Günter Timischl

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Günter Timischl, 2013

Günter Timischl (born May 11, 1948 in Fürstenfeld , Styria ) is an Austrian songwriter , musician and singer . He is a founding member of the Austrian band STS and has also played in numerous other well-known formations.

biography

Timischl comes from a music-loving family. While his parents worked as folk musicians in song circles, Günter was interested in American rock 'n' roll music. At the age of nine he was already considered an exceptional talent on the guitar and made his first appearance in the Graz Chamber Hall.

At the age of fourteen he founded his first music group "Little Band" with two friends. At that time, the Beatles and the Rolling Stones were his role models. From 1963 to 1968 he was the band leader and singer in his second band "Atlantis". At the beginning of 1969 he joined the formation “The Time”, which was then renamed “The New Time”. Timischl left the group in July 1969 due to differences of opinion. In August of the same year, he and friends founded the band Magic 69 in his home town of Fürstenfeld , with which he became known throughout Austria.

At that time he earned his living with small appearances and as a guest musician with the First General Insecurity and with Opus . There he got to know Gert Steinbäcker and Schiffkowitz , who also worked for the EAV. The first appearances in the home region of the newly founded trio STS brought only moderate success, which is why the three musicians separated again after working together for several months.

Günter Timischl returned to “Magic 69” and recorded his first long-playing record with German-language texts with the band, which included Carl Peyer and the later Austropop star Boris Bukowski as a drummer .

In addition, he took on temporary work and signed up for a UN mission in Cyprus ( UNFICYP ). After his return to Styria, he teamed up again with Steinbäcker and Schiffkowitz in 1978 and brought several of his own compositions into the STS formation. Due to the continued unsuccessfulness, the three musicians rejoined the First General Uncertainty until 1981, but continued to work on their own formation.

Timischl also played as a guest musician at live concerts and studio recordings for the Burgenland band "Opus". In 1980 the record company Ariola released the single "Da kummt die Sunn", on the back of which you can find Timischl's own composition "Geht's da guat".

In 1984 he celebrated his breakthrough with STS and the piece “Fürstenfeld” arranged by Schiffkowitz and only brought to the LP “Überdosis G'fühl” as a filler . The original foreign composition has been part of the group's program for some time and was given a new text by Schiffkowitz with reference to the “Heimatmenschen” Timischl. It became the band's all-time hit.

In the same year Timischl experienced the birth of the hit “ Live Is Life ” as a guitarist at his last concert with “Opus”, which climbed to the top of all charts in Europe and overseas from the summer of 1984 and is still a single over 15 million times sold.

Then he withdrew from “Opus” in order to concentrate on the collaboration with Steinbäcker and Schiffkowitz after his breakthrough with STS. For “Grenzlos”, the successor to “Überdosis G'fühl” published in 1985, he composed and wrote the pieces “Miracles of my Bliss” and “Anfach Fort”.

In addition, he often helped out - especially for old friends - as a guest or studio musician. For Boris Bukowski he sang z. B. 1985 on his first solo LP "Boris Bukowski" in the choir and in 1989 he played the acoustic guitar on "100 hours a day". At the beginning of the 1990s he played for the "Magic 69 Reunion" and also performed with the band at concerts. In 1991, together with Andi Beit , he composed the music for Bukowski's "Zwei Linien Zärtlichkeit" and was active as a background singer on some tracks.

STS 2013 (center)

In 2002 he was awarded the Josef Krainer Prize for his work and in 2012 he was awarded the Gold Medal for Services to the Republic of Austria .

Private

Günter Timischl is married, has two children and lives with his wife Lotte on a farm in Fürstenfeld. Apart from STS, he produces for music groups from Styria.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of winners of the Medal of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria . Retrieved December 11, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Timischl, Günter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian songwriter, musician and singer
DATE OF BIRTH May 11, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Fürstenfeld , Styria , Austria