Luci van Org
{{Short description|German musician (born 1971)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Luci van Org
| image = Luci van Org, Magdeburg 2009.jpg
| alt =
| caption = Luci van Org in 2009
| birth_name = Ina Lucia Korch
| alias = {{hlist|Ina Lucia Hildebrand|Eena}}
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1971|9|1}}
| birth_place = Berlin, West Germany
| occupation = {{hlist|Musician|writer|actress}}
| years_active = 1987–present
| spouse = {{ill|Axel Hildebrand|de}}
| website =
| module = {{Infobox musical artist|embed=yes
| background = solo_singer
| genre = {{hlist|Pop|Neue Deutsche Härte}}
| current_member_of = {{hlist|Üebermutter|Meystersinger|Lucina Soteira}}
| past_member_of = {{hlist|Lucilectric|Das Haus von Luci}}
| label =
}}
}}
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
Ina Lucia Korch was born in Berlin's Tempelhof district on 1 September 1971.{{cite news |last=Tholl |first=Gregor |date=12 April 2008 |url=https://www.mz.de/kultur/madchen-luci-van-org-mag-s-jetzt-rockig-2370907 |title='Mädchen' Luci van Org mag's jetzt rockig |newspaper=Mitteldeutsche Zeitung |language=de |access-date=14 February 2023 }}{{cite web |url=https://www.laut.de/Ueebermutter |title=Üebermutter |publisher=Laut.de |language=de |access-date=14 February 2023 }} Her parents were the sculptor and graphic artist {{ill|Claus Korch|de}} and the painter Katharina Korch.{{cite news |last=Wienecke |first=Rudi-Michael |date=10 June 2014 |url=https://www.volksstimme.de/lokal/stendal/die-korchs-kamen-mit-stillleben-aus-stein-und-auf-leinwand-613038 |title=Die Korchs kamen mit Stillleben aus Stein und auf Leinwand |newspaper=Volksstimme |language=de |access-date=14 February 2023 }} She grew up listening to punk, industrial and gothic music and founded her first band when she was 13.{{cite web |author=Florian |date=8 April 2008 |url=https://www.metal.de/interviews/ueebermutter-interview-mit-saengerin-luci-van-org-36761/ |title=Üebermutter: Interview mit Sängerin Luci van Org |publisher=Metal.de |language=de |access-date=14 February 2023 }}{{cite news |last=Fowler |first=Jessica |date=27 January 2022 |url=https://www.musikexpress.de/lucilectric-maedchen-was-machen-luci-van-org-und-ralf-goldkind-heute-1554507/ |title=28 Jahre nach 'Mädchen': Was wurde eigentlich aus… Lucilectric? |newspaper=Musikexpress |language=de |access-date=14 February 2023 }} At the age of 15 she played in a new wave punk band.
Music career
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. Shortly after her 16th birthday, Korch signed a contract with Hansa Musik Produktion and began to release disco house under the stage name Eena. 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).{{cite news |last=Schmidt |first=Peter |date=24 August 2017 |url=https://www.magazin-forum.de/index.php/de/news/was-macht-eigentlich/%C2%85%3Fluci-van-org |title=Was macht eigentlich... ... Luci van Org? |newspaper=Forum – Das Wochenmagazin |language=de |access-date=14 February 2023 }} In retrospect, she regretted not having opposed the genre the company chose for her.
Under the name Luci van Org, which she has kept using throughout her career, she went on to form the band Lucilectric with {{ill|Ralf Goldkind|de}}, who came from the milieu around the band Einstürzende Neubauten. Lucilectric had a mainstream hit with the song "Mädchen" ({{literal translation|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 {{lang|de|Girlie}} movement, which has been compared to the girly girl, girl power and riot grrrl concepts of the English-speaking world.{{cite book |last=Kauer |first=Katja |year=2009 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s3ls2eLWbxgC&pg=PA20 |title=Popfeminismus! Fragezeichen! Eine Einführung |series=Kulturwissenschaften |language=de |volume=7 |location=Berlin |publisher={{ill|Frank & Timme|de}} |pages=20–22 |isbn=978-3-86596-245-4 }} It has remained what Org is best known for. Another Lucilectric song, "Hey Süßer" ({{literal translation|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, {{literal translation|Sweet and Mean}}) and Tiefer (1997, {{literal translation|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.
