Genghis Khan

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Genghis Khan
Cast of the Re-Union Concert 2005 in Moscow (from left to right): Wolfgang Heichel, Henriette Strobel, Stefan Track, Edina Pop, Steve Bender, Daniel Käsling, Ebru Kaya
Cast of the Re-Union Concert 2005 in Moscow (from left to right): Wolfgang Heichel , Henriette Strobel , Stefan Track , Edina Pop , Steve Bender , Daniel Käsling, Ebru Kaya
General information
Genre (s) Pop , disco
founding 1979, 2005
resolution 1985
Founding members
Steve Bender (1979–1981, 1995, 2005, † 2006)
singing
 Louis Hendrik Potgieter (1979–1985, 1986; † 1994)
singing
 Wolfgang Heichel (1979–1985, 2005–2014, since 2018)
singing
 Leslie Mandoki (1979–1985, 1986, 1995)
singing
 Edina Pop (1979–1985, 1995, since 2005)
singing
 Henriette Strobel (1979–1985, 1986, since 2005)
Current occupation
singing
 Wolfgang Heichel
singing
 Edina Pop
singing
 Henriette Strobel
singing
 Stefan Track (2005–2006, since 2018)

Dschinghis Khan is a German pop group produced by Ralph Siegel from 1979 to 1985 . She had her greatest hits in 1979 with the songs Dschinghis Khan and Moscow , which were also internationally successful. On December 17, 2005, there was a comeback in Moscow's Olimpijski -Arena, organized by the radio station Retro FM, at a concert in front of 60,000 spectators . Since then, the group has been active again, albeit with a partially changed line-up. For several years there have been two independent groups, one with Edina Pop and Henriette Heichel , the other with Wolfgang Heichel .

Members

The international group Dschinghis Khan includes:

Original cast

new member

Stefan Track (born September 15, 1971 in Aalen) (2005 - 2006, since 2018)

history

1979–1985: Foundation and successes

The group became known with the title Dschinghis Khan, with which they took fourth place in the 1979 Eurovision Song Contest . For this event, the group was put together by the German music producer Ralph Siegel. After the huge success - the title Dschinghis Khan was number 1 in the German Media Control Charts for four weeks - other hits followed ( Moscow, Rocking Son of Dschinghis Khan, Der Verräter ), of which English versions were also produced in parallel. The band received the Bambi TV award in 1980 for their extraordinary choreography and stage presence . In addition to Germany, Dschinghis Khan were particularly successful in the Soviet Union , Japan , Australia and Israel , where they were the only German artists to date to occupy first place on the charts. The group also appeared in the film Sunnyboy and Sugarbaby .

After the other singles such as Hadschi Halef Omar , Rome , Pistolero or Loreley were able to successfully place themselves in the charts, the group changed its image and Siegel produced shallower, sometimes even folk music with them, such as Der Dudelmoser . As a result, there was no success. It wasn't until 1983 that there was another brief artistic climax with the musical Corrida and the LP of the same name. Two titles from the musical were won at Wetten, dass ..? premiered with Frank Elstner . In 1985 the group split up after the last singles Himalaja (1984) and Mexico .

1985-2005: Interim

In 1986 there was a brief reunion as the "Dschinghis Khan Family". Only Henriette Heichel (vocals), Leslie Mandoki (drums) and Louis Potgieter (keyboards) were left of the original formation. With the title Wir belong'n together they entered a national preliminary round of the Eurovision Song Contest and came in second. In 1995 Steve Bender, Edina Pop and Leslie Mandoki appeared together on Japanese television and performed the titles Moscow and Dschinghis Khan .

As a result, many remixes and medleys of the well-known Dschinghis Khan hits were created, such as the title and album Huh Hah Dschinghis Khan (1993) or the History of Dschinghis Khan from 1999.

