Willy Astor

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Willy Astor (2006)

Wilhelm Gottfried "Willy" Astor (born September 6, 1961 in Munich ) is a German cabaret artist , musician and composer .

Life

Willy Astor and the Spider Murphy Gang (2006)

Astor grew up in the Munich district of Hasenbergl and attended primary and secondary school there. After graduating from school in 1976, he completed vocational training as a toolmaker at BMW and then advanced training to become a mechanical engineer , which he completed in 1985.

At the age of 14 he began to play the accordion , from 1979 he learned to play the guitar in a community college course , later increasingly self-taught , including sheet music such as the "Folkpicking for Fingerstyle-Guitar" by Sigi Schwab . Since around 1983 Astor has been writing his first songs and prose texts, which were performed in the Munich cabaret scene on the Musikalisches Unterholz (MUH) stage, in the Robinson song stage , in the Neuhausen art cellar, etc.

After completing his professional training, Astor decided to pursue his cabaret work full time. The programs “Lieder, Nonsens, Instrumentals”, “Oamoi neidabt glangt” and “Merci Mausi” received little attention from the audience. Astor earned his living as a guitar lecturer at the Munich Adult Education Center and at the Free Music Center.

From the early 1990s onwards, Astor became known primarily for his wordplay cabaret numbers, in which he packs identical or similar-sounding words into texts that are in themselves irrelevant. For example, Radkäppchen and the bad Golf tells the fairy tale of Little Red Riding Hood , but uses a number of automobile components and brands in the text. Something similar can be found in the smokers' fairy tale with cigarette brands or in the multi-part pieces "international matches" with countries and cities. The play on words can also be found in Astor's music. He often provides well-known songs with new texts, for example The House of the Rising Sun of the Animals at Astor becomes the See-Haus in the Freising sun , which of course is a Bello property due to its good location (based on Gianna Nannini : Bello e impossibile ).

Astor became better known with his first radio and television appearances in Bavaria and his writing for the radio station Antenne Bayern , which also broadcast Astor's comedy program Die Feuchtgrubers from 1990 to 1999 . Bavarian television broadcast an hour from Astor's current program for the first time in 1993, followed in 1996 by the successful series Die Willy Astor-Show with Günter Grünwald, among others .

In 1997 Astor composed the current hymn of FC Bayern Munich , Stern des Südens , with Stephan Lehmann , his colleague at the time at Antenne Bayern and stadium announcer for FC Bayern Munich, contributing to the text. The interpretation of Bayern fans United came in February 1998 at number 67 in the German single charts.

With his play on words he was represented at Bayern 3 with the weekly comedy contribution Willys Wortstudio based on The current sportstudio and from 1999 onwards he was a frequent guest at 7 Tage, 7 Köpf . He also performed a full program at the Arosa Humor Festival in 2009 .

Astor has given numerous concerts since the mid-1990s - with his self-composed instrumental titles, mainly written for guitar, he now has five albums. With the album Leuchtende Tage he takes a more thoughtful and critical direction in the songwriting tradition. He spans a wide range from the funny, fun cabaret artist to the "philosophizing" musician.

In 1994 he was awarded the Upper Swabian Cabaret Prize Ravensburger Kupferle .

In 2013, Willy Astor, together with the project Cpt. Nepomuk's Friendly Heart Choir Club for the flood victims from Bavaria on the song Weida mitanand .

Discography

Cabaret albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE
1995 The treasure in the Silbensee DE91 (2 weeks)
DE
1997 Scherz special coated tablets DE27 (12 weeks)
DE
1998 Live - I'm happy
that there can be an encore ... 		DE66 (4 weeks)
DE
1999 Irreal Ultra - The concentrate from 10 years of Willy Astor DE29 (6 weeks)
DE
2001 Aloneunderholder - Go there and horseradish DE42 (4 weeks)
DE
2004 Word studio DE77 (2 weeks)
DE

More cabaret albums

  • 1987 - … why ned?
  • 1988 - The first 1825 days ...
  • 1989 - Merci Mausi
  • 1991 - Mamabuwerl
  • 1992 - Alive in the slaughterhouse (live)
  • 1993 - Astorlavista Baby - the billing cycle
  • 1995 - thieves
  • 1998 - favorites - 10 years Willy Astor. (VHS - live from Circus Krone)
  • 2002 - Ever Grins - Schmarraton in 185 minutes. (DVD)
  • 2005 - 20 years of Willy Astor. (DVD)
  • 2008 - Reimgold
  • 2008 - Tonjuwelen - Best of Willy Astor. (Double CD)
  • 2012 - After-laughing happy materials
  • 2015 - Rhyme Time

Music albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE
2001 The Sound of Islands Vol. II DE79 (1 week)
DE
2019 The zoo is not a logical garden DE78 (1 week)
DE
Childish Ocean 2
CD with stories and music for children

More music albums

  • 1988 - Modern Paradise. (vinyl only)
  • 1996 - The Sound of Islands - Instrumentals (recorded since 1994)
  • 1998 - FC Bayern - Star of the South. (Club anthem of FC Bayern Munich )
  • 2000 - Willy Astor's other strings. (VHS - live from the Benediktbeuern monastery)
  • 2003 - The Sound of Islands Vol. III
  • 2003 - Shining days
  • 2004 - word studio
  • 2007 - The Sound of Islands Vol. IV
  • 2007 - Superscholli
  • 2008 - The determiner
  • 2008 - The Sound of Islands - Special Places. (DVD - Benediktbeuern 2000, Oberschleißheim 2003, Prinzregententheater Munich 2008)
  • 2008 - Ottmar – Olli, we love you
  • 2009 - Pulsonic - The Sound of Islands Cosmic Lounge
  • 2010 - The Sound of Islands Vol. V - Midsummer Night's Room
  • 2014 - Childish Ocean (CD with stories and music for children)
  • 2015 - The Sound of Islands - Symphonic (CD or DVD - live recording with the Münchner Rundfunkorchester )
  • 2017 - Chance Songs
  • 2017 - The Sound of Islands-Guitar

Singles

  • 2003 - Machine cleaning
  • 2005 - Blender stick
  • 2008 - Hamburch
  • 2008 - The determiner
  • 2010 - Germany we love you
  • 2012 - Pubatier Inda House (Live)
  • 2015 - In Africa, In Africa
  • 2016 - be easy

Books

  • 2006 - Doer of things. Humor straight from the grower . Kunstmann, Munich, ISBN 3-88897-454-2 .
  • 2007 - Willy Astor for the LacherFeuer. 32 songs to play by yourself . Edition Dux, Manching, ISBN 978-3-934958-63-0 .
  • 2012 - Rogue duty: pun is pure area . Kunstmann, Munich, ISBN 3-88897-780-0 .

Compositions for guitar

Awards

Web links

Commons : Willy Astor  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Songs about Munich: How Willy Astor makes FC Bayern the "Star of the South" , sueddeutsche.de , 23 August 2020
  2. ↑ Bayern fans United - Star of the South
  3. ↑ a b Chart sources: DE
  4. ↑ Willy Astor: The Sound of Islands. Volume 1. 2nd edition. Dux-Verlag, 2009, ISBN 978-3-934958-88-3 , p. 1.
personal data
SURNAME Astor, Willy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Astor, Wilhelm Gottfried (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bavarian cabaret artist, musician and composer
DATE OF BIRTH September 6, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich