Siegfried Fietz is a German singer-songwriter, composer, music producer and sculptor.
12 Facts About Siegfried Fietz
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Siegfried Fietz is known for songs of the genre Neues Geistliches Lied, particularly his setting of Dietrich Bonhoeffer's poem "Von guten Machten".
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Siegfried Fietz began to play on his father's violin at age five, and learned to play the guitar a little later.
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Siegfried Fietz began voice training at age 15, and piano lessons at age 17.
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Siegfried Fietz gave his first concerts with his friend Klaus Panthel, as the Fietz Team, at the festival Offene Abende Siegen which attracted up to 10,000 visitors.
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Siegfried Fietz wrote a setting of the poem "Von guten Machten" that Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote in prison in 1944.
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Siegfried Fietz had written the melodies for 3000 songs by the age of 65.
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Siegfried Fietz moderated a series for the broadcaster Hessischer Rundfunk, Lieder zwischen Himmel und Erde, with up to 150,000 listeners.
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Siegfried Fietz has collaborated with Ivan Rebroff, Clemens Bittlinger, Dieter Falk, Eberhard Weber, Petula Clark, Uwe Kroger, Eva Lind, Bill Ramsey, Edwin Hawkins, Olivia Molina and Coretta Scott King.
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Siegfried Fietz developed a Weltraumsinfonie with the astronaut James Irwin.
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Since 1995, Siegfried Fietz has worked as an artist, creating abstract paintings and wooden sculptures.
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Siegfried Fietz opened a sculpture park in Greifenstein-Allendorf in 2015.