Neue Wiener Concert Schrammeln & Guests

There’s likely no more authentic and resonant expression of the true Viennese soul than Schrammel music.
Grumbling, wistful, lively, melancholic, and full of Schmäh (Viennese wit), it has enchanted listeners since the 19th century, when the Schrammel brothers first brought it to life in the rustic wine taverns of Vienna.

More than a century later, it is the Neue Wiener Concert Schrammeln who carry this tradition into the world. For the past thirty years, these Viennese musicians have reimagined their musical heritage—from Japan to Colombia—while proudly donning the elegant old Viennese frock coat. Très chic.

Six musicians form the heart of this new Schrammel sound:
Peter Uhler, Nikolai Tunkowitsch, and Johannes Fleischmann on violin;
Helmut Thomas Stippich and Walther Soyka on the Viennese button accordion;
and Peter Havlicek on the contraguitar.

They have performed with some of Austria’s most celebrated musicians and actors: Willi Resetarits, Karl Markovics, Traude Holzer, Konstanze Breitebner, Karlheinz Hackl, Wolfgang Böck, Robert Meyer, Elfriede Ott – just to name a few.

And of course, André Heller, who invites them and their guests to the stage in Remassuri.

Austrian journalist and author Otto Brusatti once described the effect of the Neue Wiener Concert Schrammeln like this:
“Those before them, with them, listening to their CDs, or simply sharing the same room, are happy, anxious, aroused, disturbed, overjoyed, increasingly tipsy, floating in music, and deeply emotionally endangered.”
He concluded they ought to be forbidden.
They weren’t. Thankfully!

Neue Wiener Concert Schrammeln & Guests
Vocals & Yodeling: Tini Kainrath, Maria Stippich, Marlene Janschütz, Constanze Hojsa
Violin: Peter Uhler, Johannes Fleischmann, Theresa Aigner, Julia Brunner, Magdalena Schlatterbeck
Accordion: Helmut T. Stippich, Walther Soyka, Andreas Teufel, Lukas Seifried, Miroslav Jankech
Contraguitar: Peter Havlicek, Paul Seifried

Photo © Stephan Mussil