Oliver Petersen

Olli Petersen (alias Oliver Petersen), another pseudonym "Olli Zischt" as a policeman in the Swabian rock theater group "Odeng", born in Stuttgart in 1966, is a German guitarist, singer, actor and entrepreneur. He was the guitarist of the New Age Electro Rock formation "Ricochet" from 1983 to 1984. Then guitarist and singer in "Scarlet Heels", a rock band from Stuttgart, who mixed their own songs with covers and in 1987 published a homage to the first victories of tennis legend Steffi Graf (Steffi's Rap). In 1989 he was a founding member of "Gonzo - Schwabenrock from Stuttgart". With this band he released 5 albums and a DVD from the 20th anniversary of the band's 23-year history. First attention came through TV appearances with Gonzo on the SWR show "Mundart & Musik" with Christina Reichert and Uwe Hübner at the beginning of the 90s and the SWR-Landesschau, which was broadcast nationwide. Later through joint appearances with the Swabian rock legends Alexander Köberlein and Wolle Kriwanek (IGA Stuttgart 1993, live broadcast on Radio 7 with around 100,000 listeners on the radio and around 2,500 viewers live on the Killesberg open-air stage). Last but not least, as a band member of Gonzo, he was part of the exhibition and the accompanying volume "Swabian Pictures - For the Construction of a Regional Character" of the Ludwig Uhland Institute for Empirical Cultural Studies at the University of Tübingen. After leaving Gonzo, he founded the Swabian rock theater formation "Odeng" with other colleagues from the local music scene in the greater Stuttgart area. Here, own songs in Swabian dialect were combined with a criminalistic stage play in dialect, in which traditional Swabian dishes combined with a dialect rock theater were presented as a "full Swabian event" for the first time. In 2014 he took first place in the audience voting at the TROLLINGER SONG CONTEST of the wine cooperative in the Stuttgart area with ODENG and the song "Trollinger, guader Wei für guade Leut" ("Trollinger, good wine for good people"). In addition to his work as a musician and independent management consultant (M&A consultant), he appeared from time to time in supporting roles in various TV formats from 2011 onwards. Most recently in 2019 as a gardener in the ZDF series SOKO-Stuttgart in german television. Petersen is married and lives in Stuttgart.