Frei.Wild

Frei.Wild is a German rock band from Brixen in the Italian autonomous province of South Tyrol. The name is inspired by the word fair game, but basically came free and wild by the composition of adjectives. In the media, a proximity to politically right motives is accused of repeatedly. The band distances itself from extremism of any kind

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History

The band was founded in September 2001 by Philip Burger ( vocals, electric guitar) and Jonas Notdurfter ( electric guitar ). Soon after, were joined by drummer Christian Fohrer and bassist Jochen Gargitter. All band members are fans of the Böhse Onkelz and other German- rock bands like Rammstein, Subway to Sally and In Extremo. Even the band's name is influenced by these rock bands, such as Philipp Burger said in an interview:

"We found the adjectives free ' and even also, Wild' horny and also suitable for Onkelz sound! There are two words that are typical for juvenile settings! Both together Frei.Wild up! It should be a German name just because Frei.Wild only has German text and will always have! "

In 2002 he released the first album one day. In 2003, the second album was Where the sun is shining again on the Belgian label Razor Wire Records. The third album Man or God was announced for early 2004, but was released due to problems with the label only on 30 July 2004. Clemenz Michael founded on 17 April 2005 Fan Club Frei.Wild Supporters Club, fwsc short. In 2006, Michael Clement next to the fan club and the band's management. In 2006, Frei.Wild to Magdeburg label Asphalt Records, which re-released the debut album. In the same year appeared the middle of the heart, their fourth album. It contained in the first edition, a DVD with three videos and an interview. The later pressings were delivered without DVD. In 2007 the live DVD was released near and far From 2008 Album For everything, for anything in a first edition of 2000 pieces, which was sold out on the first day. On 23 October 2009, the album was released on hard wind in three CD versions: the standard version in jewel case with 15 songs, as a special edition in digipak with 18 songs, as a limited edition of 2000 copies Fanbox, in addition to the Special Edition CD also includes a merchandise package, as well as a 1,000 piece limited edition picture vinyl version. For Single The land of morons, a video was released. On October 1, their single was released alone forward to it also, as in the Song Not your day, a video is.

The accompanying album antidote, which appeared on 15 October 2010, # 2 on the album charts was achieved in Germany. This success brought Frei.Wild her first nomination for the contracts awarded by the Deutsche Phono-Akademie echo in the category group Rock / Alternative ( national) a. Since 20 May 2011, the 10-year edition of the album antidote is available. This includes in addition to the 19 songs on the album five completely new songs and a re-recording of the piece Smarter Than the Rest This album also made ​​it into the charts again (4th place ).

With the song 1000 miles 1000 words under the name Wild flame supported the band's South Tyrolean village children, on whose premises they had in 2001, at the beginning of her career, rehearsed. The group donated in advance a sum of money to the charity, and soon released a single with guest musicians such as Matthias Rohr (ex - Böhse Onkelz ), Alexx ( Eisbrecher ), Delroy Rennalls ( Mr. President ), Norbert Rier (Kastel Spatzen ), Christian Dejaco ( 4Twenty ), Pat ( Fiddler's Green ) and North ( hematoma). After the donation amount was set, the rest of the proceeds went directly to the Children's Village. A further donation of 5,500 euros handed the fan club of the band 2012 initiative ProKids from Villingen -Schwenningen.

On October 5, 2012, the eighth studio album was released enemies of your enemies, which reached as the previous number 2 in the German album charts and received a gold record for more than 100,000 copies sold.

2013 Rock / Alternative National were Frei.Wild again for the music award Echo in the category nominated. After protests and boycott threats by the politically left-leaning bands MIA. , Kraftklub and the doctors in charge of the German Phono Academy withdrew the nomination on the grounds that the Echo Award is not an appropriate setting for a public policy debate. Against the claims of the bands was protested by Frei.Wild fans through the website Facebook.

On April 19, 2013, the album enemies of your enemies was re-released as a Gold Edition, and rose early May 2013 as the first Frei.Wild album to the top of the German charts. The sales of both versions are totaled.

After the album was re-released Against everything, against nothing on 30 August 2013, and reached # 4 on the German charts, was released on November 22, 2013 Still the first acoustic album of the band. This popped straight to # 1 in the official German album charts.

