Günther Fischer

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Günther Fischer (born June 23, 1944 in Teplitz-Schönau ) is a German jazz pianist , woodwind player , band leader and composer .

Life

Günther Fischer's family fled from Teplitz-Schönau to Zwickau after the war . He received violin and piano lessons from his parents and founded his own trio for guitar, bass and accordion in 1960. From 1960 to 1963 he studied music education at the Robert Schumann Conservatory in Zwickau . From 1965 to 1969 he continued his studies at the "Hanns Eisler" music college in East Berlin. He took lessons in clarinet, saxophone, conducting, composition and arrangement. At the same time he played in the Klaus Lenz band. In 1967 he founded his own jazz band together with the pianist Reinhard Lakomy , the drummer Wolfgang Zicke Schneider and the bassist Hans Schätzke , which in 1969, when guitarist Fred Baumert joined them, changed from the Günther Fischer quartet to the quintet (and in 1979 with the trumpeter Hans-Joachim Graswurm to form a sextet). Reinhard Lakomy was followed by Mario Peters on the keyboard . The band gave concerts with Uschi Brüning and Manfred Krug , later also with Veronika Fischer and Regine Dobberschütz .

Fischer played the piano , saxophone , flute and clarinet , wrote and also arranged music for the ensemble. In 1972 he became a lecturer at the "Hanns Eisler" University of Music in Berlin in the dance music department for the subjects of composition and arranging.

In 1967 he founded a jazz formation that still exists today as the Günther Fischer Band. Concert tours have taken the ensemble through Europe, Asia and Africa, among others. From 1969 to 1970 Armin Mueller-Stahl was also a member of the band with whom Günther Fischer worked from 1971 to 1972 for a record production and in a television show.

In the Kammerspiele of the Deutsches Theater Berlin , he appeared with Klaus Lenz and his pianist Reinhard Lakomy in the event series “ Jazz in the Chamber ”. He wrote songs for Manfred Krug (that was only a moment ) and Veronika Fischer ( declaration of love to Berlin , 1977). His first musical Jack the Ripper premiered in Celle in 1989 under the direction of Jürgen Kern and with Katrin Weber in the female and Hartwig Rudolz in the male lead . Further compositions for theater and ballet were created for the Burgtheater in Vienna and the Schauspielhaus Zurich .

His compositions are stylistically diverse, ranging from funk and soul jazz to beat and rock to the song-like, which is continued in his later film music. Among other things, he wrote the film music for Beautiful Gigolo, Poor Gigolo (Federal Republic of Germany 1978), Die große Flatter (Federal Republic of Germany 1979) and Didi and the Revenge of the Disinherited (Federal Republic of Germany 1985). Even after the fall of the Berlin Wall he wrote many film scores, for example for the television series Our Teacher Doctor Specht , Stefanie For All Cases , Dr. Kleist and The Last Witness .

1993 Manfred Krug Fischer threw in the news magazine Der Spiegel ago, reports about him for the Ministry of State Security of the GDR to have written. Fischer denied this accusation; however, other journalistic voices assume that Fischer was listed as IM "Günther".

Günther Fischer has lived in Cork, Ireland since 1997 and is the father of Laura Fischer, who is herself a singer in the band Laura Fischer & Band and with whom he occasionally appears.

Discography

  • 1969: Lenz for Fenz ( Amiga )
  • 1970: It was only a moment (Manfred Krug; Amiga)
  • 1971: Günther Fischer Quintet And Uschi Brüning (Amiga)
  • 1972: A touch of spring (Manfred Krug; Amiga)
  • 1973: Greens (Manfred Krug; Amiga)
  • 1974: Günther Fischer Quintett and Uschi Brüning And Sinphonic Orchestra (Amiga)
  • 1976: You are like new today (Manfred Krug; Amiga)
  • 1977: Declaration of love to Berlin (Veronika Fischer; Amiga)
  • 1978: Combination (quintet) (Amiga)
  • 1979: Beautiful Gigolo, Poor Gigolo (Original Soundtrack; Amiga)
  • 1979: Come to the Park of Sanssouci ( Dagmar Koller ; Amiga)
  • 1980: Film-Music (Amiga)
  • 1981: Songs from over there (Intercord)
  • 1984: Affair (Eberhard Büchner, Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin; Amiga)
  • 1984: Nightkill (Günther Fischer-Sound-Tracks; Amiga)
  • 1984: Jazz Jamboree (Muza)
  • 1988: Dream Visions (Musi Caudio)
  • 1989: All Way's Kaputt (Musi Caudio)
  • 1990: Streets of Berlin (Musi Caudio)
  • 1993: Marilyn Musical (Günther Fischer, Max Beinemann; Edel)
  • 1994: Deadly Money (Sound-Track) (BMG)
  • 2000: The New Adventures Of Pinocchio (released in the USA)
  • 2001: Jazz (Günther Fischer & Tom O'Hare; published in Ireland)
  • 2007: Günther Fischer (Complete Works) (Sony BMG)
  • 2015: Günther Fischer & Weimarer Staatskapelle - Live in Weimar (Edel)

Filmography (selection)

theatre

Awards

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ in the MDR on October 18, 2009 ( Memento from February 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Your smile enchants - Manfred Krug writes to Günther Fischer . In: Der Spiegel . No. 3 , 1993, p. 176 ( online ).
  3. ↑ About Denis Newiak: Günther Fischer. Tecumseh. In: Klaus-Dieter Felsmann (Hrsg.): Klang der Zeiten. Music in the DEFA feature film. An approximation. Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-86505-402-9 , p. 227 ff. Gabriele Michel: Armin Mueller Stahl - Die Biographie. Aufbau, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-7466-2659-8 , pp. 273 f., Quotes Mueller-Stahl literally: “Fischer was IM, that's true. I just make a big difference between IM and IM. ... But, I said to Krug, show me the wounds that Fischer left. Zero, zero. ”Mueller-Stahl himself writes in his autobiography that Fischer“ allegedly was an informal employee of the Stasi. Günther never hurt anyone. ”Armin Mueller-Stahl: Three times Germany and back. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2014, p. 126 (e-book) .
  4. ↑ Gosen is proud of Günther Fischer , accessed on August 27, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Fischer, Günther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz pianist, woodwind player, band leader and composer
DATE OF BIRTH June 23, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Teplitz-Schönau