PROJECTS
KUNSTDISCO SEOUL
Goethe-Institut 1988
Official German Cultural Contribution to the Olympic Summer Games in Seoul 1988.
Musical conception and direction: STRÖER BROS.
Watch the Video: KunstDisco Seoul Ouverture
"The Ströer Brothers Hans Peter and Ernst Ströer have inspired 25 young German composers to produce new music for the KunstDisco ... to which the Korean youth dances like crazy, so that night after night a long queue forms in front of the entrance..."
Die Zeit, September 1988
"The lumbering Germans, however, went lighter than ever: they erected on the river island of Youido, near a sweeping, glistening skyscraper more than sixty stories high, of glass and steel and wood, a ... bright, barn-like building with a monopitch roof, architecturally a reminder of Schwitters' legendary Dada merzbau overlaid by Coop Himmelblau's predatory motto "The harder the times, the harder the architecture," by Frank Gehry's cottage romanticism and Behnisch's Hysolar Institute linkage.
And they gave the seemingly useless thing the job of temporarily functioning as an "art disco." Well: the thing worked ... Evening after evening, people fraternized under the sign of this multimedia aesthetic to form cheerfully bouncing groups, as ordered by the Art Festival motto "Harmony, Peace and Progress." So even the loud and the crooked can bring people together, not just "Freude schöner Götterfunken".
Bauwelt Nr. 42, November 1988
"Kunstdisco big hit with Korean youth"
Korea Herald, Oktober 1988
"The sounds congenially interpret the architecture ... In the first eleven KunstDisco days after the opening alone, around 25000 mostly young visitors came. At 5 p.m. daily, the rhythmically quivering, also visually seemingly collapsing curiosity opens ... "
FAZ, September 1988
"KunstDisco Seoul goes far beyond the ideas associated with a conventional discotheque. It is a total work of art that aims to appeal to all the senses, with a wide-ranging palette of musical and artistic performances including dance, video, fashion, lighting effects, design and architectural components, in short, a colorful three-week happening ... According to our information, no other country in the world will present a comparable project in Seoul."
SZ, September 1988
"The gigantic discotheque, located opposite the Korea Broadcasting System Annex Hall on the tip of Yoido Islet, adjacent to the Indonesian Embassy, brimmed with ecstasy and artistic talent during the two-hour premiere performance on opening night.
Avant-garde performers in farcial attire and make-up, synthesizer-spliced live and taped music, dancing floodlights and laser beams creating a variety of images and messages enthralled more then 1500 spectators, who eventually joined the German dancers, moving hand in hand to the rock tunes at the end of the performance.
Designs and messages are illuminated on the wall of buildings across the river, allowing the neighbors and the people in the cars passing by to appreciate the German high-tech artistry every night throughout the Olympic period."
Korea Times, September 1988
"An ultra-modern combination of art, technology and popular entertainment"
Korean Air Magazine, September 1988
Giacomo Lee's brillant retrospective of the KunstDisco for Red Bull Music Academy (2018):
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STRÖER BROS. & HOWARD FINE
STRÖER BROS. & HOWARD FINE - homeward - A Neo Chamber Opera
"homeward" has been nominated for the "Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik" on the Longlist 3/22" - Category "Grenzgänge"
Ilusion Records 2022
The CD "homeward" can be ordered at www.stroerbrosmedia.de.
STRÖER BROS. & HOWARD FINE - VOODOO TRAVEL
In Bus We Trust! - A Road Musical or the 21. century
The continuation of the album "NOMADEN"
Ilusion Records, 2010
The CD "VOODOO TRAVEL" can be ordered at www.stroerbrosmedia.de.
STRÖER BROS. & HOWARD FINE - NOMADEN
LP and Live-Act der STRÖER BROS mit Howard Fine. Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik.
Mood Records, 1985.
2001 Catalogue, 1986
BR-Live Recording for "Live aus dem Alabama“ in Munich.
“Rarely has music gotten under my skin like this. It unsettles, creates an uncertain tension, makes you addicted to new thoughts. An exceptional album ... the music is not from today, it is tomorrow.” Michael A. Konitzer / Tempo
1987 Southeast Asia tour on behalf of the Goethe-Institut. Concerts in Singapore, Bangkok, Manila, Kuala Lumpur, Surabaya, Bandung and Jacarta.
2008 Re-release of the Album "NOMADEN" .
The CD "NOMADEN" in sturdy cardboard box with large text leaflet can be ordered at www.stroerbrosmedia.de.
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STRÖER DUO
STRÖER DUO - FLUCHTWEG MADAGASKAR
Mood Records, 1982
2001 Catalogue, 1983
"Fluchtweg Madagaskar" Live with Anette Hopfenmüller (Bass) as Support Act for the "United Jazz & Rockensemble", 1983
2022 Re-Release of the album "FLUCHTWEG MADAGASKAR"
The CD "FLUCHTWEG MADAGASKAR" can be ordered at www.stroerbrosmedia.de.
