Hubert von Goisern
Hubert von Goisern (born November 17, 1952 in Bad Goisern am Hallstättersee , Upper Austria ), actually Hubert Achleitner , is an Austrian songwriter and world musician . His mixture of rock music with elements of traditional folk music makes him one of the most important representatives of new folk music , more precisely of alpine rock . The artist name “von Goisern” alludes to his hometown.
Life and music
As a teenager, Achleitner joined the local brass band , where he played the trumpet . After conflicts over the repertoire and because the conductor did not like the young musician's long hair, he left the band. Then he learned to play the guitar and clarinet . He only learned the Styrian harmonica , which his grandfather had pointed out to him, in self-study in the mid-thirties.
South Africa, Canada, Philippines (1972–1983)
At the age of 20 it became culturally and socially too tight for him in Austria and he moved to South Africa with his girlfriend , where he worked as a chemical laboratory assistant. He campaigned against apartheid , but returned to Austria a little over three years later, not least because of racial segregation. Here he married his Canadian wife and took her family name Sullivan.
At the age of 27 he decided to work as a musician from now on. In Toronto he studied guitar for two years and learned to play flamenco . After separating from his wife, he traveled again and stayed for a long time in the Philippines , where he learned to play the nose flute and slowly found access to his own musical style by exchanging the respective folk music - opening up his traditional native music to Influences from other, foreign styles and directions.
Austria: the Alpinkatzen (1984–1995)
Back in Austria in 1984, he worked as a freelance musician and composer and studied electro-acoustics and experimental music at the Vienna University of Music. In 1986 he founded the band " Original Alpinkatzen " with Wolfgang Staribacher and took the stage name Hubert von Goisern ; Staribacher was Wolfgang von Vienna . At first they played in pubs and clubs, sometimes in front of an audience of only five people. The first release was the album Alpine Lawine by "Alpinkatzen featuring Hubert von Goisern" in 1988.
Together with Wolfgang Ambros , Joesi Prokopetz and Manfred diving , the Alpinkatzen went on the Watzmann tour in 1991 , a stage adaptation of the radio play Der Watzmann calls . This was followed by the separation from Staribacher. Hubert von Goisern, who kept his artist name, continued the Alpinkatzen project with new musicians: Stefan Engel on keyboards, Wolfgang Maier on drums, Reinhard Stranzinger as guitarist and Sabine Kapfinger ( Alpine Sabine , later Zabine ) as singer. He learned to yodel from Kapfinger, who initially only worked in the studio and only appeared on stage after her 18th birthday .
The breakthrough came in 1992 with the album Aufgeigen stått niederschiassen , on which the songs Heast as nit (dialectal for can't you hear it ), Weit, weit weg and, last but not least, Koa Hiatamadl (dialectal for no (cattle) herding girl ) were heard for the first time . Koa Hiatamadl was played many times on the radio and developed into a chart success (14 weeks in the top ten of the Austrian singles hit parade). The Alpinkatzen toured through the entire German-speaking area and became one of the most successful formations of alpine rock .
In 1994 Omunduntn followed (dialect for above and below ), including a German-language broadcast of Ray Charles ' Georgia , now as Goisern , and revised versions of Cocaine and Kren & Speck from the first Alpinkatzen album. Another tour took the band through Austria, Germany and Switzerland. A lightning tour took them to Paris, San Antonio and Austin (Texas) as well as to New York. It was the last Alpinkatzen tour. The last concert took place on November 1st, 1994. Shortly before that, the performance in the Munich Circus Krone was recorded by Joseph Vilsmaier and his wife Dana Vávrová . The documentary and concert film How time flies was shown on July 1, 1995 at the Munich Film Festival , then released on VHS and in 2006 on DVD . The concert in Circus Krone was declared a farewell concert.
In addition to his work as a musician, Hubert von Goisern and his friend Klaus Höller designed a fashion collection for Meindl in Kirchanschöring in 1994 , in which, as in his music, he reinterpreted the traditional.
Film and other music projects (1996)
In the television film Hölleisengretl (director: Jo Baier ) with Martina Gedeck , Michael Lerchenberg and Herbert Fux , he made his acting debut as Matthias , husband of hunchbacked Gretl. He also composed the film music together with Stefan Melbinger . He was unable to accept another role offer, that of Elias in Vilsmaier's literary adaptation, Schlafes Bruder , because of the Omunduntn tour. With Winfried Grabe and Enjott Schneider he created the film music. He composed and played other film scores for two films by his friend Julian Pölsler , for Sehnsuchten or It's all uncanny easy (1991) and The TV saga - A Styrian TV story (1995).
In 1996 Hubert von Goisern contributed the title Aquarium for the CD Taten statt Warten for the 25th anniversary of the environmental organization Greenpeace . The song, recorded with the Leogang Children's Choir, was originally composed and recorded for the score for the children's film A Backpack Full of Lies .
Africa and Tibet (1997–1998)
Through their mutual friend, the publisher Michael Neugebauer, he had already met the behavioral scientist Jane Goodall , known for her work with chimpanzees . Curious and invited by her to visit the Gombe Stream National Park , he first traveled to Tanzania in early 1996 . During another trip, a film documentary about Goodall's work was made in cooperation with ORF and Bayerischer Rundfunk : Von Goisern nach Gombe , the film music of which Gombe was published in 1998.
Through Tseten Zöchbauer, chairwoman of the organization “Save Tibet”, he came into contact with artists from the Tibetan Institute of Performing Arts (TIPA), whose tour through Austria he accompanied and presented. Afterwards he began to prepare a trip to Tibet and asked Zöchbauer, who had left her homeland at the age of two, if she would accompany him. They traveled for six weeks in the country, which has been occupied by the People's Republic of China since 1951 , and then reported in an ORF interview on the situation of the Tibetans and the oppression of their culture.
A little later he traveled with Wolfgang Spannberger to Dharmsāla in the north Indian state of Himachal Pradesh , the seat of the Tibetan government in exile , where they met Tendzin Gyatsho , the 14th Dalai Lama . With a mobile recording studio they made recordings of Tibetan folk songs on site, performed by musicians from TIPA. Together with other recordings to which they had invited Pasang Lhamo, Sherab Wangmo, Jamjang Chönden and Sonam Püntsok to Salzburg, the songs were released in 1998 on the Inexil CD . Tendzin Gyatsho visited Bad Ischl on June 11, 1998 at the suggestion of Hubert von Goisern .
New start (1999-2006)
From 1999 Hubert von Goisern worked again on an album with his own compositions. The songs for Fön were recorded in the summer of 2000 with a new band (Bernd Bechtloff, Burkhard Frauenlob, Arnulf Lindner and Helmut Punzenberger, reinforced during the tour with the violinist Agnes Grasberger; later partly replaced by Wolfgang Blümel, Antonio Porto and Burgi Höller) . On November 6, 2000, after six years, a Hubert von Goisern album was released again. The Fön tour began in spring 2001 with a concert on March 3rd in Linz and the release of the album Trad , a collection of Austrian folk songs, on March 5th.
In May 2001 Hubert von Goisern was awarded the Amadeus Austrian Music Award for the first time as the best “National Pop / Rock Artist” . In his acceptance speech, which, as it turned out the next day, had been cut by the ORF before it was broadcast, he criticized the Austrian music industry and radio stations for their lack of support for Austrian artists.
Following the Fön tour, Hubert von Goisern played a series of concerts in Egypt and West African countries. In Assiut he shared the stage with Mohamed Mounir , one of the most popular Egyptian musicians who combines traditional Sufi music with elements of pop and rock . During the three-week trip through West Africa, the band was accompanied by a film team and a documentary / music film was made about the meeting of Austrian and various African musicians, published on the DVD Grenzenlos . A tour through Germany and the album Iwasig followed in the summer of 2002 .
