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Günter Timischl (born May 11, 1948 in Fürstenfeld, Austria) is an Austrian songwriter, musician and singer. He is a founding member of the Austrian band S.T.S. and also participated in numerous other well-known formations.

Biography
The Timischl family are known for folk music locally, Günter was interested in American rock 'n' roll music. At the age of nine he was already considered an exceptional talent on the guitar and had his first performance in the Graz Kammersaal.

At the age of fourteen he founded his first music group "Little Band" with two friends. At that time, the Beatles and the Rolling Stones were his role models. From 1963 to 1968 he was band leader and singer in his second band "Atlantis". In early 1969 he joined the formation "The Time", which was then renamed "The New Time". Timischl left the group in July 1969 because of differences of opinion. In August of the same year he founded the band Magic 69 with friends in his hometown of Fürstenfeld, with which he became known throughout Austria.

At that time he earned his living with small appearances and as a guest musician at the Erste Allgemeine Verunsicherung and Opus. There he met Gert Steinbäcker and Schiffkowitz, who also worked for the EAV. The first performances in the home region of the newly founded trio S.T.S. brought only moderate success, which is why the three musicians separated again after several months of cooperation.

Günter Timischl returned to "Magic 69" and recorded his first long-playing record with German-language lyrics with the band, which included Carl Peyer and, as a drummer, the later Austropop star Boris Bukowski.

He also took on temporary work and signed up for a UN mission in Cyprus (UNFICYP). After his return to Styria he teamed up again with Steinbäcker and Schiffkowitz in 1978 and brought several of his own compositions into the formation S.T.S. a. Due to the continued lack of success, the three musicians rejoined the Erste Allgemeine Verunsicherung until 1981, but continued to work on their own formation.

Timischl also played as a guest musician at live concerts and studio recordings for the Burgenland band "Opus". In 1980 the Ariola record company released the single Da kummt die Sunn, on the back of which there was a composition by Timischl, Geht's da guat.

In 1984 he celebrated with S.T.S. and the piece Fürstenfeld, arranged by Schiffkowitz and only put on the LP Überdose G'fühl as a stopgap, achieved the breakthrough. The original foreign composition had been in the group's program for some time and was provided with new text by Schiffkowitz with reference to the "native local" Timischl. It went on to become the band's all-time hit.

In the same year Timischl experienced the birth of the hit Live Is Life as a guitarist at his last joint concert with "Opus", which climbed to the top of all charts in Europe and overseas from the summer of 1984 and has sold over 15 million copies as a single to date.

After that, he retired from "Opus" to join after the breakthrough with S.T.S. to focus on working with Steinbäcker and Schiffkowitz. For Grenzlos, the 1985 follow-up to Overdose G'feeling, he composed and wrote the tracks Wunder meine Seligkeit and Anfach Fort.

In addition, he always helped out - especially for old friends - as a guest or studio musician. For Boris Bukowski he sang z. B. in 1985 on his first solo LP "Boris Bukowski" in the choir and in 1989 he played the acoustic guitar on "100 hours a day". In the early 1990s he played for the "Magic 69 Reunion" and also performed with the band at concerts. In 1991, together with Andi Beit, he composed the music for Bukowski's "Two Lines of Tenderness" and worked as a background singer on some titles. In 2002 he was awarded the Josef Krainer Prize for his work and in 2012 he received the Golden Decoration of Honor for services to the Republic of Austria.

Personal life
Günter Timischl is married, father of two children and lives with his wife Lotte on a farm in Fürstenfeld. Away from S.T.S. he produces for music groups from Styria.