Ströer Bros.

Hans P. and Ernst Ströer are the STRÖER BROS. Based close to Munich, Bavaria, they work as composers, arrangers, musicians, producers and authors, travelling between many different musical worlds.

Musicians

Hans plays bass, guitars and piano, Ernst plays all kinds of drums and percussion. The two of them descended from the wildly expanded jazz brew of the ’70s. Back then, they toured the world with the MILD MANIAC ORCHESTRA of Germany’s [number one jazz] guitar player VOLKER KRIEGEL.

Equally at home in recording studio and on stage, they rank among Germany’s finest jazz musicians. Hans recorded with STING, FALCO, DONNA SUMMER, GILBERT BECAUD and many more.

Ernst played more than 2000 concerts with PASSPORT, the band of saxophone player KLAUS DOLDINGER, touring the world with guests like MICHAEL BRECKER, RANDY BRECKER, DON ALIAS, JONNY GRIFFIN, BILLY COBHAM, CASSANDRA WILSON, BRIAN AUGER and many more. Ernst is a founding member of DJ Christian Prommer’s Project DRUMLESSON, produced by PETER KRUDER. Their debut album DRUMLESSON VOL. 1 was released by SONAR KOLLEKTIV.

Producers

From 1985 to 1998, the Ströer Bros. produced all of the albums of Germany’s foremost rock star UDO LINDENBERG. They wrote orchestral arrangements and took part in the final recording by MARLENE DIETRICH, who spoke some introductions on Udo’s album HERMINE. They earned several golden albums for their work with UDO.

Composers

The Ströer Bros. have written film music for TV and cinema since 1984. Their oeuvre spans more than 150 productions, among them many prizewinning creations, including the US TV series “Berlin Break,” produced by WOLFGANG PETERSEN and RUBEN LEDER for Columbia-Tristar. Hans composed the scores of all films by HEINRICH BRELOER and HORST KÖNIGSTEIN, including DIE MANNS and BUDDENBROOKS, the most recent film, for which he won the European ROMA FICTION FEST PRIZE in 2009 (best film music).

Their work for theaters throughout Europe includes “Jeux de Femmes”starring LESLIE CARON at GERGIO STREHLER’S Theatre de l’Europe (1985) in Paris.

Conceptual Artists

The Ströer Bros. worked together with the GOETHE INSTITUT to create the GERMAN KUNST DISCO SEOUL as Germany’s official cultural contribution to the Olympic Games in Seoul, South Korea in 1988.

Authors

The Ströer Bros. book about listening to music, DAS MUSIKHÖRBUCH, was published by SCHOTT MUSIC in 2008.

Ströer Bros. & Fine - NOMADS TRILOGY

The Ströer Bros. released NOMADEN, their first album with Howard Fine, in 1985. A riotous musical road movie, NOMADEN won the German Music Critics’ Prize. The Ströer Bros. & Howard Fine toured Southeast Asia and appeared at several jazz festivals.

2010 Release of "VOODOO TRAVEL", Part II of the NOMADS TRILOGY.

"NOMAD SONG" from the album "NOMADEN" by STRÖER DUO & HOWARD FINE is part of the 1980-1991compilation UNEVEN PATHS which has been released in 2019 by the Label MUSIC FROM MEMORY based in Amsterdam.

STRÖER BROS. feat. Nadeen Holloway + Howard Fine ‎– "NIGHT FALLS" (Kunstdisco Seoul 1988) 12inch vinyl out on BLACK PEARL RECORDS ! Contains the original version of "Night Falls" & Remixes by First Touch and Mudegg! Further Remixes will be released digitally on the label website.

The song "WHEN YOU STOPPED SLEEPING" from the album "NOMADEN" - STRÖER DUO & HOWARD FINE is released in December 2023 on the compilation VARIOUS ARTISTS 10 of the label MUSIC FROM MEMORY, Amsterdam.

The LP "STRÖER DUO - FLUCHTWEG MADAGASKAR" from the year 1982 has been re-released on Vinyl in 2019 by the American Label DARK ENTRIES based in San Francisco.

Premiere STRÖER BROS. & THOMAS HAUSER "Backstage Cinema" st the Jazz Fest Munich, Gasteig, Dezember 2018.

"DAS MUSIKHÖRBUCH" - Lecture at the Carl Orff Auditorium, Munich, as part of the series "Musik im Diskurs" of the "Hochschule für Theater und Musik, Munich, January 2019.

March 2022 Release of "homeward", Part III of the NOMADS TRILOGY.

"homeward" has been nominated for the "Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik" 3/22 Category "Grenzgänge".

The CD-book "homeward" can be ordered here: www.stroerbrosmedia.de