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Hansi Lang , born as Johann Otto Lang , (born January 13, 1955 in Vienna - Hernals ; † August 24, 2008 in Vienna) was an Austrian singer and actor.
Life
Hansi Lang was born on January 13, 1955 in the Vienna district of Hernals as the child of a US occupation officer (Albert Hicks) and a Bohemian mother (Emilie Lang). From 1958 Lang lived in the US Army facility near Les Ormes in France, before his family moved back to Vienna in 1961 - at the beginning of his school days.
Career start
At the age of 13, Lang was already a drummer in an amateur band. In the 1970s, Hansi Lang made a name for himself as a singer in various bands ("Plastic Drug" by Peter Schleicher , "Lord Proof and the Proofcats", Nostradamus).
Between 1970 and 1972 Lang made several appearances with his bands in Yugoslavia and Austria. He met Ludwig “Wickerl” Adam in 1975 and became a member of the Hallucination Company (alongside musicians such as Hans Hölzel, Günter Mokesch and Andy Baum, who later became known as Falco ) and played in this group until 1979. During this time he was also suitable Bass play on.
Soon afterwards he became known nationwide as a solo artist. He also worked with Marianne Sägebrecht in Germany and with Harri Stojka in Austria .
In 1980 Lang returned to the Hallucination Company. With the newly formed band, he then recorded his first single, Keine Angst . With his own band “Dreamboat” he became one of the best live acts of the then highly active Austrian music scene - especially in the legendary Vienna U4 (around the same time Falco started a world career there with his hit Der Kommissar ).
Breakthrough and crisis
In 1982 the "Schallter" record label was founded, which initially released four LPs. Lang was involved in two of them. At the beginning he produced the record Vision with the Hallucination Company and this was followed by his mini-album Keine Angst , which included the song of the same name. Shortly thereafter, the long-playing record Der Taucher came on the market, which was his first major commercial success. He sang the song Bikini Atoll with the group Minisex , also in 1982 .
In 1984 he released the record Ich oder Du and played the leading role in the Austrian film of the same name by Dieter Berner . Lang increasingly switched to acting and musicals, where he z. B. played 1985 in Wiener Brut with Peter Weibel and Peter Turrini . After serious health problems due to his drug addiction, Lang took an artistic break from 1986 for three years. His next album Hansi Lang , which was held in English, was released in 1989, but could not follow up on the early successes. Nevertheless, the concerts on his tour were well attended.
He also worked as a support group for international artists. In 1983 Hansi Lang appeared in the opening act for Supertramp in the Vienna Prater Stadium (today Ernst Happel Stadium ), in 1986 he played in front of Rod Stewart in the Hohe Warte stadium , and in 1987 Hansi Lang heated up the atmosphere in front of David Bowie (Glass Spider Tour).
Between 1990 and 1992, Lang focused on his acting career. For example, he played in the play Männerschmerz in the Wiener Metropol . Also in the Metropol, Lang presented his new album Losgeher in 1993 , which this time was again recorded with German lyrics.
In the further course of the 1990s he held several benefit concerts and played live again with the Hallucination Company. In 1997 there was also a short live reunion of Hansi Lang & The new Dreamboat. In addition, a live album called Spiele Leben Live was released, which was recorded in the Vienna Rockhaus (later Planet Music ).
Further career
In 2000, Lang played the autobiographical role as "Citizen Kain" in the musical F @ lco - A Cyber Show (directed by Paulus Manker ) at the Ronacher in Vienna . During this time he also appeared as a singer (of his old hits) with local bands (including the Viennese cover band Elf-11 or, recently, Don Juan & the others ).
Together with Thomas Rabitsch and Wolfgang Schlögl he founded the project The Slow Club in 2004 . For their joint album This Is the Slow Club , for which cover versions and reinterpretations of pieces from the Great American Songbook were recorded, they received the 2006 Austrian music award “ Amadeus ” in the category “Best Jazz / Folk / Blues Album”.
Lang then worked with Klaus Wienerroither on the program Die Bucht von Wien (including setting of poems by HC Artmann and new arrangements of Golowin songs by Friedrich Gulda ). Both the CD and the live program received high recognition from critics and interested music audiences.
Lang was also a socially committed artist (participation in Austria for Africa; Austria for Asia ; "Accepdance" anti-racism clubbing by SOS Mitmensch ; hepatitis aid Austria and much more ). In 2005 he acted as a juror at the protest song contest .
