Dietmar Gehrer

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Dietmar Gehrer (born February 7, 1955 in Höchst , Vorarlberg ) is an Austrian-Swiss tattoo artist . He opened his studio in Rheineck in 1974 , making him the first established tattoo artist in Switzerland.

Life

Dietmar Gehrer is an Austrian citizen by birth and grew up in Höchst / Vorarlberg . At the age of twelve, Dietmar "Dischy" Gehrer tattooed a school colleague. At 16 he built his first tattoo machine, and one year later he moved to Switzerland. A tattoo studio in Vorarlberg would have been unthinkable in 1974. "Back then there was still a law that prohibited tattooing ... the law came from the 18th century," said Gehrer in an interview on January 1, 2021 on FM1 radio . At the age of 18 he tattooed his first customers in a back room of the Gasthaus Sonne in Rheineck, and in 1974 he opened a tattoo studio there. In 1975 he got in touch with Horst Linienbachfrom whom he acquired his first professional tattoo equipment.

In 1977, Gehrer took the only non-German tattoo artist at an information meeting in Hanover in part, to the Horst Streckenbach and Manfred Kohrs some established tattoo artists - including Edward Szustak »Tattoo Eddy" († 23 January 1993 Fürth), Herbert Hoffmann , Heinrich Dietz and Theodor Vetter - and Dietmar Gehrer too. The purpose of this meeting was to found a national association in order to subsequently introduce technical and hygienic standards.

In 2012, Gehrer realized an art project entitled “Signs of Life” with the pop art artist Marco De Lucca. The result of the collaboration between Marco De Lucca and Dischy could be seen on the occasion of the reopening of the Bodensee-Galerie in Altenrhein .

Memberships

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documentation

On September 4, 1978, the previous evening program Carousel reported on "the first tattoo studio in Switzerland, run by Dietmar 'Dischy' Gehrer". In a consignment of 30 September 2020 reached SRF in the series Archives beads back to this issue under the title What happened? The first tattoo artist in Switzerland . “Dietmar 'Dischy' Gehrer was the first tattoo artist in Switzerland. Almost 50 years after opening his tattoo studio in Rheineck, the tattoo pioneer is reunited. In an interview he tells what he has experienced tattooing over the years. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ René Schneider: When I was twelve I tattooed a colleague. In: St. Galler Tagblatt of October 8, 2014, accessed on December 25, 2020.
  2. ↑ Krisztina Scherrer: Despite all opposition: This is the first tattoo artist in Switzerland, Radio FM1 editorial team from January 1, 2021, accessed on January 2, 2021.
  3. ↑ Manfred Kohrs , Ole Wittmann : Die Tattoo-Forschers , in: Tattoo Kulture Magazine 35, November / December 2019, p. 26.
  4. ^ Gisele Luther: Hamburg, Rotterdam, Rheineck In: Insight , Rheineck city administration.
  5. ↑ «I tattooed the first one when I was twelve» Dietmar Gehrer opened the first tattoo studio in Switzerland 40 years ago in Rheineck. In: 20 minutes October 9, 2014.
  6. ↑ Manfred Kohrs: Straßenbach, mentor of the tattoo youth , in: Tattoo Kulture Magazine 34, September / October 2019, p. 28.
  7. ↑ Tattoo Kulture Magazine from September 15, 2019: Issue No.34: Manfred Kohrs :streckenbach mentor of the tattoo youth.
  8. ↑ Source: Original of the invitations & visitor list. Herbert Hoffmann estate, Cantonal Library Trogen / Ch, Fig. 26.
  9. ↑ Oliver Paaß: Needle in, needle out. In: Tattoo Kulture Magazine Issue No.29 from January 20, 2019, p. 79.
  10. ↑ bodenseegalerie.ch , accessed on December 26, 2020.
  11. ↑ Pop art meets tattoo art in Tagblatt from September 13, 2012
  12. ↑ Painting and tattoo art. In: Bodensee Nachrichten No. 37 of September 14, 2012, p. 15.
  13. ↑ rheineck.ch accessed on December 25, 2020.
  14. ^ Association of Swiss Professional Tattooers (VST) , accessed on December 26, 2020.
  15. ↑ SRF of September 30, 2020, What happened to? The first tattoo artist in Switzerland .
personal data
SURNAME Gehrer, Dietmar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dischy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-Swiss tattoo artist
DATE OF BIRTH February 7, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Höchst , Vorarlberg