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The dead pants
Vom Ritchie, Andreas von Holst, Andreas Meurer, Campino and Michael Breitkopf (December 2013)
Vom Ritchie, Andreas von Holst, Andreas Meurer, Campino and Michael Breitkopf (December 2013)
General information
origin Dusseldorf
Genre (s) Punk rock , rock music
founding 1982
Website www.dietotenhosen.de
Current occupation
Campino
Andreas von Holst
Electric guitar
 Michael Breitkopf
Andreas Meurer
Vom Ritchie (since 1998)
former members
Electric guitar
 Walter Hartung (until 1983)
Drums
 Trini Trimpop (until 1985)
Drums
 Jakob Keusen (1985–1986)
Drums
 Wolfgang Rohde (1986–1999)

Die Toten Hosen (pseudonym: Die Roten Rosen ) is the name of a musical group from Düsseldorf that developed from the German punk movement and was founded in 1982.

The band plays rock music with mostly German lyrics and elements from punk rock . Alongside the Berlin music group Die Ärzte , it is one of the most commercially successful German bands with roots in punk rock. She released eighteen studio albums, eight concert albums and seven compilations by October 2019 . Since 1990, it has taken first place in the German album charts eleven times . The musicians focus on live concerts and close contact with the audience.

Band history

1982 to 1987: The first years and early successes

Campino 1987

The band Die Toten Hosen was founded in 1982 by Campino , Andreas von Holst , Andreas Meurer , Michael Breitkopf , Trini Trimpop and Walter Hartung, known as Walter November, as the successor to ZK in Ratinger Hof in Düsseldorf . For the first concert at Easter 1982 in the Bremen slaughterhouse , the group was inadvertently announced by the organizer as "Die Toten Hasen".

In the same year she released the singles We are ready and Reisefieber under the band's own independent label Totenkopf in quick succession and went on a concert tour under the motto Roswitha is not coming, but Die Toten Hosen . In addition to 50 performances in Germany, the band gave their first concert abroad in the Ex mattatoio in Rome. Walter November left the band shortly afterwards because of his drug problems.

The third single with the party song Eisgekühlter Bommerlunder is considered the first success. The debut album Opel-Gang was released in the summer of 1983. The video for Eisgekühlter Bommerlunder was shot in the summer of 1983, financed by EMI , and directed by Wolfgang Büld in a small Bavarian church. With Kurt Raab in the role of a Catholic clergyman who is not averse to alcohol, and Marianne Sägebrecht as the bride, a chaotic wedding ceremony was presented. The community considered it necessary to rededicate the village church afterwards , and the video was boycotted for a long time by German public television programs . At the end of the year, the band, under contract with EMI since July 1983, released a hip-hop version of the Bommerlunder single under the title Hip Hop Bommi Bop as a Christmas single together with the New York rapper Fab Five Freddy . In the spring of 1984 the band went on a tour of France for the Goethe Institute . In June 1984 she followed an invitation from the BBC to a John Peel show . Because of the high travel costs that the band members caused in London, there was a scandal with EMI. Another reason was the legal dispute between Norbert Hähnel , who parodied the folk music singer Heino in the opening act for the band Die Toten Hosen , who was under contract to EMI, and who enforced an injunction against Hähnel at the Düsseldorf Regional Court . Then the band separated from EMI and switched to Virgin Records .

The disputes with EMI continued when the second LP False Flag was released in 1984 . The image of the skeleton of a dog sitting in front of a gramophone on the original cover is a caricature of the EMI landmark His Master's Voice . The EMI obtained a change of the cover in court. Ultimately, the boned dog in the pirate flag was replaced by a boned eagle, which the band, alongside the Jolly Roger , still uses as their logo today. The tour for the album included more than 80 concerts in Germany alone. The musicians had their first television appearance in the evening program in October 1984 in Alfred Biolek's show Bei Bio on WDR television . In autumn 1985 the group traveled through Hungary and Poland under the motto Disco in Moscow . At the end of 1985 Trini Trimpop left his position as a drummer and moved into the management of the band until 1992. The new drummer was temporarily Jakob Keusen , who was replaced in January 1986 by Wolfgang Rohde .

