Stiller Has
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Stiller Has are a musical trio founded 1989 in Bern, Switzerland. Considering themselves part of the Kleinkunst, or "small stage art" scene, they have nonetheless become a cult band across the German speaking part of Switzerland.
Stiller Has perform in Mundart, their native Bernese German
, singing - as the Berner 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".
To date, Stiller Has have made numerous tours across Switzerland and released ten CDs. In 1995, they received the Salzburger Stier and the Deutscher Kleinkunstpreis, the two most notable small stage art awards in the German-speaking countries.
Stiller Has perform in Mundart, their native Bernese German
Bernese German
Bernese German is the dialect of High Alemannic German spoken in the Swiss plateau part of the canton of Bern and in some neighbouring regions.- Varieties :There is a lot of regional variation within Bernese German dialects...
, singing - as the Berner Zeitung
Berner Zeitung
Berner Zeitung is a regional newspaper in the canton of Berne, Switzerland. With a distribution of 165,700 , it is number four of the daily newspapers in Switzerland and the leading newspaper in the Canton of Berne...
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
Neue Zürcher Zeitung
The Neue Zürcher Zeitung is a major German language Swiss daily newspaper based in Zurich.One of the oldest newspapers still published, it originally appeared as Zürcher Zeitung, edited by Salomon Gessner, from January 12, 1780, and was renamed to Neue Zürcher Zeitung in 1821...
has assessed them as "the band that has described and sung about the existential orientation of Switzerland like no one else".
To date, Stiller Has have made numerous tours across Switzerland and released ten CDs. In 1995, they received the Salzburger Stier and the Deutscher 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)
- WalliselleWallisellenWallisellen is a municipality in the district of Bülach in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland, and belongs to the Glatt Valley .-History:The first settlement at Wallisellen dates from 58 BC....
(2000) - Stiller Has (2001)
- Stelzen (2002)
- Poulet Tour (2004)
- Geisterbahn (2006)
- Zwanzig Goldige Hasensongs (2007)
- So verdorbe (2009)