Wir sind wir
June 24, 2004
We are ourselves is the first single release of the German DJs Paul van Dyk, in cooperation with the German pop singer Peter Heppner, from whose third remix album Re - Reflections in the Mix ( The Remix Album).
Emergence and Artwork
Was written the song by Peter Heppner and Paul van Dyk, produced by Paul van Dyk and mixed by Jens Kuphal and Paul van Dyk. The main song is from Peter Heppner, in the background the voice of van Dyk's wife Natasha van Dyk is heard. The single was released under the label Urban. The recording took place in the Berlin studio Nucleus Studios. Are on the cover of Maxi -Single - next to the words of the artist and song title - black and white screenshots from the music video to be seen. The screen shots and the cover design comes from Marc Schilkowski and Nela König.
Publication and Promotion
The first release of the song took place in Germany on 24 June 2001. In Austria, the single was released on 11 July 2004. There are several different maxi-single releases to the song, the next we are we usually contain different remix version of the song as a B-side. On July 12, 2004 "Miracle of Bern Special Edition " Edition of the song under the name Tor releases Tor Tor, this includes radio comments by Herbert Zimmermann of the football World Cup final in 1954., 2005, the song was new to the 15th Day of German Unity included in an orchestral version.
Background information
The following lines brought the two musicians Heppner and van Dyk a nationalism allegations.
"We are us, we are here. So fast not you get us down ... "
The Goethe-Institut uses the song or video as a teaching tool " Level: Lower Intermediate (B1 ) ".
Content
The lyrics to We we are is written entirely in German. Musically, the song moves in the field of trance and synth pop. According to Paul van Dyk he and Heppner have been through the documentation The Miracle of Bern - The true story inspired this song in front of people's feelings, during and after this time should show.
"We are us! We stand ' here! That can not have been, no time to be sad. We are us! We stand ' here! We are we! "
Music Video
Director of the video is Joern Heitmann. The video shows Peter Heppner as a camera man who makes movies and takes pictures of special events in German history in the following order:
- The Reichstag fire
- Bombed cities
- A limping on one leg man
- Trümmerfrauen
- U.S. Rosinenbomber throw food over West Berlin, while the Berlin Airlift
- The Miracle of Bern 1954
- Construction of the Berlin Wall
- A border refugee
- The German economic miracle
- The oil crisis
- Fall of Berlin Wall
- The rebuilt Reichstag
Contributors
- Peter Heppner: singing, composer
- Nela König: cover design
- Jens Kuphal: Mixer
- Marc Schilkowski: cover design
- Natasha van Dyk: background vocals
- Paul van Dyk: DJ, composer, mixer, producer
- Nucleus Studios: Recording Studio
- Urban: Music Label
- Dietrich Brüggemann: assistant director
- Jörn Heitmann: Director
- Manuela Kroke: make-up artist
- Carmen Stahlhoven: costume designer
- Patrick Wilfert: Cutter
- Katapult Filmproduktion GmbH: Production Company
Charts
The song reached in the first week at first position 13 in the German single charts, the song was a total hold 19 weeks in the charts. In 2004, the single placed at position 49 of the annual charts. In Austria the song only reached number 75 and also could keep only one week on the charts.
For van Dyk, it is to this day, according Nothing But You, the second highest chart position which he reached in Germany. It was for him the eighth chart position in Germany and Austria in the third.
For Heppner, it is the fifth chart position in Germany and Austria in the third as an interpreter. As a composer, it is already the twelfth chart success Heppner, in Austria it is the fourth.