The group members took different paths after their separation. The marriage of the members Wolfgang Heichel and Henriette Strobel, who had been married since 1976, ended in divorce in 1986. Louis Hendrik Potgieter died in 1994 in Port Elizabeth, South Africa of complications from AIDS . Leslie Mandoki then worked successfully as a producer and musician. Edina Pop then took on appearances and was represented with her CDs in the radio hit parades. Steve Bender worked as a music producer in Munich .

2005–2018: Reunion

Cast of the Re-Union Concert 2005 in Moscow (from left to right): Wolfgang Heichel, Henriette Strobel, Stefan Track, Edina Pop, Steve Bender, Daniel Käsling, Ebru Kaya
Henriette Strobel, Wolfgang Heichel and Edina Pop (from left to right) at a concert in 2009

Steve Bender was the driving force behind the very successful Reunion Concert by Dschinghis Khan on December 17, 2005 in Moscow . The founding members Steve Bender, Edina Pop, Henriette Strobel and Wolfgang Heichel, together with the new members Stefan Track, Ebru Kaya and Daniel Käsling, presented a large part of the first LP to around 60,000 viewers to great applause. In May 2006, Bender died after a long, serious illness .

In 2006 Stefan Track left the band and started with the solo project "Rocking Son of Dschinghis Khan". For this purpose, the album "Rising" was created in 2007, on which Dschinghis Khan's greatest hits were newly produced and modernized.

On July 15, 2006, the three Dschinghis Khan members Henriette Strobel, Wolfgang Heichel and Edina Pop performed again together with the dance group “The Legacy of Genghis Khan” in Ulaanbaatar , Mongolia . The members of the new troupe "The Legacy of Genghis Khan", who support the three original members Heichel, Strobel and Pop on stage with singing and dancing, are largely from the Abraxas Musical Academy in Munich . The changing line-up includes Claus Kupreit, Katja Vogel, Benjamin Schobel, Tanja Müller, Thomas Gräber and Angelika Nimbach.

In the spring of 2007 they performed in Almaty , Kazakhstan. Further concerts in Russia followed, for example in March 2007 in St. Petersburg . With the release of the CD 7 Leben with new, more popular titles and revised classics as well as the appearance on the ZDF show Willkommen bei Carmen Nebel in May 2007, Dschinghis Khan and "The Legacy of Genghis Khan" also reported back to the German audience. The new titles were not composed and produced by Ralph Siegel, but the lyricist of the old hits, Bernd Augener, was won over for the project. Temujin and In der Mongolia were decoupled as promotional singles for radio stations .

In the following years, Genghis Khan made regular appearances.

2018: World Cup songs and renewed collaboration with Siegel

In the run-up to the 2018 World Cup in Russia, a new edition of Moscow appeared . The German version was produced by Ralph Siegel and appeared in collaboration with Jay Khan as a guest singer, the remaining original members Edina Pop and Henriette Strobel are also involved with vocals.

At the same time, the song We Love Football was released on April 6, 2018 , which was recorded by Wolfgang Heichel and published with new members under the name Dschinghis Khan . There were two Dschinghis Khan football songs for the 2018 World Cup. Stefan Track , a Reunion member from 2005 and owner of the Dschinghis Khan brand in Russia, Ukraine and Spain, is one of the participants. They have been on stage together since August 2018 and are the “Dschinghis Khan” brand, and since September 2018 they have been working together on a new album. In November 2018 Wolfgang Heichel and Stefan Track presented themselves as the official Dschinghis Khan formation at the festival "Diskoteka 80-X" of the Russian radio station "Avtoradio" in the Olympiahalle in Moscow in front of 25,000 visitors. At the same time, the appearance was recorded by Russian television and achieved an audience rating of 100 million viewers.