When Tendzin Gyatso ( Dalai Lama ) carried out the Kalachakra ceremony in Graz in the same year , Hubert von Goisern and Tseten Zöchbauer presented several Sounds of Tibet concerts with artists from TIPA. After an indoor tour through Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Italy in the winter of 2002/2003, the band recorded the songs for the album Trad II in a specially set up recording studio in an empty mountain hotel on the Krippenstein ( Dachstein Mountains ) at an altitude of 2100 meters . Concerts took the group to Sarajevo and Cape Verde , among other places , where the performance took place in front of 90,000 visitors and was broadcast on state television. Together with Mohamed Mounir , a tour, which was praised by critics as an example of intercultural cooperation and enthusiastically received by visitors, led through the entire German-speaking area. Each concert ended with Mounir's Madad Ya Rasulallah , a song for peace . After Trad II was presented on the snow-covered Krippenstein in October , the Trad II tour followed in 2004 .
In January 2005 Hubert von Goisern and his band performed at the Festival au Désert and with the balafon virtuoso Kele Tigi in the Akwaba Club in Bamako in Mali . Again the trip was documented on film and shown as waiting for Timbuktu .
After the numerous tours of the previous years, Hubert von Goisern devoted himself to a few other projects, for example presented a sound installation in the Dachstein Mammoth Cave . In November 2005 he sang the duet Rita mir Zwei with Wolfgang Niedecken for the 30th anniversary of the German rock group BAP (double CD three times ten years ).
In April 2006 the FPÖ used Hubert von Goisern's popular song Heast as nit at a party event. He then published an open letter to the party chairman Heinz-Christian Strache , in which he asked him not to use any more songs by him in the future. Among other things, he wrote: “I stand for an open, tolerant society, for the reduction of fears of the strange and new, and not the stirring up of them. I stand for looking the changes in the eye and looking ahead, not for trying to stop time or even to turn back [...] ” .
Linz Europe Tour (2007-2009)
In 2007 Hubert von Goisern started the Linz Europe Tour , a two-year tour through many European countries to promote Linz09 . The planning for this began in 2005. Until 2009, he traveled with a small ship formation (a cargo ship of 77 m × 12 m converted into a stage, the push ship MS Wallsee and a barge) starting with the Danube , several rivers of the continent. There were joint concerts with musicians from the respective countries in numerous cities. In August 2008, the documentary Goisern goes East from this tour was released on DVD.
On June 24th, the ship stopped in Vienna during the Danube Island Festival . In addition to Hubert von Goisern's international band, the concert was attended by the Hohtraxlecker Sprungschanzenmusi from Bad Ischl and Willi Resetarits from Vienna. The first part of the trip led down the Danube until the end of 2007 to the Danube Delta on the Black Sea . Around 20 concerts were held and finally the Delta itself was inspected with WWF accompaniment .
In 2008 the journey led upstream via Passau and Regensburg , then via the Main-Danube Canal to the Rhine and to Rotterdam . This part of the tour took place parallel to the release of his album "s'Nix". A documentary was also made about this again, under the title Goisern goes West .
The end of the river trip was a multi-day harbor festival in the ship's home port in Linz in Upper Austria from June 3 to 5, 2009. In addition to von Goisern and some of the musicians who had already played on the ship during the trip, Klaus Doldinger , BAP , Haindling , Konstantin Wecker and Xavier Naidoo . The city is in 2009, together with Vilnius , the capital of Lithuania , European Capital of Culture .
Success with either and or (since 2010)
From the end of 2010 to spring 2011 Hubert von Goisern was on an inn tour in Austria and Germany. A live recording and a documentary about it were broadcast on the Salzburg television station Servus TV the following August . A few weeks later, the album EntwederUndOder was released , which made it into the Top 10 of the Austrian and Top 20 of the German charts. The broadcaster Ö3 added the song Brenna tuat's guat from the album to its playlist. It reached number 1 in the Austrian charts within a few weeks, surpassing Koa Hiatamadl's highest ranking . The title also celebrated success in Germany and was Hubert von Goisern's first single in the German sales charts .
2014
Hubert von Goisern curated a listening experience lasting several hours for the exhibition Alpenliebe on the Kaiser-Franz-Josefs-Höhe (Großglockner) together with around 20 artists (see below). The exhibition has been open to visitors since June 12, 2014.
