zitterparties: Amazon.de: Françoise Cactus: Bücher. ASIN 3499209942.
- ^ "Françoise Cactus". rowohlt.
- ^ Bregman, Adam (2 June 2005). "Kitschy Cool". Dallas Observer.
- ^ Orlov, Peter (9 October 2006). "Cut 'n' paste culture". Seattle Weekly.
- ^ "Stereo Total – New Songs, Playlists & Latest News – BBC Music". BBC.
- ^ Flanell, Gary (27 January 2015). "Renfield-Fanzine: Tres chic – an evening with Francoise Cactus".
- ^ "Auch im Alter relevant: Minderwertigkeitsgefühle und Liebeskummer". 29 February 2016.
- ^ Fischer, Michael; Hörner, Fernand (6 March 2013). Lied und populäre Kultur – Song and Popular Culture 57 (2012): Jahrbuch des Deutschen Volksliedarchivs Freiburg – 57. Jahrgang – 2012. Deutsch-französische Musiktransfers – German-French Musical Transfers. Waxmann Verlag. ISBN 9783830977872 – via Google Books.
- ^ "Lolitas – Rock made in France – Encyclopédie du Rock". 23 July 2009.
- ^ Lanham, Tom (28 April 2013). "Stereo Total has international appeal". The San Francisco Examiner.
- ^ "Yé-Yé Girls of '60s French Pop / Boing Boing". boingboing.net.
- ^ "Stereo Total: Paris-Berlin". Pitchfork.
- ^ Winkler, Thomas (13 June 2015). "Stereo Total im Interview: "Rock'n Roll ist spießig geworden"". die Tageszeitung.
- ^ "WE AREN'T MAINSTREAM, WE STILL HAVE AN AURA OF UNDERGROUND".
- ^ Hoh, Michael (14 April 2016). "Mafia pop: Stereo Total". EXBERLINER.com.
- ^ Antoine, Prune (12 October 2007). "Françoise Cactus: 'society is a little too turned on by sex'". Cafébabel.
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- 1964 births
- 2021 deaths
- 20th-century German women musicians
- 20th-century German musicians
- German people of French descent
- 21st-century German women musicians
- 21st-century German musicians
- Deaths from breast cancer in Germany
- French emigrants to Germany
- German women novelists
- 20th-century German novelists
- 20th-century German women writers
- 21st-century German novelists
- 21st-century German women writers