Peter Behrens (drummer)

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Peter Behrens (2007)

Peter Behrens (born September 4, 1947 in Sanderbusch ; †  May 11, 2016 in Wilhelmshaven ) was a German musician and actor. He became known as the drummer of the group Trio .

Life

Peter Behrens was the illegitimate son of a US GI and was given up for adoption by his birth mother . He was adopted by a Behrens family where he grew up in Varel . After graduating from primary school , he trained as a photographer in Oldenburg . After the subsequent military service , which he performed with Klaus Meine , he obtained a higher education from 1965 to 1968 and began studying to become a primary school teacher . In addition to music, he studied social sciences and German studies . However , he broke off the traineeship at the elementary school in Wilhelmshaven- Heppens that followed his studies.

In the following years Behrens played as a drummer in hit and swing bands through northern Germany and also through Africa for half a year . In 1971 he played in the Krautrock band Silberbart , which released a commercially unsuccessful - but now very popular with collectors - album. At the end of the 1970s, Behrens attended the Milan art school for one year , with a focus on clown , and then worked briefly as a clown and pantomime .

At the side of Stephan Remmler and Kralle Krawinkel - who as authors, in contrast to Behrens, received royalties from the works of Trios throughout their life - Behrens became known as the drummer of the German band Trio , which was popularized in the early 1980s with minimalist titles (especially Da Da Da ... ) co-founded the Neue Deutsche Welle . Behrens joined Trio because of a newspaper advertisement. His special, uniform clothing was striking: white T-shirt, white trousers, red suspenders and red shoes. Behrens shaped his hair into a single upward curl, similar to Moritz in Max and Moritz . He had performed in the circus before.

Peter Behrens (2014)

After Trio broke up in 1986, he worked as a street worker in social work in Bremerhaven and Wilhelmshaven . Success as a solo artist failed to materialize. Among other things, he interpreted the official song for the 1988 European Football Championship , Das Tor , and Dep De Dö Dep , a cover version of Tom's Diner by Suzanne Vega . Since the mid-1980s he starred in several feature films. In his first three films ( André manages them all , three against three and a thousand eyes ) he played even bigger roles. He was only seen in a supporting role in Manta . In 2005 and 2006 he appeared on the side of Miss Menke in the NDW musical Sternenhimmel in Hamburg . After that he played drums in a band again. In 2008 he published a song called three two , written by three trio fans under the name Peter Behrens (Ex-Trio) & Drei Mann im Double , for which his first music video was also produced. In the same year he presented the title in the current showroom of the NDR together with Three Men in a Double Bed .

In 2013 Behrens published his autobiography The Clown with the Drum with the collaboration of Klaus Marschall . He reported on his work on the book in one of his rare television interviews at NRWision 2014. After separating from Trio, he suffered a long period of drug addiction , was repeatedly unemployed and in financial difficulties. After a period in which he had received unemployment benefit II , he became a pensioner and only occasionally had small appearances in pubs around him. In August 2014 he presented together with producer and singer Eckhard "Ecki" Schrader under the project name Behrens feat. Ecki S. released a single called I Am the Nowhere Man . In February 2015 he played the lead role in the video for the song Ballast by Buddy Buxbaum . There is also a video clip with the title "Goldene Zeiten" by the Art & Weise group from 2014 with Peter Behrens as the clown.

Behrens was single and the father of two children. Most recently he lived in Wilhelmshaven, where he died of multiple organ failure in a hospital on May 11, 2016 . Peter Behrens was cremated and the ashes scattered in the North Sea . In Wilhelmshaven there is a name plaque on the “Am Ölhafen” memorial.

Discography

The band Trio with Krawinkel, Behrens and Remmler (1982)

With trio

→ for publications with trio, see the discography there

album

  • 1971 4 Times Sound Razing (with silver beard )

Singles

  • 1987 hours of solitude
  • 1988 The gate
  • 1990 She came to Australia
  • 1990 Dep De Dö Dep
  • 1991 The lilac Lederhosen Lambada (appearance in the ZDF hit parade)
  • 1992 Always Love (with Elisabeth Volkmann )
  • 2010 three two (with three men in a double bed)
  • 2014 Nowhere Man (with Ecki S.)

Filmography

book

Web links

Commons : Peter Behrens  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Behrens, Klaus Marschall : Peter Behrens: The clown with the drum - My years with TRIO. Schwarzkopf + Schwarzkopf, 2013, ISBN 9783862652822 , pages 21-23
  2. ↑ TV interview: Peter Behrens at NRWision , broadcast on May 15, 2014.
  3. ↑ Timo Ebbers: Ex-trio drummer brings out new single. In: Nordwest-Zeitung of August 21, 2014, accessed on August 21, 2014
  4. ↑ Video clip: Peter Behrens, Wilhelmshaven and an old piano , accessed on March 1, 2015
  5. ↑ Hessenfreax: Art & Weise - Golden Times Copyright 2014 Art & Weise; youtube.com, published February 26, 2017, accessed February 16, 2018. - Video (4:54)
  6. ↑ Trio drummer Peter Behrens has died. Report on t-online.de from May 11, 2016. Accessed May 11, 2016.
  7. ↑ Obituaries from May 14, 2016 . Retrieved May 15, 2016.
  8. ↑ knerger.de: Peter Behrens
personal data
SURNAME Behrens, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Knapp, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German drummer, musician and clown
DATE OF BIRTH September 4, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Sanderbusch
DATE OF DEATH May 11, 2016
Place of death Wilhelmshaven