# The Life of Georgios Tsoros M. Bate, The Mangas and King of Pirδus, Mr. "Zorz" Batis

**URL:** <https://rembetiko.gr/t/the-life-of-georgios-tsoros-m-bate-the-mangas-and-king-of-pir%CE%B4us-mr-zorz-batis/5098>\
**Category:** Προσωπικότητες\
**Created:** [Μάϊος 25, 2003, 2:18μμ UTC](https://rembetiko.gr/t/the-life-of-georgios-tsoros-m-bate-the-mangas-and-king-of-pir%CE%B4us-mr-zorz-batis/5098 "2003-05-25T14:18:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![Simon\_Steiner](https://rembetiko.gr/user_avatar/rembetiko.gr/simon_steiner/32/8938_2.png) [@Simon\_Steiner](https://rembetiko.gr/u/Simon_Steiner)\
**Post date:** [Μάϊος 25, 2003, 2:18μμ UTC](https://rembetiko.gr/t/the-life-of-georgios-tsoros-m-bate-the-mangas-and-king-of-pir%CE%B4us-mr-zorz-batis/5098/1 "2003-05-25T14:18:18Z")

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Hello communitiy of Rebetika,

i΄ve written a story of the life of G. BATIS in german language.

Please write me back!

Simon / Stuttgart-Germany

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**Author:** ![system](https://rembetiko.gr/user_avatar/rembetiko.gr/system/32/10127_2.png) [@system](https://rembetiko.gr/u/system)\
**Post date:** [Μάϊος 25, 2003, 11:21μμ UTC](https://rembetiko.gr/t/the-life-of-georgios-tsoros-m-bate-the-mangas-and-king-of-pir%CE%B4us-mr-zorz-batis/5098/2 "2003-05-25T23:21:13Z")

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Hello Simon and welcome to THE forum. Could you give us more details about your “story”? What is it? Is it a biography, an article, a novel or what?

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**Author:** ![system](https://rembetiko.gr/user_avatar/rembetiko.gr/system/32/10127_2.png) [@system](https://rembetiko.gr/u/system)\
**Post date:** [Μάϊος 26, 2003, 3:46πμ UTC](https://rembetiko.gr/t/the-life-of-georgios-tsoros-m-bate-the-mangas-and-king-of-pir%CE%B4us-mr-zorz-batis/5098/3 "2003-05-26T03:46:53Z")

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Mpagioko, eskises me to “or what?” !!!  
“ωρ, τι” μας λεει ετουτος;  
Yπαρχουν βιογραφικα στοιχεια του Mπατη στα γερμανικα και εδω δεν εχουμε τιποτις; Που να βρηκε τα στοιχεια;

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**Author:** ![aegeos](https://rembetiko.gr/user_avatar/rembetiko.gr/aegeos/32/7_2.png) [@aegeos](https://rembetiko.gr/u/aegeos)\
**Post date:** [Μάϊος 26, 2003, 12:24μμ UTC](https://rembetiko.gr/t/the-life-of-georgios-tsoros-m-bate-the-mangas-and-king-of-pir%CE%B4us-mr-zorz-batis/5098/4 "2003-05-26T12:24:57Z")

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Hallo Simon,  
wuerde gerne mehr Inforamtionen ueber diese Buch haben. Wann hast du es geschrieben, und warum??? Wie kommt mann dazu als Deutscher gerade ueber Batis zu schreiben, der hier im noerdlichen Teil Europas nicht “allzubekannt” ist ???  
Ist es schon veroeffentlicht worden…???( ISBN )

aegeos

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**Author:** ![system](https://rembetiko.gr/user_avatar/rembetiko.gr/system/32/10127_2.png) [@system](https://rembetiko.gr/u/system)\
**Post date:** [Νοέμβριος 24, 2018, 2:42μμ UTC](https://rembetiko.gr/t/the-life-of-georgios-tsoros-m-bate-the-mangas-and-king-of-pir%CE%B4us-mr-zorz-batis/5098/5 "2018-11-24T14:42:16Z")

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**Author:** ![Simon\_Steiner](https://rembetiko.gr/user_avatar/rembetiko.gr/simon_steiner/32/8938_2.png) [@Simon\_Steiner](https://rembetiko.gr/u/Simon_Steiner)\
**Post date:** [Φεβρουάριος 22, 2021, 9:22μμ UTC](https://rembetiko.gr/t/the-life-of-georgios-tsoros-m-bate-the-mangas-and-king-of-pir%CE%B4us-mr-zorz-batis/5098/6 "2021-02-22T21:22:08Z")

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Oh my god! Dear friends!

Thank you for your questions! Maybe my answer is too late ☹

I did not know, that you answered to me. Sorry. NOW i see this thread the first time after so many years! I wrote no book, it was just a manuscript and i made a music-lecture 2003 in Böblingen. WHY BATIS?  
Because i bought a BAGLAMAS :-), 2000 in Athens. Vamvakaris was to difficult for me but Batis has simple songs and it was easier for me to play. And i love his life, his biographie, i had the informations from the CD and from the books about Rembetiko and from the Forum [rebetiko.gr](http://rebetiko.gr).

okay, this was before many years.

Now i want to write a new manuskript:

> [@Contact with Rembetiko in Stuttgart since 1978 until today](https://rembetiko.gr/t/contact-with-rembetiko-in-stuttgart-since-1978-until-today/41877):
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> Hello, i will write in this thread, i found nothing else! Contact with Rembetiko in Stuttgart since 1978 until today I try in English: The so-called wave of guest workers swept thousands of Greeks to Stuttgart in the 1960s and 1970s. The writer Max Frisch once said: “We were looking for workers and people came”. Many immigrant Greeks worked, for example, at the bus company Neoplan in Stuttgart Möhringen or at Daimler Benz in Stuttgart Untertürkheim or at the Sindelfingen factory. Working cla…

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**Author:** ![Simon\_Steiner](https://rembetiko.gr/user_avatar/rembetiko.gr/simon_steiner/32/8938_2.png) [@Simon\_Steiner](https://rembetiko.gr/u/Simon_Steiner)\
**Post date:** [Φεβρουάριος 23, 2021, 3:48μμ UTC](https://rembetiko.gr/t/the-life-of-georgios-tsoros-m-bate-the-mangas-and-king-of-pir%CE%B4us-mr-zorz-batis/5098/7 "2021-02-23T15:48:14Z")

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![IMG-20181014-WA0000](https://rembetiko.gr/uploads/default/original/2X/6/64e9633f7dd9be26b6114d46bcce8787cdbe7945.jpeg)

The red picture made a girlfriend for me and on the foto you can read O MAGKAS with the original letters from Batis’ Baglamas