Herwig Strobl

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Herwig Strobl (born December 24, 1940 in Oberneukirchen / Mühlviertel ; † March 12, 2019 in Linz ) was an Austrian musician , writer and composer .

Life and family

Herwig Strobl was born as the third of four sons of Emma and the teacher Herbert Strobl in Oberneukirchen in the Mühlviertel in Upper Austria . In 1941 - during the Second World War - his father became the local group leader of the National Socialists (NS) in Reichenau im Mühlkreis , whereupon the family moved there. Two of Herwig Strobl's aunts fell victim to the Nazi euthanasia program ; they were gassed and burned in Hartheim Castle .

Herwig Strobl dedicated his life to music, by organizing “Jewish walks” in Linz to come to terms with the dark history of his family and to protect the environment.

Herwig Strobl has three sons.

death

Herwig Strobl suffered a heart attack during a concert in the Landesgalerie Linz . He did not come to a presentation of a new ensemble planned for June 2019.

Musical creation

He completed classical training on the violin , was a member of the Linz Chamber Orchestra (under Balduin Sulzer ) for about 15 years , concertmaster in the Linz Baroque Ensemble and in the Linz Chamber Choir under Helmut Eder , played in a piano trio and then made street music.

In the summer of 1982 he took part in a street music festival in Oldenburg with the Regensburg flautist Uli Förster . Then he became a member of the Vienna Ensemble for Yiddish songs " Geduldig un Thimann ". Herwig Strobl founded the ensemble 10 strings 1 bogen . From 1982 to 2006 he had around 1,500 gigs in 14 countries, including a. with Angels Company (with harpist Angela Stummer, Vienna) and with Michael Korth - songs by Carl Mich. Bellman "11 strings OSTGEFÄLLE" (with the Macedonian accordionist Atanas Dinovski: 2008 to April 2013 / CD: "From Dublin to Dubai").

The focus of his musical occupation was: Jewish music, including Klezmer, Celtic Folk and Swedish folk music. On his Bracciolina d´amore, a unique piece by the violin maker Falk Peters from Aachen , he recorded a solo CD at the suggestion of the concentration camp survivor Bernard Offen, Cracow : Improvisations to melodies by Mordechai Gebirtig in the 1995 restored Izaak Synagogue Cracow, their Acoustics are defined by seven seconds of reverberation.

Incidental music

  • 1988: Ghetto - Landestheater Linz
  • 1990: Zhitomir, Elie Wiesel - Landestheater Salzburg
  • The Palestinian woman. J. Sobol - State Theater Linz
  • Hallein - theater “bodi end sole”: Die Tschickweiber - with Ursula Schuller
  • 1998: Walter Kohl's scenic oratorio: The Pyramids of Hartheim. Hartheim Castle

Sound carrier

  • Solo:
    • Music in the Izaak Synagogue, Cracow: Bayit Chadash. CD, solo: Bracciolina d'amore. Extra plate (1996)
  • with Angels Company:
    • Land of my youth. LP / CD (1989)
  • with 10 strings 1 bow:
    • In the shtetl. LP 1988
    • Schpil still eat amol! Yiddish songs & Hasidic dances. CD (1992)
    • Samovar. Yiddish songs, Klesmer music ... CD (1999)
    • Don't contribute to without you guys. Festival of Political Song 1997 - Europacamp am Attersee against racism, xenophobia and anti-Semitism. CD (1997)
  • with patient and Thimann:
    • A shtetl is America. CD (1986)
  • with Ensemble Levante: (composition by Herwig Strobl)
  • with Ludwig Attersee:
    • From Dublin to Dubai: Ensemble> 11 strings OSTGEFÄLLE <

literature

  • Time centrifuge. Time-critical poems. Graphic: Gottfried Alexander Nowak. Linz 1977
  • On the way. Musical reminiscences. Edition Sandkorn 2001. Franz Stein Maßl. Grünbach. ISBN 3-900943-81-8
  • Linz and back. Fifteen hiking trails. With 152 photos by Christian Herzenberger. Trauner V., Linz 2003. ISBN 3-85487-536-3
  • To survive. Subject IN variations: 43 ½ posts. V. Denkmayr. Linz 2006. ISBN 978-3-902709-22-6
  • Linz grotesque. 49 + 2 Linzers tell their stories. V. Denkmayr, Linz 2008. ISBN 978-3-902598-43-1
  • My seventh sense. Timeless poems from now. bayer publishing house. ISBN 978-3-902814-94-4
  • 66 erotic sonnets - 2013. Self-published

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Founder of "10 Saiten 1 Bogen" died orf.at March 13, 2019, accessed March 13, 2019.
  2. ↑ Linz musician and author Herwig Strobl passed away at mein district.at, March 13, 2019, accessed March 13, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Strobl, Herwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian author and musician
DATE OF BIRTH December 24, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Reichenau in the Mühlkreis
DATE OF DEATH March 12, 2019
Place of death Linz