Reinhard Fißler

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Reinhard Fißler (April 2005)

Reinhard Fißler (born February 6, 1949 in Güstrow ; † February 13, 2016 in Berlin ) was a German rock singer and guitarist .

Life

Fißler grew up with his grandparents in Tangermünde because his parents had moved to the Federal Republic of Germany . When he was 14 he moved to his uncle in Dresden . From 1969 to 1973 he studied chemistry at the TU Dresden .

His musical career began in 1965 in the school choir and later in the school band Intercombo from Dresden. In addition to his studies, he played in the group LUNAS , a university band with an international line-up. In 1972 Martin Schreier brought him to the star combo Meißen . Originally he was supposed to sing soul , but within a short time the brass left the band; a guitarist was also no longer needed.

Fißler studied singing at the Carl Maria von Weber Academy of Music in Dresden . His singing teacher was Hans-Herbert Schulz. On June 18, 1976 he received a professional license as an instrumentalist. In the following years Fißler's expressive vocal style was one of the factors for the band's success. Fißler was sometimes referred to as a "soul singer". Among other things, five long-playing records with him as a singer were released on Amiga . In 1982 Martin Schreier changed the musical direction of the band. Fißler had to leave the band. From 1983 he appeared with FWH (short for Fißler, Werneburg, Hempel or Funk-Welle-Heiss with Volker Simon). He joined the joke band Reggae Play in 1985 , which he left two years later. In 1988 he toured together with guitarist Heinz Prüfer and keyboardist Andreas Raab as Fißler Gang . Immediately before the fall of the Wall , the band wrote the song Two Ways to Go , which described the situation of many GDR citizens. From 1989 to 1996 Fißler toured with the program "Reinhard Fißler in Concert".

From 1996 Reinhard Fißler appeared again with the star combo Meißen. He was seen in the “Sachsendreier”, a joint action by the groups Stern-Combo Meißen, electra and Lift , in the literary-musical program “Tales of the Saxon Three” with Stephan Trepte (electra), Werther Lohse (Lift) and with other projects, for example Dirk Zöllner and Christiane Ufholz . From 1997 Reinhard Fißler worked with the musician and producer Andreas Ernie Ernstberger on his first solo album ... and always on the road , which was released in 1999 on "Secret Word Records". Reinhard Fißler gave a big concert in front of the Plauen town hall for publication . In the same year he was planning another new album.

In the middle of 2000 Reinhard Fißler was diagnosed with ALS . The condition worsened at the end of the year, so that he could no longer hold the guitar and could not finish his new album for the time being. From the end of 2000 Reinhard Fißler continued to work on his music. His producer and the record label "Secret Word Records" support him. Thomas Kurzhals , the musical head of the star combo Meißen, arranged for Reinhard Fißler's second solo album what remains old works in new versions. Reinhard Fißler: “If I can't play myself, then I would like to at least send a CD on tour.” Nevertheless, since 2003 he has continued to perform in a wheelchair himself. He continued to compose, for example for the Cabuwazi children's circus . Fißler gave his penultimate concert on April 17, 2005 with Stephan Trepte and Werther Lohse with the "Stories from the Saxon Threesome" in the restaurant Neu Helgoland on Berlin's Müggelsee .

On April 20, 2005, he performed his last live concert on the occasion of the release party of his second solo CD, what remains in der Wabe in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg. Dirk Zöllner, Andreas Ernstberger & The Secret Word Family were there. Thereafter, Fißler's health deteriorated dramatically: he developed pneumonia and was admitted to hospital in critical condition. Fißler recovered from this, but could no longer give concerts because his illness had led to almost complete paralysis, which also affected his vocal cords.

Most recently, Fißler occasionally appeared again as a guest musician, although he was bedridden. In 2011 he composed and sang the piece Mal seh'n, where the journey is going for the album Lebensuhr by Stern-Combo Meißen. His last musical work was the work Vokalize-Interlude for the 2015 album Pictures at an Exhibition - The Rock Version by Stern-Combo Meißen, the Leipzig Symphony Orchestra and the State Youth Choir Saxony.

Fißler died on February 13, 2016, a week after his 67th birthday.

Discography

  • ... and always on the go. Longplay CD. Live and in the studio. Secret Word Records, 1999.
  • What remains. Longplay CD. Secret Word Records, 2005.
  • The battle for the South Pole. Longplay CD. Choice Of Music, 2006.
  • Hey John on the color vinyl maxi EP 25 years BEAT ARCHIVE GC in memory of John Lennon. Beat Archive Glauchau 2015.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hartmut Kascha, Benjamin Weinkauf: Star Meissen legend Reinhard Fißler dead . bild.de , accessed on February 13, 2016
  2. ↑ Jürgen Balitzki: Stories from the Saxon three . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-323-3 , p. 344.
  3. ↑ Excerpt from Melodie & Rhythmus 5/2005 , accessed on October 31, 2010
  4. ↑ Torsten Wahl: Star Combo Meißen: Composing with the blink of an eye . Berliner Zeitung , November 16, 2011, accessed on October 5, 2013.
  5. ^ Archived copy ( memento of August 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ).
  6. ^ Archived copy ( memento of August 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ).
  7. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYTaOwGCItA .
personal data
SURNAME Fißler, Reinhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fissler, Reinhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German rock singer and guitarist
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Guestrow
DATE OF DEATH February 13, 2016
Place of death Berlin