Angy Burri

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Angy Burri (2010)

Angy Burri (also Big Angy , actually Angelo Burri ; born April 4, 1939 in Cham ; † December 22, 2013 in Wolhusen ) was a Swiss (life) artist , artisan , filmmaker , musician and city ​​original (« city indians») of Lucerne . He was also known as " Winnetou from Pilatus ", which Angy didn't like, as he said in an interview with Glanz & Gloria.

Life

In 1960 years, Angy Burri moved in Halbstark scene of Lucerne. Influenced by bands like The Shadows , he founded the band The Thunderbeats in 1963 , for which he made electric guitars himself . Burri was the singer of the band and played electric guitar. The band later came to be known as Angy Burri & The Apaches .

Angy Burri felt drawn to the Native Americans as a child . Both on the stage and in private, he usually wore the traditional clothing of the Indians or the Wild West . With the help of his large collection of utensils from these cultures, Angy Burri shot the film The Wolfer between 1975 and 1979 , which is considered the first Swiss western . The film was made in the Kernwald near Kerns and in the Glaubberg area in the canton of Obwalden . Angy Burri, who acted as director and leading actor, designed the costumes together with his wife Sonja, built the sets and wrote the title song.

In 1978 Angy Burri launched the Lucerne Western Ball, which took place in the Kursaal and was held a total of 20 times until the 2000s. Burri was considered an important representative of the subculture in the 1970s and 80s. He criticized the loss of freedom due to too many laws. In 1980, Burri received the recognition award from the City of Lucerne's Art and Culture Prize .

At the beginning of the 1980s he became known with his band all over Switzerland. In 1988 he toured the United States for the first time, visiting well-known Indian areas in Montana , Colorado , South Dakota and Wyoming . As a result, he stayed several times in the USA, where he met with indigenous people and visited biker meetings with his Harley-Davidson .

Angy Burri was considered the Lucerne city ​​original . His adorned Harley with a horse saddle and he, who drove through the region in Indian and Western clothing with a fox's head and eagle feathers on his helmet, were well known.

In 2006, Angy Burri was presented as "the most famous representative of the Lucerne scene" and his film The Wolfer was shown in a special exhibition at the Lucerne History Museum about the Lucerne youth scene between 1950 and 1980 . On his 70th birthday, the city of Lucerne honored him with the exhibition “I've always made my own dreams - Homage to Angy Burri” in the Kornschütte , which Burri designed himself and equipped with his numerous western props. Including a covered wagon he built himself. Over 14,000 visitors came to this homage to Burri.

In the summer of 2013, the film student Dominik Suppiger shot the film Der Cowboy und ich . In this film, Suppiger and Burri pursue the question of what it means to be a man in today's times.

Angy Burri died of heart failure on December 22, 2013 at the age of 74. The Mayor of Lucerne, Stefan Roth, paid tribute to him: “With Angy Burri, the city of Lucerne has lost a colorful figure. Whether as a musician, artist, director or Indian: He was always authentic, passionate and honest. "

Movie

  • 1979: The Wolfer

Discography

  • 1983: LP Angy Burri & The Apaches
  • 1990: LP Hokahe (CH: goldgold)
  • 1995: LP Tatanka
  • 1999: Single Amazing Grace

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Musician and “Indian” Angy Burri dies , online article in the Aargauer Zeitung from December 23, 2013
  2. ↑ a b "Angy Burri - living legend and cult figure" ( Memento of the original from December 25, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Entry from May 12, 2006 on tropfstei.ch  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tropfstei.ch
  3. ↑ Report with interview on the seventieth  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Angy on glanz & gloria on SRF@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.srf.ch  
  4. ↑ a b c Historisches Museum Luzern - The new special exhibition from February 18 to August 27, 2006 - Out of bounds - The Lucerne scene 1950–1980 (PDF) ( Memento from August 27, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), In: Mitteilungsblatt of the Education and Culture Department of the Canton of Lucerne, 1/2006, p. 26; Archive version
  5. ↑ Cowboys - leather or jeans? - The Lucerne chief Angy Burri on gay shepherds. , Article of the Weltwoche, edition 09/2006
  6. ↑ a b c d biography on cort.ch, see web links
  7. ↑ a b c Lucerne loses an original , article in the Neue Luzerner Zeitung from December 24, 2013
  8. ↑ Canvas and Legends , article from August 26, 2006 on tink.ch
  9. ↑ Angy Burri attracts 14,000 visitors , article in the Neue Luzerner Zeitung from June 25, 2009
  10. ^ "Wolfer" Angy Burri: New hero role in student film , article from Central Switzerland on Sunday 30 June 2013, short version of the article online
  11. ↑ Awards for music sales: CH
personal data
SURNAME Burri, Angy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Angy, Big; Burri, Angelo (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss (life) artists, artisans, filmmakers, musicians and city originals (“city indians”) of Lucerne
DATE OF BIRTH April 4, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Cham
DATE OF DEATH December 22, 2013
Place of death Wolhusen