In the two years before his death, Lang worked with Rabitsch and Schlögl on the second Slow Club album. In contrast to the debut work, the three protagonists only played their own compositions. However, Lang did not live to see the release of the album: During the mixing work, he suffered a stroke in the recording studio , of which he died on the evening of August 24, 2008 at the Vienna General Hospital . Hansi Lang was buried on August 30, 2008 in the family grave at the Hernalser Friedhof in Vienna (group 64, row 3, number 11).
In November 2008 the Slow Club album House of Sleep and the DVD I played life , on which Lang and director Rudi Dolezal had worked for over a year and which gives an overview of his entire career, were released. The ORF dedicated the Hansi-Lang-Nacht to the artist on November 15, 2008 , the focus of which was on live excerpts with the Slow Club as well as the aforementioned newly released DVD.
On September 10, 2009, Hansi Lang was posthumously honored with an “Amadeus” for his life's work.
In February 2015, on the occasion of Hansi Lang's 60th birthday, the CD "Spiele Leben - Live" was reissued. The special thing about it is that it has been expanded to include a DVD that contains a previously unpublished recording of a concert in Vienna's Metropol from 1981. In 2018, the Döblingen district council decided to designate a community building in Saileräckergasse / Hutweidengasse 23–27 in Hansi-Lang-Hof. Lang had lived there and worked until his death.
Discography
Albums
| year | title |
|---|---|
| 1982 | No fear |
| The diver | |
| 1984 | Pyramid man |
| Me or you | |
| 1989 | Hansi Lang |
| 1993 | Loser |
| 1998 | Play Live - Live |
| 2015 | Games Live - Live CD & DVD |
Slow Club & The Bay of Vienna (2004–2008)
| year | title | Artist |
|---|---|---|
| 2004 | Welcome to the Slow Club (EP) | Slow Club |
| 2005 | This is the slow club | |
| 2008 | The bay of Vienna | Hansi Lang & Klaus Wienerroither |
| House of Sleep | Slow Club |
Singles
| year | title | Remarks |
|---|---|---|
| 1982 | I play life | c / w I'll see |
| Monte video | c / w sugar | |
| 1984 | Josefine | c / w run |
| 1989 | Chained Up | c / w A Stronger Love , My Blue Lover , No Limit |
| 1990 | What a feeling | c / w A moment in My Song |
| 1993 | Down in paradise | c / w child without time , the image of the devil & me , only you , fear |
| Hands on me | c / w The picture of the devil & me , only you (demo version) |
Compilations
| year | title |
|---|---|
| 1989 | Don't worry - all of his hits |
| 1997 | The Original Very Best Of |
| 2005 | Austropop cult |
| 2012 | The Best Of (Krone Edition) |
Awards
- 2006: Amadeus Austrian Music Award for This Is The Slow Club in the category “Jazz / Blues / Folk-Album of the year national” with The Slow Club
- 2006: Gold Medal of Merit of the City of Vienna
- 2009: Amadeus Austrian Music Award for his life's work
literature
- Fabian Burstein : Child without time - The intense life of Hansi Lang , biography, residence, Salzburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-7017-3126-8 .
Web links
- Hansi Lang in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Article on diepresse.com ( Memento from September 23, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- Works by and about Hansi Lang in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Chart tracking by Hansi Lang
- ↑ Johann Otto Lang. Vienna Cemeteries, accessed on July 17, 2020 .
- ↑ Cf. Fabian Burstein, Kind Without Time , in: FAQ; last accessed on February 13, 2018.
- ↑ biography on Hansi Lang's homepage
- ↑ Report in "Der Standard"
- ^ Farewell to Hansi Lang. In: oesterreich.orf.at. August 30, 2008. Retrieved November 23, 2017 .
- ^ Posthumous honor for Hansi Lang. In: derStandard.at. August 27, 2009, accessed December 6, 2017 .
- ↑ AVISO: Councilor for Housing, Kathrin Gaal, invites you tomorrow, Tuesday, to the ceremonial naming of the Hansi-Lang-Hof . OTS notification dated June 10, 2019, accessed June 10, 2019.
- ↑ Municipal housing at Saileräckergasse 8-14 solemnly named after Austro-Pop legend Hansi Lang . OTS notification dated June 11, 2019, accessed June 12, 2019.
- ↑ mein district.at “Hansi-Lang-Hof finally decided unanimously”, December 16, 2018
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Lang, Hansi |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lang, Johann Otto (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian singer and actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 13, 1955 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 24, 2008 |
| Place of death | Vienna |