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NERV
NERV
Biber Records 1981, LP und Live-Act.
"Incredibly good synth/new wave pop from Germany. Sung in both languages German and English and done well(his voice is mid range and neutral/listenable regardless of the accent). There is a hint of post punk angst to a few tracks and a dash of experimentalist(something the Germans where very adamant about) approach perhaps rem. of Peter Gabriel's early works, Nice funky grooves by Hans Stroer and tight well recorded drumming compliments of Im guessing his brother. Its gems like this I hope one day will be released on cd as a one off release this deserved more attention to those audio archeologists like me who seek musical listening nourishment far from the mainstream drivel of the 21st century!" discogs
TREFFPUNKT IM UNENDLICHEN
Corona 1984. Original Soundtrack from the film by Horst Königstein.
REICHSHAUPTSTADT PRIVAT
Ilusion/Colosseum 1987. Original Soundtrack from the film by Horst Königstein.
SCRATCH GERMANY
1988. Vinyl-Album with music for the KunstDisco Seoul.
HARD DAYS, HARD NIGHTS
RCA 1990. Original Soundtrack from the cinefilm by Horst Königstein.
THE SILENT YEARS 1985 - 1992
1992, Doppel-CD mit Film- und Theatermusiken.
“My Ströer brothers. They are so talented, so cooperative, so friendly, so incorruptible, so surprising, so keen to experiment, so unenvious - a chart list like this borders on slander. I'm talking about the Ströer Bros, who I got to know because they wanted me to write lyrics like those for Peter Gabriel. Dark punk jazz and contact with Tom Robinson and Udo Lindenberg - these were the extremely inhomogeneous components of our friendship that began in 1980. Hans Peter and Ernst - we supported each other in exciting projects - film music, pop music, (very early) ethno and techno fusion, pomp and aural sculptures. Parallel learning in parallel visual worlds: nothing is more exciting than shared learning experiences in the filmmaking labs. And beyond that (especially in the stage music) they have ears for the sound of life. Here, what sound-track signals is true: what streets and silence sound like - what coloration love and hate have. Always as epic as possible and as relevant as “Jedermann” and “Spiel mir das Lied vom Tod”. Every work is sealed with heart and soul - and that the Ströers, together and individually, are among the best composers, arrangers and producers has already been heard from one or two colleagues. The two of them can't do much with the starry-eyed compliment. Glamor and cool sound analysis are not mutually exclusive here. For the Ströers are among the contemporary composers who respectfully spread the flotsam of the past out to dry and - holistically - embed it in history and the present. The attention for bare sounds; the whisking and sucking through of found sounds - concrete music meets the echo of the times... Listen to Hans Peter and Ernst Ströer... You won't believe your ears. Thank you for your art. ”
Horst Königstein
EINMAL CASANOVA SEIN
stroerbrosmedia 2005. Music by Hans P. Ströer from the theaterplay by U. Mayer, U. Tukur und U. Waller, Hamburger Kammerspiele 1997.
EINMAL CASANOVA SEIN can be ordered at www.stroerbrosmedia.de.
DIE MANNS - EIN JAHRHUNDERTROMAN
stroerbrosmedia 2005. Original Soundtrack by Hans P. Ströer for the Docu-Drama by H. Breloer.
DIE MANNS Original Soundtrack can be ordered at www.stroerbrosmedia.de.
SPEER UND ER
stroerbrosmedia 2005. Original Soundtrack by Hans P. Ströer for the Docu-Drama by H. Breloer.
SPEER UND ER Original Soundtrack can be ordered at www.stroerbrosmedia.de.
ZU FRANZ HUMMELS OPERN
First book to be released by the Hans P. und Ernst Ströer Musikverlag, edited by Hans and Gabriele Turner 1988. Artists and authors response to the works of german composer Franz Hummel.
CHRISTIAN ROSS
Exibition catalogues
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EVENTS
REICHSHAUPTSTADT REVUE
ARD 1986. Musical Revue for the german TV, flanking the 2-part series "Reichshauptstadt Privat“ by Horst Königstein featuring PETER GABRIEL, CHRISTOPH WALTZ and TOM ROBINSON. Musical Directors: STRÖER BROS.
HEIMATABEND
NDR 1990. TV-Comedy by Horst Königstein and Ulrich Waller. Musical Directors: STRÖER BROS.
ATLANTISCHER WILDWECHSEL
Performance of STRÖER BROS. for the Goethe-Medaille Award Ceremony for Billy Wilder and Istvan Szabo in Weimar 1994.
AN DEN MOND
Goethe-Institut Munich 1997. Performance of STRÖER BROS. with Celia Elsdörfer on the occasion of the retirement of Dr. Horst Harnischfeger.
CONTRAPUNKT
Goethe-Forum Munich 2002. Performance of STRÖER BROS. with Howard Fine
SINGLES-COUPLES (working title)
Goethe-Institut Athens 2004. Conception of the Official German Contribution to the Olympic Summer Games in Athens. Not realized due to security problems.
