Zipflo Weinrich

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Alois "Zipflo" Weinrich (born June 16, 1964 in Vienna ; † September 23, 2018 ) was an Austrian football player, jazz musician ( violin , bass ), comedian and actor.

Life

Weinrich, who was a member of a Sinti family , began playing the violin at the age of eight. A little later he also learned the double bass . Trained by his grandfather, he first performed together with his father Joschi Weinrich and other family members and gave his first concert at the age of 15 in Vienna's Jazzland . But he initially decided on a football career and, as a 14-year-old, came through SV Aspern , where he started playing at club level at the age of eleven, and joined the offspring of FK Austria Wien . Together with his friend Toni Polster , he was considered the most dangerous pair of strikers in the junior league at the time. In 1980 he won the youth state championship title with a youth team from Austria.

After he had only been used in friendly and friendly matches in the professional team at Austria (including one game in the 1981/82 season and eleven games, as well as three goals in the 1982/83 season), he switched to league rivals SC in the summer of 1983 Neusiedl am See . For this he played 13 games in the Bundesliga and scored one goal. After a serious injury, he ended his sports career in the winter of 1983/84. Until then he had lost all championship games with Neusiedl; at the end of the season, the club could only record one win and two draws in 30 league games. After that he was only active on an amateur level; among others for the second team of SC Neusiedl or Badener AC . Furthermore, in 1979 he was a member of the Austrian national junior soccer team , with which he took part in qualifying for the U-21 European Championship in 1980 and the U-21 European Championship in 1984 .

Subsequently, he concentrated on making music and initially worked with Austrian musicians such as Karl Ratzer , Fritz Pauer , Karl Hodina and Richard Oesterreicher . He also played in Peter Ily Huemer's film Dead Flowers . He also increasingly appeared internationally with Barney Kessel , Attila Zoller , Oliver Jackson , Toots Thielemans , Red Mitchell , Philip Catherine , Hannes Beckmann and Stochelo Rosenberg . For a few years he switched to the comic field: From 2004 he played with the Heurigen cabaret Die 3 Stehaufmandeln and also played the double bass there, then together with Harry Steiner as the comedian duo Die Extrabladen . Then he turned back to jazz and worked with Harri Stojka , among others . He also played in a quartet with pianist Fritz Pauer, drummer Mario Gonzi and bassist Paulo Cardoso .

Weinrich was musically based on Sinti swing , but interspersed it with numerous elements of modern jazz . He also built up his compositions very individually.

In 2001 Weinrich was named "Artist of the Year" by the City of Vienna. He lived with his wife and children near Vienna; his son, the guitarist Buko Weinrich, played with him occasionally.

Weinrich died on September 23, 2018 after a serious illness at the age of 54.

Discographic notes

  • Zipflo Weinrich Quartet (1984–1986; contains the LPs Miri Menschengi and For You , the latter with Karl Ratzer)
  • Black and White (1993, with Wolfgang Lackerschmid , Christian Salfellner and others)
  • Zipflo Weinrich Group: Pink Violin , 2012
  • Zipflo Weinrich: Zipflo Weinrich In Los Angeles , 2013

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jazzer Alois "Zipflo" Weinrich dies. Der Standard , September 26, 2018, accessed September 27, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Weinrich, Zipflo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weinrich, Alois
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian jazz musician (violin, bass), comedian and actor
DATE OF BIRTH June 16, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH 23rd September 2018