Kurt Hauenstein

Kurt Hauenstein (2010)

Kurt Johann "Kurtl" Hauenstein (born January 14, 1949 in Vienna ; † on the night of March 20 to 21, 2011 there ) was an Austrian musician , best known as the founder and owner of the Supermax music project .

Life

family

Kurt Hauenstein was the son of the Wienerliedertexters and writer Hans Hauenstein . According to his own statements, Kurt Hauenstein had aristocratic ancestors. However, since his grandfather married a commoner, the title of nobility was revoked . Hauenstein left two daughters from his marriage to his wife Doreen Hauenstein from Jamaica. There is also a daughter from his connection with Betty Onore, which lasted eleven years.

Beginning in Vienna

Kurt Hauenstein grew up in the 2nd district of Vienna, Leopoldstadt , and trained as a jeweler before starting his musical career. In 1971 the then 22-year-old bassist founded the Austrian rock band Gipsy Love together with Karl Ratzer , Peter Wolf (who later became Frank Zappa's keyboardist ), Jano Stojka and George Dogette . In 1972 Kurt Hauenstein left Gipsy Love and was replaced by Harri Stojka on bass. For Harri Stojka and Hauenstein, as well as for Peter Wolf, the band was the starting point of their later careers. Because of their musical qualities and the influence that the band had on the careers of the musicians involved, Gipsy Love is considered to be of enormous importance to the Austrian music scene.

The Supermax project

After leaving Gipsy Love , Hauenstein moved to Frankfurt am Main , where he played in various radio sessions , but also quickly made a reputation for himself as a studio musician. Together with the musicians Christian Kolonovits and Richard Schönherz , who also come from Austria, Hauenstein was often hired as a "first cut" player (play in once and done), which meant that the producers' studio costs could be reduced considerably. At that time, Hauenstein was more or less part of the inventory of the European sound studios operated by Fred Schreier in Offenbach . It was there that Hauenstein met Frank Farian in 1976 and played bass on his self-produced hit Rocky .

In the same year, during a stay in England, Hauenstein met the producer Peter Hauke, who worked in Frankfurt am Main for Bellaphon Records but was increasingly working independently for his own production company Rockoko Productions , and with his support, the first Supermax album Don't Stop in January 1977 the Music could be recorded and published by Atlantic. With Hauke, Hauenstein had found his most important sponsor. Hauke ​​had already successfully played rock bands with the Bellaphon label he founded Bacillus Records . B. Nektar , Omega , Karthago and Jeronimo are produced with chart placements. Hauke ​​had a feeling for Hauenstein's ambitions and was intelligent enough to give Hauenstein at least a musically free hand in realizing the Supermax project.

Incidentally, the project name Supermax never had anything to do with a super-max associated with the German-speaking press , but was merely an abbreviation for supermaximal , an increase in the term to the max , which was mainly used in the black music scene often frequented by Hauenstein . However, this difference was neither noticed nor questioned by the German-speaking journalists.

In November 1977 the second album World of Today was released , which in 1978 reached number 2 on the LP charts and reached platinum status in Germany with over 500,000 copies sold . The song Lovemachine developed into a disco classic and already reached number 4 in Germany in 1977, number 6 in Switzerland and number 9 in the Austrian charts. In 1978 Hauenstein went with a band formed from professional musicians from the Frankfurt music and studio scene under the name Supermax on an extensive club tour with over 160 concerts, which took him and the band through Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain and Belgium. For the purpose of promoting his albums, Hauenstein only appeared in the company of two colored singers under the name Supermax in exceptional cases, for example during a TV show in Sofia, Bulgaria, which can be described as the birth of his success in what was then the Eastern Bloc.

In 1979 the third album, Fly with Me , was released, which also made it to number 9 in Germany, but above all is considered an international breakthrough for Supermax. Lovemachine was re-released in the United States that same year and landed at number 96 on the Billboard Blackcharts. In parallel to his own Supermax project, Kurt Hauenstein produced the girls group Bamboo from Surinam . He had met the two singers during a stay in the United States.

In 1980, the fourth album, Types of Skin , was released, which the record company classified as a flop despite 230,000 copies sold in Germany alone, as it did not reach any chart positions. The albums Meets the Almighty (1981) and Electricity (1983) were then real flops due to a lack of media presence, at least when measured against the sales figures of the first four albums.

