Helmut Nieberle

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Helmut Nieberle at the St. Ingbert Jazz Festival 2016

Helmut Nieberle (born June 22, 1956 in Kaufbeuren ; † February 9, 2020 in Regensburg ) was a German jazz guitarist .

Live and act

Nieberle turned to the guitar as an autodidact when he was twelve . In 1973 he discovered the music of Django Reinhardt ; In 1978, when he attended a concert by Barney Kessel , he completed various workshops in America with Joe Pass , Attila Zoller , Barney Kessel, Herb Ellis , Karl Ratzer , Jim Hall and Peter Leitch . In 1979 he began as a solo guitarist in Richard Wiedamann's Rabo Swing machine . In 1980 he studied correspondence course at the Berklee School of Music Big Band - Arrangement . Django Reinhardt's music influenced his first own band, Stringbag (with violinist Stefan Kalmer).

In 1982 the duo Voice & Strings was formed together with the singer Axel Prasuhn . In the following year he worked with Häns'che Weiss and founded the quintet Cordes Sauvages , with whom he released several albums. In 1987 he met Helmut Kagerer , with whom he formed a long-standing, critically acclaimed guitar duo project that presented various albums. Occasionally he also played with Joe Kienemann . In addition, recordings were made with Arthur Blythe , Jim Mullen , The Kagerer Four , Otto Sander , Albert Josipovic, David Gazarov , Jeanne Gies and Milorad Romic. Nieberle also created theater music in Augsburg. The participation in the ensemble 'Bolero Berlin' was of great importance to him, to which he belonged from the time it was founded in 2008 until his death, and which he enriched overwhelmingly with his playing and his compositions.

Nieberle has been teaching at the municipal music school in Regensburg, at the Free Music Center in Munich, at the University of Augsburg and at various adult education centers since 1980 .

Nieberle lived in Regensburg, where he died after a long, serious illness ( multiple myeloma ). He performed eight days before his death.

Prizes and awards

Together with Kagerer, Nieberle received the Free State of Bavaria's Culture Prize in 1991. In 2007 the duo received the Archtop Germany Award .

Discographic notes

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary notice in the Mittelbayerische Zeitung from February 12, 2020
  2. ↑ Crazy virtuoso - jazz guitarist Helmut Nieberle has died. In: Donaukurier , February 10, 2020. Accessed February 11, 2020.
  3. ↑ Ensemble performance of 'Bolero Berlin'
  4. ↑ Obituary at sueddeutsche.de
  5. ↑ Obituary (Roland Spiegel, BR)
  6. ↑ meeting
personal data
SURNAME Nieberle, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz guitarist
DATE OF BIRTH June 22, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Kaufbeuren
DATE OF DEATH February 9, 2020
Place of death regensburg