FRANZ MAYER EXPERIENCE - Feat. Alex Köberlein und seine Rottweiler
World hits back in Swabian original
Alex Köberlein, the Schwoißfuaß and Grachmusikoff singer, has been astonishingly successful since 2023, back on the southern German stages. And this is with “The Franz Mayer Experience,” the band founded in Rottweil during the Corona period.
And there is a good reason for the band’s existence. It has always been suspected, always known: most of the great hits in pop history are stolen.
Plainly copied from originally Swabian songs from the last century.
The search for “Kraut Rock” in the sixties triggered it all. Especially American and British occupation soldiers were on the move with big tape recorders. They recorded whatever they could, and they came all the way to Schussenried.
Thus, world hits like “Rebel yell,” “Locomotive Breath,” “Baker Street,” or “Land down under” emerged, while the original music from the Swabian underground almost fell into oblivion.
What was then praised as cool, almost surrealistic English-language pop lyrics is, in truth, just a poor translation of the Swabian original. Thus, the clear statement “Mein Vaddr war n harda Hond” became the rather mild “Papa was a Rolling Stone” (Dad was a rolling stone).
This is to be corrected now.
Alex Köberlein (voc, fl, sax) sets out with Ralf Trouillet (bs, voc), Joo Aiple (dr), Matze Reimann (git), and Steff Hengstler (keyb, voc) on what is perhaps the largest cultural rescue mission in Swabian pop history: world hits back in Swabian original.
PRESS REVIEWS
“The last rock anarchists... Speckled with crazy excursions and witty introductions by Alex Köberlein, this creates a wild ride, comparable to a tractor ride on a Swabian field, with plenty of beer, of course... it gets really nostalgic in the end with several Schwoißfuaß classics”
(GeA, Reutlingen / Tagblatt Tübingen 12/2025)
“With a vocally well-disposed frontman and a souly grooving band, every song became a celebration - the audience was thrilled, the atmosphere was carefree...”
Press, Filderstadt 1/26
Entrance: 19:00h
Hallo, ich bin Maya.
