Münchener Freiheit
Münchener Freiheit is a German musical group from Munich.
Band History
Münchener Freiheit was founded on 4 October 1980 by vocalist and keyboardist Stefan Zauner (* 30 June 1952 Göttingen) and guitarist Aron Strobel ( born January 26, 1958 in Schwäbisch Gmünd - Bargau ) and after the actual naming of a public square - to 1998, Münchener Freiheit, from 1998 Münchner Freiheit - named in Munich-Schwabing. Zauner had previously been involved in Amon Düül 2. Other members of the band are Michael Kunzi ( born August 27, 1958 in Stuttgart ), Alexander Grünwald ( born September 7, 1954 in Mindelheim ) and Renard Henry Hatzke ( born November 30, 1955 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada).
First Notable successes were achieved with the still strongly influenced by the German New Wave albums connecting passengers and light. In 1984, the band with the song Oh baby for the first time in the charts. The big breakthrough came in 1986: The Single Without you ( I sleep tonight not a night ) stood for weeks in the German Top 10 and climbed in Switzerland and Austria even to the top of the charts. It was followed by other hits like a thousand times and you So long ' you can still live dreams and several gold albums. Influential was the cooperation of the Swiss band with producer Armand Volker, who created the signature sound of the band, which is characterized by extensive (up to hundertspurige ) vocal recordings. The songs were mostly composed at this time from Zauner / Strobel team.
After the group then end of the 1980s was also an international success with English lyrics ( band name: Freedom, chart success: Keeping the Dream Alive, 14th, early 1989 ), it was in the 1990s quiet around the band. The last big hit was 1992 Hubert Kah composition love at first sight.
1993 took the band Germany in the Euro Vision Song Contest. Your title Too far came in Millstreet but ranked only 18th
From the mid 1990s until 2010, the songs were mostly produced by Stefan Zauner.
2001 gave the band Blum field to have been strongly influenced by Münchener Freiheit.
In the fall of 2008, she hit was recorded without you in the book The 100 hit of the century.
Large-scale advertising campaigns to Sat.1 as well as for the product of the company HanseNet Alice attended in 2009 for a comeback. For the first time in 18 years created a single Münchener Freiheit again to enter the Top 50 of the German charts. The album own way even reached the Top 10
In October 2010, the Münchener Freiheit celebrated their 30th band anniversary. For this purpose, a new studio album titled No Limit and Single it appeared since the night. Furthermore, there was an expanded edition of the best-of album every year - all the hits that was with the singles that have appeared after the first publication, completed. Also have all old albums re-released in each of two sets.
In November 2011 it was announced that singer and founding member Stefan Zauner has left the band to pursue their own projects in the future. As a new singer Stephan Thielen has been committed, which should produce albums with the band and occur at concerts. However, the designated new singer had to withdraw from the band again due to massive vocal cord problems. Shortly thereafter, Jörg- Wilhelm Tim was found as the new singer of the band. Jörg- Wilhelm Tim has a classical vocal training and is an actor. By some studio productions Wilhelm is known of the band for quite some time.
Stefan Zauner, meanwhile, has released a solo CD: sense of time.
On October 25, 2013, the album was more, the single sea feeling was published on 27 September 2013, and was found in many airplay charts in the Top 10. The first album with new singer Tim Jörg- Wilhelm was published in two versions: as a regular CD and as a Limited Edition with the ten greatest hits, re- sung by Jörg- Tim Wilhelm.
Cooperations and Projects
Bassist Michael Kunzi is a member of the production team Tuneverse, which produced and wrote songs for already Sandra ( Put Some 80ies in It) and Monrose ( Like a Lady ).
Classification into a musical genre
The classification of Münchener Freiheit in a musical genre falls unusually heavy. While the native of the German New Wave band was seen in the 1980s and early 1990s, rather than pop band and regularly in relevant youth magazines such as Bravo and in TV shows such as Formula One and Wetten, dass ...? almost exclusively in hit programs showed up, it occurs since the mid- 1990s. It is the same with the radio: their hits were used to play mainly in the Rock-/Pop-Sendern, so they appear today, at least with their current productions mainly in the pop stations ( NDR 1, SWR4 etc.). Unmistakable are still strong influences of the Beatles and the Beach Boys. Live beats the band considerably rockier sounds, as you would expect from their studio recordings - it has developed, particularly in recent years back to a routine, but playful live band.
Discography
→ Main article: Münchener Freiheit / Discography
Studio albums
Awards
Berolinahaus
Golden Tuning Fork
RSH Gold