Daweli Reinhardt

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Alfons "Daweli" Reinhardt (born July 18, 1932 in Wiesbaden ; † December 10, 2016 in Koblenz ) was a German guitarist and composer of gypsy jazz .

Live and act

Reinhardt, whose father was a musician and basket weaver, grew up in Koblenz-Lützel . In 1938 he and his family were deported for the first time by the National Socialists for racist reasons, and in 1943 he was sent to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp , where many of his relatives were murdered. Then he was transferred to the Ravensbrück concentration camp as a forced laborer . As a survivor of the death march , he returned to Koblenz in 1945, where he made a living as an artist and musician. After playing dance music for a long time , in the mid-1960s he co-founded the Schnuckenack Reinhardt quintet , which made the music of German Sinti known. As a solo guitarist he was involved in the first albums of this quintet in 1969; for this group he also wrote several pieces. At an early age he passed on his guitar skills to his five sons Mike, Bawo, Django, Sascha and Moro, all of whom are musicians. His nephew Lulo Reinhardt also initially oriented his game on him.

Since 1973 he played in the sextet of his son Mike Reinhardt, with whom he recorded two albums. He only founded his own group in 1988 , first with the saxophonist Dietrich Geldern , then with Dick Heckstall-Smith ; the group had television appearances (in the SWF programs “Guten Abend aus Mainz” and “Blick ins Land”) and went on tour in Germany, France, Austria and Switzerland.

In 2003 his autobiography was published, in which he also described the sometimes conflicted collaboration with Schnuckenack Reinhardt and briefly mentioned that (unlike in PR announcements from various record companies) he was not related to the Reinhardt family, to which Schnuckenack and Django Reinhardt belong .

Appreciation

In 2009 he received the Order of Merit of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate for his life's work, which "is not only based on his work as a musician, but also on his ability to pass on musicality to the younger generations" . Albert Treber made the film Daweli Swing about him and his family in the same year : Family, Jazz and Courage.

Fonts

  • Daweli Reinhardt / Joachim Hennig: 100 years of music by the Reinhardts - Daweli tells his life. Verlag Dietmar Fölbach, Koblenz 2012 (3rd supplemented edition), ISBN 978-3-934795-24-2

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Koblenz mourns Alfons Daweli Reinhardt (†) . Blick aktuell, December 13, 2016, accessed on December 15, 2016.
  2. ↑ Koblenz Daweli Reinhardt receives the Rhineland-Palatinate Order of Merit for lifetime achievement . Rhein-Zeitung , December 19, 2009, via Joachim Hofmann-Göttig's website, accessed on December 15, 2016.
  3. ↑ Daweli Swing - family, jazz and courage, film info and trailer . TodayKino !, accessed on December 15, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Reinhardt, Daweli
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reinhardt, Alfons
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz musician (guitar, composition)
DATE OF BIRTH July 18, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Wiesbaden
DATE OF DEATH December 10, 2016
Place of death Koblenz