The album Filmmusik was released on October 24, 2014 . It brings together 16 of Hubert von Goisern's best-known pieces, which are also the soundtrack for the film Austria: Above and Below (director: Joseph Vilsmaier, film start January 2015). The pieces were implemented by Hubert von Goisern together with the orchestra leader Robert Opratko for orchestral accompaniment. On October 31, 2014, the album Steilklänge, Vol. 1 was released. It presents the listening experience put together by Hubert von Goisern for the Alpenliebe exhibition , which includes pieces from six Alpine countries and thus the entire Alpine sound spectrum.
From October 26th to November 16th Hubert von Goisern was on the road again live ( Tour 2014 ) in Luxembourg, Germany and Austria.
From 2015
In April 2015, the documentary Hubert von Goisern - Brenna tuat's by filmmaker Marcus H. Rosenmüller came to German cinemas for a long time . At the Amadeus Austrian Music Award 2016 he was named artist of the year .
music
Musically, Hubert von Goisern is assigned to new folk music. The term alpine rock is more common, especially to describe his style . In many circles he is considered the inventor of this genre. His type of music is a mixture of modern rock music and alpine folk music. Significant for this is the tonal appearance of the accordion in his songs , which is then compensated for by playing the electric guitar. Based on this, he also combines his style with music types such as reggae , soul , jazz and punk rock .
The music is at times influenced by African folk music. An example of this is the album Gombe . According to von Goisern, it should be brought closer to the fact that he was in countries such as Burkina Faso or Senegal when he was inspired.
Other influences come from Brazilian samba dance music and old American funk, which is why he has turned more strongly from alpine rock to world music with his last albums.
Texts and symbols
The musician's lyrics are often political. An example of this are his allusions to the politician Jörg Haider , who also comes from Goisern, in his texts towards the end of the 1990s and at the beginning of the 21st century, when his party, the FPÖ (later BZÖ ), achieved high numbers of voters.
Discography
Albums
| year | title |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 AT
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 DE
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 CH
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| 1988 | Alpine avalanche | - | - | - |
Alpinkatzen feat. Hubert von Goisern
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| 1992 | Aufgeigen stått down |
AT1  × 4
(54 weeks)AT |
DE47  (18 weeks)DE |
CH25 (3 weeks) CH |
with the original Alpinkatzen
|
| 1994 | Omunduntn |
AT1 (29 weeks)AT |
DE25th (35 weeks)DE |
CH18 (11 weeks) CH |
with the Alpinkatzen
|
| 1995 | How time flies ... |
AT4 (16 weeks) AT |
DE27 (11 weeks) DE |
CH27 (6 weeks) CH |
Live album with the Alpinkatzen
|
| Sleep brother |
AT23 (16 weeks) AT |
- | - |
Soundtrack
|
|
| 1996 | A sack full of lies | - | - | - |
EP
|
| 1998 | Inexile |
AT15 (9 weeks) AT |
- | - | |
| Gombe |
AT14 (12 weeks) AT |
- | - | ||
| 2000 | hairdryer |
AT4th (23 weeks)AT |
DE33 (7 weeks) DE |
- | |
| Eswaramoi 1992-1998 |
AT19th (9 weeks)AT |
- | - |
Best of album
|
|
| 2001 | Trad |
AT6 (26 weeks) AT |
DE52 (8 weeks) DE |
- | |
| 2002 | Iwasig |
AT5 (16 weeks)AT |
DE52 (4 weeks) DE |
- | |
| 2003 | Trad II |
AT10 (13 weeks) AT |
DE73 (2 weeks) DE |
- | |
| 2005 | foreign countries |
AT30 (6 weeks) AT |
- | - |
Live album
|
| 2006 | Meanwhile: 1988-2006 |
AT17 (9 weeks) AT |
DE68 (4 weeks) DE |
- |
Best of album
|
| 2008 | s'Nix |
AT2 (14 weeks) AT |
DE40 (4 weeks) DE |
- | |
| 2009 | skin and hair |
AT24 (10 weeks) AT |
- | - |
Live album
|
| 2011 | Either and or |
AT2 × 2
(56 weeks)AT |
DE13 (51 weeks)DE |
- | |
| 2013 | In the year of the dragon - live |
AT10 (3 weeks) AT |
