Hannes Schäfer

Hannes Schäfer 2008

Johannes Schäfer (born October 2, 1965 in Göttingen ) is a German doctor and former rock musician ( bass , vocals ). In 1987 he was a founding member of the German rock band Fury in the Slaughterhouse and their bassist until 1996. His second career is extraordinary for a rock star: At the height of his musical success, Schäfer left the band in 1996 to start studying medicine at the age of 30, which he followed up with approbation, doctorate, specialist medical degree and his own practice.

Career

Musician

Hannes Schäfer at the Fury in the Slaughterhouse farewell concert in August 2008

Schäfer's first band was the Hanoverian punk band Defekt in 1982 , in which he was bassist and singer . From 1985 to 1987 he played a. a. with Mousse T. in the jazz rock band CIT . During this time he also worked as a studio musician in the Stakkato Studio Hannover .

In 1987 Schäfer founded the rock band Fury in the Slaughterhouse together with Thorsten and Kai Wingenfelder as well as Rainer Schumann and Christof Stein-Schneider in Hanover , in which he played as bassist for nine years. In 1996 he was replaced by Christian Decker .

For the four albums Fury in the Slaughterhouse (1988), Mono (1992), The Hearing and the Sense of Balance (1995) and dto. (1996), Hannes Schäfer and his band were awarded four gold records . The band sold a total of around 3 million records from the time with Hannes Schäfer. Schäfer's band was very happy to perform: The Furys usually played over 100 concerts a year. A first foreign tour through Austria, Switzerland and Scandinavia was followed in 1992 on a very successful tour of the British Isles with Steve Harley . After the band made it into the US Billboard Charts in 1993, they went on a successful US tour in 1994, which was extended several times. It was during this time that the widely acclaimed video for the song When I'm dead and gone was shot under the direction of Cyndi Lauper .

Hannes Schäfer's time also saw the award of the Comet as the best rock act to Fury in the Slaughterhouse in 1995, in the same year as the music award's premiere, and the band was nominated for another award, the Echo, in the same year.

At the three farewell concerts in Hanover on the occasion of the dissolution of Fury in the Slaughterhouse in August 2008, Hannes Schäfer played again for one song each. He performed again with the Furys on May 14, 2011 in front of around 40,000 spectators in the AWD-Arena Hannover, when they got together again to celebrate Hannover 96's entry into the UEFA Europa League . In total, Schäfer played over 1400 concerts in front of an audience of around five million in his musical career.

Mediciners

Hannes Schäfer comes from a traditional medical family that has produced doctors and university lecturers over several generations. His grandfather Otto Schmidt headed the Institute for Forensic Medicine and Criminology at the University of Göttingen from 1949 to 1962 and is still well known in specialist circles under his nickname "Mord-Otto". Schmidt's daughter, Hannes Schäfer's mother Sonja Sybille Schäfer was one of the first women to be a professor at the Hannover Medical School.

After leaving Fury in the Slaughterhouse, Hannes Schäfer studied medicine at the Georg-August University in Göttingen and at the Hannover Medical School . After completing his studies , he did his doctorate at the MHH and then worked there as a surgeon . Later he trained as a gynecologist in the Hanoverian Nordstadtkrankenhaus and in the Vinzenzkrankenhaus Hanover and now works as a specialist in gynecology in his own practice in Hanover-List.

Web links

• Newspaper interview with Hannes Schäfer , Göttinger Tageblatt , July 18, 2010
• Schäfer's practice website