Götz Kühnemund

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Götz Kühnemund (born May 24, 1966 ) is a German journalist and singer . He is the editor of Deaf Forever magazine . Before that, he was editor-in-chief of Rock Hard magazine from January 1990 to the end of 2013 and previously also worked for Metal Hammer magazine . Under the pseudonym Sir Pommes he was the singer of the band Randalica .

Career

Kühnemund grew up in the Münsterland city ​​of Lüdinghausen . Inspired by the publication of the Dutch magazine Aardschok , Kühnemund founded Metal Maniacs Germany in 1982, the first nationwide heavy metal fan club in Germany. The newsletter he edited in 1983 became the fanzine Metal Maniacs , which joined Rock Hard in 1984 . He also wrote for Rock Power magazine and from 1986 for Metal Hammer . In addition, Kühnemund moderated the magazine Mosh with the Holy Moses singer Sabina Classen and Frank Hinz on the TV station RTL .

Since he was increasingly dissatisfied with Metal Hammer and Rock Hard established itself at the newspaper kiosks, he accepted the post of editor-in-chief of Rock Hard on January 1, 1990 , which he filled until the end of 2013. However, he said he had "never seen himself as a journalist"; he is "still the same fan as 30 years ago". Under the pseudonym Sir Pommes , Kühnemund appeared as the singer of the band Randalica, who released an album in 1995 with Knast, Tod or Rock 'n' Roll .

Some interviews by Götz Kühnemund caused controversy . Kühnemund almost got into a fight with the Slayer singer Tom Araya after Kühnemund questioned Araya's intelligence. The background to this was some of what Kühnemund described as naive statements by Araya about the Pinochet regime in Chile . There was a dispute with the Running Wild singer Rolf Kasparek after Kühnemund referred to the alleged drummer "Angelo Sasso" as a drum computer .

In 2006 caused a dispute between Kühnemund and Manowar - bassist Joey DeMaio a stir in the Kühnemund critical issues regarding the use of playback at concerts attended. At the end of the interview, DeMaio revealed that he was ready to die for metal if necessary, a statement that Kühnemund and many fans considered unreliable. The Manowar song Die for Metal , the bonus track on their concept album Gods of War , was dedicated to Kühnemund.

On January 8, 2014 it was announced that Rock Hard and Götz Kühnemund are going their separate ways. In June 2014 Kühnemund became managing director of In Dubio Pro Metal Verlags- und Handelsgesellschaft mbH, based in Dortmund. With the collaboration of other former rock-hard editors and employees such as Wolf-Rüdiger Mühlmann , the first edition of the heavy metal music magazine Deaf Forever was published on August 13, 2014 .

Discography

  • 1995: Randalica - jail, death or rock 'n' roll

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Götz Kühnemund .
  2. ↑ a b Tom Küppers: The early makers . Between success and failure . In: Metal Hammer , August 2010, p. 43, accessed February 1, 2013.
  3. ↑ Volker & Dennis: Götz Kühnemund. Metalshperes.de, accessed on August 13, 2014 .
  4. ↑ Götz Kühnemund: Merciless exchange of blows . In: Rock Hard , No. 227.
  5. ↑ Online editorial team: Götz Kühnemund and Rock Hard split up. rockhard.de , January 8, 2014, accessed January 9, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Kühnemund, Götz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sir Fries (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and singer
DATE OF BIRTH May 24, 1966