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 {{ill|Panda (German band)|lt=Panda|de|Panda (deutsche Band)}}. 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".{{cite news |last=Heymann |first=Nina |date=15 December 2002 |url=https://www.morgenpost.de/printarchiv/tagestipps/article102894379/Das-Haus-von-Luci-van-Org.html |title=Das Haus von Luci van Org |newspaper=Berliner Morgenpost |language=de |access-date=14 February 2023 }} It released two albums, Der verbotene Raum (2003, {{literal translation|The Forbidden Space}}) and Der Tod wohnt nebenan (2006, {{literal translation|Death Lives Next Door}}).
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In 2006, Org formed the Neue Deutsche Härte band Üebermutter which released its debut album Unheil! through Roadrunner Records in 2008. Üebermutter is characterised by a satirical use of militaristic and totalitarian aesthetics.{{cite book |last=Kopanski |first=Reinhard |year=2022 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=um9kEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA291 |title=Bezugnahmen auf den Nationalsozialismus in der populären Musik: Lesarten zu Laibach, Death in June, Feindflug, Rammstein und Marduk |series=Populäre Kultur und Musik |volume=35 |language=de |location=Münster |publisher=Waxmann Verlag |pages=291–292, 307 |isbn=978-3-8309-4252-8 }} It was described by Die Tageszeitung as a "fetish metal project" with "feminist-agitational lyrics".{{cite news |last=Kedves |first=Jan |date=19 February 2007 |url=https://taz.de/Autos-Alk-Antiaids/!314420/ |title=Autos, Alk, Antiaids |newspaper=Die Tageszeitung |language=de |page=23 |access-date=14 February 2023 }}
In 2010, Org created the electropop duo Meystersinger together with {{ill|Roman Shamov|de}}. It has released three albums: Trost (2012, {{literal translation|Consolation}}), Haifischweide (2014, {{literal translation|Shark Pasture}}) and Frieden (2017, {{literal translation|Peace}}). In 2020 she launched the solo project Lucina Soteira.{{cite news |last=Linder |first=Armin T. |date=12 January 2021 |url=https://www.tz.de/stars/lucilectric-maedchen-90er-star-luci-van-org-comeback-saengerin-90145519.html |title=Lucilectric-Sängerin: Comeback! So sieht der 90s-Star inzwischen aus: Neue Bilder |newspaper=Tz |language=de |access-date=14 February 2023 }} Org is featured on {{ill|Jennifer Weist|lt=Yaenniver|de}}'s 2022 single "Mädchen, Mädchen", which references Lucilectric's "Mädchen".{{cite web |url=https://www.laut.de/News/Yaenniver-Maedchen,-Maedchen-feat.-Luci-Van-Org-28-01-2022-18547 |title=Yaenniver: 'Mädchen, Mädchen' feat. Luci Van Org |language=de |publisher=Laut.de |date=28 January 2022 |access-date=14 February 2023 }}
Other works
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For several years, Org had her own radio programmes on the Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg station {{ill|Fritz (radio station)|lt=Fritz|de|Fritz (Hörfunksender)}}. She has acted in German films and television series, including the 2002 drama film Führer Ex. She debuted as a screenwriter for the television series Notruf Hafenkante in 2007 and has written for ARD television series including In aller Freundschaft and {{ill|WaPo Bodensee|de}}. She co-wrote the feature films {{ill|Lollipop Monster|de}} (2011) and {{ill|Electric Girl (film)|lt=Electric Girl|de|Electric Girl}} (2019), both directed by {{ill|Ziska Riemann|de}}.
