Julius Schittenhelm has died

Julius Schittenhelm, died on October 28, 2012.

A founding member of Schneeball

Born in Kiel in 1926, a child soldier during World War I, from his fifties on the road with guitar in Munich. As a songwriter, with German lyrics and new melodies, after all the old song had fallen silent, with dismay.

He met Christian Burchard, Embryo, in the mid-sixties, when the Song Parnasse was Munich’s first center for alternative artists who were gratefully open to new ideas after the war. They meet again soon when Julius Schittenhelm records hip bands for the Ohr Label in Munich and so on EMBRYO Debut Album OPAL, furthermore, Amon Düül - Paradieswärts Düül LP, Floh de Cologne - Rockoper Profitgeier LP, Guru Guru - Ufo LP, emerge.

Then again as a songwriter / guitarist, a big player in his niche, topics and analyzes were complex to surreal, and he did not exclude his guitar playing. not every man’s thing, but certainly not stupid, sometimes merciless in its urgency, sometimes cheerful in between

In 1976 he was very active when Snowball was founded, thought about how everything could be organized, visited the record stores that were still in existence at the time and immediately contributed a production:

Then and at the same time metal sculptor in Schlitz, Songwriter at the piano, Quarks to Ethics CD 2000 has now also published a book there. “I am not a people” (ISBN978-3-8482-0629-2)

Julius we will miss you.