Hans Peter Ströer

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Hans Peter Ströer (* 1956 in Munich ) is a German musician and composer .

Life and career

At the age of seven, Ströer was already composing his own rock 'n' roll pieces on the guitar, and when he was eleven he founded his first band. Ströer learned music theory and piano in the 1960s at the Richard Strauss Conservatory and then at the University of Music in Munich.

At 17 he worked as a theater musician. At the beginning of the 1970s he became bassist in the Bobby Jones Trio , but he achieved greater fame especially from 1975 as bassist in the Mild Maniac Orchestra of Volker Kriegel , to which he belonged until the mid-1980s, which can also be heard on Biton Grooves . At the same time he became a sought-after studio musician and took part in recordings by Eberhard Schoener , Falco , Donna Summer , Amanda Lear , La Bionda and Gilbert Bécaud .

Since 1984 Ströer has composed music for over 150 films, including Heinrich Breloer's films such as Todesspiel , Die Manns , Speer and Er and Buddenbrooks . He also worked as a music producer (including for Udo Lindenberg's albums between 1986 and 1998, which received several gold records ).

The percussionist Ernst Ströer is his younger brother, with whom he played in the group Ströer Brothers and contributed to the official German cultural contribution art disco to the Olympic Arts Festival at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul .

Filmography (selection)

Awards

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