The band Wurff was cult in the 80s and even had a radio hit.
Now one of its supporting members has died - at the age of only 59.
Freising
- The Freising rock musician and writer Roman Schreiber (59) is dead. He died after a long and serious illness in the Freising Clinic.
Roman Schreiber was a student at the Camerloher Gymnasium in the 1980s and lived for a long time in the “Pense”, a dormitory of the school from which some talents from the Freising music scene emerged.
Keyboardist Roman Schreiber achieved his first local fame with a band called "Anabasis", which gave a series of concerts in student bars and clubs in the region.
The accomplished, extroverted and experimental style of Schreiber was also noticed by the members of the then cult band Wurff.
Wurff swam with the Neue Deutsche Welle
Wurff, a formation made up of musicians from Freising and Moosburg, was on the other hand on the best way to stir up the music scene as part of the Neue Deutsche Welle.
With “Mon General” they had a radio hit.
Countless live performances were to follow alongside insider greats and rock icons like Embryo.
Among other things, Wurff appeared at a legendary Rose Monday concert in "Live from Alabama" in Munich.
Right in the middle of Wurff, namely from 1984 to 1987, was Roman Schreiber, who decisively shaped the sound of the band with his keyboard.
Even later, after 1987, after the band split up, Roman Schreiber still took part in revival concerts and performances by Wurff.
Günter Janovsky, ex-front man of the Stones tribute band “Jumpin 'Jacks” and ex-president of the Hirsch jazz club in Moosburg, remembers: “I've known Roman since 1983. He played keys with Anabasis and later with Wurff.
We've been complicated friends since then, and I've experienced a lot with Roman. "
Roman Schreiber also wrote plays
“A life like a name”, says Janovsky, referring to the literary ambitions of Roman Schreiber and his autobiographical novel “Woodys Dope” (ISBN: 978-3-8442-5255-2), which he wrote in 2007 and published in Self-published.
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A piece for typewriter, voice, sax and double bass: Author Roman Schreiber (left) and Stephan Lanius performed in the Munich theater at the social welfare office.
© Photo: private
Noteworthy in Roman Schreiber's literary oeuvre is undoubtedly his participation in an Asylart project at the Theater am Sozialamt in Munich in 2015. The title of the Schreiber play, which was premiered at "TamS" and which resulted in a small tour through Upper Bavaria, read: “Do you have a short time” - a piece for typewriter, voice, sax and double bass.
The initiator and head of the project was the Munich musician and bassist of the St. Oel Trio, Stephan Lanius.
Schreiber leaves three children behind
In the info text on “Do you have a short time”, written by Stephan Lanius, it says: “As a person on the fringes of society, Roman Schreiber struggles with poverty, indifference and lack of understanding.
He writes his experiences on the typewriter from the soul.
Without giving up, he searches for the humanity that our society too often loses. "
Apart from his creative work, the musician and writer Roman Schreiber lived until the end as an “artist without electricity” on the Stengerbach in Lerchenfeld.
He leaves behind a mother, a half-sister, three children and a whole series of fans, readers, companions and friends.
Alexander Fischer
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