Gerold Karl Hannabach

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Gerold Karl Hannabach (born July 5, 1928 in Schönbach ; † April 11, 2015 in Bubenreuth ) was a German guitar maker.

Life

Gerold Karl Hannabach grew up in a family of string makers in Schönbach / Egerland, today's Luby / CZ. There he attended the college for string instrument making and took violin and bow making subjects. At the age of 16 he had to march to war and was taken prisoner by the French.

At the age of 17 he followed the proven Schönbachers who had found a new home around Bubenreuth , and began an apprenticeship as a plucked instrument maker with Arnold Hoyer in Tennenlohe , who also came from Schönbach. He completed this in 1953 with the journeyman's examination. In the same year he set up his own workshop in Bubenreuth.

At first he kept afloat with the mass production of traveling guitars. In 1966 he passed the exam as a master guitar builder. This was followed by the appointment as a specialist teacher at the "training workshops for musical instrument making" in Bubenreuth and the appointment as 2nd head master of the guild. From 1969 onwards, Hannabach only sold individually built instruments "to interested players and soloists".

In 1973 he went on a study and information trip through Spain, where he exchanged ideas with well-known guitar makers such as Hernandez and Fleta. Since 1978 Hannabach has been a lecturer in international "guitar building seminars". In 1979 he was a major co-founder of the "Bubenreuth Violin Making Museum", which he has been accompanying expertly since then. In 1980 he was appointed "Publicly appointed and sworn expert for the plucked instrument making trade".

In 2002 he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon.

Gerold Karl Hannabach built more than 4000 instruments, hiking guitars, children's guitars, ukuleles and, last but not least, the soloist guitars that brought his name into the world. His son Karl decided early on to follow in his father's footsteps and continue the tradition.

literature

  • Gerd Bossems and Birgit Möllering: "I couldn't imagine a better job than making plucked instruments". Interview with the guitar maker Gerold Karl Hannabach. In: Guitar & Laute 4, 1982, 1, pp. 19-22.
  • Gerold Karl Hannabach, Profile, nova giulianiad, Volume 1 / No. 4/84.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary notice of the community. In: Erlanger Nachrichten of April 13, 2015.
  2. ↑ Martin Blank interviews GKH ( Memento from April 18, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ The family Hannabach ( Memento of 4 March 2016 Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Gerd Bossems and Birgit Möllering (1982), p. 22.
  5. ↑ Hans Reiss: Erlanger Nachrichten of April 14, 2015 p. 28
  6. ↑ Obituary of the "Bubenreutheum"
  7. ↑ Hannabach. Building a master guitar . Documentary by Frank Müller
personal data
SURNAME Hannabach, Gerold Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German guitar maker
DATE OF BIRTH July 5, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Schönbach
DATE OF DEATH April 11, 2015
Place of death Bubenreuth