Dieter Thomas Kuhn

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Dieter Thomas Kuhn 2017 at the Zelt Musik Festival in Freiburg
Dieter Thomas Kuhn at the Festival Paaspop 2011, Schijndel / Netherlands
Dieter Thomas Kuhn, concert at Schlosspark Meersburg 2010
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
gold
  DE 24 02/24/1997 (3 weeks)
Who is looking for love
  DE 2 08/24/1998 (8 weeks)
Passion, lust and love
  DE 26th 10/18/1999 (4 weeks)
Favorite Christmas carols
  DE 84 12/20/2004 (1 week)
Music is the key
  DE 31 06/18/2007 (3 weeks)
Shalala
  DE 39 06/26/2009 (2 weeks)
Singles
Tell me quando tell me when
  DE 69 08/03/1998 (3 weeks)

Dieter Thomas Kuhn (born January 7, 1965 in Tübingen ; real name Thomas Kuhn ) is a German musician. Popular was he as a successful representative of pop - revival of the 1990 's. He was nicknamed The Singing Föhnwelle .

Career

Kuhn and his band, called "Kapelle", began to cover German hits from the 1970s in 1994 . At first he traveled through small clubs, at the then officially declared end of his pop career in 1999, he played at large open-air concerts in front of 15,000 spectators.

Dieter Thomas Kuhn & Band helped the German hit to a certain status and to be noticed far beyond the national borders. Four albums were released by 1999. He won the German Record Prize in 1997 and the Echo the following year .

In 1996 he starred alongside Esther Schweins in the comedy film Der Trip - The Naked Guitar 0.5 . This attempt at a satire on the hippie flower power generation and the hits of the 70s was a flop and was counted among the “worst German films of the year” in the lexicon of international films.

On October 1, 1999, Kuhn gave his farewell concert in the Schleyerhalle in Stuttgart , in order to subsequently reorient himself musically. His hometown Tübingen thanked her well-known son for his success with the Dieter Thomas Kuhn & Band exhibition Thank YouFöhn in the City Museum from February 12 to April 2, 2000.

Attempts to become successful with Deutsch-Pop (Kuhn Null / Eins), however, failed, as did the Threepenny Opera project , which began in 2002 and was stopped by Suhrkamp Verlag due to non-compliance with the works.

On December 9, 2004, Kuhn started his comeback in the Hamburg market hall with his old pop repertoire; a total of seven concerts followed until late summer 2005. Most of them were sold out within a few hours.

Fan calls urged Kuhn & Band to continue. The live VHS, released in 1999, was revised and released on DVD for the comeback. In December 2004 Kuhn released the solo CD Favorite Christmas Songs . In April 2006 the new hit album Once around the world was released . Like its predecessors, this album also made it into the TOP 100 of the German longplay charts. The world tour followed in 2006 - once around the world .

On July 8, 2006, after the small final (game for third place) of the 2006 FIFA World Cup , Kuhn sang in front of 80,000 fans on Stuttgart's Schloßplatz . Kuhn also celebrated the championship title and runner-up cup victory on May 27, 2007 with VfB Stuttgart on the Cannstatter Wasen .

After the end of their long-term record contract (WEA, Warner Music), Dieter Thomas Kuhn & Band released their first album under the label of their management (VEP - Vaddi's own record company) at the start of the tour on June 1, 2007. The album Musik ist Trumpf rose to number 31 in the charts and heralded the other tours Musik ist Trumpf 2007 and Musik ist Trumpf 2008 .

Since April 8th, 2009 Dieter Thomas Kuhn & his band have been touring Germany, Austria and Switzerland again. The first concert took place in Salzburg, followed by Vienna and other dates throughout Germany. In June 2009 the album Schalala was released , with which Dieter Thomas Kuhn & Band again achieved a top 50 chart placement.

A live DVD was released on December 4, 2009, including a recording of the 2009 concert on the Berlin Waldbühne as well as other highlights of the 2009 Schalala Tour.

In April 2010, like Elton John and the Toten Hosen , Kuhn became a sponsor of a soccer club, namely his home club TSG Tübingen. Together with the first football team of the club he made a video for the new recording of the football song classic Good friends, no one can separate from Franz Beckenbauer .

Discography

Albums (CDs)

  • Songs of my Life , 1994 (Dieter Thomas Kuhn & Band)
  • My Life for Music , 1995 (Dieter Thomas Kuhn & Band) ( Gold )
  • Gold , 1997 (Dieter Thomas Kuhn & Band) (Gold)
  • Who Love Addiction , 1998 (Dieter Thomas Kuhn & Band)
  • Passion, Lust & Love , 1999 (Dieter Thomas Kuhn & Band)
  • Kuhn Zero / One , 2001 (Kuhn)
  • Favorite Christmas songs , 2004 (Dieter Thomas Kuhn)
  • Once around the world , 2006 (Dieter Thomas Kuhn & Band)
  • Music is trumps , 2007 (Dieter Thomas Kuhn & band)
  • Schalala , June 12, 2009 (Dieter Thomas Kuhn & Band)
  • Here's Life , June 29, 2012 (Dieter Thomas Kuhn & Band)
  • On behalf of love (live double CD), December 11, 2015 (Dieter Thomas Kuhn & Band)

Albums (LPs-Vinyl)

  • Here is Life , June 29, 2012 (Dieter Thomas Kuhn & Band) - Picture-Disc vinyl LP

Singles

  • It was summer , June 2, 1995
  • A new love is like a new life , January 5th, 1996
  • Above the clouds , January 31, 1997
  • Breaking All Chains , September 29, 1997
  • Tell me Quando , July 20, 1998
  • Do you want to go with me , March 15, 1999
  • The day (KUHN Zero / One), September 10, 2001
  • Hey Amigo Charly Brown , December 28, 2007
  • Night Fever , June 8, 2012 (only available as an online / download single)

Video albums

  • Miles, Girls, Melodies , VHS, 1999
  • Miles, Girls, Melodies , DVD, 2004
  • Live in Berlin , DVD, 2009

Filmography

Web links

Commons : Dieter Thomas Kuhn  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Chart sources: DE
  2. ↑ Klaus Schlütter: At TSG Tübingen, Beckenbauer is on speed. In: Welt Online . April 12, 2011, accessed September 23, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Dieter Thomas Kuhn & the 1st football team of TSG Tübingen: Nobody can separate good friends on YouTube
  4. ↑ Gold / Platinum Database Federal Association of the Music Industry , accessed on March 5, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Kuhn, Dieter Thomas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kuhn, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musician
DATE OF BIRTH January 7, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Tübingen