Andreas Gabalier

Andreas Gabalier, 2018

Andreas Georg Gabalier (born November 21, 1984 in Friesach ) is an Austrian singer of popular music .

Family and personal life

Andreas Gabalier is the second oldest of Wilhelm and Huberta Gabalier's four children. He grew up in Graz . In addition to the tournament dancer Willi Gabalier , he also has a younger brother. The family Gabalier comes from one of his ancestors, a French soldier in 1796 during the Italian campaign of Napoleon Bonaparte to Austria fell and stayed there.

In 2006 Gabalier's father died by suicide , and in 2008 his younger sister died. The song Amoi seg 'ma us again ( Once we meet again ) is dedicated to them. Gabalier was in a relationship with the Austrian presenter Silvia Schneider from 2013 to September 2019 .

Career

After graduating from the commercial academy, Andreas Gabalier began studying law in Graz. He writes the lyrics and composes his own songs. His first works were recorded in a hobby studio. In the summer of 2008 Gabalier, who was still a law student at the time, brought two of these songs to the ORF regional studio in Styria . In December 2008 Gabalier played his first public concerts; in February 2009 he sang in front of 10,000 guests at the Styrian farmers' union. In May 2009 he took part in the national preliminary decision for the Grand Prix of Folk Music . In the same month his debut album Da komm 'ich her came out . It rose to number 4 in the Austrian charts, received gold for 10,000 units sold after just under a month and was nominated for an Amadeus as album of the year . The album stayed in the charts for a total of 260 weeks and went 5 times platinum.

Andreas Gabalier (2010)

In Germany, Gabalier was best known for his appearance at Carmen Nebel in April 2011. After the show, his title I sing a Liad for di was downloaded so often that it reached number 65 in the German single charts , even though the title was not intended for publication in Germany. In view of the growing popularity, which led to numerous unofficial remixes, Universal decided to license the title for Germany as well. The single was released on July 29, 2011 and reached the German charts again, but only after the release of a cover version by DJ Ötzi and a renewed TV appearance at the Autumn Festival of Folk Music on October 16, 2011, the single was able to establish itself as a sales hit and reached number 30 for the first time the upper half of the German charts. In Austria, the song took 9th place in the Ö3 Austria Top 40 and stayed in the charts for 132 weeks, making it the longest-listed title in the Austrian charts.

64 weeks after entering the chart, the album Herzwerk reached number 1 in the Austrian charts on September 2, 2011. At 82 weeks it is the album that spent the second longest in the top 10 of the Austrian album charts. Only Helene Fischer's album Farbenspiel stayed there 23 weeks longer. For three weeks Gabalier managed to position three albums in the top 10 at the same time with his albums Da komm 'ich her , Herzwerk and the follow-up album Volks-Rock'n'Roller . In the Austrian annual album charts of 2011, his three albums Herzwerk , Volks-Rock'n'Roller and Da komm 'ich her reached number 1, 3 and 4.

So far Gabalier has received 3 gold and 31 platinum times in Austria and has sold over two million records. On March 22nd, 2012 it won an echo in the category of artist / group folk music . At the presentation of the Austrian Amadeus Music Prize in 2012 , he was honored in the Schlager and Best Live Act categories . On November 23, 2012 he received the Bambi in the Shooting Star category in Düsseldorf . In 2013 and 2014 he again received the Amadeus, this time in the Folk Music category. On May 7, 2013 Gabalier was awarded gold in Vienna for the official song of the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2013, Go for Gold . In 2015 he was again awarded the Amadeus for Best Live Act .

Andreas Gabalier on Wetten, dass ..? in Graz 2014

In the spring of 2014 he took part in the series Sing my Song - Das Tauschkonzert broadcast by VOX , together with several German singers . Xavier Naidoo reached number 12 again with his version of Gabalier's ballad Amoi seg 'ma uns sung in the show , Gabalier with the original version number 18 in the German music charts. In October, the title reached the German top 10 after being sung by a candidate on the program Das Supertalent . In September 2014, his album Home Sweet Home , which had been in the charts for 59 weeks at the time, returned to number 1 on the Austrian album charts. The albums Da komm 'ich her , Herzwerk and Home Sweet Home are in the top 10 albums with the most successful chart performance of all time in Austria (as of 2017).

Andreas Gabalier is the first Austrian artist to have the honor of appearing in the legendary MTV Unplugged concert series (November 2016). He also invited numerous duet partners, such as Xavier Naidoo , Gregor Meyle , Max Giesinger and the hip-hopper 257ers .