Rohde was on the drums when the band recorded their third album Damenwahl in 1986. On the concert tour of the same name, which was under the motto of fucking, fucking, blowing , the band was sponsored by the Fromms company and distributed free condoms to the audience. In 1987 the band celebrated their first chart success under the pseudonym Die Roten Rosen with the record Never Mind The Hosen - Here's Die Roten Rosen with a top rating of 21. The album contains only rock versions of German hits; Name and cover designs of the record are a parody of the LP Never Mind the Bollocks of Sex Pistols in 1977. toured From March to December 1987, the band Die Toten Hosen under the slogan A colorful evening for a black republic by Germany. As part of the tour, the band accepted an invitation to the Roskilde Festival in Denmark and performed at the Olof Palme Peace Festival in Pilsen . At the end of 1987, the band's first live album, Bis zum Bitter end, was released, which reached the top 30 of the German and Austrian album charts.

1988 to 1995: Here comes Alex , recognition and at the top of the charts

Andreas Meurer 1987

The LP A Little Bit of Horror Show , released in 1988 , which includes the song Here Comes Alex , is considered the group's commercial breakthrough. The album consists mostly of the incidental music for Bernd Schadewald's play A Clockwork Orange . It was based on the book of the same name by Anthony Burgess and the film by Stanley Kubrick . In addition to Ralf Richter in the lead role, the band took to the stage at the Kammerspiele Bad Godesberg in Bonn for half a year . In September of the same year, the band Die Toten Hosen performed in the cities of Vilnius and Kaunas in Lithuania at the Lituanika Festival , where the jury voted for the best musical group at the event. During the spring tour in 1989 there was not enough space for around 5,000 people in the Biskuithalle in Bonn, given the crowds that had come to the concert, and an additional concert was scheduled. In addition, the band succeeded in completely selling out the Dortmund Westfalenhalle with 15,400 visitors. In November 1989 the band documented their previous life as a musician with the film 3 chords for a hallelujah . In the spring of 1990, they first played as the opening act for two Rolling Stones concerts in the Müngersdorfer Stadium in Cologne. In the Live Music Hall in Cologne-Ehrenfeld , a concert by the band Die Toten Hosen was recorded for the WDR television program Rocklife .

Half a year after the fall of the Berlin Wall , the musicians went on a bicycle tour to the GDR in mid-April 1990 . The instruments were transported in a minibus that accompanied the group. The stations were clubs and restaurants in Bitterfeld , Halle , Leipzig , Dresden , where the band played in the barn , and the East Berlin House of Young Talents .

In July the band was invited to the New Music Seminar in New York . In the summer the band traveled to Italy to report on the soccer world championship for the taz and SDR 3, among others . At the same time, the musicians brought out a "rocky" cover version of the classic Azzurro by Adriano Celentano and a video clip that went with it. The film satirically deals with the behavior of Germans as football tourists abroad. The double album Auf dem Kreuzzug ins Glück was released in the same year and was the first album of the group to reach first place in the German charts and was awarded a platinum record for 500,000 copies sold in Germany .

In 1991 the album Learning English Lesson One was released. Most of the songs are cover versions of English-language punk rock classics. At least one member of the original band was always present during the recordings. In addition, the band worked on this production with the English mail robber Ronald Biggs , whom they visited in Rio de Janeiro . From spring to autumn 1992 the band went on tour in Europe under the motto People, Animals, Sensations and then played in Argentina for the first time. The single Sascha… an upright German released for Christmas 1992 showed a clear orientation against right-wing radicalism . With the proceeds, the band supported the "Düsseldorf Appeal against Xenophobia and Racism". The Republicans tried unsuccessfully to have the song banned because of partisan vilification, and thereby inadvertently contributed to the success of the title - the single grossed over half a million marks.

In 1993 the album Kauf MICH! , which reached number one on the German album charts. It mainly deals with the topics of consumption, advertising and right-wing extremism. The songs from the album Wünsch DIR was , Alles aus Liebe and Kauf MICH! were also on the first 35 places of the single charts. In the summer of that year they played as the opening act for U2 on their Zoo TV Tour in Germany in front of more than 50,000 people. In the same year the band released their first best-of album entitled Reich & sexy and presented themselves naked on the cover as swanky record millionaires, surrounded by several naked women. In 1994, an international one followed with Love, Peace & Money Version of the best-of album. At that time the band Die Toten Hosen was represented in the German charts with a total of three albums at the same time. In 1994 the band was on the road again for most of the year to fill the halls in Germany and neighboring countries and performed at the Açıkhava Tiyatrosu amphitheater in Istanbul. In November she gave four concerts in the USA and Canada as the opening act for Green Day . At the ORB / SFB youth broadcaster Fritz , the musicians presented their own radio program from April 1995 with a thousand bars of dance music . The format ran for a year, always on Sundays from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. At the end of the year, the band founded the company JKP and took the marketing of their records into their own hands.

1996 to 2000: JKP - the beginnings with their own label

Andreas von Holst and Andreas Meurer 1987
Wolfgang Rohde 1987

The first album under their own label was released in 1996 and was called Opium fürs Volk . The music group deals mainly with the topics of faith and religion on this sound carrier. For this she received platinum for the third time, after the albums Kauf MICH! and rich & sexy . With the decoupling Ten Little Jägermeisters , it reached number one in the German-language single charts for the first time . Together with Iggy Pop , the band appeared in the opening act of the Ramones at their farewell concert in the River Plate Stadium in Buenos Aires in front of 75,000 spectators. This was followed by an extensive tour under the motto Eternal is the longest through Germany, Austria and Switzerland. In addition, they performed at the Gurten Festival , the Forest Glade Festival , on the Berlin forest stage and the Bizarre Festival in Cologne. At Rock am Ring they performed in May 1996 for the first time as a headliner on. In the same year, the band released their second live album entitled On behalf of the Lord .

In the years from 1982 to 1997 the music group gave over 1000 concerts. At the anniversary concert on June 28, 1997 in the Düsseldorf Rheinstadion in front of 60,000 spectators, a sixteen-year-old girl died in the crowd in front of the stage. The band initially interrupted the concert, but continued to play on the advice of the chief of operations at the Düsseldorf fire brigade to prevent panic. Shocked by the events, the group canceled all other concerts of the year and did not play in stadiums for almost two years.

In January 1998 the band took part in the Vans Warped Tour . The tour covered festivals in New Zealand, Australia, Japan and the USA, where their awareness level was low. In the same month, the single Pushed Again was released , a song about lawlessness and oppression, which they presented to the German audience at an illegal concert on the occasion of the Castor transport in Ahaus . In August the band Die Toten Hosen played at the festival in Landsberg am Lech and in Konstanz at the Rock am See Festival. This was followed by the Vans Warped Tour in Europe, which included five concerts in Germany in Spain, Italy, Hungary and Slovakia.

At the end of the year, the band reactivated their pseudonym “Die Roten Rosen” and played various parodies of traditional Christmas carols for the album We wait for Christkind . In 1999 Wolfgang Rohde gave up his place on drums due to health problems with his spine. He gave up Vom Ritchie , who had already made his debut at the 1998 Christmas concerts with the title Little Drummer Boy . As "Die Toten Hosen" the band released the album Immortal in 1999 , the lyrics of which deal mainly with the transience of being. In the same year, the band label JKP released the soundtrack for the film You Are Dead , to which she had contributed the theme song of the same name.

In the spring, the band Die Toten Hosen visited Argentina again. During the performance in the “Museum” in Buenos Aires on March 24, 2000, the stage collapsed a few minutes after the start of the concert under the onslaught of fans. Nobody was injured, but the event had to be stopped and repeated the next day. Both appearances were documented on the DVD En misión del señor , which was released in 2001.

On June 11, 2000 Campino slipped during the gig at Rock am Ring on stage and tore a cruciate ligament . Although he was able to bring the concert to an end, more than 70 previously announced events on the tour at that time had to be canceled.

2001 to 2005: From away game to just visiting

From the Ritchie 2009

In 2001 Die Toten Hosen produced the album Useless with 15 of Smith's compositions since the 1970s as a background band for T. V. Smith , the songwriter and former singer of the British punk band The Adverts . After a stay in Cuba , several concerts in Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic and as the opening act for AC / DC in Germany in the summer of 2001, the album Away Game was released the following year . From February to December 2002 the band Die Toten Hosen traveled through Germany, Austria and Switzerland and gave over seventy concerts in completely sold out halls. In addition, she took part in the Himos Festival in Finland, the Przystanek Woodstock in Poland and in Budapest the Sziget Festival and gave two concerts in Buenos Aires . At the end of 2002, well over half a million viewers had seen the band live.

In the meantime the second best-of album Reich & sexy II was released . In 2003 the band took a break, flew back to Argentina for several concerts in the fall and returned in February 2004 with the maxi CD Friss oder dies . Then the band embarked on the Friss or Die Tour , which began in April 2004 with club concerts in Sofia , Belgrade and Zagreb . In the summer it included appearances at Rock im Park , Rock am Ring, at the Aerodrom Festival in Wiener Neustadt , at the Open Air Gampel and at the OpenAir in Tufertschwil and ended on September 10, 2005 in the fully occupied LTU Arena in Düsseldorf . The concert was released on DVD under the title Heimspiel .

With the studio album Zurück zum Glück , which revolves around the philosophical definition of the term luck and which came on the market in October 2004, the band reached their sixth number one position in the German album charts. The 16-part series Friss oder diesb was broadcast on MTV , in which the band members gave insights into their lives, that of their friends and families, and which was released on triple DVD in June 2005.

In September 2005 the band Die Toten Hosen, with guest musicians Esther Kim and Raphael Zweifel , recorded an MTV unplugged concert in the Vienna Burgtheater . The recording, entitled Nur zu Visiting , was released as an album and music film in December of the same year. At the end of the year she toured with Gerhard Polt and Biermösl Blosn through various theaters and opera houses and played the cabaret program Abvent under the direction of Hanns Christian Müller .

2006 to 2011: In all silence , macho loudspeakers and noise and smoke

In 2006 there were neither rehearsals nor concerts. During the break from the band, Campino played the role of Macheath in a production of Brecht's Threepenny Opera in Berlin's Admiralspalast, directed by Klaus Maria Brandauer . Vom Ritchie was meanwhile traveling with the Spittin 'Vicars and T.V. Smith.

The concerts on May 27th in Hamburg and May 28th in Berlin as well as a gig at Rock am Ring and Rock im Park at the beginning of June were played by the band under the motto Neck + Broken Leg Tour '08 , as Campino got his right foot in early May had broken. The studio album In aller Stille came out in November 2008. The concerts of the Machmalauter tour from November 2008 to Christmas 2009 were completely sold out. Almost all events on the tour were accompanied by guest musicians Esther Kim and Raphael Zweifel.

Campinos climbing action in the Teatro Colegiales, Buenos Aires 2009

In April 2009 the band Die Toten Hosen released an album for the Argentine market. The sampler with the name La hermandad - En el principio fue el ruido contains three new tracks in addition to most of the pieces from the album In aller Stille und Zurück zum Glück . At the same time, the band went to South America, now for the ninth time, and opened the second part of their tour in Buenos Aires . This was followed on May 2, 2009, for the first time in the band's history, a performance in Moscow .

In November, the band Die Toten Hosen was again on the road in Latin America, giving concerts in Patagonia , Guatemala , Panama , Nicaragua and Mexico , among others . The band documents their tour with their third live album Machmalauter Live , which was released as a double CD in November 2009. In addition, a concert recording of the event in the Berlin Waldbühne and the concert in SO36 was released on DVD.

The band visited Central Asia in September and October 2010 under the motto Schall und Rauch . Two concerts were held in Kazakhstan in the cities of Astana and Almaty . The tour continued to Tashkent , Samarqand , Dushanbe , Istanbul , Amman and Tel Aviv . At the end of 2011 the compilation All all the years was released .

2012 to 2016: Ballast der Republik and Der Krach der Republik

SAP Arena Mannheim December 15, 2012

On May 4, 2012 the studio album Ballast der Republik was released. It can be obtained either individually or together with the album Die Geister, which we called , which was produced especially for the band's 30th anniversary and mainly contains cover versions. The album immediately reached number one in the charts in Germany, number one in Austria and the top of the Swiss charts. The song days like this accompanied the German team during the European Football Championship in 2012 and reached number one in the German single charts.

The 30th anniversary tour began on April 10, 2012 with a concert in the Bremer Schlachthof and continued until May 13, 2012 with a series of living room concerts. In September the musicians traveled to Buenos Aires under the motto 20 years in Argentina , where they have since been made honorary citizens of the city, in order to celebrate their anniversary there at the Estadio Cubierto Malvinas Argentinas . It was followed by three more appearances in the provincial cities of San Miguel de Tucumán , Salta and Mar del Plata . The concerts were documented on the DVD Noches como Estas (Spanish nights like this ), which was published in December 2012 and also contains a recording of the living room concerts with the title Drunk on duty .

The European tour under the motto Der Krach der Republik began on November 13th in the Arena Leipzig ; until the end of 2012 further concerts took place in 24 large halls in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The tour, which continued in April 2013 and ended in October 2013 with two concerts in the sold-out Esprit Arena in Düsseldorf, was the band's most successful tour to date, with over one million spectators and more than 60 concerts. During the tour, the band's fifth live album was created, entitled Der Krach der Republik , which was released in November 2013, and a two-hour music film which was released in spring 2014.

Since 2017: whim of nature

In the spring of 2017 the band announced their new studio album Laune der Natur with a series of living room concerts , which was released on May 5, 2017. It is available individually or with Learning English Lesson Two . Like Learning English Lesson One from 1991, this production was recorded together with musician friends and consists exclusively of cover versions.

After 30 years of friendship, Gerhard Polt , the Well Brothers and Die Toten Hosen played together at the beginning of July 2017 under the motto "In the eye of the eardrum" in the Kammerspiele Munich , in the Wiener Konzerthaus , in the "Theater im Forum am Schlosspark" in Ludwigsburg , in the Tonhalle Zurich , the Lichtburg in Essen , the Berlin Admiralspalast and the Hamburg Laeiszhalle , each in front of a sold out house. Another concert tour called Laune der Natour through numerous cities in Germany and Switzerland began on November 5, 2017 in Chemnitz and ended with two concerts on October 12 and 13, 2018 in the Merkur Spiel-Arena in Düsseldorf. A recording of the last concert evening was released on March 29, 2019 under the title Das Laune der Natour-Finale as a double or triple album together with the album Auf der Suche nach der Schnapsinsel - Live in SO36 , recorded on November 7, 2018 in the Berlin Club SO36 .

On April 21, 2018 Die Toten Hosen played for the first time in the People's Republic of China , where they performed at the “Yugong Yishan” music festival near Beijing . Another concert took place in Hong Kong on April 24, 2018. The set lists were partially censored.

The band invited to a public rehearsal on July 12, 2019 and gave two acoustic concerts in the Tonhalle Düsseldorf under the motto With timpani and trumpets over the next two days . The resulting sound material was released as a live album Alles ohne Strom at the end of October 2019 .

Artistic work and meaning

Texts and compositions

Notepad from the early years as a cover for the new edition of the first singles (1982–1984) in a collection box in 1995.

Campino writes almost all the lyrics for the band Die Toten Hosen, while von Holst, Meurer and Breitkopf are responsible for the musical arrangements. The former drummers Trimpop and Rohde are named as authors for a few older compositions. Most of the music produced from 1982 to 2007 by the Briton Jon Caffery . The band has been working with producer Vincent Sorg since 2008 .

The band dealt critically and often satirically with topics from the social and political area. The texts, mainly written as a subjective first-person narration , often deal with psychology, belief, religion and the transience of being . Other topics are xenophobia, moral courage and friendship.

The frequent reference to the topic of football is characteristic of the group. Almost all texts are written in colloquial language and often contain vulgar expressions. The band released some drinking songs that became popular songs in German-speaking countries. They also occasionally covered the Beatles and the Rolling Stones . With “Schunkelpunk” like Eisgekühlter Bommerlunder , the interpretation of Hans Ludwig Lonsdorfer's Altbierlied and numerous cover versions of German hits, the band Die Toten Hosen is one of the pioneers of popular music .

The band feels connected to cabaret . The artists Gerhard Polt , Biermösl Blosn , Funny van Dannen and Hanns Christian Müller from this genre have been involved in various productions of the band since the 1990s. For more difficult arrangements, such as for the project Nur zu Visiting - Unplugged in the Vienna Burgtheater , the band was supported by classically trained musicians such as Hans Steingen , Tim Cross , Esther Kim and Raphael Zweifel. Since 2005 the band Die Toten Hosen has been playing older pieces of music from their repertoire with acoustic instruments. For the few English-language songs, Campino worked with Honest John Plain , Matt Dangerfield of The Boys, and T.V. Smith . Since 2012, several texts have been written in collaboration with the hip-hop musician Marteria from Rostock . By 2017 the band Die Toten Hosen published more than 365 own compositions and 168 cover versions.

Musical development

All musicians in the band are self-taught on their instruments. In the early days, most of the band members still went to school. They recorded the first album unprofessionally in a studio rented by the hour. They limited themselves to simple guitar riffs and lyrics and played their music with the dilettantism common in punk rock . Their influence includes mainly punk bands from the 1970s, to which they paid tribute on most of their albums and at all concerts.

