Ernst Ströer

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Ernst Ströer (2006)

Ernst Ströer (born January 8, 1963 in Munich ) is a German musician (percussion, drums), arranger, composer and music producer.

Live and act

Ströer, who was already involved in the recordings of his brother Hans Peter Ströer in 1979 , played from 1981 to 1985 as a percussionist in Volker Kriegel's Mild Maniac Orchestra ; he was involved in Kriegel's albums Journal and Schöne Aussichten . As a studio musician, he worked on record productions by Andreas Vollenweider , Anne Haigis , Konstantin Wecker , Harald Haerter , Rosanna & Zélia , Pippo Pollina and others. v. a. With.

In 1982 he and his brother founded the Hans P. and Ernst Ströer music publishing company . The Ströer Bros. jointly release their own fusion records with an experimental character on Mood Records (Ströer Bros. - “Escape route Madagascar” and “Nomaden” with Howard Fine). In 1987 the Goethe-Institut initiated a Southeast Asia tour of the Ströer Bros. nomads project . Soundtracks were released on Ilusion Records' own label .

In the mid-1980s, Ströer Bros. established itself as a production team. Between 1985 and 1998 Ernst Ströer produced and arranged twelve albums with Udo Lindenberg in a team with brother Hans and the director Horst Königstein . These include the album “Hermine” with the participation of Marlene Dietrich (this is where Dietrich's last sound recording was made before her death), and the orchestral CD “Belcanto” with the German Film Orchestra Babelsberg . Since 1986 numerous other record projects as producer, arranger and musician together with Hans P. Ströer, u. a. for Wigald Boning , Marianne Rosenberg .

In 1988 the Ströer brothers took over the program design and musical direction of the Seoul Art Disco , the official German cultural contribution to the Olympic Arts Festival at the Summer Olympics in Seoul , South Korea. They produce numerous records that were put on there by DJ WestBam .

Since 1988 Ernst Ströer has written film scores , including for the television film "Coming In" with Franka Potente and the series "Berlin Break" by Wolfgang Petersen (Universal) as well as stage music for theater productions in Basel, Bad Hersfeld, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hanover, Mannheim, Munich and Vienna.

Together with Klaus Doldinger's band Passport , to which Ernst Ströer has been a member since 1989, he played hundreds of concerts on tours at home and abroad (Switzerland, Austria, South Africa, Brazil, Morocco) and can now be heard on twelve Passport CDs.

In 1992 and 1993 Ernst Ströer produced two radio plays by Hans Turner for Südwestfunk . From 1994 to 1998 he studied composition with HC Mylla, Munich. In 2007 and 2010 he was involved in the recordings for Christian Prommers Drumlesson . The book Das MusikHörBuch - From Passive to Active Music Enjoyment, which he wrote with his brother, was published by Schott in 2008.

2010 with Doldinger's "Passport"

Prizes and awards

Ernst Ströer received in 1982 (together with the Mild Maniac Orchestra) the German Record Prize and 1986 (for nomads ) the Prize of the German Record Critics .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Rüsenberg : Discussion of the Ströer Brothers albums with Howard Fine
  2. ↑ Ilusion Records
  3. ↑ cf. Jürgen Wölfer : Jazz in Germany. The encyclopedia. All musicians and record companies from 1920 until today. Hannibal, Höfen 2008, ISBN 978-3-85445-274-4 , p. 330.
  4. ↑ Stephan Becker: Subversive Gesamtkunstwerk: Interview with Jürgen Drews, Peter Bohn and Julia Mang-Bohn in: Baunetzwoche , issue 332, 2013, p. 8
  5. ↑ Ernst Ströer in the Internet Movie Database (English)
personal data
SURNAME Ströer, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musician, arranger, composer and music producer
DATE OF BIRTH January 8, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich , Germany