Charly Weiss

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Charly Weiss (born February 2, 1939 in Berlin , † December 31, 2009 in Düsseldorf ), actually Hans Günther Weiss , was a German drummer , actor and performance artist .

Life

Weiss had his own band in Berlin called Charly Weiss 4 , with whom he appeared in February 1970 alongside bands such as Amon Düül II and Tangerine Dream at the “alternative” Berlin student carnival. There he got to know the formation Agitation Free , which he joined for a concert on April 12, 1970 at the first German pop festival in the Berlin Sportpalast.

Then he moved to Düsseldorf and moved around Kraftwerk . On December 26, 1970, Kraftwerk gave a concert with the line-up of Florian Schneider-Esleben , Eberhard Kranemann ( bass , cello ) and Charly Weiss (drums). It was to be the only concert together.

He later met Helge Schneider . With this he was on friendly terms until his death, they appeared together in the 1970s as Schneider / Weiss Duo or El Snyder & Charly McWhite , but mostly only for smaller club appearances. Helge Schneider dedicated his book Guten Tach! Autobiography, Part 1 from 1992 a whole chapter. Weiss played bizarre supporting roles in Schneider's later films; his portrayals as “Dear God” in Texas - Doc Snyder keeps the world in suspense (1993) and as a “world-famous tracker pilot” in 00 Schneider (1994) are worth mentioning . For Christoph Schlingensief's film Mutters Maske , (1988, a remake of the film sacrifice by Veit Harlan with Helge Schneider and Udo Kier ) he played the drums for the film music .

He made a public appearance in September 2005 together with Hermes Phettberg as a talk guest in the pilot episode of the experimental PrimeTimeShow in the steelworks in Düsseldorf .

In August 2007 he gave a jazz concert in the series "Jazz & World Music" with Helge Schneider on the Hammond organ as the duo El Snyder and Charly McWhite in the Hofgarten (Düsseldorf) . Most recently he made a guest appearance under the same name in January 2009, again with Helge Schneider and Reinhard Glöder at the Berlin jazz club Quasimodo .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary: Ex-power plant drummer Charly Weiss dead. In: Rheinische Post , January 4, 2010, accessed on May 30, 2011.
  2. ↑ Internet presence "Jazz & World Music". ( Memento of the original from January 21, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (2007 program no longer available.)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.eine-welt-tage.de
personal data
SURNAME Weiss, Charly
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weiss, Hans Günther (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German drummer, actor and performance artist
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH December 31, 2009
Place of death Dusseldorf