Herwig Mitteregger
Herwig Rudolf Mitteregger ( born September 6, 1953 in Mautern in Styria) in Austria is a born drummer, singer, composer and producer.
Musical interaction
1976 Mitteregger rose at the Berlin band locomotive Kreuzberg as a drummer and percussionist. After its dissolution in the following year he played in 1978 and 1979 with the Nina Hagen Band two German -speaking, internationally successful albums in. Since the four musicians ( Herwig Mitteregger, Reinhold Heil, Manfred Praeker and Bernhard Potschka ) over threw the singer Nina Hagen, the already contracted second album was " discomfort " first recorded instrumental. Then Hagen's vocals were recorded in the absence of the musicians.
After the final break with Nina Hagen founded the four musicians the West Berlin rock band Spliff played (synonym for joint ) in Mitteregger drums and sang. Also named after his Order album " 85555 ", the Germany -wide Spliff; Spliff published from 1980 to 1984 four albums, including the listed as " rock opera " "The Spliff Radio Show" with Alf Klimek, Rik De Lisle and two other singers brought success and also appeared as an English-language edition. was followed by the album " Congratulations ".
Had he composed completely alone texted, produced, played and sung - Even before the dissolution of the band released Mitteregger 1983 his first solo album " not a girl no courage ." With the band nor the soundtrack to the film "Baby" by Uwe Friesner, the music for the Schimanski - Tatort " Two kinds of blood ", as well as the fourth album was recorded " Black on White". A planned for 1986 fifth Spliff LP was dropped due to the band members' solo projects; the four members separated after a farewell tour in late 1984, although the split of the band was never officially announced. Since then published Mitteregger, who soon settled in Spain and there einrichtete a recording studio, and 1997 five more albums on which various musicians played along. In 1985, the single " More and more " was successful.
In addition to the projects mentioned multi-instrumentalist worked with, among others, Ulla Meinecke, Manfred Maurenbrecher Sternhagel, Michael Fitz and Cosa Rosa. Since 1999, two failed comeback attempts with Spliff in advance.
After 1997 Mitteregger worked in Spain mainly as a composer, appeared only rarely on in Germany and started a family: he had a son in 1999. Since 2006 he lives with his wife and son in Hamburg, where he is actively working again on their own projects. After the end of May 2008 on his specially created label " Manoscrito Music" released album " Insolito " with which he has further developed his style from the stage mid-1990s, initially did not find any live performances take place with tape. Instead appeared another album entitled " Fandango " which also includes a new version of Spliff songs " emergency exit " in June 2009.