Leaf shot brothers

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Leaf shot brothers
Kalle Ricken (left), Beppo Pohlmann (right), 2017
Kalle Ricken (left), Beppo Pohlmann (right), 2017
General information
Genre (s) Songwriter , humor
founding 1976, 1988 as a duo
Website gebrueder-blattuß.de
Founding members
Beppo Pohlmann
Jürgen von der Lippe
Harald Gribkowsky
Harald Wolff
Hans Marquardt
Hans Werner Olm
Current occupation
Beppo Pohlmann
Kalle Ricken

The Blattuß brothers are a German music group that celebrated great success in the late 1970s and early 1980s, especially with the songs attributed to " Stupid Hits ". In 2017 the group still consists of a duo of Beppo Pohlmann and Kalle Ricken .

Career

The group published their first songs in 1976, with well-known melodies underlaid with funny lyrics. More serious - often melancholy - songs were added later. The LP Bla-Bla-Blatt Schuss , which was released in 1978 and consisted exclusively of his own compositions, received widespread attention. The song Kreuzberger Nights was in the German single charts for 24 weeks .

The success of the song led to Germany-wide fame. For example, the song is used today to characterize a mathematical function that is supposed to describe economic processes.

The group had numerous appearances on radio and television, such as in the ZDF hit parade . In 1979 they took part in the German preliminary decision “ Ein Lied für Jerusalem ” for the Eurovision Song Contest with the song Ein Blick says more than any word, composed by Ralph Siegel , and took twelfth and last place (ironically, the preliminary decision won with the song Dschinghis Khan the group of the same name is also a composition by Ralph Siegel).

In the following years, other titles were produced that also hit the charts. By the mid-1980s, the group released six albums. Then it became quieter around her. In 1988 Beppo Pohlmann continued the group as a duo with the musician Kalle Ricken . Since then it has mainly appeared as a show act at parties and company celebrations and continues to perform with acoustic guitar and mandolin on theater and cabaret stages. Several singles were released and the last two albums in 1993 and 2002.

Deviating from the spelling rules that were in force in Germany until 1996, the group regularly, but not always, used the spelling “Blattschuß” instead of “Blattschuß” on their record sleeves and often completely dispensed with capitalization. Beppo Pohlmann explains the name in an interview as "a kind of shorthand for our program", " b eliebte L ieder, a nspruchsvolle T exte, T num, S how C omedy, H umor u nd s beautifu l S mood".

Discography

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Singles
Kreuzberg nights
  DE 2 
gold
gold
10/23/1978 (24 weeks)
  AT 15th 02/15/1979 (8 weeks)
  CH 7th 01/21/1979 (8 weeks)
Breakfast
  DE 24 02/25/1980 (5 weeks)

Albums

  • 1977 Dumber than you think!
  • 1978 blah blah sight shot
  • 1979 GmbH & Chor KG - chants with limited hope
  • 1980 In the department store
  • 1980 Live and otherwise
  • 1981 Herzblatt
  • 1982 social comedy
  • 1993 When the tap crows
  • 2002 Everything on it!

Singles

  • 1977 50 tricks to get rid of your loved one
  • 1977 Fritz, the Flitzer / Holiday on Sylt
  • 1978 Kreuzberg Nights
  • 1978 The noise hit parade
  • 1979 early piece
  • 1979 A look says more than a word
  • 1980 Harry stool, don't let up / Better a pork knuckle
  • 1980 Krumme Lanke
  • 1980 Almost free
  • 1981 I'm in love with Diana (Indiana)
  • 1981 It happens to me every day
  • 1982 Dance the snow waltz with me
  • 1984 Ne bockwurst and a beer
  • 1991 Whether in Frankfurt an der Oder, or ...
  • 1992 such a night
  • 1996 full board at Ballermann 6
  • 2001 Who stole my straw?
  • 2002 Never again Ballermann
  • 2002 Goodbye, you German mark
  • 2002 Berlin remains Berlin (Medley)
  • 2003 Hallodio
  • 2006 early piece 2006 (with Steffi & Nicole (Happy Appletree))

literature

  • Hanno Hochmuth: Kiezgeschichte - Friedrichshain and Kreuzberg in divided Berlin . History of the present. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2017, ISBN 978-3-8353-4147-0 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  • Hendrik Neubauer: The performance of songs by contemporary humorists: On the environment, function and structure of experience systems . Springer Fachmedien, Wiesbaden 2017, ISBN 978-3-658-14676-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hanno Hochmuth: Kiezgeschichte - Friedrichshain and Kreuzberg in divided Berlin . History of the present. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2017, ISBN 978-3-8353-4147-0
  2. ↑ Bernd Luderer: Facets of Business Mathematics: An entertaining introduction without any formulas . Springer-Verlag, Wiesbaden 2017, ISBN 978-3-658-19188-7
  3. ↑ Märkische Onlinezeitung , May 15, 2014
  4. ↑ Austria Switzerland
  5. ↑ Awards: DE