Hans Reffert

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Hans Reffert (2006)

Hans Reffert (born July 19, 1946 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein ; † February 21, 2016 in Mannheim ) was a German musician , composer and artist. He became known to a wider audience as the long-time guitarist of Guru Guru , but he was also a member of numerous other bands and projects.

Life

Hans Reffert (left) live with Guru Guru (2007)

Hans Reffert studied painting with Franz Nagel from 1962 to 1963 , then guitar with Sigi Schwab , and from 1966 also flute and composition in Mannheim. Since 1976 he has created commissioned compositions for the Nationaltheater Mannheim and other theaters, and since 1988 also for cinema and television productions.

As a musician he had been with Sigi Schwab since 1960, from 1970 to 1975 he formed the psychedelic folk duo Flute + Voice with Hans Brandeis , later he was guitarist, singer or flautist in groups such as Guru Guru (from 1984), Zauberfinger (with Lisa Kraus and Rolf Schaude, both of whom were also temporarily with Guru Guru), Gentle Love or Schrammel & Slide (with Adax Dörsam ). He has long-standing projects and friendships with many musicians in the Rhine-Neckar region, such as Mani Neumeier (Guru Guru) and Dorle Ferber (Nationaltheater Mannheim, Guru Guru, Cochise , Elster Silberflug , Zeitenwende and Zyma ) and Bernd Köhler (ewo 2 ) and you helped each other out on projects.

Since 1971 he has also participated in art exhibitions with paintings and objects. He was also active as a journalist.

Hans Reffert lived and worked in Mannheim. He died on February 21, 2016 at the age of 69. His final resting place is in the Bergfriedhof in Heidelberg .

Discography

Solo:

  • Beuysz In New York (1998, Vineta Music Publishing)
  • Western Bb9 (2008)

with Flute + Voice :

  • Imaginations of Light (1970, Pilz Rec.)
  • Hello Rabbit (recorded 1973, released 1995)
  • Dragon songs (1996, material from 1974 to 1975)

with Thomas Vogel :

  • Songs of Thomas Vogel (1976, Nature)
  • Whispers in Screams (1978, Nature)

with Werner Pöhlert :

  • Collective Early Music (1976, Impromptu)

with magic finger : (among others with Dorle Ferber, Lisel Kraus, Wolfgang Biersch, Fips Baum, Reiner Herzog)

  • Slide (80s, Gevox - only released in Italy and Japan)
  • Shizzo Rock (1980, SOWA)
  • Magic Finger 2 (1981, New World)

with hose :

  • Great common ground (1981, plans)
  • When the city awakens (1984, third)

with idols :

  • The Idols (1982, Bellaphon)
  • Close up / Stake in the flesh (1982, Bellaphon)

with Borgward :

  • Perplex (1982, Bacillus-Bellaphon)
  • Bermuda Triangle / Predominantly Bright (1982, Bellaphon)

with Guru Guru :

  • Guru Mani Neumeier's New Adventures (1983)
  • Jungle (1987)
  • Cosmic Hole - Single (white vinyl, ca.1987)
  • Guru Guru 88 (1988)
  • Shake Well (1993)
  • Moshi Moshi (1997)
  • In The Guru Lounge (2005)
  • Psy (2008)
  • Doublebind (2011)
  • Electric Cats (2013)
  • GURU GURU - live in concert (DVD / Blu-ray, 2016, musiker.de )

with gentle love : (among others with Kosho, today sons of Mannheim)

  • Gentle Love (1987, Face Records)
  • New Flowers (1991, Face Records)

with Schramml & Slide :

  • Deffert + Rörsam (1991, with Mani Neumeier)
  • Deux (1993)
  • HellBillies from Venus (1995, with Matthias Dörsam )
  • yes yes (1997)
  • famous for not being famous (1999)
  • Pow Wow (2003)
  • Sieben / Seven (2011)

with Can White Boys Sing The Blues :

  • Can White Boys Sing The Blues (1996)
  • Collecting Hearts (1997)

with Claus Boesser-Ferrarri :

  • Afternoon of a Faun (2003)

with Mani Neumeier :

  • The Devil and His Guru (2010)

with Werner Goos

  • Stone Cold & Broken (2011)
  • I Can't Stop the Voices In My Head (2014, musiker.de)

with Michael Bauer and Wolfgang Schuster :

  • Weltunnergangblues - speeches and music (2015, musiker.de)

Other project participation:

  • Rock'n Roll Cirkus Mannheim (1979) in the circus tent Bonanza, (1985) Alte Feuerwache Mannheim
  • Music for Adolf Wölfli (1988)

Filmography

Web links

Commons : Hans Reffert  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mannheim: Rock guitarist Hans Reffert has died. In: morgenweb.de. February 22, 2016. Retrieved February 22, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Reffert, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musician, composer and artist
DATE OF BIRTH July 19, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Ludwigshafen am Rhein , Germany
DATE OF DEATH February 21, 2016
Place of death Mannheim