Andreas Halamek-Weinert can be seen on YouTube on Advent Sundays.
He accompanies the Christmas readings in the city library.
Wolfratshausen
- The Advent wreath is on the wooden table of the corner bench.
The first candle burns and there are cookies and tea.
It's cozy in Andreas Halamek-Weinert's kitchen.
The native of Waldramer has been making music all his life alongside his job as a trained electrical installer.
He currently accompanies the Christmas readings on the piano in the city library, which can be seen as a film on the Advent Sundays on the YouTube channel of the city of Wolfratshausen.
Halamek-Weinert is a Waldram veteran.
He grew up as one of five children in one of the typical pointed gable houses in the former Föhrenwald camp.
The word "security" occurs spontaneously to the 42-year-old when he thinks about his childhood.
Waldram was like a big family to him.
“You know your neighbors and you know they belong here and they are there for each other.” That shaped him - later musically too.
"Music is a togetherness in interaction and reacting to one another."
Heidschi Bumbeidschi he was flawless as a toddler
Before the boy could speak, he sang the Bavarian Christmas lullaby "Heidschi Bumbeidschi" without errors, so the parents decided early on to support the son musically.
Andreas learned the flute in kindergarten, later sang in the children's and youth choir under the direction of Tom Sesto and finally decided in the second grade to learn piano with Wolfgang Schiewietz in the Geretsrieder music school.
“I was fascinated by the fact that you simply press the keys and you get clean tones,” remembers Halamek-Weinert.
In the parish youth he taught himself to play the guitar and became a "campfire musician".
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For Andreas Halamek-Weinert, the most important thing about making music is “having fun”.
During the conversation with our newspaper, husband Dominik Halamek comes home from his dance studio and sits down.
The candle flickers, the cookie plate is half empty.
The Halameks got married in 2018 and feel very comfortable in Wolfratshausen.
"We live here in a very tolerant environment."
The Waldram security was important to him
The story of their encounter is exciting.
They met on the Internet 14 years ago, although they grew up on the same street just two houses apart in Waldram.
The current music project "Gaudibox" by Andreas - a pool of 18 musicians from the Munich area who make light music - Dominik gave the "Look & Feel", i.e. name, design and logo.
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Raphael Mayrhofer, Erich Mayer (known as "Erich der Koch" from Donikkl), Nikolaus Sanktjohanser, sculptor and bassist from Waldram, and Miguel Onnis from Penzberg, who meanwhile leads the project together with Andreas, are on board.
The Waldramer still leaves open whether there will be a halamek music dance project one day.
"Maybe who knows."
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The Christmas readings with accompanying piano music by Andi Halamek-Weinert are recorded on the Advent Sundays at www.youtube.com under the search term Tourismus Wolfratshausen.