Appearances

Frei.Wild had completed at Wacken Open Air 2009 and a secret show at the Wacken Wacken Rocks South offshoots and Wacken Rocks Seaside each having a tread. In keeping with the album Close to the wind started Frei.Wild 2009 eponymous Nightliner tour with 13 performances that represented their first headlining tour. Due to the success of this tour also found an extension in the form of a further five concerts take place in the period between Christmas and New Year. The Hart am Wind Tour was continued in March 2010 with ten other concerts. On 17 April 2010, the band gave a concert marking the fifth anniversary of the Frei.Wild Supporters Club in the town hall in Alsfeld. In summer 2010 performances followed at various festivals such as With Full Force, Wacken Open Air, Summer Breeze, Viva los Tioz and Ehrlich & sound festival. Frei.Wild played in 2011 for the sixth time at the festival GOND Before the World Cup second-round match against Germany in 2010 England, the band at the FIFA Fan Fest before the Berlin Olympic Stadium played three songs in front of about 500,000 spectators. From 15 to 21 October was an antidote promo tour of Germany with 15 stations. From 12 to 21 November 2010, the band went on the Antidote Tour 2010 with three concerts in Austria and six in Germany.

In 2011, organized in March Frei.Wild a Ladies Night in Berlin, a concert exclusively for women. The highlights of the festival season 2011 included the GOND, the Rock am Seiser Alm in Castelrotto, which was organized as part of Kastel Spatzen open-air concerts, a performance at the Rock Harz Open Air headlining and the appearance on the Black Stage, one of the two main stages the Wacken Open Air Since 2009, the band goes between Christmas and New Year on the so-called X - Mas meetings Tour. 2011 played in this Xmas Tour and Others Gonzo, Warthy ( from the band Justice), Alexx of icebreakers and Doro Pesch in Stuttgart together with Frei.Wild a medley.

On June 22, 2012 Frei.Wild occurred on the Alpine flair Open Air in Naz at Brixen. It was preceded by the appearance of a band for the first time veranstalteter cycling marathon, the participants from 13 June in ten stages of Halle ( Saale) over Thuringia, Bavaria, Innsbruck ( North Tyrol ) and the Brenner led to venue in South Tyrol. The occupied during the marathon money benefited the Children's Cancer Aid.

After the release of the album enemies of your enemies, the band went in early November 2012, the enemies of your enemies Arena Tour. This was followed over the course of four weeks ten concerts in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. Prelude to the tour was a sold-out performance at the Westfalenhalle in Dortmund. According to the band almost all the concerts were sold out and the tour had a total of over 100,000 visitors. Between Christmas and New Year's Eve 2012, the band has also played an X-Mas tour with four appearances. In addition, in April 2013 was followed by an enemy of your enemies gold -Re tour, which led in turn by different arenas in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

Style

The style of Frei.Wild is attributed to the German rock and from various media they are in New German hardness. So far, both very rock pieces and gentle ballads are represented on the albums.

Texts

The texts of Frei.Wild act mostly of various life and everyday experiences. So it goes, for example, about friendship, money, alcohol, loss of license, freedom, dealing with setbacks and defeats as well as around the home. In the opinion of critics, however, is in many texts also patriotic to nationalist ideas clearly, particularly in the context of the propagated close ties to South Tyrol. The band itself is keen not to be seen as politically minded music group. For this purpose, have repeatedly been the position in interviews or concerts. In addition, Frei.Wild dissociates from right and left extremism. Clearly, this attitude is also in numerous lyrics.

Music

Frei.Wild played alongside his own songs at the beginning and cover the Böhse Onkelz, Die Toten Hosen, Dimple Minds, WIZO and a few other bands. Musically, the musicians also lean heavily on these bands. Philipp Burger wrote to date most of the pieces.

Controversies and political classification

Burger sang before with the right rock band Kaiserjäger. Even from the last days of this band originates this song South Tyrol, which has the love for their homeland on the topic. Kaiserjäger broke up in 2001 after a concert, " which ended in a mass brawl between German and Italian-speaking neo-Nazis ". In addition, singer Philipp Burger regularly expressed his belief to feel conscious as South Tyrolean and not as an Italian. So he said in about December 2010 in an interview with the Saxon newspaper: "We have never made ​​a point to be Italian. That got us into the story. And as a German -speaking South Tyrol we do also provide German -language music for German speaking fans. "

In the year 2008, the announcement of the band to try the Freedom occur at a meeting of the South Tyrolean party to a public discussion. The singer Philipp Burger was until 2 October 2008 Member of the Party. The Fan Frei.Wild Supporters Club criticized the band due to the planned concert. Under pressure from the management, the band withdrew from the event and distanced himself. Cooperation with asphalt Records was still set on the part of the label. In an interview with the online portal Laut.de Burger later described the aims and means of the Freedom as " anything but great."

