Frank Jürgen Krüger

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Frank Jürgen (stage name Eff Jott) Krüger (born December 24, 1948 in Berlin ; † April 26, 2007 there ) was a German rock musician .

Live and act

Born in Berlin-Weißensee , Frank Jürgen Krüger learned the trade of toolmaker and later studied mechanical engineering.

He originally came from the jazz and blues scene, where he played guitar with the band X-Pectors in the trendy clubs of West Berlin. Together with bassist Ernst Ulrich Deuker , drummer Hans-Joachim Behrendt (previously with Volker Kriegel's Mild Maniac Orchestra ) and singer and keyboardist Annette Humpe , he founded the band Ideal in the spring of 1980 , which started with the first single Berlin , a local anthem the then walled city, became known. The debut album, on which Krüger can also be heard as a singer in the song Hundsgemein , was released in late 1980 and sold more than a million times. With other songs like Blaue Augen and Monotonie , Ideal became one of the most important bands of the Neue Deutsche Welle . In 1983 the band broke up ( Graves' rock lexicon speculates because the men demanded more participation from Mrs. Humpe), then a live album was released.

Grave of Eff Jott Krüger in the Heerstrasse cemetery in Berlin-Westend

Eff Jott Krüger then played for Kralle Krawinkel (from Trio ), Ash Ra Tempel and Alphaville . In 1994 Krüger joined the Berlin band Lassie Singers . As a sought-after guitarist, he was represented on many other music productions, also on soundtracks and occasionally as a background singer.

Frank Jürgen Krüger died on April 26, 2007 in a Berlin hospital as a result of a long history of cancer. He left a son. His grave is in the state-owned cemetery Heerstraße in Berlin-Westend (grave location: 4-B-embankment-2).

Bela B dedicated the guitar down to him in 2007 , and Wolfgang Niedecken dedicated the song Kron or Turban to him in 2008 .

Trivia

Krüger collected vintage cars; he owned several Mercedes-Benz and Maseratis , sold them on or loaned them out to event companies and film productions; this also earned him small acting roles like the one at the side of Kenneth Branagh as his driver in the docu-drama The Wannsee Conference and as Gestapo officer in the documentary "Rote Kapelle" by Stefan Roloff .

With his light and short hair he looked a little unusual for a rock musician. That is why he jokingly claimed during his time with Ideal that he was 53 years old. In truth, he was 20 years younger.

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Web links

Commons : Frank Jürgen Krüger  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 . Pp. 489-490.
  2. ↑ taurus-press.de: Ideal
personal data
SURNAME Kruger, Frank Jürgen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kruger, Eff Jott
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German rock musician
DATE OF BIRTH December 24, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH April 26, 2007
Place of death Berlin