Florian Weber (rock musician)

Florian Weber at a concert in Schrobenhausen

Florian "Flo" Weber (born May 28, 1974 in Schrobenhausen ) is a drummer and member of the rock band Sportfreunde Stiller . He is a freelance artist, qualified sports scientist and author of three novels.

music

He is the drummer of the band Sportfreunde Stiller, founded with Peter Brugger in 1996, successfully with songs from his own pen such as 54,74,90,2014, ApplausApplaus, Never Let Me Go ( MTV Unplugged ) etc. - Music award winner 3 × Echo , 3 × 1LiveCrown . In 2006 he played drums with Bastian Schweinsteiger in front of the Brandenburg Gate at the reception of the national team to celebrate third place.

With the songs It must be something wonderful (to be loved by me) and Lumpi he switches from the drums to the microphone.

He was singer and guitarist for the Heroes (Hardcore) football field. The band existed from 2003 to 2006. Members were: his brother Jörg Weber (studied jazz saxophonist / arranger / lecturer at music college), Schwippschwager Markus Schäfer (Cosmic Casino and Instrument) and Martin "Mäcki" Messerschmidt (drummer for Notwist and Schweisser).

In 2012 Weber was a tour drummer with Fiva & the Phantom Orchestra, together with the musician Rüdiger Linhof.

With the Frankfurt band Harmful he sat on the drums for the record "Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired" in 2013, as well as on the subsequent tour.

In 2018 he founded the noise rock duo Taskete with Aren Emirze ! , the album was released on Millaphon Records. About 50 concerts followed.

Since 2010 he has hosted a 2-hour radio show "Die Sportflo DJ Show" on Puls / BR (previously on3 / BR) once a month.

The Seattle Sound System is the DJ duo Markus Schäfer and Florian Weber. You are traveling in Germany, Austria and Switzerland and bring the alternative sound of the '90 to the present.

Sports

Raised in a family crazy about sports , after successes in gymnastics, swimming (Upper Bavarian champion 1983), basketball and above all football (trial training at FC Bayern 1991), he studied sports science , which he did in 2001 at the Technical University of Munich in the field of prevention / Successfully completed rehabilitation.

author

In 2006 Weber published his first novel You'll never walk alone with Rowohlt Verlag , edition: 2006, ISBN 3-499-24291-5 as an author and illustrator with a subsequent reading tour, a. a. with Sportfreunde Stiller.

In 2007 he created the tour book "Tourbo-ok" for Sportfreunde Stiller. A book with photos and texts for the "LaBum" tour.

In 2012 the second novel Grimms Erben was published by Walde und Graf. Among other things, the novel received attention in programs such as Druckfrisch - Neue Bücher with Denis Scheck. His quote: “Florian Weber has written a wild collage that leaps through the centuries, gathers the greatest motifs, colors, places and smells, which is great fun to tell. The chilli pepper in the bland pulp of German literature! ” ISBN 978-3-8493-0000-5

He wrote various publications / essays in magazines including Nido , InMünchen, Abendzeitung München / Sportteil, WASD Bookazine etc.

art

In 2013 Florian Weber presented pictures / collages / interpretations on canvas and objects to / with lyrics from the Sportfreunde CD "New York, Rio, Rosenheim" in his exhibition "Liederschau" in the Millerntor Gallery Hamburg, in the Ramones Museum in Berlin, in the TrukTschechtarow Gallery in Munich and in the Executioner's House in Passau.

His exhibition "Hirrnwirrn" was on view in 2018 in the producers' gallery Passau and in the TrukTschechtarow gallery in Munich.

In 2019 he was part of the group exhibition “Deficits in reflection? - Humorous pictures and drawings from the opinion dictatorship in the TrukTschechtarow Gallery in Munich ”.

Web links

• Literature by and about Florian Weber in the catalog of the German National Library
• Interview from October 2007
• Grimm's fairy tale meeting at hot off the press

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bayerischer Rundfunk: Tracks of the Week # 34/18: Taskete !, Mac Miller, Cuco & Clairo, Alaskalaska, Yoke Lore | BR.de . August 17, 2018 ( br.de [accessed August 20, 2018]).