Discography

Albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH
1979 Genghis Khan DE8 (36 weeks)
DE 		- -
1980 Rome DE5 (18 weeks)
DE 		- -
1981 We're all sitting in the same boat DE52 (3 weeks)
DE 		- -

gray hatching : no chart data available for this year

More albums

  • 1980: Viva (different track list than Rome)
  • 1982: Heroes, Villains & the Dudelmoser
  • 1983: Corrida
  • 2007: 7 lives

Compilations

  • 1980: Greatest Hits
  • 1980: Golden Prize (Genghis Khan vs. Arabesque )
  • 1981: The great successes
  • 1981: The Best
  • 1984: Star Gala
  • 1985: Star portrait
  • 1985: your great successes
  • 1987: Genghis Khan
  • 1988: Golden Best
  • 1993: Huh Hah Dschinghis Khan - your greatest successes
  • 1994: Best of Best
  • 1998: The great successes
  • 1999: The History of Dschinghis Khan
  • 2001: Non-Stop Best Hits
  • 2002: Star Collection
  • 2003: In the Mix
  • 2004: The Jubilee Album
  • 2005: Best Of
  • 2006: Best of Genghis Khan - Special Edition (CD + DVD)
  • 2007: Up close - The stories of my stars ( Dieter Thomas Heck presents Dschinghis Khan)
  • 2009: The Best
  • 2012: The big hits
  • 2012: Best of Dschinghis Khan
  • 2018: Moscow - the new best of album

Singles

year Title
album 		Top ranking, total weeks / months, awardChart placementsChart placementsTemplate: chart table / maintenance / monthly data
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks / months, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH
1979 Genghis Khan
Genghis Khan 		DE1
gold
gold

(29 weeks)DE 		AT8 (3 months)
AT 		CH3 (9 weeks)
CH
Genghis Khan
Genghis Khan 		DE18 (4 weeks)
DE 		- -
Moscow
Genghis Khan 		DE3 (30 weeks)
DE 		AT16 (1 month)
AT 		CH11 (6 weeks)
CH
1980 Hajji Halef Omar
Rome 		DE7 (18 weeks)
DE 		- -
Rome
Rome 		DE12 (28 weeks)
DE 		AT19 (½ month)
AT 		-
1981 Pistolero
We're all in the same boat 		DE15 (17 weeks)
DE 		- -
Loreley
We're all in the same boat 		DE6 (22 weeks)
DE 		- CH11 (2 weeks)
CH
We're all in the same boat We're all in the same
boat 		DE44 (8 weeks)
DE 		- -
1982 Klabautermann
Heroes, Villains & The Dudelmoser 		DE37 (6 weeks)
DE 		- -
The Dudelmoser
Heroes, Villains & The Dudelmoser 		DE46 (4 weeks)
DE 		- -

More singles

  • 1980: Samurai
  • 1981: What Shall We Do with the Drunken Sailor
  • 1981: Rocking Son of Genghis Khan
  • 1983: Himalayas
  • 1983: Corrida
  • 1984: Olé olé
  • 1985: Mexico
  • 1986: Give Me a Sign
  • 1986: We belong together (as Dschinghis Khan Family)
  • 1986: Dschinghis Khan Vol. 1 (Family) (as DK Family)
  • 2007: Temujin (Promo)
  • 2007: In Mongolia (Promo)
  • 2018: We Love Football
  • 2019: The streets of Paris

See also

literature

Peter Cornelsen, Peter Hartmann jr .: Dschinghis Khan . With a complete discography and numerous illustrations (=  Bastei-Lübbe-Taschenbuch . Volume 60014 ). Gustav Lübbe Verlag, Bergisch Gladbach 1980, ISBN 3-404-60014-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Steppe wind: 1986 to today
  2. ↑ Genghis Khan - The traitor Live Retro FM Moscow in 2005 on YouTube
  3. ↑ Potgieter's date of death on the Steppenwind fan page, accessed July 8, 2016
  4. ↑ weser-kurier.de: About the World Cup: Jay Khan sings with Dschinghis Khan. ( Memento from June 12, 2018 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ^ Website of the re-establishment 2018
  6. ↑ a b Chart sources: Singles albums
  7. ↑ Gold / platinum database DE