Carol von Rautenkranz

Carol von Rautenkranz is a German label owner, businessman and former musician . He is considered one of the pioneers of the so-called Hamburg School .

Live and act

After the former bank apprentice Carol von Rautenkranz and the musician Pascal Fuhlbrügge had been organizing music concerts in Hamburg since 1986 , they then founded the music label L'age d'or in 1988 to promote German bands that sang in German and made unusual music.

First they released their own bands on the label. Fuhlbrügge his colossal youth and von Rautenkranz his dark and electro-wave band Die-Gants , in which his brother Chris von Rautenkranz was also. A short time later they released bands that they knew from their concerts or from Hamburg and that did not yet have a record deal, such as B. Huah! or east zone soup cube maker . In the Soundgarden Studio , which he ran with his brother Chris von Rautenkranz, many bands were also recorded, which later appeared on their label.

After Pascal Fuhlbrügge left in the 1990s, Carol von Rautenkranz continued to run the label alone. In 2007, he was using a comparison a firm insolvency however turn, had to reduce his label.

He also runs Golden Gate Management GmbH with Oliver Kolb and Stephanie Janszen , which looks after and mediates artists and producers .

Discography

• 1988: Die-Gants - Fishing For Compliments (Album, LP, L'age d'or)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Interview with the e-zine Cineastentreff.de ( Memento of the original from June 26, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) 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.  

Web links

• Carol von Rautenkranz at Discogs (English)