{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2020}} {{More citations needed|date=March 2016}}{{Expand German|topic=bio|date=April 2021}}{{Infobox musical artist |name = Mani Matter |image = ManiMatter1970.jpg |caption =Mani Matter (1970) |background = solo_singer |birth_name = Hans-Peter Matter |birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1936|08|4}} |birth_place = Herzogenbuchsee, Switzerland |death_date = {{death date and age|1972|11|24|1936|08|4|df=yes}} |death_place = Kilchberg, Zurich, Switzerland |instrument = Vocals, guitar |genre = |years_active = 1965–1972 |label = Zytglogge |website = {{URL|www.manimatter.ch}} }} '''Mani Matter''' (4 August 1936 in Herzogenbuchsee – 24 November 1972 in Kilchberg, Zurich, officially '''Hans-Peter Matter''') was a popular Swiss singer-songwriter.
==Biography== Mani Matter was born on 4 August 1936 in Herzogenbuchsee, Canton of Bern. His father, Erwin Matter, was a lawyer, his mother, the Dutch woman Wilhelmina Matter-de Haan, was a secretary. He had a two years older sister, Helen Matter.
Growing up in Bern, he started to perform his own chansons in contemporary Bernese German at local venues and on the radio; he accompanied himself on the guitar. He was an active Boy Scout in the Pfadicorps Patria in Bern{{citation needed|date=August 2017}} and he performed his first own songs during Boy Scout evenings. He also performed together with the Berner Troubadours (Bernese troubadours). He was killed in a car accident on his way to a concert and is buried in the Bremgartenfriedhof in Bern.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/zuerich/stadt/wo-mani-matter-ums-leben-kam/story/23256108|title=Wo Mani Matter ums Leben kam|last=Huber|first=Martin|date=31 August 2016|work=Tages-Anzeiger|access-date=29 June 2019|language=de|issn=1422-9994}}</ref> Mani Matter's literary estate is archived in the Swiss Literary Archives in Bern.
==Legacy== His Bernese German songs remain very popular in the Swiss German speaking part of Switzerland, and Matter is a great influence on the dialect music scene in Bern, and his songs are frequently covered. A collection of cover-versions was published in 1992 on the album ''Matter Rock.''<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bernerzeitung.ch/27054982|title=What's the Matter?|journal=Berner Zeitung|access-date=29 June 2019|language=de|issn=1424-1021}}</ref> Mani Matter's chansons are often taught at school (including classes for adults wanting to learn Bernese German) and are famous for their soft irony.
==Discography== *1966 ''I han en Uhr erfunde'' (EP, "I invented a watch") *1967 ''Alls wo mir id Finger chunnt'' (EP, "Anything I touch") *1970 ''Hemmige'' (EP, "Inhibitions") *1972 ''Betrachtige über nes Sändwitsch'' (EP, "Contemplations on a sandwich") *1973 ''Ir Ysebahn'' (LP, "On the train") *1973 ''I han es Zündhölzli azündt'' (double-LP, "I lit a match")
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==External links== * {{IMDb name|1272496|name=Mani Matter}} * [https://web.archive.org/web/20190404024857/http://www.manimatter.ch/ Official website] of his family * [https://web.archive.org/web/20110706221554/http://www.artfilm.ch/manimatter.php?lang=e Mani Matter] (information about the film) * {{Theaterlexikon|Mani Matter|2|1023|1024|author=Brigitte Marschall|language=de}}
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