Peter Minack
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| birth_name = Peter Carl Minack
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| birth_place = Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
| genre = Alternative rock
| instrument = Vocals
| years_active = 1970s–2004, 2022–present
| associated_acts = TISM, Damian Cowell
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| occupation = Writer, teacher
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| genre = Historical novel
| subject = American Civil War
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| notable_works = C.W.G.
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Peter Carl Minack{{cite web | url = https://musicbrainz.org/artist/7f25bf73-1be0-47c0-a8a4-5109f0bd4c30 | title = Peter Carl Minack | work = MusicBrainz | access-date = 31 October 2020 }} (born in 1961 or 1962) is an Australian vocalist and teacher. He is known by his stage name Ron Hitler-Barassi as the vocalist for the alternative rock band TISM, initially active from 1984 to 2004. Under his own name he published an American Civil War novel, C.W.G. (or Campaigning with Grant) in 2000. While a member of TISM, Minack periodically worked as a secondary school teacher of Drama and fully resumed that role after they disbanded. In 2022, TISM reformed.
Biography
Minack was born to a German father and Irish Australian mother in Richmond in 1961 or 1962.{{Cite web |url=http://members.optusnet.com.au/~waldrenm/minack.html |title=Ghost files war report |last=Waldren |first=Murray |access-date=22 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303203452/http://members.optusnet.com.au/~waldrenm/minack.html |archive-date=3 March 2016 |date=29 July 200 |url-status=dead |work=The Australian |via=Murray Waldren }}
In 1983, he joined TISM, an alternative rock band formed by two of his friends, Damian Cowell and Eugene Cester, in the year before. TISM members remained anonymous throughout their career, with Minack adopting his stage name, Ron Hitler-Barassi, as a reference to{{citation needed|date=May 2024}} his German background and Australian rules football fandom.
In 2000 he published a historical novel set in the American Civil War, C.W.G. or more fully, Campaigning with Grant.{{Citation | author1 = Minack, Peter | title = C.W.G (Campaigning with Grant) | year =2000 | publisher = Random House Australia Pty Ltd | isbn = 978-0-09-184186-7 }}{{Cite news|url=https://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/goodwill-can-wait-i-feel-the-tug-of-war/news-story/e9c70976abeaa852ad10b8d251d77f5f?sv=979c056ecabd934dfd7f38ae5b9cec49|title=Goodwill can wait, I feel the tug of war|last=Matchett|first=Stephen|date=5 January 2009|work=The Australian|access-date=17 March 2009|url-access=subscription}} Michelle Griffin of The Age reviewed it as "anarchic and anachronistic" with a "sour satiric tone" where leaders of the conflict are cast as "civil war dickheads" to be "frequently lampooned throughout."{{cite news | url=http://www.theage.com.au/books/20000724/A25971-2000Jul23.html | title = Hits and myths of the battle hymns of the republic | author = Griffin, Michelle | newspaper = The Age | date = 24 July 2000 | via = National Library of Australia | archive-url=https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20000816035332/http://www.theage.com.au/books/20000724/A25971-2000Jul23.html | archive-date = 16 August 2000 | access-date = 30 October 2020 | url-access = subscription }} The Weekend Australian{{'}}s Stephen Matchett described it as "a terrific book that deserved the critical admiration it received."{{Cite news|last=Matchett|first=Stephen|date=1 Oct 2005|title=You gotta have friends|page=40|work=The Weekend Australian}}
TISM split up at the end of 2004{{Cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170108014601/https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/a-tale-of-two-dags-tisms-damien-cowell-and-tony-martin-continue-the-satire-with-new-album-20170102-gtklqs.html|url=https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/a-tale-of-two-dags-tisms-damien-cowell-and-tony-martin-continue-the-satire-with-new-album-20170102-gtklqs.html|title=A tale of two dags: TISM's Damian Cowell and Tony Martin continue the satire with new album|last=Dwyer|first=Michael|archive-date=8 January 2017|date=7 January 2017|website=The Sydney Morning Herald|url-access=subscription|access-date=31 October 2020}} and Minack returned to his day job as a secondary school teacher of English in Melbourne.
In 2022, TISM reformed, to play three shows at the Goodthings festival, and 3 secret shows around Melbourne.{{cite web|url=https://www.abc.net.au/doublej/music-reads/music-news/tism-reformed-good-things-festival-2022/13921966 |title=TISM have reformed and will play the Good Things festival in December|website=Double J|last=Condon|first=Dan|date=15 June 2022|access-date=30 March 2023}} Minack appeared on multiple radio interviews along with Damian Cowell across Melbourne,{{Cite web |date=2022-06-16 |title=An unmissable chaotic interview with TISM |url=https://www.abc.net.au/doublej/programs/arvos/tism-reunite-interview/13932016 |access-date=2023-03-30 |website=Double J |language=en-AU}}{{Cite web |date=2022-08-23 |title=Why did TISM break their 19-year hiatus? |url=https://www.abc.net.au/melbourne/programs/mornings/tism-virginia-trioli/101366992 |access-date=2023-03-30 |website=ABC Melbourne |language=en-AU}} and one interview on ABC Sydney with Sarah Macdonald.{{Cite web |date=2022-06-23 |title=TISM are back |url=https://www.abc.net.au/sydney/programs/evenings/tism/13949850 |access-date=2023-03-30 |website=ABC Sydney |language=en-AU}}
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Category:Australian male singers
Category:Australian people of German descent