Stefan Weber (musician)

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Stefan Weber as AHS teacher (spring 1993)

Stefan Weber (born November 8, 1946 in Vienna ; † June 7, 2018 ) was an Austrian musician and composer, anarchist and former AHS teacher. He became known as the founder, frontman and creative head of the hard rock / punk band Drahdiwaberl .

Live and act

From 1964 to 1970 Weber studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in the master class for graphics. After the teaching examination for general secondary schools in 1970, he began to teach as a teacher (subjects: handicraft and visual education) at the Vienna Bundesrealgymnasium IV (Waltergasse). He worked as a teacher until his early retirement in 2000 due to Parkinson's disease. He graduated from the academy in 1975 with a diploma. From 1971 to 1973 he also attended the graphics classes of Professors Franz Herberth and Wolfgang Baminger at the University of Applied Arts Vienna .

As early as 1966 he was a member of the wabbs crew , later called wabbs gun , which was known as the “wildest band in Vienna” . After their dissolution, Weber founded the band Drahdiwaberl in May 1969 , which quickly became one of the most famous underground groups in Austria. The band members, as well as Weber himself, mostly came from the dissolved opening act at the beginning. Founded with the intention of creating the most " excessive " band in the country and in an environment that also spawned Viennese actionism , breaking taboos and challenging bourgeois moral and value concepts became key elements of Drahdiwaberl's texts and stage shows . An integral part of the performances, a mixture of rock and cabaret, soon became “material battles” - visitors were pelted with food and beer from the stage and reciprocated in the opposite direction. For over thirty years, with the peak of popularity in the 1980s, the band around Weber remained an integral part of Austrian music - and above all of the "alternative" scene, with changing line-ups. The appearances often resulted in arrests and legal proceedings. Most of the band's posters and record covers were designed by Weber himself and can now be found almost entirely in the poster collection of the Vienna Library in the City Hall .

The group experienced a renaissance in the context of the protests against the ÖVP - FPÖ government coalition ( Federal Government Schüssel I ) at the beginning of 2000, where they repeatedly appeared during the Thursday demonstrations (“ cake instead of words”).

Drahdiwaberl concert during the protests on the occasion of the visit of US President George W. Bush to Vienna (June 2006; Weber with hat)

2003 Weber appeared on January 27th at the Rabenhof Theater in Vienna in the performance " Rogue State of Iraq". Before the concert, the police confiscated two handguns, a Colt and a Ruger , which he had brought with him as props, and he received a complaint for unauthorized use of firearms requiring a license. The process on September 11, he appeared with a Hofer - Sackerl over their heads, held a plea for the freedom of art and was acquitted. Shortly afterwards, since he was now in a “clean slate”, the idea arose that he should run as a candidate for the election of the Austrian Federal President in 2004. An online reader survey by the daily newspaper Der Standard showed an approval rate of 30 percent. On December 24th, he and several Drahdiwaberl members created a loud Christmas performance in the MuseumsQuartier as part of the “Living Advent Calendar” initiated by Hubsi Kramar .

On April 27, 2005 Weber was presented with the silver medal of merit of the State of Vienna by Vienna's City Councilor for Culture. At the celebration in the Vienna City Hall , he appeared in a modified police or “Super Sheriff” uniform known from stage appearances. His words of thanks "dissolved into a spectacle of the Drahdiwaberln".

On Weber's sixtieth birthday, the journalist Doris Knecht wrote in 2006 about the “Schweinerock-Dodel der Nation”: “... a good, an important man, a man who has achieved incomparable things for this republic by practically everything that is sacred to it, always screwed length times width and pulled disrespectfully through the scariest dirt. And still pulls. A decent republic needs that: good, disrespectful people who rub against it. "

On his 70th birthday in 2016, orf.at wrote about him: "Since his Parkinson's disease (a few years ago), Stefan Weber has withdrawn from the public." Director Amor Schläggen presented the documentary film "Stefan Weber is called the pig" for his 70s, who “approaches the Stefan Weber phenomenon in a loving and sometimes a little brutal way,” says Schläggen.

Stefan Weber died in June 2018 at the age of 71. His urn was buried in the family grave at the Simmering fire hall (Dept. ALI, no. 170).

Awards

Filmography

literature

Web links

Commons : Stefan Weber  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ kurier.at: The legendary Drahdiwaberl boss Stefan Weber is dead . ( kurier.at [accessed June 8, 2018]).
  2. ↑ Christian Kolonovits and Drahdiwaberl boss Weber honored. In: Archives of the Vienna City Hall Correspondence, April 27, 2005.
  3. ^ Doris Knecht : All the best, Stefan Weber. ( Memento of April 7, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) In: Die Zeit , November 8, 2006.
  4. ↑ Drahdiwaberl front man Weber is 70. In: orf.at, November 8, 2016, accessed November 8, 2016.
  5. ↑ Christian Kolonovits and Drahdiwaberl boss Weber awarded on April 27, 2005, accessed on February 20, 2013
  6. ↑ [1] of May 6, 2005, accessed on January 4, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Weber, Stefan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian rock musician
DATE OF BIRTH November 8, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna , Austria
DATE OF DEATH 7th June 2018