Horst Fascher
Horst Fascher (born February 5, 1936 in Hamburg ) is a German music manager and music promoter . He was co-founder and managing director of the Hamburg Star Club .
Life
Horst Fascher initially wanted to be a seaman like his father, but he insisted on an apprenticeship as a ship carpenter and boat builder . When Horst Fascher saw a performance by jazz musician George Maycock in 1949 , his interest in music first awoke, which was later reinforced by a concert by Bill Haley .
From 1953 to 1959 Horst Fascher was active as a boxer and in 1953 Hamburg champion in featherweight. However, his career ended shortly before an upcoming fight against reigning Olympic champion Vladimir Jengibarjan because of an ongoing manslaughter trial.
In 1959 Fascher met Tony Sheridan on a competition trip to England . He brought him to performances in the Kaiserkeller and the Top Ten Club in Hamburg. In the top ten, Fascher was managing director at the beginning of the 1960s, but he left him because of disagreements and worked as a waiter on the Große Freiheit .
In 1962 he met Manfred Weissleder , who ran erotic bars and two cinemas in St. Pauli . Horst Fascher proposed to Weissleder to convert one of these cinemas into a music club. Weissleder agreed, and on April 13, 1962, the Star Club was opened. Horst Fascher became managing director and “booking manager”. He brought musicians like the Beatles into the club and thus established its world fame. The club closed in 1969.
In 1965 Horst Fascher had to serve a prison sentence. After his release in 1967 he went to Vietnam with Tony Sheridan , where he was the musical director of the American GIs . There he met his future wife Enry , who later became a singer with the Les Humphries Singers . In 1970 their son David Fascher was born.
In 1976 Horst Fascher opened the new "Star Club II" on Hamburg's Großneumarkt ; among the opening guests were Ringo Starr and Tony Sheridan. However, he did not have any success with this club. In the 1980s and 1990s he worked as a music promoter.
In 2006 Horst Fascher published his autobiography Let The Good Times Roll! He is the uncle of soccer coach Marc Fascher .
Horst Fascher lives in Hamburg. He has been married to Birgit Fascher since 2006.
Publications
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Let the good times roll! The Star Club founder tells. Autobiography. Recorded by Oliver Flesch . With greetings from Paul McCartney and Ray Charles . Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 3-8218-5631-9 .
Sound carrier: 1 CD (MP3). Read by Gerd Alzen. Radioropa audio book, Daun 2007, ISBN 978-3-8368-0013-6 . - with Carsten Wieland: Horst Fascher - The Guy who brought… Ed. Ralf Henninger. Art Empire Publishing, Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-9813682-0-8 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Horst Fascher in the catalog of the German National Library
- Horst Fascher in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Interview with Horst Fascher about the publication of his autobiography: Oliver Wasse on hamburg.de
- Bill Harry: A Man Called Horst on triumphpc.com (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Uli Grunert: See you again after 50 years. In: Schweriner People's Newspaper . April 5, 2011
- ↑ Detlef Siegfried : Time is on my side. Consumption and Politics in West German Youth Culture of the 1960s. Wallstein, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 3-8353-0073-3 , p. 214 ( limited preview in the Google book search)
- ^ A b Archive Rock and Revolte - Der Star-Club Hamburg , text taken from Dieter Beckmann, Claus Martens: Star-Club. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1980, ISBN 3-498-00459-X .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fascher, Horst |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German manager and music promoter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 5, 1936 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |