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Schwarz Rot Gold - We are the team
  DE 63 06/20/2008 (3 weeks)

The fraction is a German rock band with the band members Jaque Gelee, Ralph Snugger, Marc van der Hinten in the legs and Simon Sigurvinsson. The four musicians from Stuttgart and Berlin met at a Backstreet Boys concert in Bad Saulgau . For the UEFA EURO 2008 the parliamentary group contributed the official Coca-Cola fan song Schwarz Rot Gold - We are the team that made it to number 63 in the official German single charts ( Media Control ).
On December 17, 2011, the band was awarded the German Rock Prize 2011 by the German Rock & Pop Musicians Association at the presentation of the German Rock & Pop Prize in Wiesbaden .

Her song Für Immer VfB was chosen as a stadium song by the fans of VfB Stuttgart : It is played before every home game. Most recently, Die Fraktion sang in front of 500,000 people on the Berlin Fan Mile before the 2014 World Cup final . It was Marc Lory's last appearance. He died at the age of 37. At the beginning of 2015, the band announced that they had found a new guitarist in Daniel Köbbert (Danny Cave).

history

Beginnings and VfB fan songs

The band first became known under the name Rote Tor Fraktion . Under this name she published several songs for her favorite club VfB Stuttgart from the championship season 2006/07, appeared several times in the Mercedes-Benz Arena at home games and also at the season opening of VfB. The first song was VfB for a lifetime , which is usually played before kick-off. Later, during the sporting crash in the first half of the 2007/08 season, she released Kopf hoch Stuttgart .

On October 4, 2008, a rocking new edition of the unofficial Württemberg anthem by Justinus Kerner from 1818 (state anthem of the former Kingdom of Württemberg ) followed with an appearance before the Bundesliga home game of VfB against Werder Bremen (result: 4: 1).

With Forever VfB , they released another song for VfB Stuttgart on August 18, 2012. "Die Exil-Schwaben", a Swabian choir from Berlin, take part in this fan song. According to a vote carried out by VfB Stuttgart, it is the most popular stadium song among fans.

As part of the VfB fair play week "What is Inclusion?" of VfB Stuttgart in April 2018, the band recorded a new version of "Forever VfB" together with the Brenz Band . Together with the inclusive band, a video was produced by film producer Jochen Laube , which was presented on April 21, 2018 before the home game in the Mercedes-Benz Arena against Werder Bremen . All proceeds from the CD go to the Brenz Band.

renaming

On October 6, 2008, the Stuttgart local edition of the Bild newspaper published an article in which the band strongly criticized the fact that it was named "Rote Tor Fraktion" and the logo with a star, which showed similarities with the terrorist group, the Red Army Fraction . However, the band distanced themselves from it, claiming that they had never intended this resemblance. In order to avoid further irritation, the name was changed to Die Fraktion .

Well-known productions

The four musicians wrote the fan anthem Schwarz Rot Gold - We are the team for the EM 2008 . The song was the length of a soccer game, 90 minutes. For the 2010 World Cup there was a new edition of Black Red Gold .

The band wrote the song Mit Herz und Hand for the Bundesliga handball team Frisch Auf Göppingen . The song is used by Frisch Auf as an anthem at home games.

They dedicated the song Mario Gomez to the German soccer player Mario Gómez and the ball goes in .

On June 11, 2010, they released their first album, Mut im Bauch , which was released by Alive under their own label, Orangener Vorhang Musik .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Charts DE
  2. ↑ Kulturelles Jugendbildungswerk eV (Ed.): German Rock & Pop Prize - Winner 2011 ; n.d.; Retrieved December 18, 2011.
  3. ↑ Frank Rothfuss: The VfB is losing its poet. Stuttgarter Nachrichten Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, August 28, 2014, accessed on August 31, 2014 .
  4. ↑ New guitarist! (No longer available online.) Fraktion GbR, February 2, 2015, archived from the original on April 2, 2015 ; Retrieved April 2, 2015 . 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.diefraktion.de
  5. ^ The GbR parliamentary group: Live presentation of the "Württemberg Hymne" , December 27, 2008, accessed on: September 4, 2011.
  6. ↑ VfB Stuttgart notification page Archived copy ( memento of the original from October 27, 2014 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.vfb.de
  7. ↑ http://www.vfb.de/de/vfb/aktuell/neues/vfbfairplay/2018/brenz-band---die-fraktion--cd-meldung/
  8. ↑ The Fraktion GbR: "Statement" and "roller coaster of feelings" ( Memento of the original of November 3rd, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , December 27, 2008, accessed: September 4, 2011. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.diefraktion.de
  9. ↑ The GbR fraction: Out of love for grandma ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , February 6, 2009, accessed: September 4, 2011. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.diefraktion.de