Wolfgang Hofer

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Chart positions
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Singles
A photo of Christina
  AT 11 04/15/1970 (8 weeks)
Abraham (The Song of the Junk)
  AT 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link December 01, 1970 (14 weeks)
  DE 3 04/12/1971 (25 weeks)
Song for Julia
  DE 26th 09/06/1971 (10 weeks)

Wolfgang Hofer (born February 17, 1950 in Linz ; born Wolfgang Johannes Hofer ), known as a pop singer only Wolfgang , is an Austrian pop singer , composer and songwriter .

Life

Hofer was born the son of an accountant in Linz. He wrote texts and composed as a high school student and formed a folk music quartet. As a student of communications engineering in Vienna, he was discovered by ORF employee Evamaria Kaiser , and his first record appeared under the title A Photo of Christina . He broke off his studies to concentrate on musical creativity.

He became generally known in 1971 with the successful title Abraham ( Das Lied vom Trödler ), which he wrote and composed himself . With this hit he was number one in the Austrian charts for four weeks. In the ZDF hit parade , he took first place twice. He also appeared with it in the comedy film The Great Aunts To Beat .

However, he could not continue this success and ended his career as a singer in the late 1970s. Hofer also worked as a busy songwriter, whose songs were performed by Margot Werner ( So ein Mann , 1976) and Wencke Myhre ( Laß mein Knie, Joe , 1978), among others . The collaboration with Udo Jürgens , who set over 100 texts by Wolfgang Hofer to music, including Mein Klavier (1972), At 66 Years (1977), My Brother is a Painter (1977), Buenos dias, Argentina (1978), Everything, was particularly successful under control on the sinking ship (1980), love without suffering in a duet with Jenny Juergens (1984), and ship of fools (1986). Like Udo Jürgens, he was looked after as a singer by Hans R. Beierlein as a manager and wrote the first text for a song by Jürgens in Kitzbühel in 1972 .

Hofer also works for television, where he participates in the design of shows and other programs, for music theater and for advertising. From Vienna he first went to Hesse. He now lives in Langenfeld near Düsseldorf.

Discography

  • 1970: A photo of Christina
  • 1971: Abraham (The Song of the Junk)
  • 1971: Song for Julia
  • 1972: Song of the Birch
  • 1972: I am John
  • 1973: How time flies
  • 1973: Sing a hallelujah with me
  • 1973: We are the Meiers
  • 1975: Rüdiger, the night ghost / Who saw my head
  • 1975: Schlaba-Di-Bab-Di-Ba
  • 1976: Come with me to the green meadow
  • 1977: I would love to be at the ballet

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personal data
SURNAME Hofer, Wolfgang
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hofer, Wolfgang Johannes (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian pop singer, composer and songwriter
DATE OF BIRTH 17th February 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Linz