Conrad Schnitzler

Conrad "Conny" Schnitzler (born March 17, 1937 in Düsseldorf ; † August 4, 2011 in Berlin ) was a German artist , musician and composer who composed mainly electronic music .

Live and act

After training as a mechanical engineer, Schnitzler was a student of the object and action artist Joseph Beuys . In 1962 he married Christa Runge , with whom he had three children. In 1968 he founded the legendary Zodiac Club in Berlin , which was dedicated to subculture.

In November 1969 Conrad Schnitzler founded the band Kluster together with Dieter Moebius and Hans-Joachim Roedelius . After only two LPs ( Klopfzeichen and Kluster two Easter eggs ), Schnitzler left the formation and founded the short-lived group Eruption (with Klaus Freudigmann and Wolfgang Seidel ), since then he has been active as a soloist.

In 1970 he formed the second formation of the group Tangerine Dream together with Klaus Schulze and Edgar Froese , and the album Electronic Meditation was recorded . That year he got the Kraftwerk group's first synthesizer .

Schnitzler became known in the black metal scene through Mayhem guitarist Øystein Aarseth , who was a fan of Schnitzler's music. After Aarseth traveled to Germany and got to know Schnitzler, he gave him music that was used for the beginning of New Year's Eve , the intro of Mayhem's first EP Deathcrush .

Schnitzler died on August 4, 2011 as a result of gastric cancer in Berlin.

Discography (selection)

1970: Tangerine Dream · Electronic Meditation
1970: Kluster knock sign
1971: Kluster · Two Easter eggs
1971: Black (aka Eruption )
1980: On the Black Canal (EP with Wolfgang Seidel )
1980: Consequenz (with Wolfgang Seidel)
1981: Con 3 (with Wolfgang Seidel )
1981: Conrad & Son (with Gregor Schnitzler)
1987 Mayhem · Deathcrush (EP; Intro Silvester beginning )
1988: ConGen: New Dramatic Electronic Music (with Gen Ken Montgomery)
1988: Conditions of the Gas Giant (USA Cassette Label, re-released in 2019 on vinyl)
1988: Concho (with Michael Chocholak)
2001: Acon (with Hans Joachim Roedelius )
2006: Aquatic Vine Music (with Michael Thomas Roe)
2008: 20070709 (with Bernhard Wöstheinrich )
2010: Zug (republication on m = minimal + remixes by Pole and borngräber & strüver)
2011: Ballet Statique (re-release on m = minimal)
2011: Con-Struct (together with borngräber & strüver, m = minimal)
2012: Endtime (recorded in Dallgow a few days before his death)
2015: GEN CON FLUX (with Ken Montgomery and Mama Baer )
2015: Con-Struct (with Pyrolator )
2016: a tribute to anthony braxton ( Pyrolator / Wolfgang Seidel / Commissioner Hjuler & Mama Baer / Albrecht / d. )

Audio

Beate and Stefan Becker: “Sometimes it degenerates into music.” A long night about the intermedia artist Conrad Schnitzler, audio version (one week online) Manuscript for the broadcast: PDF version (PDF; 238 kB), text version Deutschlandfunk and Deutschlandradio Culture , 11./12. March 2017.

literature

Alexander Simmeth: Krautrock transnational. The reinvention of pop music in Germany, 1968–1978 , Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2016, ISBN 978-3-8376-3424-2

Web links

Individual evidence

^ Biographical data of Conrad Schnitzler (March 17, 1937 - August 4, 2011), Conrad Schnitzler at Generator New York City 1989
^ Obituary: Conrad Schnitzler 1937 - 2011
^ ^A ^b Daniel Fersch: "Clay workers" in the factories. The sound artist and pioneer of electronic music CONRAD SCHNITZLER is dead. (No longer available online.) Spex , August 7, 2011, archived from the original on August 21, 2011 ; Retrieved September 6, 2011 . 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. @1@ 2
↑ ^a ^b CONRAD SCHNITZLER PASSED AWAY ... Accessed on September 10, 2011 (English).
↑ Detlef Krenz: The Zodiac on Hallescher Ufer . In: Kreuzberger Chronik . No. 77 , May 2006 ( kreuzberger-chronik.de [accessed on September 6, 2011]).
^ Conrad Schnitzler: Conrad Schnitzler on Euronymous. The Ajna Offensive, December 2, 2007, archived from the original on February 24, 2007 ; accessed on September 6, 2011 .
↑ Long- playing record on Psych.KG (D), the recordings come from different years and were only finally mixed and then published after his death.

personal data
SURNAME	Schnitzler, Conrad
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Schnitzler, Conny (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German pioneer of electronic music
DATE OF BIRTH	March 17, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH	Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH	4th August 2011
Place of death	Berlin

[1] Biographical data of Conrad Schnitzler (March 17, 1937 - August 4, 2011), Conrad Schnitzler at Generator New York City 1989

[2] Obituary: Conrad Schnitzler 1937 - 2011

[spex-3] A ^b Daniel Fersch: "Clay workers" in the factories. The sound artist and pioneer of electronic music CONRAD SCHNITZLER is dead. (No longer available online.) Spex , August 7, 2011, archived from the original on August 21, 2011 ; Retrieved September 6, 2011 . 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. @1@ 2

[passedaway-4] CONRAD SCHNITZLER PASSED AWAY ... Accessed on September 10, 2011 (English).

[5] Detlef Krenz: The Zodiac on Hallescher Ufer . In: Kreuzberger Chronik . No. 77 , May 2006 ( kreuzberger-chronik.de [accessed on September 6, 2011]).

[6] Conrad Schnitzler: Conrad Schnitzler on Euronymous. The Ajna Offensive, December 2, 2007, archived from the original on February 24, 2007 ; accessed on September 6, 2011 .

[7] Long- playing record on Psych.KG (D), the recordings come from different years and were only finally mixed and then published after his death.