Peter "Pe" Schorowsky (born 15 June 1964) is a German musician and a founding member of the rock band

Böhse Onkelz Böhse Onkelz (; sensational spelling of (German for "evil uncles")) is a German rock band formed in Frankfurt in 1980. The band reunited in 2014. Despite mass-media criticism concerning their past as skinheads, several of their later records ...

. He played drums until the band's split in 2005.

Biography

Schorowsky is the second of four brothers born to a Catholic family in the Baviarian town of

Hösbach Hösbach is a market community and municipality in the Aschaffenburg (district), Aschaffenburg district in the ''Regierungsbezirk'' of Lower Franconia (''Unterfranken'') in Bavaria, Germany. As of 2023, It has a population of 13,323. Geography ...

. After completing his formal education, he trained as a welder. He currently lives with his family in

Oberägeri Oberägeri, until 1798 simply known as Ägeri, is a municipalities of Switzerland, municipality in the canton of Zug in Switzerland. History Oberägeri first appears in historical documents in 1150 as ''Agregia''. In 1538 it was mentioned as ''O ...

, Switzerland. He met Stephan Weidner and Kevin Russell in his hometown of Hösbach. In November 1980, they formed Böhse Onkelz, with Schorowsky on drums. After the band left the

Oi! Oi! is a subgenre of punk rock that originated in the United Kingdom in the late 1970s. The music and its associated subculture had the goal of bringing together punks, skinheads, and other disaffected working-class youth. The movement wa ...

music scene, they achieved considerable success from the 1990s until the band's breakup in 2005. In 2005, Schorowsky released his first book with the title ''Sophisticated: Aliens, Fliegenschiss & Mamas BH''. .

External links

Official website
(archived)
Band website of Böhse Onkelz
German rock musicians German rock drummers German male drummers German male musicians 1964 births Living people People from Aschaffenburg (district) {{Germany-musician-stub