Campino

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Campino (2013)

Campino (bourgeois Andreas Frege ; born June 22, 1962 in Düsseldorf ) is a German-British singer and songwriter . He is the front man of the Düsseldorf band Die Toten Hosen . He also worked as an actor in theater, film and television.

Life

Campino (2012)

Andreas Frege grew up as the son of the judge Joachim Frege and the housewife Jennie Frege. His mother was a native of England , studied at Oxford University and raised her children bilingually. He has five siblings, including his brother John, who is twelve years his senior, through whom he became aware of punk rock in England. His older sister Judith Frege is a ballet dancer and book author, and his three years older brother Michael Frege is a lawyer. Frege's grandfather Ludwig Frege was President of the Federal Administrative Court. Great-grandfather Franz Friedrich Konrad Frege (1843–1920) was the son of the Berlin-Schöneberg pastor Ferdinand Ludwig Frege (1804–1883).

When Andreas Frege was two years old, his family moved from Düsseldorf to Mettmann . There he attended today's Astrid Lindgren primary school and then a grammar school in Mettmann. However, after a year he switched to the Humboldt Gymnasium in Düsseldorf. There his classmates called him Campino after a candy fight in the classroom . He could not achieve the class goal twice and thus finally attended the same class as the two years younger Michael Breitkopf , also a founding member of the band Die Toten Hosen. Both passed their Abitur in 1983. Campino spent eight months in the Bundeswehr from October 1983 until he was recognized as a conscientious objector , and then did civil service , also together with Michael Breitkopf in the State Psychiatry in Düsseldorf-Ludenberg . From 1978 to 1982 he was the singer of the group ZK and then founded the band Die Toten Hosen with Andreas von Holst , Michael Breitkopf, Andreas Meurer , Trini Trimpop and Walter Hartung (called Walter November).

Andreas Frege has a son born in 2004 with the actress Karina Krawczyk . He took British citizenship in March 2019 and is therefore a dual citizen .

Song dedications

Campino wrote the song Alles ist Eins on the single Pushed Again for Rieke Lax, a girl from the Netherlands who died at the band's 1000th concert in the Düsseldorf Rheinstadion .

The song Our House , published on the album Immortal , is about Campino's childhood and the death of his father. With the title Nur zu Visiting , first appeared on the album away game , he came to terms with the death of his mother. Campino dedicated the song Outside Front Door from the album Ballast der Republik to his father and describes their relationship with one another. Since the death of his parents, who both died of colon cancer , Campino has been involved in various educational campaigns and publicly calls for participation in the preventive medical check-ups .

Film, television and public engagement

Campino (1997)

Campino has a high media presence both as a spokesman for the band Die Toten Hosen and as a person in Germany. Since the mid-1980s, he accepted invitations to numerous talk shows on television. In Bettina Böttinger's show, for example, he met Gretchen Dutschke-Klotz , and he was invited by Alfred Biolek once with his mother and another time with his friend Stephan Schröer OSB , the abbot of the Benedictine abbey in Meschede at the time, and took a position on both programs to church , faith and religion . In 2001, NDR shot a documentary about the rock singer in the series Gott und die Welt . Another 42-minute film portrait with the title Campino - My Life was made in 2004 for arte and ZDF . The director Cordula Kablitz-Post shot a 45-minute portrait of Campino for the series of ARD Germany, your artists , which was first broadcast in July 2009. A second documentary about the rock singer turned Kablitz-mail for the series The Best in the West of the WDR television .

Campino often acted as a journalist himself. In 1994, for example, Spiegel printed Campino's interview with the then youth minister, Angela Merkel , to whom he asked questions about her experiences with drugs, alcohol and her first contact with pop music. He asked Paul McCartney similar questions the year before for Stern magazine . A year before Joe Strummer's death, Campino interviewed the front man of The Clash in August 2001 for SZ-Magazin . In 1989 Campino had visited punk musicians Joey Ramone and Dick Manitoba in New York to interview them for ME Sounds . In spring 2016, the documentary London's Burning - Campino on the trail of punk was produced for arte and ZDF , in which Campino had conversations with Bob Geldof , T.V. Smith , Charlie Harper , Viv Albertine and Tony James , among others .

Campino was also seen several times as an actor. He took over in 1986 in the film losers by Bernd Schadewald a supporting role, in 1990 he played in the evening series The investigators a punk . In 1992 he played the leading role alongside Gisela Schneeberger in the comedy Long Saturday by Hanns Christian Müller .

In a production of Bertolt Brecht's Threepenny Opera , directed by Klaus Maria Brandauer for the Berlin Admiralspalast , the meanwhile Metropol-Theater , Campino played the role of Mackie Messer from August to October 2006 with Gottfried John , Katrin Sass , Birgit Minichmayr and others Maria Happel on stage. In Wim Wenders ' work Palermo Shooting Campino has taken the lead role. The premiere took place at the end of May 2008 at the 61st Cannes Film Festival . In the new version of the musical fairy tale Peter and the Wolf , which was created in 2015 by the Federal Youth Orchestra under the direction of Alexander Shelley , Campino is involved as a speaker, for which he was awarded the ECHO Klassik in October 2016 .