The band Supermax

Hauenstein had always drawn it onto the stage. It is therefore not surprising that in addition to the project, he also started a live band as Supermax. One of the first line-ups were Hans Ochs (guitar), Rainer Marz (guitar; † April 11, 2016) from the German band Jeronimo , Brad Howell (drums), Jürgen Zöller (drums, 1987-2014 member of BAP ), Peter Koch ( Percussion), Thomas Jauer (bass), Kurt Hauenstein on Mini Moog and the background singers Cee Cee Cobb and Jean Graham. Thomas Jauer was soon replaced by bassist Ken Taylor , and Frankfurt keyboardist Lothar Krell was hired for the upcoming live performances . Brad Howell was a sought-after arranger and studio musician in the Frank Farian environment and devoted himself to other projects; later he was one of the studio singers of Milli Vanilli .

Anyone who expected Supermax to perform at disco was, at least live, quite disappointed. From the very beginning, Supermax's live performances were rock concerts with a strong reggae influence. Usually the concert-goers noticed what was actually going on on stage only after several songs with disbelief. Instead of disco sound, hard drum beats with the all-filling bass by Kurt Hauenstein, percussions influenced by Santana , heavy rock guitars and concise keyboards.

After Hans Ochs had left the band in search of his luck for New York, the Austrian guitarist Hannes Wildner joined them. He was undoubtedly one of Supermax's longest live musicians with the band. Ken Taylor and Lothar Krell, on the other hand, left Supermax at the beginning of 1981 and became, with Robby Musenbichler, founding members of the internationally quite successful band Tokyo with the hit of the same name. Ken Taylor later belonged to the regular cast of Peter Maffay's band . After Taylor left, Hauenstein took over the position of bassist himself, and after the South Africa tour in 1981, on which his old friend Christian Kolonovits worked on the keyboards, Hauenstein hired Thomas Schmitt from the Michael Wynn Band in Frankfurt as the new keyboardist. Also after the South Africa tour, Daniel Ford, who had already made a brief debut on the congas with the original line-up, joined Peter Koch again, and singer Jean Graham was replaced by singer Larry London.

The fluctuation in the band was predetermined. Since only very few band members were included in the studio productions of the Supermax project, and when they were only fobbed off as studio musicians and were therefore hardly able to benefit financially from the success of the Supermax project, almost all musicians had in the course of time due to a lack of Perspectives again separated from Supermax and Hauenstein.

In addition, there were not enough performance opportunities and thus not enough earning opportunities for the band members. Because although successful with the visitors, Supermax concerts never received the media attention they deserved, since Hauenstein was pigeonholed and ignored by German and Austrian editors as a disco max. Hauenstein also saw himself as a rock and live musician - he was actually an excellent bass player - and didn't want to be reduced to disco hits by disinformed and biased interviewers. Out of these contradictions, an extremely disturbed relationship developed with the TV presenters and music journalists who were important at the time, which ultimately cost him his publicity as a successful live musician, at least in German-speaking countries, even in his home country Austria, although he was still a member of the legendary band Gipsy Love there was known.

North Africa and Eastern Bloc 1979/1980

It was completely different abroad, especially in the Eastern Bloc and in North Africa. For example, at the turn of the year 1979/1980, Supermax was hired for two concerts in Tunis and featured as top news in all media. In addition, her song African Blood was constantly on the radio every 30 minutes. According to statements from local musicians, these two gigs, some of which were celebrated frenetically, had an enormous impact on the Tunisian and African music scene as a whole. Hauenstein was then invited several times to sessions with African jazz musicians. In 1980, Supermax was the first western pop group to appear in Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania and Czechoslovakia, both on stage and on television.

South Africa 1981

In March 1981, Supermax was the first white band to tour South Africa with two colored background singers without the required curtain between white and colored musicians at concerts . There is little material about this tour.

Only one day before the start of the tour did the national anti-apartheid movement, after lengthy negotiations, cancel its usual call to boycott foreign artists for Supermax. Hauenstein had never made any political statements, but the simple disregard of apartheid was provocation enough. Despite warnings and death threats from both camps (pro and anti apartheid), there were 21 concerts, some of which were chaotic. In some other African countries, Hauenstein was subsequently banned from entering the country because of his evasion of the boycott of South Africa at the time.