The band Die Toten Hosen continued to develop steadily through their many years of stage experience, new contacts with other musicians and various foreign impressions. Due to their commercial success since the late 1980s and the resulting good financial situation, especially after founding their own label JKP in 1995, the band also has the opportunity to implement their ideas according to their own ideas. They experimented with strings or wind instruments in individual pieces. One or the other song is borrowed from jazz (e.g. Why don't I get fed up ), contains elements from reggae (e.g. Ten Little Jägermeister ) or Yugoslav gypsy music (e.g. The girl from Rottweil ).

Basically the band Die Toten Hosen has not deviated significantly from their original musical style. This includes elements of pure rock music such as hammered eighth notes and power chords , which give the sound a pulsating, driving character. They set contrasts with uncomplicated musical means, use melodies reduced to a narrow pitch, hymn-like vocal harmonies in the chorus and dispense with long solos .

Concerts

Concert tours
year motto
1982-1983 Roswitha is ... not coming
1984 Heino's revenge
1984-1985 Under a false flag
1985 Disco in Moscow
1986 Ladies choice
1987 A colorful evening
for a black republic
1988-1989 A little bit of a horror show
1990 On the crusade to happiness
1992 People, animals, sensations
1994 Rich & sexy - buy ME!
1996 Forever is the longest
1998 We are waiting for the Christ Child
2000 Immortal
2002 Away game
2004-2005 eat or die
2008-2009 Sometimes loud
2010 sound and smoke
2012 Days like this
2012-2013 The crash of the republic
2017-2018 Natour whim
Campino 2007
The audience in action, Jonschwil 2009

Die Toten Hosen see themselves as a live band and have been on concert tour almost continuously since they were founded in 1982. The band has also been filling the big halls in German-speaking countries since the late 1980s and was one of the main groups at almost all rock festivals there. In order to be able to keep the admission prices low, the band largely avoided pyrotechnics at their shows and relied on lighting effects, video walls and confetti bombs.

The focus of all concerts is Campino , singer and front man of the band, who is responsible for the show through his physical commitment and his provocative and satirical announcements. He moves very quickly across the stage, does stage diving or climbs up the spotlight towers in order to sing a song to the end, sometimes ten meters high and hanging upside down. With hymn-like songs, the use of call and response and the cover of popular hit songs, the band encourages the audience to sing along and includes them in the show.

Typical for the band Die Toten Hosen are surprise appearances in front of a small audience. She played in the Plötzensee women's prison , in the Tegel penal institution or at Christmas 1995 in the Ulmer Höh penal institution in Düsseldorf . They played on an Elbe steamer in Dresden, in a refuge of the Austrian mountain rescue service almost 2000 meters above sea level or on the Zugspitze , in the Altötting monastery school or in the 5th psychiatric department of the Hamburg-Ochsenzoll General Hospital . At all of these events, the musicians always waived their fee and only appeared for board and lodging.

With increasing popularity it became more and more difficult for the band to make the right choice among the many invitations to these “Magical Mystery Tour gigs”, as they called these concerts after an album by the Beatles . This is why she has been putting these performances out to public since 1992 in order to choose the most original ones from the applications received. In 2004, for example, they played in a shared apartment for students in Pirmasens who had won the concert as the main prize in a video competition by the band. In September 2009, the band gave a concert at SO36 in order to use the entrance fees to finance a noise protection wall, which the city of Berlin made a requirement for club owners after a neighborhood dispute.

Since the 1990s, the band has regularly played unannounced additional concerts in front of the respective venue for fans who had no longer received tickets, such as in 2012 in front of the Düsseldorf Tonhalle . In order to be able to play in small clubs in front of a manageable audience, the band occasionally used pseudonyms . In 1993 she appeared as "Das Katastrophenkommando", in 1998 as "Rheinpiraten". In 2000 she played several concerts as “Essen auf Wheels”, two of them together with the band Die Ärzte , who appeared as “Die Zu Spät”, in Berlin and Düsseldorf. Under the pseudonym “Die Jungs von der Opelgang”, the band performed in 2004 in the former factory hall of the Böhler-Werke at the Rock am Turm festival , which was organized annually by Wolfgang Rohde.

