Kim Frank

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Kim Alexander Frank (born May 24, 1982 in Flensburg ) is a German singer , director and author .

biography

Growing up in simple circumstances in Flensburg- Fruerlund , he founded the band Echt in 1994 with Florian Sump and three other classmates in the Kurt Tucholsky School in Flensburg , which released their first album named after the band in 1998. With the album Freischwimmer and especially the hits You don't have love in you and are you crying? the band achieved their nationwide breakthrough in 1999 and they enjoyed great popularity, especially with younger female fans. The most famous titles of the group did not come from the band itself, but were written by Michel van Dyke ( where are you now? And you have no love in you ).

It was only for the commercially unsuccessful follow-up album Recorder (released in 2001) that the musicians wrote their own songs. Due to internal disputes about the further musical direction, the band broke up in 2002.

After the end of Echt , Frank initially went beyond music: During his career with Echt , Frank was already taking pictures of various artists, among others. a. he shot the band Nord and Bernd Begemann . Frank also gave musical support to Sportfreunde Stiller (A compliment) , Bernd Begemann (Until you meet the right person - take me) and Marlon (Dear God) . Frank not only lent his voice to the music, the singer also played in the radio plays The Three Question Marks (episode 106, Jeffrey) and Step by Step into Paradise (apprentice) by Otmar Hitzelberger .

About the also in Schleswig-Holstein living Detlev Buck , the director was Leander Haussmann , which is a "fresh face" for his film NVA sought attention to Kim Frank. In this way he got the lead role in the film released in September 2005, in which Kim Frank plays the sensitive conscript Henrik Heidler. In the Disney film Heaven and Chicken , also from 2005, he dubbed the voice of Little Chicken Junior .

In 2003 Frank began to write songs for a solo album, which was released on March 2, 2007 under the name Hellblau . It met with mixed reactions from critics and audiences. On February 9, 2007, the single Lara was released. On the same day, Frank competed with this song in the Bundesvision Song Contest organized by TV total for Schleswig-Holstein and took third place. In spring 2007 Frank shot a video clip for his song Zwei Sommer together with four participants (Anni, Milla, Mandy and Aneta) of the second season of Germany's Next Topmodel .

Kim Frank has been working as a director, cameraman, editor and producer for music videos since 2008. At the age of 16 he had directed his band Echt for the first time with the clip for the single Fort von mir .

His debut novel was published by Rowohlt Verlag in May 2011 . Under the title 27 , he deals with a musician's fear of dying at the age of 27 and thus joining Club 27 .

In April 2016, Kim Frank won the Echo for the best national music video for his video for Udo Lindenberg's Durch die Schwier Zeiten . In the same month Die Zeit published a nostalgic and longing-inspiring “love letter” from him to Flensburg, his hometown, which he left at the age of 16 in order to leave for Hamburg.

Kim Frank made his debut film Wach in March 2018 , for which he also wrote the script. In wax is about two friends who want to stay awake without drugs, as long as possible. It ran for the first time on September 17, 2018 on ZDF and was published in parallel on YouTube . Wach was nominated for the Grimme Prize 2019 and the New Faces Award 2019. Jana McKinnon was nominated for the Studio Hamburg Young Talent Award 2019 as the best young actress.

Private

In the 1990s he was in a relationship with the presenter Enie van de Meiklokjes .

Discography

Albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT
2007 Light Blue DE28 (3 weeks)
DE 		-
First published: March 2nd, 2007

Singles

year Title
album 		Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT
2000 48 hours DE93 (2 weeks)
DE 		-
First published: May 1, 2000
( Oceana & Kim Frank)
2007 Lara
light blue 		DE15 (9 weeks)
DE 		AT58 (2 weeks)
AT
First published: February 8, 2007
Two summer
light blue 		DE89 (2 weeks)
DE 		-
First published: May 11, 2007

Guest Posts

  • 2003: Until you meet the right person ( Bernd Begemann feat. Kim Frank)

Really

Filmography

Director

actor

Music video director (selection)

Works

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jürn Kruse: Musician and director Kim Frank: Don't always say “you” . In: The daily newspaper: taz . September 17, 2018, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed October 4, 2018]).
  2. ↑ a b Kim Frank at Crew United , all entries are checked by Crew United.
  3. ↑ red fox. Children's and young people's books. November 2010 to April 2011. ( PDF , approx. 6.6  MB ) (No longer available online.) Rowohlt Verlag , pp. 2 ff. , Archived from the original on November 10, 2012 ; Retrieved on March 2, 2011 (book announcements by the publisher). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rowohlt.de
  4. ↑ Kim Frank: Love letter: "I often think of us". In: The time . April 14, 2016. Retrieved July 26, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Julia Garbe: Ex-Echt-Singer: Love letter to the fjord: Kim Frank wants to get married in Flensburg and die. In: Flensburger Tageblatt . April 1, 2016, accessed July 26, 2016 .
  6. ↑ AWAKE | Film funding Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein. Retrieved on August 12, 2018 (German).
  7. ↑ Kim Frank: Awake. September 17, 2018, accessed August 12, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Star couples: In love, engaged, forgotten. January 2, 2019, accessed January 2, 2019 .
  9. ↑ a b Chart placements: DE , AT , CH
  10. ↑ Music video director ( Memento from December 3, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) on musikmagazin.blogspot.de
personal data
SURNAME Frank, Kim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Frank, Kim Alexander (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German singer, director and author
DATE OF BIRTH May 24, 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Flensburg