Hauenstein only became aware of what he was getting into in South Africa, but accepted the realization of the tour as a personal challenge. Even the joint entry of Hauenstein and his colored wife Doreen from Jamaica was a provocation of the regime. Allegedly, the two were one of the first foreign multiracial married couples who were officially allowed to enter South Africa at the time.

GDR tour 1983

The GDR tour of February 1983 in more than 20 cities such as Cottbus, Weimar, Rostock, Suhl, Dresden, Schkopau etc. is completely hushed up in the West and therefore unknown in full halls with around 2000 visitors and more. But despite the excellent response from the concertgoers and the high fee for East German standards, the tour was no business for the band members. The fee was paid in East Marks and was also not allowed to be carried out. The attempts, especially those of the English-speaking band members, to stock up as much as possible with technical equipment such as cameras or with various antiques from the GDR fee, failed miserably. The majority of the tour fee (over 50,000 East Marks) was therefore forcibly distributed to a few contact persons in the GDR, in the vague hope that the money would, at least in one case or another, flow into alternative artistic channels in the GDR.

Jamaica Reggae Sunsplash Festival 1983

Also in 1983 Kurt Hauenstein or Supermax was invited by the tourist board in Jamaica to appear as the first band with white musicians at the renowned Reggae Sunsplash Festival in Montego Bay in front of over 40,000 visitors. This was made possible by the initiative of the ministry to make Jamaica known as a tourist destination in Europe, also with the help of reports about a Supermax appearance in Jamaica in the German media. Even the editors of Stern , the Bildzeitung and a youth magazine accompanied the three-week stay at the Ministry's expense. It is noteworthy, however, that the organizers of the Sunsplash Festival did not even invite Hauenstein and did not let him appear as a special guest, but only as an opening act. It is also very surprising that the organizers personally tried to get hold of the Supermax system at departure by using forged confiscation papers. The fact that the Supermax crew members were robbed in the organizers' office certainly does not indicate that Hauenstein and Supermax were really welcome in the vicinity of the festival organizers.

While the action Supermax plays at the Reggae Sunsplash Festival in Europe can be seen as a successful promotion for Jamaica as well as for the label Supermax (i.e. Kurt Hauenstein), the working conditions of the band members cast another shadow over them since the South Africa tour in 1981 Hauenstein, who likes to act as avant-garde and politically committed: The musicians were fobbed off with a one-time daily fee of 300  DM and had to stay for three weeks in Jamaica in a hotel that was guarded due to the political unrest at the time.

Time of reorientation

After Hauenstein's well-known negative attitude towards television presenters, despite efforts by management, no promotional appearances on German-language television were possible - in Austria, Hauenstein was even banned from entering the house - and the previous band members had committed themselves to other projects due to a lack of opportunities to perform, and from 1984 onwards it became quiet Kurt Hauenstein as well as the band Supermax.

Hauenstein produced and published several titles by the Supermax singer Larry London under the project name London Aircraaft , but could not reach any chart positions. Hauenstein produced the title Urban Tropical for Falco , the B-side of Falco's 1985 hit Rock Me Amadeus .

Without the support of his record company, which had since separated from Hauenstein, the two albums they had produced themselves in 1986 and 1988 with the musical assistance of his friend Kolonovits could not reach chart positions either in Germany or abroad. In addition, the millions that he had received as the sole artist from record sales and license income from copyrights for the Supermax project had slipped between his fingers. The fact that Kurt Hauenstein did not go penniless was thanks to the meager, but still continuously bubbling income from record sales (especially his hits on samplers in non-European countries) and the resulting copyright licenses. However, the over 30 million records sold by an Austrian television presenter after the turn of the millennium during an interview are completely over the top. One can safely assume that a maximum of four million records have been sold worldwide (excluding samplers).

In 1989 Hauenstein recorded his ninth album with old companions from the 1970s such as guitarists Johan Daansen and Rainer Marz as well as drummer Brad Howell, additionally supported by Curt Cress and José Feliciano . It is noteworthy that he was also able to win over his first producer Peter Hauke, who died in 2010, for the album, which was released in 1990 under the title World of Tomorrow . The album, recorded in the legendary Hotline Studio in Frankfurt, did not sell badly, but it was also unable to build on the successful times of the late 1970s.

Nevertheless, Hauenstein was able to go on tour again with his band Supermax, including in Germany, Luxembourg, the Canary Islands, but above all in the Eastern Bloc , where Supermax had a sworn fan base. Due to the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989, however, Hauenstein had to cancel his tour in the Soviet Union that was taking place at the time and was only able to bring himself, his band and all of the equipment back to Germany safely in the unrest that had arisen in the USSR .

After further unsuccessful attempts at comeback, Hauenstein left Frankfurt am Main with his family disappointed for Gran Canaria in 1993 and opened the Supermax - MusicWorld discotheque there after six months in Puerto Rico . Hauenstein enjoyed the sun and apparently came to terms with himself, without tour stress.

In 1995 he became musically active again. In that year alone he released three CDs. There were also various projects, including with his old friend Karl Ratzer featuring Chaka Khan . Hauenstein was also back on stage in 1996, including at the largest Music World Festival in Las Palmas .

Also in 1996, Hauenstein started the Yaku project together with the Bulgarian musicians Konstantin Stoyanov and Yavor Roussinov . On the album Total Immigration , released in January 1997, they presented a combination of Bulgarian folklore and dance .

In 1997, Hauenstein put together a completely new live band and started his successful 20th Anniversary Tour through the entire East for the 20th anniversary of the Supermax project , which ended with a private concert in the P1 disco in Vienna. The Supermax concert in Sofia with Hauenstein on bass / vocals and the new band members Manolo Guerra (guitar), Gerhard Warning (guitar), Ali Tersch (drums), Edison Tadeu (percussion), Pedro Uche (keyboards) and the singers is legendary Cynthia Sarraga and Betty Ann Samper. In the same year Hauenstein founded his own record label Venus Records in Sofia .

Hauenstein recognized his affinity to Eastern Europe and therefore made Bulgaria his second home next to Gran Canaria in 1998. Hauenstein, who has always been popular there, played his way into the hearts of the nation with overwhelming concerts in Varna and Burgas .

In search of new challenges, Hauenstein gave up his domicile in the Canary Islands after six years and moved to Excalibur City in the Czech Republic. His latest project was the construction of a concert hall and a recording studio under the name SMX Terminal 2002 , which he opened on New Year's Eve 1999 with a so-called Millennium Concert .

Hauenstein dedicated the years 2000 and 2001 to his Terminal 2002 project . He buried himself in the SMX studios in Excalibur City and Sofia. The album was released in December 2001. In 2002 he took care of setting up a new live band, but also increasingly took care of the marketing of his previous products, including the merchandising of his brand.

In 2003 Hauenstein was back on Russian stages with Supermax, from St. Petersburg to Vladivostok . He also moved to Bulgaria and started working on the YAKU II project . In this context, the soundtrack for The Land of Flies was produced.

Return to Vienna

Hauenstein with band (Vienna 2008)

In 2004, Hauenstein released a new maxi single Let's Send a Message , a classic remix of his world-famous super hit Love Machine . In addition he published a Supermax biography from 1977-2004 and toured again with a band through Russia with concerts in Moscow, Krasnodar, Volgograd, Samara, Ufa, Perm, Ekaterinburg and many more.

The most important event of 2004, however, was his return to his native Vienna.

Hauenstein with the Amadeus for his life's work (2008)

In 2005 Hauenstein signed a new contract with Universal Music Austria . The DVD Rhythm of Soul Vol. 1 - Anthology '77 -'93 appears as the start of the new collaboration with Universal. His project Atlantis - the secret of the sunken soul with Manuel Rigoni and Stefan Tauber is also known from the year .

In 2006, Hauenstein met the sound specialist Taliesin. Together they created a new Supermax sound for some remixes as well as a completely new stage appearance for the planned anniversary tour 2007 The 30th Anniversary Tour . In December 2006, Hauenstein played with the newly formed band again as Supermax in front of 2.5 million television viewers at the first UNESCO peace concert in Colombo , Sri Lanka , at the invitation of the UNESCO National Committee Sri Lanka, the Sri Lanka Tourist Board and Dji Dieng Management.

At the beginning of 2007, Kurt Hauenstein hired a new management team. In May he played with a band as Supermax in front of more than 60,000 spectators at an open-air concert in Bulgaria. The success was so great that the Bulgarian organizers considered further concerts. On September 30, 2007, further recordings of the new double album were made in Switzerland in collaboration with Buddha Monk, a rapper from the group Wu-Tang Clan .

In 2008, at the invitation of the founder and president Gery Keszler , Hauenstein and Buddha Monk took part in the Life Ball , one of the largest and most spectacular annual charity events in the world for people with HIV and AIDS .