In the meantime, the band has switched to handing in tickets for their concerts in small halls and clubs only by providing personal details and presenting their identity card at the entrance. In order to rule out increased black market prices, the tickets are not transferable to other people.

Discography and awards (selection)

Discography
Studio albums only

Since 1990 ten music albums by the band Die Toten Hosen have reached number one in the German charts. The music group was awarded numerous gold and platinum records for more than 14,060,500 records sold in Germany, Austria and Switzerland . (As of August 25, 2017)

The band Die Toten Hosen has been honored with various German media awards. She has received the Echo Music Prize from the German Phono Academy several times : the Echo 1994 for her marketing, the Echo 1997 for the animated video for the song Ten Little Jägermeister , a collaboration between Ralf Schmerberg and Andreas Hykade , the Echo 2003 as best national group and the 2009 for the best concert performances of a German band. At the Echo Awards 2013 , the band was honored as the best national group. In addition, the album Ballast der Republik was recognized as Album of the Year 2012, the song Tage Like This as Hit of the Year 2012 and Noches como Estas - Live in Buenos Aires as the best DVD production nationally. At the Echo Awards 2014 , the band was recognized as the best live act nationally. The band received the Echo 2018 in the Rock national category .

The Comet music prize , which is awarded annually by the TV channel VIVA , was awarded to the band in 1996 and 2000 in the category of best national music group . In 1997 she received it for the video for Ten Little Jägermeisters and in 2002 once as the best live band and also for the music video for the song No alcohol (is also not a solution)! , which was directed by Peter Thorwarth and with the participation of actors Ingo Naujoks and Karina Krawczyk .

The band received the Otto, advertised by the youth magazine Bravo , in gold in 1996 and in bronze the following year. The Krone , whose award winners are voted annually by the listeners of the radio station 1 Live , was awarded to the group in 2000, 2009 and 2012 as the best band and in 2007 for their life's work. Nur zu Visiting: Die Toten Hosen live in Vienna's Burgtheater was chosen as the best album of 2006 and in 2013 the band was awarded the 1 Live Krone as the best live act . In addition, the band received the German Music Author Award 2013 in the category Composition Rock / Pop and Most Successful Work for days like this . The band was awarded the German Radio Prize 2013 in Hamburg for their life's work .

Social Commitment

Political activities

The band Die Toten Hosen repeatedly sided with various political and social organizations in public with music, words and financial support and took part in their actions. However, the band members have repeatedly stated that they will not be involved in party politics. For example, they turned down a request from the SPD to write a song for their 1994 European election campaign . In August 2013, the band spoke out on a blog entry on Facebook against the use of their song Days like these at election events. The band Die Toten Hosen expressly distances itself from the content advertised there.

On July 27, 1986, the band performed at the Anti-WAAhnsinns Festival in Burglengenfeld in front of over 100,000 people to demonstrate together with Herbert Grönemeyer , Udo Lindenberg , Marius Müller-Westernhagen , BAP and the Rodgau Monotones against the construction of the reprocessing plant there.

In 1991 she appeared on the sampler Nazis Out! with the title Five to Twelve and in 2006 supported the ZSK band's " No Bock on Nazis " campaign . In 1992 in Bonn's Hofgarten, the band took part in a rally against hatred of foreigners and performed together with Herbert Grönemeyer, Nina Hagen and others in front of almost 200,000 protesters. In 1995 she supported Greenpeace , Doctors Against Nuclear War , Aktion Atomteststop, the BUND and was represented on their sampler Stop Chirac with the piece Tout Pour Sauver L'Amour .

The band attracted attention when in 2002 they posed unclothed on the posters of the animal welfare organization PETA according to the motto: "Better naked than in fur". In 2005 she also financed the sampler On the Run by the human rights group Pro Asyl , where she was represented with the title Meine Stadt . On July 2, 2005, the band accepted an invitation from Bob Geldof and took part in the Live-8 Festival in Berlin.

Michael Breitkopf, Campino, Bob Geldof, Rostock June 7, 2007

Together with Herbert Grönemeyer, the Fantastischen Vier , Bono , Bob Geldof and others, the band Die Toten Hosen took part in the open-air concert Your Voice against Poverty . The concert was part of the protest against the G8 meeting in Heiligendamm and took place on June 7, 2007 in front of 80,000 spectators in Rostock. The band sided with the Move Against G8 campaign and appeared on the sampler of the same name with a live recording of the song Pushed Again . In order to get a personal impression of the living situation of the people in Africa, part of the band traveled to Malawi , Zambia and Uganda in spring 2007 under the direction of the development aid organization Oxfam . They were accompanied by Hella Wenders , who made a short documentary about the stay of several weeks.

