Après-Ski: “Wackelkontakt”: The winter party hit comes from Tegernsee

A songwriter from Upper Bavaria has conquered the top of the German Singlecharts: Oimara from Tegernsee – bourgeois name Beni Hafner – with his song “Wackelkontakt” for light, electricity and lamps currently dominated carnival parties and après -ski.

And maybe the Oktoberfest soon. “Of course that would be nice if we had a Bavarian Oktoberfest again,” says the 33-year-old. Above all, however, that a Bavarian dialect song was one of the Singlecharts land: “That has never been possible.”

In the jokes, “loose contact” is also a trend as a costume. “Lamps from the 1970s” celebrate on carnival parades, and craft instructions are shared on social media: lampshade, rip of hair, glue – the new look is done.

Name with puzzle effect

Oimara – who is this man? The name sounds mysterious at first. And as a result, it is often pronounced incorrectly, namely with the emphasis on the first or second a. In fact, it lies on “Oi” – and refers to his origin: Oimara is Bavarian and is called Almerer: who comes from the alpine pasture.

Because it all started on the parents’ Hafner-Alm high above Lake Tegernsee, an hour and a half on foot down into the village and to school. Dissolated from the world, but at the same time with many guests in parental gastronomy and with a lot of different animals, because the family also had an animal sanctuary up there.

From the alp to the stage

He “knocked around” early on all sorts of things, he reports. He got the first guitar at the age of about ten years. “I taught myself everything myself.” He played the first songs on the alpine pasture at the father’s urge.

He didn’t like that himself. “I didn’t want to play in front of people. I was afraid of it – I’m still there today.” But he was well received. This was followed by a booking for a birthday party by actor Fritz Wepper and a first appearance in the renowned clubhouse in Schwabing. In 2018 there was initial successes on the net with “Bierle in the Sun”.

Furniture, lamp, electricity and light

And now “loose contact”. “If I were a piece of furniture, then I would be a lamp from the seventies” – a surprising statement that is a bit bulky and is first thinking. Next: “I like to glow, I like to go out, I hit the fuses’.” So a song to drink? But then: “I suck the nuclear power plants empty, i run to eight thousand amps”.

The weird song is characterized by hints and word games around the subject of light and electricity. “I like to stand on the line.” And: “… but every now and then a light flickers at me”. A wobbly dachshund wiggles to the chorus. Singing and singing is easy.

Musically, “shaky contact” is an unusual mix. Acoustic guitar and a wind player can be heard – until suddenly techno beats use at high speed. A children’s choir later joins this.

“Sure you think something about it,” he says of the composition. “This is the nice thing about ambiguity: it is a lot of room for interpretation and everyone can think of their part,” says Beni Hafner. “But the intention when I wrote the song was just to make music.”

Oimara admits notes. Because he learned a cook. He stood in the kitchen in Mallorca for years. He demolished the hotel management studies in the prominent Tegernsee Seehotel crossing. “I decided: I will now be a musician. Back then everyone declared me crazy.”