Org has been a columnist for the Berliner Morgenpost. She debuted as a fiction writer with a short story in the 2002 anthology Taxigeschichten ({{literal translation|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. She wrote the play Die 7 Todsünden oder die Hochzeit der Wetterfee ({{literal translation|The 7 Deadly Sins or the Weather Fairy's Wedding}}) which premiered at Berlin's {{ill|Theater am Kurfürstendamm|de}} in 2006. She has written several novels inspired by folklore and stories about Germanic gods.{{cite web |url=https://www.rnd.de/promis/weil-ich-ein-maedchen-bin-das-macht-lucilectric-saengerin-luci-van-org-heute-ZMA72K6LO5HIVMI3MLU7ZU2HTM.html |title='Weil ich ein Mädchen bin': Das macht Lucilectric-Sängerin Luci van Org heute |language=de |publisher=RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland |date=5 February 2022 |access-date=14 February 2023 }}{{cite news |last=Brier |first=Ronja |date=12 August 2013 |url=https://www.bild.de/regional/berlin/luci-van-org/erklaert-ihr-wildes-leben-31597972.bild.html |title=Luci van Org ('Lucilectric') über ihr wildes Leben: 'Ich will, dass es knallt' |newspaper=Bild |language=de |access-date=14 February 2023 }} These include the horror story Frau Hölle ({{literal translation|Lady Hölle}}) from 2013 and the comedic and feminist Vagina dentata ({{literal translation|Toothed Vagina}}) from 2019.{{cite news |url=https://www.saarbruecker-zeitung.de/saarland/saarlouis/dillingen/bestseller-autorin-und-saengerin-luci-van-org-im-drachenwinkel-in-dillingen_aid-48928311 |title=Bestseller-Autorin und Sängerin Luci van Org |url-access=subscription |newspaper=Saarbrücker Zeitung |language=de |date=12 February 2020 |access-date=14 February 2023 }} Her 2015 novel Schneewittchen und die Kunst des Tötens ({{literal translation|Snow White and the Art of Killing}}) is about BDSM, something she has been involved in "on and off".{{cite news |last=Würzbach |first=Nele |date=9 September 2015 |url=https://www.bz-berlin.de/archiv-artikel/luci-van-org-sm-und-bluemchen-sex-sind-genau-das-gleiche |title=Luci van Org: SM und Blümchen-Sex sind genau das Gleiche |newspaper=B.Z. |language=de |access-date=14 February 2023 }} 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". In 2023 she published the autobiographical novel Wir Fünf und ich und die Toten ({{literal translation|We Five and Me and the Dead}}), which is inspired by her childhood.{{cite news |last=Cossham |first=Lisa Frieda |date=16 March 2024 |url=https://www.stern.de/panorama/wissen/luci-van-org-sang---weil-ich-ein-maeaeaedchen-bin---so-geht-es-ihr-heute-34541704.html |title='Weil ich ein Määädchen bin' – Sängerin Luci van Org über ihre brutale Kindheit und ihren Weg auf die Bühne |url-access=subscription |newspaper=Stern |language=de |access-date=1 June 2024 }}
Personal life
Org married the filmmaker {{ill|Axel Hildebrand|de}} in 2001. The wedding was held in a fetish club. They live in Berlin and have one son. Her legal name is Ina Lucia Hildebrand. She describes herself as bisexual and supports a form of feminism where all tasks should be split evenly between men and women. She became a pagan in 2006 and is responsible for the Berlin South-West section of the Germanic neopagan organisation Eldaring.{{cite web |url=https://eldaring.de/herde/ |title=Herde und Stammtische |language=de| publisher=Eldaring |access-date=14 February 2023 }}
Selected discography
Selected filmography
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scope="col" | Year
! scope="col" | Title ! scope="col" | Format ! scope="col" | Function ! scope="col" class="unsortable" | {{Tooltip|Ref.|Reference}} |
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1996
| {{ill|Liane (1996 film)|de|3=Liane (1996)|lt=Liane}} | TV film | Role: Marion Michael | |
1999
| Latin Lover | TV film | Role: Evi | |
2002
| Film | Role: Elisabeth | {{cite web |url=https://www.filmportal.de/person/luci-van-org_3ea0cbc42e944a2da63db94b48a8e17e |title=Luci van Org |language=de |publisher=filmportal.de |access-date=20 February 2023 }} |
2007
| TV series | Writer |
2007–2010
| TV series | Writer |
2011
| {{ill|Lollipop Monster|de}} | Film | Role: art teacher; writer |
2019
| {{ill|Electric Girl (film)|lt=Electric Girl|de|Electric Girl}} | Film | Writer |
2017–2019
| {{ill|WaPo Bodensee|de}} | TV series | Writer |
Selected bibliography
References
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External links
{{Commons category}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20210218074356/http://www.lucivanorg.de/ Personal website] via Internet Archive {{Inlang|de}}
- [https://www.rtagency.com/en/clients/writing/luci-van-org.html Agency page]
- {{IMDb name|0887646}}
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