In May 2019, the singer released a song with Arnold Schwarzenegger called Pump it Up . In the same year Gabalier celebrated its tenth stage anniversary with a stadium tour through the entire German-speaking area. The highlight and conclusion of this tour was a concert in the sold-out Ernst Happel Stadium in Vienna on August 31, 2019.

Controversy

When Gabalier sang the Austrian national anthem at the Austrian Grand Prix on June 22, 2014 in the version valid until 2012 with the line “Heimat are you big sons” without the gender equitable change stipulated by law in 2012, “Heimat big daughters and sons”, he was under Among other things, in a letter from the Greens , criticized by the Minister for Women Gabriele Heinisch-Hosek ( SPÖ ) and the ex-Minister for Women Maria Rauch-Kallat ( ÖVP ). There were weeks of discussion about it in the media. Gabalier called for a return to the old text in this context. In an interview he said: “I am very much in favor of women's rights. But this gender madness that has arisen in recent years has to stop again. "At the presentation of the Amadeus 2015 for the Best Live Act , Gabalier said:" It is not easy in this world if you are still a Manderl today Weiberl stands ”. This triggered criticism in many places. He received support from Felix Baumgartner and FPÖ politicians.

The head of the Wiener Konzerthaus , Matthias Naske, said in an interview with the daily Die Presse in May 2017 that he would not let Gabalier (unlike the Wiener Musikverein ) perform and described Gabalier's appearance in the Golden Hall of the Musikverein as " Error". You have to know who Gabalier is and what he stands for. As a result of the interview, Gabalier saw himself pushed into a "right corner" and damaged in his economic prosperity, since concert organizers would cancel his concerts because of the statements. For this reason, he filed a competition lawsuit to determine the damage and revoke it because of degradation (libel). The lawsuits were dismissed in the last instance because the court ruling stated that the statements were covered by freedom of expression. At a concert in Vienna's Stadthalle in December 2018, Gabalier made fun of the left-wing liberal print media Der Standard and Falter as "location" and "flater". Due to the approaching Christmas festivities, he was still missing “ox and donkey” in the nativity scene .

At the beginning of 2019, the planned award of the Karl Valentin Order to Andreas Gabalier caused criticism. On January 30, 2019, the German tabloid newspaper Bild headlined the swastika dispute about Gabalier , referring to the cover of his 2011 album Volks Rock'n'Roller , on which, in the opinion of his critics, Gabalier implied a swastika. The estate administrator of the Karl Valentins family, Gunter Fette, criticized in this context: “It is unacceptable that Gabalier is associated with the name of Karl Valentins with his obvious play with fascist symbols, his misogyny and his homophobia .” Andreas Gabalier's laudatory speech Peter Kraus , on the other hand, defended the award: “I know Andreas as a nice, polite and respectful colleague. Why shouldn't I give a laudation for him? ”The medal was awarded to Gabalier on February 2nd, 2019.

The managing director of the Center for Popular Culture and Music at the University of Freiburg, Michael Fischer, analyzed individual song texts by Gabalier for Bento magazine . His conclusion: “The songs by Andreas Gabalier are primarily about 'home kitsch ', religious feelings and outdated role models. You can find that in other hit songs too , but in politics Gabalier goes much further than others ”. The text passage "iron cross that stands on the highest mountain peak" (from Mein Bergkamerad ) is, according to Fischer, a deliberate provocation because it is based on the old war award Iron Cross , something like this could not be a coincidence. Such a “game of terms” is also known from right-wing populist politicians.

Sebastian Gloser from nordbayern.de describes Gabalier as a “bridge builder to the New Right ”. Gloser also refers to the text passage with the "iron cross" and mentions Gabalier's enumeration of Germans, Italians and Japanese - the Axis powers in World War II - in the song Biker and Gabalier's swastika pose on the album cover of Volks-Rock'n'Roller . Gloser also criticizes Gabalier's image of society, which is more in line with the 1950s. Other journalists also refer to the swastika pose.

In the May 1st rally of Graz SPÖ 2019 the booked band was prohibited by organizers to Gabalier-songs covers . When Gabalier pieces were played anyway, the SPÖ distanced itself from the songs, among other things because of Gabalier 's image of women . He then described the undesirability in a video message as a scandal and " fascism in its purest form".

In March 2020, cultural researcher Jens Wietschorke accused Gabalier of creating an "echo chamber for right-wing populism" "without being committed to it". Like many populists, he “tends to appeal to a silent majority” and uses “a gesture of secret consent”. Wietschorke quotes the line " At some point there will be enough, then it will be too much " from the song "A opinion" and notes who "sings something like that against the background of the refugee debates 2015/16 on a stadium stage" is "understood very precisely, even if he does not say what it is specifically about".

