- Stiller Has
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Origin =Berne ,Switzerland
Genre =Mundart (Bernese German )
Years_active =1989 –present
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Current_members =René Schafer Endo Anaconda Balts Nill (until 2005)Martin Silfverberg (since 2005)Samuel Jungen (since 2005)
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Notable_instruments =Stiller Has (German for "Silent Hare") are a musical trio founded 1989 in
Berne , Switzerland. Considering themselves part of the "Kleinkunst ", or "small stage art" scene, they have nonetheless become a cult band across theGerman speaking part of Switzerland .Echo vonGrindelwald /JungfrauZeitung , 25. November 2003: [http://www.stillerhas.ch/pages/k_grindelw_25-11-03.htm Cult band fascinates the audience of the "Anchor"] ]Süddeutsche Zeitung , 12./13. September 1998: [http://www.stillerhas.ch/pages/k_sueddeutsche_12-9-98.htm"I'm just a stage pig": About the cult band Stiller Has and the secret Swiss yearning for anarchy] ]Stiller Has perform in "Mundart", their native
Bernese German , singing - as theBerner Zeitung put it - "about a piece of Switzerland that is paid little attention ... the middle country, the middle classes, the poor, the mediocre. ... Those that bitch about their fate, get drunk and get bitten in the butt by their own dog".. The NZZ has assessed them as "the band that has described and sung about the existential orientation of Switzerland like no one else".Neue Zürcher Zeitung , May 28 2005, [http://www.stillerhas.ch/pdf/NZZ_28-05-05.pdf Odes to the beloved, ugly homeland: When the Stiller Has plays and sings] (PDF)]To date, Stiller Has have made numerous tours across Switzerland and released ten CDs. In 1995, they received the
Salzburger Stier and theDeutscher Kleinkunstpreis , the two most notable small stage art awards in the German-speaking countries.Discography
* Stiller Has' (1989) (on cassette)
* Der Wolf ist los (1991)
* Landjäger (1994)
* Moudi (1996)
* Live auf Moudi Tour (1996)
* Chole (1998)
* Walliselle (2000)
* Stiller Has (2001)
* Stelzen (2002)
* Poulet Tour (2004)
* Geisterbahn (2006)References
All links are in German, unless otherwise noted.
External links
* [http://www.stillerhas.ch/ stillerhas.ch]
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