Real (band)

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Really
General information
origin Flensburg , Germany
Genre (s) Indie pop
founding 1994
resolution 2002
Last occupation
Kim Frank
Kai Fischer
Andreas Puffpaff ("Puffi")
Florian Sump ("Flo")
Gunnar Astrup

Echt was a German pop group from Flensburg that was founded in 1994. She had her greatest success in 1999 with the song You carry no love in you , before it broke up in 2002.

Band history

The members of “Echt” got to know each other at their joint school and began their career as a school band under the name Seven Up at the Kurt Tucholsky School (KTS) in Flensburg, which was supervised by the music teacher at the time, Dietmar Wagner. The line-up remained unchanged during the entire active period.

The self-titled debut album was released in 1998. Although none of the singles released reached the Top-10 in Germany, the videos for the songs Alles wird sich anders und Wir hats played on the music channel VIVA Germany . Media like Bravo tried to establish the image of a German boy group, even if the band itself refused and emphasized its origins as a school band.

The group reached the peak of their success in 1999 with their second album Freischwimmer and their first top 10 hit You don't carry love in you . The band members made headlines when they ran naked across Hamburg's Reeperbahn for the filming of the music video for the song in 2010 . In 2000, the group was once again successful with the single Junimond , a cover version of the title by Rio Reiser .

Whereas compositions by professional songwriters had previously been used , the musicians wrote all the pieces for the third album, Recorder, for the first time. The sales figures for the album, which was finally released in 2001, fell short of forecasts . Advance ticket sales for the tour were also unsatisfactory, some shows were relocated to smaller halls, and the planned second part of the tour was canceled. The band's last single from the album Recorder was called Stand Still and was also unsuccessful. A new studio album announced for 2002 did not materialize. Instead, at the end of 2002, the separation from "Echt" was announced.

In 2011, the band performed again together on stage at a memorial concert for the late artist Walter Welke .

Special

  • In interviews, the band refused to be referred to as a boy group , even though their audience consisted predominantly of young girls - stylistically, they could not be compared with the typical boy groups of the time, nor was Echt a "retort band".
  • Most of the pieces on the albums were penned by Kai Fischer, who was named in the CD booklets under the pseudonym Jonathan Löwenherz . However, the best-known and most successful titles were always foreign compositions and were written by Michel van Dyke ( Where are you now? And you have no love in you ) , among others . At the early Echt concerts in particular, cover versions were often played by bands like Selig , whose former producer Franz Plasa also worked with Echt.
  • In episode 106 ( The Man Without a Head ) of the radio play series Die Drei ??? all band members were involved, although only singer Kim Frank had a bigger role (than Jeffrey ).
  • In the summer of 2000, the band recorded the song Junimond by Rio Reiser as a cover version ; it served as the soundtrack for the film Crazy with Robert Stadlober and Tom Schilling in the lead roles and was the last major success of the group.
  • Kim Frank appeared in a leading role of the film NVA by Leander Haussmann with which was released of 2005.
  • Florian Sump has been back in the music business as rapper Jim Ransen since 2007 . His main job is as a pedagogical assistant in a Hamburg kindergarten. Since 2012 he has released several rap albums with the band Deine Freunde , which also includes DJ Pauli and Lukas Nimscheck , aimed at children of kindergarten and primary school age.
  • After completing a traineeship, Gunnar Astrup works as a music editor for radio.

Discography

Studio albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH
1998 Really DE5 (31 weeks)
DE 		AT16 (16 weeks)
AT 		-
First published: October 1998
1999 Free swimmers DE1
gold
gold

(47 weeks)DE 		AT6th
gold
gold

(28 weeks)AT 		CH9 (11 weeks)
CH
First published: September 1999
2001 recorder DE21 (4 weeks)
DE 		AT59 (1 week)
AT 		-
First published: October 2001

Singles

year Title
album 		Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH
1998 Everything will change
Really 		DE55 (9 weeks)
DE 		AT26 (2 weeks)
AT 		-
First published: May 1998
We did it for
real 		DE23 (9 weeks)
DE 		AT17 (11 weeks)
AT 		-
First published: September 1998
Where are you now?
Really 		DE20 (13 weeks)
DE 		AT22 (6 weeks)
AT 		CH29 (8 weeks)
CH
First published: December 1998
1999 Away from me
Really 		DE30 (8 weeks)
DE 		- -
First published: April 1999
You have no love in you
free swimmer 		DE7th
gold
gold

(20 weeks)DE 		AT10 (20 weeks)
AT 		CH17 (20 weeks)
CH
First published: August 1999
Are you crying?
Free swimmers 		DE7 (12 weeks)
DE 		AT15 (10 weeks)
AT 		CH11 (12 weeks)
CH
First published: January 2000
2000 Junimond
Crazy (Soundtrack) 		DE12 (13 weeks)
DE 		AT29 (8 weeks)
AT 		CH37 (8 weeks)
CH
First published: June 2000
2010
free swimmer 		DE88 (2 weeks)
DE 		- -
First published: September 2000
2001 So, how are you?
recorder 		DE55 (4 weeks)
DE 		- -
First published: August 2001
2002 Stopped
recorder 		- - -
First published: January 7, 2002

Awards

Artist awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Birgit Reuther: From "Bravo" - to Internet star .
  2. ↑ https://www.familienservice.de/web/companykids-hamburg-pre-primary/team?p_p_id=news_WAR_news_INSTANCE_tPc7&p_p_lifecycle=0&p_p_state=normal&p_p_mode=view&p_p_col_id=column-1&p_p_col_pos=2&p_p_col_count=3&_news_WAR_news_INSTANCE_tPc7__wuview=%2Fnews%2F%3Fpage%3D2&id= null  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. | Retrieved January 9, 2013@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.familienservice.de  
  3. ↑ Katharina Gipp: Real drummer now kindergarten teacher: "I loved the band" . November 20, 2011.
  4. ↑ - Only without "gangster texts" .
  5. ↑ Hip Hop in Kindergarten .
  6. ↑ Your friends - no fairy tales .
  7. ↑ a b Chart sources: DE AT CH
  8. ↑ Awards for music sales: DE AT
  9. ↑ RSH - How it all began ... - RSH Gold 2000 .