Also in 2008, Hauenstein received the Amadeus Austrian Music Award , the largest Austrian music prize in the field of pop music, for his life's work . In addition, in the same year Hauenstein was awarded the silver medal of merit of the State of Vienna, one of the most significant honors that was given by the State of Vienna at the time. His father, who died in 1989, received the gold medal of merit of the State of Vienna.

Death and grave

Grave at the central cemetery

Kurt Hauenstein died of heart failure on the night of March 20-21, 2011. He was buried on April 1st in an honorary grave (group 40, row 5, number 28) at the Vienna Central Cemetery in the immediate vicinity of the legendary musician Falco . Several hundred people gave Kurt Hauenstein the final escort , including personal friends such as producers Frank Farian and Christian Kolonovits , who gave a speech during the funeral service in the cemetery church for St. Karl Borromeo . The band, which existed until his death, paid Hauenstein's last musical honor.

Hauenstein had a penchant for Harley-Davidson motorcycles and was associated with the Hells Angels . Members of this group held the wake in the church and carried his coffin to his grave.

Apparently, Hauenstein died completely impoverished. According to Ronald Seunig, a long-time friend of Hauenstein's estate administrator who was appointed administrator of the estate, as was the case for Falco, it was not even possible to finance a tombstone from the estate. Seunig announced that he would personally take over the costs for Hauenstein's grave. Until the final design of the grave, a cemetery gardener took over the maintenance of Hauenstein's grave free of charge. In 2012, Hauenstein's grave made of Italian marble was completed.

Influence on society and music

Although Hauenstein has the nimbus of being the first multiracial band in South Africa and the first white musician to perform at the Reggae Sunsplash in Montego Bay with his band Supermax , there is no evidence that Hauenstein ever supports any political or social projects despite his own suggestions Has. At least from the time when Hauenstein could have afforded such support financially, such activities are not known. The donation of the GDR fee in 1983 was necessary because otherwise the illegal export of East Marks would have been a criminal offense. Taking into account the tense political situation in 1981, however, his provocation of the apartheid system in South Africa at the time through the performances of his multiracial band in front of an equally multiracial audience and his spontaneous visits to the ghetto that he initiated against the will of the police was remarkable.

Much more significant than his political influence, however, was his influence on the DJ and club scene. With intros that sometimes lasted over a minute, his hits were a lot longer than the usual 2:30 minutes, but were played non-stop in the emerging discos around the world despite the skepticism of their own record company. The previous scheme of how a successful song had to be structured was thus successfully undermined by Hauenstein for the first time. He is therefore also regarded as one of the forefathers of the maxi single .

Interviews with Kurt Hauenstein

Due to negative experiences in the 1970s and 1980s, Hauenstein gave very few interviews in German. Here are some of the very rare interviews in which he presents his own view of the history of Supermax in an unvarnished and surprisingly open way:

• 2007: Stefan Trischler: Cover story of Message issue no.29
• 2008: Willkommen TV: Willkommen Österreich episode 20 (includes an additional interview from the 70s)
• 2008: The press: Suddenly I was Mr. Max
• 2009: Krone.at: Interview with Hauenstein

Discography (Supermax)

Albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)			Remarks
		DE	AT	CH
1977	World of Today	DE2 platinum (37 weeks)DE	AT10 (20 weeks) AT	-
1979	Fly with Me	DE9 (19 weeks) DE	AT13 (16 weeks) AT	-
1992	Tha Max Is Gonna Kick Ya	-	AT37 (2 weeks) AT	-

gray hatching : no chart data available for this year

More albums

• 1977: Don't Stop the Music
• 1978: Love Machine
• 1980: Types of Skin
• 1981: Meets the Almighty
• 1982: A Planet Called Earth (as Kurt Hauenstein)
• 1983: Electricity
• 1983: Live Volume One
• 1986: Something in My Heart
• 1988: Just Before the Nightmare
• 1990: World of Tomorrow - Hansa
• 1992: Tha Max Is Gonna Kick Ya
• 1993: One and All
• 1994: Lovemachine
• 2001: Terminal 2002

Compilations

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)			Remarks
		DE	AT	CH
2008	Best Of (30th Anniversary Edition)	-	AT34 (4 weeks) AT	-