During the concerts of the 2008/2009 tour, the band and Oxfam collected more than 50,000 signatures for an increase in development aid, which they handed over to Minister Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul on July 3, 2009 . The demands associated with the campaign include, among other things, that Germany must increase its annual development aid by 2.7 billion euros in order to provide the promised 0.51 percent of GNI for development aid by 2010 . In December 2014 the band took part in the German version of the song Do They Know It's Christmas? in favor of the fundraising campaign to fight the Ebola epidemic in parts of West Africa .

On December 6, 2014, the band accepted the invitation from the German Embassy in Myanmar and gave a free concert in Yangon in front of 6,000 Burmese visitors on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Myanmar and Germany .

Three concert evenings in the Düsseldorf Tonhalle , the band reminded Die Toten Hosen October 2013 in collaboration with the orchestra of the Robert Schumann School of Dusseldorf at the denigration of so-called degenerate music by the Nazis beginning in 1938. In October 2014, the band was the Josef Neuberger -Medal awarded by the Jewish community in Düsseldorf. In October 2015, a compilation of the concert evenings was released as a double album called Degenerate Music - Welcome to Germany .

On September 3, 2018 Dead gave pants together with Casper , Fine cream fish fillet , KIZ , Kraftklub , Trettmann , Nura and Marteria concert against xenophobia and right-wing violence, which under the slogan " We are more " after the riots in Chemnitz was organized . According to estimates by the city of Chemnitz, around 65,000 visitors came.

In November 2019, the band received the Julius Hirsch Prize donated by the German Football Association for their commitment against anti-Semitism .

Relations with the hometown of Düsseldorf

Gravestone of the former roadie Uwe Faust on the band's communal grave

In the course of its history, the band Die Toten Hosen demonstrated their connection to their hometown Düsseldorf through various actions. In the summer of 1995, the band and part of the Düsseldorfer EG played an ice hockey game against the Leningrad Cowboys supported by the Finnish national team in the “Powerplay des madness” on Düsseldorf's Brehmstrasse . Under the team name “Bone Crusher Düsseldorf” they only just lost at 10:11. Since January 2012 the band has been supporting the financially troubled Düsseldorf ice hockey club DEG and, in a pioneering role, bought a so-called “confessor package”, which includes, among other things, upper-class seats for all home games in the ISS Dome . In addition, a red and yellow warm-up jersey was designed that bears the words Alles aus Liebe and the band's skull emblem. All proceeds from the sale of the shirts go to the club.

In 1996 the band slipped into women's clothes, silk stockings and high-heeled shoes and took part in the Düsseldorf carnival procession with their own car under the motto “We bury good taste” . In 2018, the musicians took part in the carnival parade again, dressed up in bright colors in a carriage with the label “Laune der Natur”.

The band members are fans of the Fortuna Düsseldorf football club . At the end of the 1980s they helped the club with a donation of 200,000 DM to finance the purchase of the player Anthony Baffoe . From 2001 to 2003 they sponsored the club when it got into major financial difficulties. In 2002 the band entered into an advertising contract with the Diebels brewery and passed the proceeds on to the club's youth, who wore the band's skull logo on their jerseys. On October 20, 2012, the musicians were made honorary members of the association.

The members of the band Die Toten Hosen have rented a grave site for 17 people at Düsseldorf's Südfriedhof , where they and their closest friends want to be buried. The former roadie of the band Uwe Faust , the manager Jochen Hülder in 2015 and Wolfgang Rohde in 2016 were buried there in 2009 .

Literature (selection)

  • Band biographies:
  • Illustrated books:
    • Die Toten Hosen: forever lasts the longest. Die Toten Hosen in color and black and white . JKP, Düsseldorf 2002, ISBN 3-9808501-1-0 .
    • Fryderyk Gabowicz : The Dead Pants. Live backstage studio: photographs 1986–2006 . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-89602-732-8 .
    • Die Toten Hosen: The full roar . Photo book incl. Double CD and double DVD of the Machmalauter Tour , JKP, Düsseldorf 2009, order no. 6-52450-75012-9.
  • Documentary film:

Web links

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

Individual evidence

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