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"Dreiklangdimensionen": Bodo Staiger of Rheingold is dead

2019-12-10T18:05:07.718Z


With Rheingold he played NDW times electronic music in Düsseldorf tradition. Désirée Nosbusch replaced him in the film, and in Ghana he was revered as a studio inventor. Now Bodo Staiger died.



Bodo Staiger had an ambivalent relationship with fame and limelight. When the Düsseldorf-based band Rheingold landed their biggest hit "Dreiklangsdimensionen" at the beginning of the eighties, he categorically refused the then compulsory performance in the ZDF hit parade.

The people of the responsible for Rheingold record company should have flabbergasted, and probably would have a visit to the retiree revue of Dieter Thomas Heck, the revenue of "triad dimensions" also sustained wings. But Staiger did not let it change: That would have been "like betrayal," he later wrote.

Although his name made only specialists sound, Bodo Staiger caused a stir in German pop culture. And all he was involved with was pretty far away from what Heck's "hit parade" stood for. The musician, born in Dusseldorf in 1949, dropped out of the gymnasium at the age of 15, completed an apprenticeship as a goldsmith, and ultimately landed at rock'n'roll. Back in the sixties, the United Kingdom beat boom finally arrived in Dusseldorf, and Staiger ended up in a band with the promising name of Harakiri Whoom, in which a certain Marius Muller-Westernhagen was also on board.

With rattling cover versions of Rolling Stones, Hendrix and Small Faces songs, the boys in the Greater Dusseldorf caused so much furor that the WDR filmed one of their performances and actually used. After the beat-bustle had subsided Staiger started with the later power plant man Karl Bartos an experimental jazz rock band called Sinus. At that time he also met the legendary German producer Conny Plank, who also supervised the rock band Lilac Angels, who had joined Staiger in the mid-seventies.

The Düsseldorf music scene of the 1970s has long been considered a World Heritage Site in the Popuniverse. Adventurous pioneers such as Kraftwerk, Neu !, La Dusseldorf or Wolfgang Riechmann conjured up a bold mix of electronics, pop and avant-garde, which was later continued by artists such as Propaganda, DAF or Die Krupps. Conny Plank was something like the gray eminence of this exciting scene. No wonder that the visionary producer also helped Rheingold in the studio.

Neue Deutsche Welle? A misunderstanding

Bodo Staiger had also equipped himself at the beginning of the eighties with synthesizers and drum machine and raised with Lothar Manteuffel and Brigitte Kunz the Trio Rheingold from the baptism. They sounded like the concentrated electronic Düsseldorf, so after cool pop and on, cool world. What they also owe to Conny Plank. So they fled with a big label and landed with "triad dimensions" also a big hit, which was then assigned to the so-called New German Wave, which was ultimately a misunderstanding that made Staiger not happy.

But despite the hype surrounding this new German music, Rheingold still received a lot of attention, which ultimately led to Bodo Staiger being offered a starring role alongside Désirée Nosbusch in the strange art-horror film "The Fan", which he accepted. In it, he plays a musician, who chases a stalker - Nosbusch, which finally kills him after rapid sex, dissected and devoured. Because Nosbusch is doing quite naked there, she wanted to prevent a release, which failed and gave the film even more PR. The soundtrack was of course supplied by Rheingold. But after the third album it was time to finish.

Bodo Staiger had long set up his own studio called Rheinklang, where he looked after artists from all over the world in a pleasant seclusion. In the recent past, he specialized in particular on music from Ghana. Two years ago, a last Rheingold album was released, but it was barely noticed.

But in the end, the lead actor never really seemed interested in fame. Now Bodo Staiger died under still unexplained circumstances.

Source: spiegel

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