Günter was doing more than merely "warming up the audience" at FCB # 3 in 2010 when he famously "saved my bacon" on this evening at Bonn Folk Club's first home in the Schützenhaus Inn in Graurheindorf:
Here is Hans-Günter playing the piano prior to a folk club evening in Dotty's Bar in Kessenich in 2023:
Dear old Hans-Günter sadly passed away in December last year and his earthly remains are now six feet under in Kessenich.
There are a few words about him here from 2023 when we were celebrating the folk club's 13th anniversary and Günter was already a nonagenarian:
https://folk-club-bonn.blogspot.com/2023/03/folk-club-birthday-celebrations-in.html
Hans-Günter was still active even well into his nineties and thought nothing of entering old peoples' homes and entertaining the senier citizen guests with his wonderful piano melodies and was oblivious to the delicious irony that he was often times even older than his audience!
Hans-Günter was an architect in his day job and even after officially retiring he was often called in as a consultant to review and report on and often solve architectural problems.
As a good architecht Günter had excellent skills as a draughtsman but far beyond this he was also a very skilled artist and he kindly sketched the following cartoon motive of young musicians eagerly waiting for the first Friday of the month Folk Club Bonn to open and peering in from the outside, and kimdly gifted it to us:
Thank you for being Günter, and thank you for being so generous with all your deeds and for sharing your wonderful imagination with is all, and for making the world a better place with your music and constant and continual optimism in the goodness of life. R.I.P. and God bless you!
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