Filmography (selection)

• 2014: The Rosenheim cops - Mozart's little brother

Discography

→ Main article : Andreas Gabalier / Discography

Studio albums

year	Title music label	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, music label , placements, weeks, awards, notes)			Remarks
		DE	AT	CH
2009	That's where I come from Koch Universal	DE33 platinum (18 weeks)DE	AT4th × 5 Quintuple platinum (295 weeks)AT	CH19th gold (16 weeks)CH	First published: May 29, 2009 Sales: + 315,000
2010	Herzwerk Koch Universal	DE31 × 2 Double platinum (60 weeks)DE	AT1 × 8 Eight times platinum (195 weeks)AT	CH23 platinum (57 weeks)CH	First published: July 23, 2010 Sales: + 590,000
2011	Volks-Rock'n'Roller Koch Universal	DE19th platinum (23 weeks)DE	AT1 × 8 Eight times platinum (100 weeks)AT	CH35 platinum (39 weeks)CH	First published: October 14, 2011 Sales: + 390,000
2013	Home Sweet Home Electrola / Stall	DE4th × 7 Sevenfold gold (150 weeks)DE	AT1 × 6 Six-fold platinum (163 weeks)AT	CH2 platinum (128 weeks)CH	First published: June 7, 2013 Sales: + 820,000
2015	Mountain Man Electrola / Stall	DE1 × 3 Triple gold (114 weeks)DE	AT1 × 3 Triple platinum (130 weeks)AT	CH1 platinum (116 weeks)CH	First published: May 15, 2015 Sales: + 365,000
2018	Don't forget my Electrola / Stall	DE1 gold (38 weeks)DE	AT1 × 2 Double platinum (42 weeks)AT	CH1 gold (35 weeks)CH	First published: June 1, 2018 Sales: + 140,000

Awards (selection)

Gabalier at the Amadeus Award 2013

• Amadeus Award
  • 2012: in the Best Live Act category
  • 2012: in the Schlager category
  • 2013: in the Folk Music category
  • 2014: in the Folk Music category
  • 2015: in the Best Live Act category
  • 2016: in the folk music category
  • 2017: in the folk music category

• Bambi
  • 2012: in the shooting star category

• German television award
  • 2014: in the category Best Entertainment ( Sing my Song - The Exchange Concert )

• The one of the best
  • 2015
  • 2019: in the category singer of the year

• ECHO Pop
  • 2012: in the category artist / group folk music (Herzwerk)
  • 2015: in the Folk Music category (Home Sweet Home)
  • 2015: in the category partner of the year ( Sing my song - The exchange concert )
  • 2017: in the Folk Music category