More compilations

• 1982: Supermax Collection
• 1993: The Best Of - Dance Dance Dance
• 1994: The Reggae Album
• 1996: Love Machine
• 1997: 20th Anniversary (2 CDs)
• 2000: Mix Collection 1977-1983
• 2009: The Box (33rd Anniversary Special) - Box with 10 CDs including:
  • Rhythm of Soul 1
  • Rhythm of Soul 2
  • Reggaesize It 1
  • Reggaesize It 2
  • Save the world
  • Spirits of Africa
  • Cool love
  • Radical Phonetic
  • Special remixes
  • Best of remixes

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)			Remarks
		DE	AT	CH
1978	Lovemachine (Part 1)	DE4 (30 weeks) DE	AT9 (22 weeks) AT	CH6 (11 weeks) CH
1992	Back Home	-	AT30 (1 week) AT	-
2011	Love machine	-	AT58 (1 week) AT	-

More singles

• 1976: Don't Stop the Music
• 1977: Be What You Are
• 1977: Supermax
• 1977: Camillo
• 1977: World of Today
• 1979: It Ain't Easy
• 1979: African Blood
• 1980: Ganja generation
• 1981: Tonight
• 1983: Coconut Reggae
• 1983: Loversnight
• 1983: Future Time
• 1984: Number One in My Heart
• 1986: I Want You
• 1986: Living in Another World
• 1987: Love Machine 88 '
• 1988: Just Before the Nightmare
• 1990: User 71 (Just Be What You Wanna Be) (feat. José Feliciano )
• 1990: Nightgroove
• 1991: World of Tomorrow
• 1993: Shine on Me
• 1993: Warriors
• 1998: Love Machine (Secret Diary feat. Supermax)
• 1998: Love Machine (Clubface feat. Supermax)
• 2000: Stop Talking Bull (with Discotizer)
• 2006: Remaxed Vol. 1 - 30th Anniversary Edition
• 2007: Remaxed Vol. 2 - 30th Anniversary Edition

Awards

• 2008: Amadeus for his life's work
• 2008: Silver Medal of Merit of the State of Vienna

Musical contribution from Hauenstein

• Victor rock opera (by Richard Schönherz)

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1. ↑ Kurt Hauenstein died: ORF news from March 21, 2011
2. ↑ Small Chronicle of the Wienerlied ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ Betty Onore with Hauenstein daughter and Supermax calendar 2012 ( Memento from January 11, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ 1977 Chart Position LP World Of Today
5. ↑ 1978 Chart Position Single Love Machine
6. ↑ 1979 Chart Position LP Fly with Me
7. ↑ Supermax - 1977 first cast
8. ↑ Supermax - 1981 South Africa Tour Band members
9. ↑ Supermax - 1983 Reggae Sunsplash Festival, Montego Bay, Jamaica - German press
10. ↑ The Yaku project ( memento of the original from September 12, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
11. ↑ Supermax - 1997 Live in Sofia / Bulgaria
12. ↑ Kurt Hauenstein - 2008 Amadeus Austrian Music Award
13. ↑ Kurt Hauenstein - 2008 Silver Merit of the State of Vienna
14. ↑ Kurt Hauenstein succumbed to heart problems [e-mail]: accessed March 21, 2011
15. ↑ Kurt Hauenstein “Supermax” grave of honor at the Vienna Central Cemetery Hedwig Abraham / viennatouristguide.at: accessed February 28, 2012
16. ^ Farewell to Supermax Kurt Hauenstein [e-mail]: accessed April 1, 2011
17. ↑ Friend Ronald Seunig wants to donate a tombstone ZuluCity.at: accessed September 24, 2012
18. ↑ Gärtner takes care of Kurt Hauenstein's grave Wiener Bezirkszeitung / mein district.at: accessed February 1, 2012
19. ↑ Kurt Hauenstein's tomb completed ZuluCity.at: accessed September 24, 2012
20. ↑ ^{a b c} Chart sources: Singles albums
21. ↑ Awards: DE

Web links

Commons : Kurt Hauenstein  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Supermax - Official Website (English)
• Supermax at Allmusic (English)
• Supermax at Discogs (English)
• Kurt Hauenstein at Discogs (English)
• Kurt Hauenstein in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Publications at Universal Music Austria
• Supermax - Official Myspace Website (English)
• Hauenstein's long-time manager Uwe Block passed away on March 13, 2009