When the ZDF called for the election of the 100 "greatest Germans" in 2003, Campino reached 65th place among the 300 people available for selection. In 2006, Campino took over the laudation for the echo to Bob Geldof. Campino has been the godfather of the Regine Hildebrandt School in Birkenwerder since December 6, 2006 . There he is in charge of a project called School without Racism - School with Courage .

Together with Eric Friedler , Campino directed the documentary Wim Wenders, Desperado about Wim Wenders in 2020 . The production was included in the official selection of the 2020 Cannes International Film Festival .

Discography

For a detailed discography of Campino as author and front man of the band Die Toten Hosen, see

Campino also took part in the following productions as a guest:

Fonts

Literature in which Campino contributed as an author:

Web links

Commons : Die Toten Hosen  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files
Wikiquote: Campino  - Quotes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Philipp Oehmke : Die Toten Hosen - In the beginning there was noise . Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek near Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-498-07379-4 , pp. 48-50.
  2. ↑ Campino: Punk in the FRG - Stukas and vibrators. one day , February 1, 2008, accessed on January 26, 2014 .
  3. ↑ Philipp Oehmke: In the cuckoo's nest of capitalism . In: Der Spiegel . No. 39 , 2009 ( online ).
  4. ↑ Note: Campino has been the brand name of a fruit candy from the Storck company since 1966 .
  5. ↑ Bertram Job : Die Toten Hosen tell their story . Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1996, p. 237.
  6. ↑ Philipp Oehmke: Die Toten Hosen - In the beginning there was noise . Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek bei Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-498-07379-4 , p. 65.
  7. ↑ Philipp Oehmke: the marathon man . In: Der Spiegel . No. 1 , 2009 ( online ).
  8. ↑ Campino - He now has dual citizenship. Stern , March 26, 2019, accessed April 1, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Booklet on the away game , p. 2.
  10. ↑ Birgit Fuß : Die Toten Hosen - ballast of the republic. Rolling Stone , May 4, 2012, accessed January 26, 2014 .
  11. ↑ Campino: Fight Cancer! In: Express , March 8, 2007
  12. ^ Boulevard Bio 1991-2003 (ARD). Television dictionary , accessed January 27, 2014 .
  13. ^ Frank Eggers: Campino - My life . Macroscope Film 2004, for ZDF / Arte.
  14. ↑ Germany your artists - Campino. avantimedia, 2009, accessed January 27, 2014 .
  15. ↑ The best in the west - Campino. avantimedia, 2009, accessed January 27, 2014 .
  16. ↑ Campino: Too much of the cherry whiskey . In: Der Spiegel-Spezial , No. 2/1994, pp. 115–116. Campino interviews Youth Minister Angela Merkel
  17. ↑ Martin Scholz : I don't go to the Beatles Museum . In: Stern . No. 7 , 1993.
  18. ↑ Jan Weiler : I was just kidding at the time . In: SZ-Magazin . No. 8 , 2001.
  19. ↑ Campino: Tote Hose in New York . In: Musikexpress . No. 11 , 1989, pp. 86-88 .
  20. ↑ London's Burning - Campino on the trail of punk. (No longer available online.) Arte , 2016, archived from the original on August 17, 2016 ; accessed on April 3, 2018 .
  21. ↑ Series dictionary: Der Fahnder - doll, Atze, club. Internet Movie Database , accessed June 8, 2015 .
  22. ↑ Campino in the Internet Movie Database (English)
  23. ↑ Joachim Lucchesi: Brandauer staged The Threepenny Opera by Brecht & Weill . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2006.
  24. ↑ Peter and the Wolf in Hollywood. Deutsche Grammophon , accessed September 24, 2016 .
  25. ↑ ECHO Klassik 2016: Glanz und Gloria with Anna Netrebko, Andrea Bocelli and many others. Klassikakzente, October 6, 2016, accessed October 10, 2016 .
  26. ↑ The 100 largest Germans or an endless ranking. klartextsatire.de, accessed on January 26, 2014 .
  27. ↑ Godfather Campino came by. Regine-Hildebrandt-Schule, September 11, 2010, accessed on January 26, 2014 .
  28. ↑ Documentary Wim Wenders, Desperado in the Official Selection of the Cannes International Film Festival 2020. Norddeutscher Rundfunk , July 15, 2020, accessed on July 15, 2020 .
  29. ^ Argentine website of Die Toten Hosen
  30. ↑ Official video for All over again
personal data
SURNAME Campino
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Frege, Andreas (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German singer, front man and songwriter of the musical group Die Toten Hosen
DATE OF BIRTH June 22, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf