(Bio as .pdf download and photos can be found in the press material section)

Fritz Feger was born on March 3, 1968 in Lemgo, Germany. Since age of 8 he received cello lessons at Musikschule Lage and then, together with his brother who now plays solo viola at Deutsche Oper am Rhein, courses in theory of music, chamber music and orchestra.

After school, he finished an agricultural apprenticeship and then studied agriculture at Göttingen University. Following his diploma in 1995 he finished his doctoral thesis (PhD) in spring 2000 at Institute for Agricultural Economics, supervised by Stefan Tangermann. His dissertation thesis has the poetic title A Behavioral Model of the German Compound Feed Industry / Functional Form, Flexibility, and Regularity and has been published online by Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen.

When he was fifteen, Fritz Feger began to play electric and double bass in a dixieland and swing band. After finishing his college he bought his first upright from Heiner Windelband and, on jam sessions of the Hamburg based jazz club "Birdland" and in different bands with Hamburg musicians, got the basics of a jazz bassist which 1989 led to a three year membership at Bundesjazzorchester which is directed by Peter Herbolzheimer.

During the ninetees, Fritz Feger was around at the Hannover jazz scene, e.g. in Tilman Denecke's band "Mr. Natural", which also featured trombonist Daniel Casimir, sax player Lieven Brunckhorst and drummer Michael Verhovec. A further project of his was the avant band uSbEsT+ with Denecke and Verhovec and one guest. Both Mr. Natural and uSbEsT+ with a guest appearance by Rudi Mahall on bass clarinet won the jazz price Jazzpodium Niedersachsen, and with guest Frank Bungarten who is originally a classical guitar player but played tenor sax with uSbEsT+ there were lots of performances. Note the historical recordings of uSbEsT+ with Rudi Mahall in the mp3 section.

Fritz Feger was educated as classical singer by Shoko Shimizu in Detmold. Soon, he also started to sing in a jazz context: together with the then Göttingen based pianist Christoph Busse he founded a duo where he sang and played upright bass simultaneously. From this duo, then his trio and his commercial band JazzCocktail emerged. As did Christoph Busse and Michael Verhovec, he joined Gunther Hampel's rhythm section for one year and became bassist of Christoph Busse Quintett. Fritz Feger also works as a singer, mainly at Studio Hamburg as synchrone singer and occasional musical director of the Sesame Street.

With Wurzelbehandlung featuring Philipp Haagen and Michael Verhovec at Thalia Theater, Hamburg, he finally took the step to 'original' or non-idiomatic music 2000 through 2003, what led the establishment of Chronique de notre vie featuring Philipp Haagen and Lieven Brunckhorst 2005. Fritz Feger is currently working on new compositions, recordings and performance opportunities for his working band Chronique.

In April 2008, Fritz Feger has realised his up to now biggest project: in front of a crowd of more than thousand, his hiphop-classical music battle based on raps by Schneider MC starring the Westfälische Kammerphilharmonie directed by Malte Steinsiek, Christian Jung on drums and himself on bass was performed. The same night, his orchestra arrangements on four songs by Heinz Rudolf Kunze were also played.

Fritz Feger has been working at numerous theatres as stage musician, musical director, arranger and/or composer, namely at Deutschen Theater Göttingen, at Schauspiel Hannover, at Schauspielhaus Hamburg, at Burgtheater in Vienna, at Theater Bielefeld, from 200 through 2006 as member of the house band at Thalia Theater in Hamburg, at Schauspielhaus Bochum, as part of the Bonner Biennale, at Theater Bonn, at Theater Osnabrück, and at Staatstheater Stuttgart. Currently, he is on stage at Schauspielhaus Düsseldorf playing cello in Chechov's The Seagull.

As follow-up to Volker Schmitt's short film NOWHERENOW he will also score and produce the soundtrack for Volker's upcoming film "Schattenlinie".

Since 1995 Fritz Feger is married with the Tübingen philosopher Sabine Döring. The crop farm he is running since 2005 in Northern Germany has merged in July 2007 with the farm of his neighbour Dirk Reese.

last edited on September 2, 2010