This documemy was to be a WIKIPEDIA biography page for

Dieter Hauptmann, born 1942 in Breslau, Silesia. Due to his illness

and the complications with creating a wikipedia page
this draft is parked here. (numbers refer to links in the list on page 2)

Dieter Hauptmann

EARLY LIFE
Dieter Hauptmann (born January 1942 in Breslau/Vroclav) is a German
born musician, bandleader, and composer now living in Australia. His
father was a pharmacist and his mother a homemaker; he had an older
sister. In 1946 the family (sister, mother, and grandmother but without
their father who was in a British prisoner of war camp) set out north west
on foot because Poland had been given the Breslau area in the Yalta
Conference. They were part of millions of displaced persons [ 1.]who took
two years to arrive in Germany proper, the Harz Mountains, where his
father joined them.After the father had a run-in with the communist East Dieter Hauptmann, 2017
German authorities the family fled via West Berlin to West Germany and Balalaika Festival
settled in Frankfurt/Main. Sevastopol, Crimea

The start of Dieter’s music education was his father’s ‘dictate’, i.e. he should learn the cello and his sister the
violin as the father wanted to play the flute in a trio. Dieter became quite good with his cello and featured as
soloist in High School concerts. Since the tenor banjo has the same tuning as the cello, Dieter played banjo in
a skiffle band. There he was spotted by a Don Cossacks’ son as having perhaps potential for Russian
balalaika and domra music. He learned the playing techniques and the songs while working in a pharmacy, as
a journalist/photographer, in a printery, and a shortlived marriage. The Balalaika Ensemble Troika was born
and played in the restaurant Wolga in Frankfurt. They participated in the famous Burg Waldeck Festivals. [2.]
CAREER
In the Wolga restaurant the not so happy opera singer Iwan Refroff discovered them as accompanists. Dieter
played on over 20 albums [2.], with his group, with others, or alone, in many countries. He also founded the
music pub Balalaika in Frankfurt-Sachsenhausen in May 1968. A song written for Iwan Rebroff under the pen
name Kapitanoff ‘The drunken Monk’ [3.] was very successful, later included in a Carnegie Hall concert live
recording [4.] and picked up by the Finn Viktor Klimenko [5.] and Boris Rubashkin.
Dieter also played the Greek bouzouki and accompanied the Greek singer Vicky Leandros. [6.] and Mireille
Mathieu in live TV broadcasts.
EMIGRATION
After successful tours in the UK and Ireland, the Australian Arts Council arranged a concert tour through
Australia in 1975. [7.] Over the years Dieter’s Troika and Tshaika Cossacks Groups groups had between 3
and 7 members. During the 1977 Arts Council tour Dieter and his wife Ally (originally Almuth) decided to
prepare for migrating to Australia which they did in 1983. Dieter released an album ‘Bouzouki Dreamscapes’
[15.]
In Australia Dieter worked in tourism photography [8.] and then for a High School when he wrote several
school musicals.
Battle of the Bands (High School) (1988). One of the songs (Call on me when you’re lonely) was runner up in
the international Pater Awards, Dumbling (1992), and ‘This Woman’ (Mary MacKillop musical, 1991), the
signature tune of which is “In All things Love”, [9].
In 2002 Dieter returned to Russian music, founded, and led the Adelaide Balalaikas & Singers, then the
Adelaide Junior Balalaikas who were invited to the 2017 Sevastopol Festival and won first prize with
Dieter’s composition Golos Nari [11.].
In 2019 Dieter was diagnosed with cancer.
[1.]^ https://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/spiegelgeschichte/d-76574301.html
(in German) what Dieter experienced as a displaced kid
[2.]^ https://www.scribd.com/document/21619231/Hauptmann-Balalaika
magazine style compilation, text and imagees
[3.]^ original audio 1967 Der trunkene Pope--- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgfsnGmjLnU
[4.] ^ Live Carnegie Hall.--- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pALaQYEUMlA
[5.] ^ Live Viktor Klimenko --- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOAD6HyPExc

[6.] ^ Live bouzouki in Saarbrücken, Vicky Leandros) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Myxp-ASyEMc

[7.] ^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MIjSAKqwNU --- On tour in 1975,Whyalla, S. Australia.

[8.] ^ https://www.scribd.com/doc/38155443/Beautiful-Port-Lincoln
[9.] ^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBZn-S1NWQI&t=59s --- Mary MacKillop Anthem
[10.]^ Golos Nari not yet uploaded
[11.] ^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl9LEFZncEk --- 2017 Sevastopol Festival compilation, in
Russian, Dieter Hauptmann at 2:44
[12.] ^ https://www.discogs.com/de/sell/list?artist_id=882537&style=Folk&page=2 ^--- albums
[13.] ^ https://www.musik-sammler.de/media/572341/ --- albums

[14.] ^ http://hauptmannbalalaika.weebly.com --- a comprehensive site, put together by Dieter Hauptmann

[15.] ^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjNjF-waI84&t=85s --- One of Dieter’s bouzouki compositions

[16.] ^ https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=hauptmannbalalaika&sp=QgIIAQ%253D%253D ---
video channel