Biography

According to Fesl himself, his career as a musician began when he found that he could get into small theatres ("Kleinkunstbühnen") in Munich free if he showed up with a guitar and told the staff that he was one of the musicians who were to appear. One evening, when the actual artistes failed to show up, Fesl was asked to get up on the stage himself and perform. With his funny, chatty manner, he quickly won the audience's favour.

Beginning in 1997, Fesl found that he was suffering from Parkinson's disease and thus in late 2006, he had to cut his well attended farewell tour short.

Fesl did an apprenticeship as an artist blacksmith.

He was sometimes called "Bajubarde" ("Bayou Bard") or "Bayerns bester Barde" ("Bavaria's Best Bard").

Fesl called his works "Bavarian and melancomical songs" (the subtitle to his fourth album), which are sung in Lower Bavarian dialect, often have their roots in folk music and do not seldom contain puns. Fesl played guitar, tuba, trumpet, alto horn and piano.