As a protest against the alleged " German national German rock milieu" in which Frei.Wild would move to Berlin punk band walked free snout 2011, the band logo of Frei.Wild from. Wild was crossed out on a system sold by the band T -shirt and the word snout supplements. In addition, the T -shirt contained the slogan " Political Core instead of commercial rock ." The Frei.Wild GbR warned from the band, which led to criticism of the band in a number of punk magazines and other media.

The journalist Thomas Kuban arranged in February 2012 Frei.Wild the term identity skirt to which is widespread in the neo-Nazi scene. After Kuban opinion, other texts of Frei.Wild were dominated nationalist and populist next to the text of the song South Tyrol. The album enemies of your enemies arranged Kuban in March 2013 even the right rock. In the texts contained on this CD, there would be subtle hints, which " also work neo-Nazi bands " would. In the song, do-gooders and moral crusader Frei.Wild would allude to the anti-Semitic stereotype of Jews supposedly rich. He also highlights the passage " story that still brings coal " out. In the context of the song but this place is attributed to man-hating politicians and Christian priests. The song with the text passage "Today there is the stamp, not a star anymore," the fascism critical song We ride in the downfall of the political stamping the band refers, according to Kuban Frei.Wild trivializing the Holocaust.

The staff in the Anti-Fascist Press Archive and Education Center Berlin ( Apabiz ) Christoph Schulze represent by the band " ultra-nationalist " political content, because they would claim a connection between human lineage and the native soil. As an example, the song True values ​​is given in which the downfall of the people will prophesied. Migrants are not included in this definition of people of course. The song in which the band clearly distances itself from nationalism ( " We hate fascists and Nazis " ), focuses on the preservation of ethnic minorities.

The Director of the Brandenburg Institute for community consultation, Dirk Wilking, they judged as right-wing as they spread his opinion, " Nazi ideology ". As an example, he cited the song South Tyrol and said: " In the song " South Tyrol " as Italy is clearly attacked: South Tyrol is no longer to belong to Italy, but they want something big German. It is a classic model of the extreme right that States Geography Europe is called into question. "

The band itself denies these allegations and states not to represent any particular political direction. However Frei.Wild enjoys the view of Internet portals such as online time and publikative.org in the right-wing scene high popularity, which will significantly example, by appropriate comments in relevant forums or in the context of a Web - TV broadcast of the NPD functionary Patrick Schroeder. In the context of concerts the band also occasionally fell on fans with far-right actions.

"But you just have to also keep in mind: We are not Germans! We are in South Tyrol. [ ... ] There, no one has a problem with our text, who understand what it is about us. If there is a holiday, then the Tyrolean flag is hung because the house is in fact everywhere. They have since also louder clubs who cherish it and care for and want to get these ties to South Tyrol as well. We grew up in this environment and speak from our perspective as South Tyrol, not as a German. The do not understand some apparently. Since I have not constantly regardless assume that we may develop or show no national pride than German, because one is immediately accused of being a Nazi. That one always must as German only during the European Championship or World Cup. I know that provokes a lot of people, but those are just things that are important to us. "

Above all, the echo controversy also television and radio broadcasts were aware of the increasingly successful band that respond to the allegations in their reporting. At various concerts, the band had the audience " Nazis out " chant and indicates admit no "Nazis" in the concerts. However criticized Jörn set of sound against Nazis that " Frei.Wild [ ... ] So far distances just as far [ have ] as it was necessary." The telecast aspects accused the band, not to distance sufficient enough. Critics such as the right-wing expert Andreas Speit or the band Jupiter Jones accuse the band to occupy classic right rock themes and so to make them suitable for the mainstream. The journalist Thomas Kuban designated singer Phillip Burger due to its "first [n ] right rock star in the classical sense ", "for his work [ is ] not limited to any scene, he [ reach ] and the Civil spectrum without so far political or civil society resistance would rain. Frei.Wild [ selling and establishing itself ] nationalism and anti- anti-fascism as hip protest culture ".