• Munich Olympic Walk of Stars
  • 2013
  • 2017

• Karl Valentin Order
  • 2019

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Nina Müller: On her 30th birthday: 30 things you (maybe) did not know about Andreas Gabalier. In: Small newspaper . November 21, 2014, accessed January 10, 2019 . 
2. ↑ G. Vukits: "I used to be quite a Lausbua". In: the whole week . July 2010, archived from the original on December 2, 2018 ; accessed on February 11, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Andreas Gabalier talks about the sad secret of his family. In: Web.de . July 14, 2013, accessed February 8, 2016 . 
4. ↑ Andreas Gabalier: THAT is his girlfriend! In: promiflash.de. November 13, 2013, accessed May 9, 2014 . 
5. ↑ Andreas Gabalier - From the life of the Rock'n Rollers. Riva-Verlag, Munich, 2nd edition 2014.
6. ↑ Gold & Platinum database of IFPI Austria (search artist = Andreas Gabalier)
7. ↑ germanchartblog in April 2011
8. ↑ germanchartblog in August 2011
9. ↑ Evaluation of long-running hits in the Austrian single charts ( Memento from March 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) on chartsurfer.de
10. ↑ chartsurfer.de
11. ↑ Austria Top 40 - Albums Top 75, January 13, 2012. austriancharts.at
12. ↑ 2011 Album Charts on austriancharts.at, accessed on July 26, 2016
13. ^ Gold, platinum IFPI Austria - Association of the Austrian Music Industry
14. ↑ Echo 2012 - All winners. In: music market. March 22, 2012, archived from the original on December 30, 2016 ; accessed on February 11, 2019 . 
15. ↑ Andreas Gabalier gold for gold. In: music market . August 2018, archived from the original on July 14, 2015 ; accessed on February 11, 2019 . 
16. ↑ Superstar No 11 on germanchartblog from May 16, 2014
17. ↑ austriancharts.at accessed on February 19, 2017
18. ↑ Andreas Gabalier - MTV Unplugged on orf.at, accessed on September 2, 2019
19. ↑ Andreas Gabalier & Arnold Schwarzenegger - "Pump it Up" is the duo's first song. In: Schlager.de. Retrieved on May 23, 2019 (German). 
20. ↑ Gabalier in the "Bierzelt" Happel Stadium on orf.at, accessed on September 2, 2019.
21. ^ National anthem: threats against Heinisch-Hosek. In: heute.at . June 27, 2014, accessed June 10, 2019 . 
22. ^ Ex-minister of women insults Gabalier with anal comparison. In: heute.at . June 25, 2014, accessed June 10, 2019 . 
23. ↑ Gabalier suggests voting on the anthem . In: Der Standard , June 26, 2014.
24. ↑ Petty dispute about big daughters - Interview: Gabalier: “Gender madness must stop”. In: Kurier , June 29, 2014.
25. ↑ "Manderl & Weiberl" Baumgartner defended Gabalier . diepresse.com, accessed on May 12, 2015.
26. ↑ Rudolf Gruber: Bearded diva against Lederhosen rockers. In: Rheinische Post . April 14, 2014, accessed June 14, 2015 . 
27. ↑ Blue derailment due to Gabalier. In: Upper Austrian news . April 7, 2015, accessed June 13, 2015 . 
28. ^ Judith Hecht: Konzerthaus boss Naske: "You have to know what Gabalier stands for". In: The press . May 8, 2017. Retrieved November 6, 2017 . 
29. ↑ Angelika Kramer: Andreas Gabalier sues the Wiener Konzerthaus boss Naske. Trend, issue 22/2017, accessed on November 6, 2017
30. ^ Criticism of Andreas Gabalier covered by freedom of expression . Deutschlandfunk Kultur , February 26, 2018, accessed on February 26, 2018.
31. ^ Georg Leyrer: Andreas Gabalier pillories critical media. In: kurier.at , December 15, 2018, accessed on February 10, 2019.
32. ↑ Georg Leyrer: This is how Andreas Gabalier was in Vienna: The traditional costume comes from the people. In: kurier.at. December 16, 2018, accessed December 22, 2018 . 
33. ↑ ^{a b} "Bild" locates a "swastika dispute over Gabalier". In: Courier. January 31, 2019, accessed February 7, 2019 . 
34. ↑ How the Gabalier indignation generator works. In: Courier. January 31, 2019, accessed February 7, 2019 . 
35. ↑ Jens Balzer: Andreas Gabalier: A Hallihallo with an iron cross. In: Zeit Online . February 2, 2019, accessed February 2, 2019 . 
36. ↑ Karl-Valentin-Orden: Gabalier rejects allegations. In: Nordbayern.de. February 3, 2019, accessed February 7, 2019 . 
37. ↑ Marc Röhlig: What an expert on Nazi songs says about Andreas Gabalier's lyrics. In: Bento.de . Retrieved February 9, 2019 . 
38. ↑ Song expert on Gabalier: "Individual passages dangerous". kurier.at, February 10, 2019
39. ↑ [1]
40. ↑ Jens Balzer: Andreas Gabalier: A Hallihallo with an iron cross . In: The time . February 2, 2019, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed July 16, 2019]).
41. ↑ Christoph Benkeser, Ruby Morrigan, Claus Schwartau, Patricia Bartos: 14 statements by Andreas Gabalier that show who he really is. In: Vice. February 7, 2019, accessed on July 16, 2019 (alps). 
42. ↑ Gabalier accuses SPÖ of “banning” his songs “fascism” . In: derstandard.at , May 6, 2019, accessed on May 6, 2019.
43. ↑ Cultural researcher accuses Andreas Gabalier of right-wing populism. www.augsburger-allgemeine.de, March 6, 2020
44. ↑ Frank Medwedeff: Swiss precious rain for Andreas Gabalier. MusikWoche , January 13, 2016, accessed on October 14, 2019 . 
45. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Frank Medwedeff: Gabalier in Vienna richly presented with awards. MusikWoche , September 4, 2019, accessed on October 14, 2019 . 

Web links

Commons : Andreas Gabalier  - Collection of Images

• Literature by and about Andreas Gabalier in the catalog of the German National Library
• Andreas Gabalier in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Official website