DE53 (1 week) DE |
- |
Live album
|
| 2014 | Film music |
AT45 (1 week) AT |
- | - |
Soundtrack
|
| Steep sounds | - | - | - | ||
| 2015 | feathers |
AT2 (22 weeks)AT |
DE6 (10 weeks) DE |
CH40 (1 week) CH |
|
| 2017 | Springs live 2014-2016 |
AT40 (2 weeks) AT |
- | - | |
| 2020 | Times & signs | - | - | - | |
Singles
| year | Title album |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
AT
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DE
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CH
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| 1992 | Koa Hiatamadl Aufgeigen stått down |
AT2 (19 weeks) AT |
- | - | |
| 1994 | Above and below omunduntn |
AT23 (4 weeks) AT |
- | - | |
| 2011 |
Brenna is doing it's good either and or |
AT1 (34 weeks)AT |
DE37 (42 weeks) DE |
- | |
| Heast as nit Aufgeigen stått down |
AT43 (7 weeks) AT |
- | - | ||
| 2015 | Feathers every 100 years |
AT39 (2 weeks) AT |
- | - | |
Video albums
Hubert von Goisern and the Alpinkatzen
- 2006: How time flies ... (Live) (DE, AT:gold)
Hubert von Goisern
- 2003: Iwasig (Live) (DVD)
- 2003: Boundless (DVD)
Awards
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Amadeus Austrian Music Award :
- 2001: Artist Pop / Rock national for "Fön"
- 2002: Jazz / Blues / Folk album of the year nationally for "Trad"
- In 2003, 2005 and 2006 he was nominated for another Amadeus Award.
- 2012: Album of the year with “ EntwederUndOder ” and pop / rock
- 2013: Honorary award for music that unites genres and peoples
- 2016: Artist of the year
- 2004 Appointment as an honorary citizen in his hometown Bad Goisern
- German RUTH 2011 .
Publications
- as Hubert Achleitner: volatile , Roman, Zsolnay / Hanser Literaturverlage 2020, ISBN 978-3-552-05972-6
literature
- Bernhard Flieher: Far, far away - The world of Hubert von Goisern . Residenz Verlag, St. Pölten and Salzburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-7017-3135-0 .
- Michael Huber: Goisern, Hubert von. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 2, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-7001-3044-9 .
Web links
- Official website Hubert von Goiserns
- Literature by and about Hubert von Goisern in the catalog of the German National Library
- Hubert von Goisern in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Günter Kaindlstorfer / Die Presse : "Haider's father is an incorrigible Nazi" - Hubert von Goisern on the Kuhmelcher yodel, his relationship with the Beatles and his relationship with Jörg Haider's family in Bad Goisern , February 20, 1993
- Hubert von Goisern at laut.de
swell
- ↑ Hubert von Goisern in conversation with Jürgen Seeger. In: alpha forum. Bayerischer Rundfunk , November 18, 2010, accessed on November 16, 2012 . (PDF for download; 48 kB)
- ↑ After the final concert ... In: Music Week . No. 48/1994 , November 28, 1994, Music People, pp. 11 .
- ↑ The HvG fashion collection. In: hubertvongoisern.com .
- ↑ Hubert von Goisern: Open letter to HC Strache , April 4, 2006
- ↑ Linz Europe Tour 2007-2009: The Journey. In: hubertvongoisern.com. Retrieved February 15, 2015 .
- ↑ Hubert von Goisern: Brenna has been doing it for a long time - on DVD and Blu-ray! In: hubertvongoisern.com .
- ↑ Wanda won three Amadeus awards. In: Der Standard , April 3, 2016.
- ↑ Folk Word - Hubert von Goisern
- ↑ Hubert von Goisern - "Fön"
- ↑ Folker.de - Hubert von Goisern
- ↑ a b chart sources DE AT CH
- ↑ a b Amadeus Austrian Music Award. In: Charts-weltweit.de. Retrieved November 15, 2012 .
- ↑ Petra Rieß: Flowing Beginnings, Danube Waves and Radio Heroes - the RUTH 2011. In: RUTH - The German World Music Prize. 2011, accessed November 15, 2012 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Goisern, Hubert von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Achleitner, Hubert (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 17th November 1952 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bad Goisern , Upper Austria |