Hannes Schäfer

Who is Hannes Schäfer?

Hannes Schäfer, is a German bass guitarist, a singer and a physician.

He was a founding member of the German rock band Fury in the Slaughterhouse. After his musical career Schäfer studied medicine. Today, he is a gynaecologist working in his surgery in Hanover, Germany.

Schäfers first band in 1982 was the Hanoverian punk band Defekt, where he was bass guitarist and singer. From 1985 until 1987, he played in a jazz rock band called CIT, featuring Mousse T.. During this time Schäfer also worked as a studio musician at Stakkato Studio Hannover.

In 1987, Schäfer founded the rock band Fury in the Slaughterhouse together with Thorsten Wingenfelder, Kai Wingenfelder, Rainer Schumann und Christoph Stein-Schneider in Hanover. He played there as bass guitarist until 1996, when he left the band and was followed by Christian Decker.

Schäfer received six gold records for his band's albums Fury in the Slaughterhouse, Mono and The Hearing and the Sense of Balance. During Schäfer's time at Fury in the Slaughterhouse the band sold approximately three million records and CDs.

In 1995, Schäfer's band was awarded the comet, Germany's most important musical award, as the best rock act of the year.