The rock band Jennifer Rostock announced in January 2013 that visitors are no longer allowed with T-shirts from Frei.Wild at their concerts, because this a "great identification area for nationalist ideas " would offer her lyrics. Frei.Wild singer Philipp Burger described in an interview with the South Tyrolean newspaper the t-shirt ban against it as a "cheap planned PR stunt. "

A planned appearance at the With Full Force Festival in June 2013 said the band a few days after the announcement again. This was due to protests on social networks like Facebook and an opinion article in the music magazine Visions, who opposed the participation of Frei.Wild. In addition, subject, inter alia, Visions, Jägermeister and TätowierMagazin their support for the festival due to the planned appearance of the band back. The online magazine Laut.de described the pressure that has been exerted in this context to the organizers of the festival, as " unprecedented."

The organizers of the festival and Ehrlich According looked ahead in the planning for 2013 the same hostility or problems such as the organizers of the With Full Force exposed. In a detailed statement was taken in 2013 commented on the events prior to the festival. In the justification for the decision to let Frei.Wild occur for the sixth time at the festival despite the expected difficulties with sponsors and other planned bands in 2013, it was said, inter alia, that you can not " just any form right thoughts and good left and right extremism " reject, but also" unjustified restrictions on freedom of expression and freedom of speech, false convictions, prejudices, any kind of smear campaigns and digital bullying ( Shit Storm & Co ) ".

In January 2014, a plot was perpetrated on the band Store in Brixen. The facade of the business was sprayed with extreme left-wing communist slogans and symbols.

Indexing method

In November 2013, the Thuringian Minister for Social and Family Affairs and Health, Heike Taubert (SPD ) has led after excitation by the journalist Thomas Kuban at the Federal Department for Media Harmful to Young to review the publications of Frei.Wild. The review of BPjM referred exclusively to the song revenge must be published in 2002 by the debut album Someday. The application was rejected by BPjM for formal reasons, as the Thuringian Ministry of Social Affairs stated in the application sites and URLs are no longer available. Thomas Kuban criticized the decision. From the controversial song revenge must be Philipp Burger distanced meantime. In January 2014, the song was revenge has objected to by the Thuringian Ministry of Social Affairs to be a second time. In the second indexing request the CD One day was settled. After having re-examined on 6 February 2014, the Federal Department for Media Harmful to Young ruled in favor of Frei.Wild and declined to indexing. The reason given was that the artistic context of the album one day, was otherwise non-violent and some of them explicitly gewaltablehnend.

Media work

In January 2013, the band started on the Internet its own media project with a website on the topic "Reporting on Frei.Wild in the media" under the domain the - power- of -medien.de, the one stop shop for all information seekers about Frei.Wild be. There are on the one hand, all available on the band reports or articles collected comments from the band and, as far as legally possible also archived. On the other hand Frei.Wild wants the media and all other interested parties there all the relevant facts in their view, opinions and data on Frei.Wild online ready. A large part of the content to take a collective interview questions and the corresponding answers of the band.

One reason for the launch of this media project is the conception of the band that most media and media representatives preferred in the research on Frei.Wild use the reporting of third parties as a source, rather than relying on the results of its own research.

According to the web portal terminus law of Socialist Youth and Young Socialists in the SPD Mecklenburg-Vorpommern on the other hand operates the website power of the media "with the, in March of the ( system ) Press ' another right wing cliche ". This saw " quite open fans, but you do not want to have on the concerts [ ... ] confirms their world view ." The portal referred in this connection that. Onto the local "negative list" next to " articles of, malfunction indicator ', the Taz or the WDR also some contributions from the right terminus landed " were.

In an interview with the NDR for the mission ZAPP the free music journalist Daniel Köhler expressed, inter alia, to the question of how traditional media need to hire in the future on websites such as power- of -medien.de: " [ ... ] the [ Frei.Wild ] must not be objective! The do not have to be factual! The present since their thing and it is their right to freedom of speech to say so if they do not agree with media reports. " Köhler further referred to the site as interest -driven tool the band.

Discography

Frei.Wild published the following music albums:

Live albums

* Data from the DVD Charts

Awards

Golden Record

• Germany Germany 2011: for the Album antidote
• 2012: for the DVD Hands sea
• 2012: for the Album enemies of your enemies