Gronkh

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Gronkh
Erik Range, aka Gronkh, 2013
Erik Range, aka Gronkh, 2013
YouTube channel ( Let's Play , Vlog , Comedy )
language German
founding March 12, 2006 (active since 2010)
channels Gronkh
GronkhTV
GronkhRPGs
GronkhRetro
GronkhZeugs
GronkhBlah
GronkhOSTs
GronkhLogos
Best of Gronkh
GRAViTY
Superhomies
Subscribers over 4.8 million
Calls over 3.2 billion
Videos over 12,000 (Gronkh)

over 970 (GronkhOSTs)
over 640 (GronkhLogos)
over 420 (GronkhRPGs)
over 210 (GronkhRetro)
over 130 (GronkhTV)
over 30 (Superhomies)
over 20 (GronkhZeugs)
1 (GronkhBlah)

network Studio71

Gronkh (born April 10, 1977 in Braunschweig ; real name Erik Range ) is a German web video producer , computer and video game journalist , computer game developer , voice actor , musician , live streamer and entrepreneur .

Gronkh became known through so-called Let's Play videos on the Internet platform YouTube . In these he plays and comments on computer and video games . From July 2014 to May 19, 2016, Gronkh was the most subscribed YouTube channel in Germany and is still one of the most subscribed YouTube channels in Germany today .

Life

Erik Range was born on April 10, 1977 in Braunschweig as the son of a German and a Russian . He grew up with an older brother in the western part of Braunschweig. Range was already interested in computer games in his childhood . After his parents separated, he and his brother lived with his mother. Following the successful completion of the secondary school, John F. Kennedy Square, he first did his community service in a kindergarten , and later completed a diploma on a commercial high school and joined then trained as a specialist for application development from.

1996 to 2008

In 1996 he founded an internet agency called Range-IT, which was active in the field of web design and programming for private and business customers.

Together with others he built the publisher MDO Games GbR in 2000 , which u. a. published the online role-playing game Meridian 59 in German , through which Range met his later friend and business partner Sarazar (Valentin Rahmel) as a game developer under the nickname Gronkh . From 2001 to 2004 he also ran the website mcleod.de, which was a private project of his.

After Range left MDO Games at the end of 2004, he returned to working as a freelance web designer and programmer for his internet agency with moderate success. Parallel to his self-employment, Range has been involved in the mmorpg-planet.de project as an assistant and managing partner since he left MDO Games . From 2002 to 2007 Range lived in Gaarden-Ost , a district of Kiel .

In 2007 Range founded PlayMassive GmbH together with Valentin Rahmel as the successor to mmorpg-planet.de. PlayMassive operates several computer and video game websites and funds projects to develop new computer games.

2008 to 2012

In 2009 Range again founded an internet agency, Meine Favorite GmbH , since November 23, 2010 Range has only been a partner . Since 2010, Gronkh has published Let's Plays on YouTube every day and since 2011 at irregular intervals together with Sarazar on the YouTube channel Superhomies travel documentaries . He has also been running the website opensourcedbrain.de since 2010, which was a private blog and replaced his previous project mcleod.de by taking over most of the posts. Since 2011, no new posts have appeared on opensourcedbrain.de, but the domain still exists today, even if the page itself is no longer accessible. Range lived in the eastern ring area of Braunschweig between 2007 and 2012 and has lived in Cologne since then .

2012 to 2018

Range has been in a relationship with Tatjana Werth (alias Pandorya ) since December 1, 2012 , which he made public on April 10, 2016. 2012 to 2014 moderated Gronkh and Sarazar the MyVideo - Webshow Let's Play Together , in which it gets its friend and business partner Manuel Schmitt (aka SgtRumpel met). Since they dropped the show, Gronkh has broadcast a live stream every Friday on the Twitch service . At times, regular live streams also took place on Mondays. In 2013 he and Sarazar were guests on the TV show TV total . In 2015, looterkings GmbH, which Range founded together with Rahmel and Schmitt, published the dungeon game Looterkings on Steam Greenlight . In 2017, the State Media Authority of North Rhine-Westphalia asked the entrepreneur to apply for a broadcasting license . His lawyer then filed an application for "broadcast law harmlessness".

Since 2018

On January 1, 2018, Gronkh retired from the management of PlayMassive GmbH. Some Let's Players who were previously employed by PlayMassive have also switched and are now employed directly by Gronkh, e.g. B. Tobinator LP.

It was also announced that Gronkh has now applied for and received a broadcasting license. This fact caused criticism of the state media authorities on the Internet because Gronkh's channels were not television broadcasters in the traditional sense. Gronkh himself stated in a video that he did not consider his offer to require a license for broadcasting, but that he feared the legal costs of a court case against the state media authorities. On March 8, 2018, Gronkh was a guest on the late-night show Neo Magazin Royale moderated by Jan Böhmermann . On May 16, 2019 Gronkh was there again, and also appeared in an episode of the Young Sheldon parody Young Böhmermann . In December 2016 he and Böhmermann presented the online game Game Royale 2 on YouTube.

Since March 2018, Gronkh has been running the Start & Select podcast together with Joachim Hesse (alias Onkel Jo ) , which appears irregularly.

On June 1, 2018, Gronkh founded a new company, Gods of Gaming GmbH , based in the crane houses in Cologne. His partner Tatjana Werth (alias Pandorya ) and Let's Player Tobias Fulk (alias TobinatorLP ) are also represented there.

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Webvideos

Gronkh (l.) Together with Sarazar (r.) (2013)

Range has been running the YouTube channel Gronkh since 2010, on which he primarily publishes Let's Plays. He achieved particular fame for his Let's Play to the open world game Minecraft , which appeared between 2010 and 2014 in a total of 1,278 episodes with a total length of over 21,000 minutes. Until May 19, 2016, the channel was the most popular German YouTube channel with over 4.1 million subscribers . Since 2015, Gronkh has only published Let's Plays of retro games and RPGs on the YouTube channels GronkhRetro and GronkhRPGs. Since 2011, Gronkh has been running the YouTube channel Superhomies together with Sarazar , on which they mainly publish travel documentaries . The so-called “Let's Eats”, where the superhomies try various local snacks , are particularly popular .

2012 to 2014 moderated Gronkh and Sarazar the live broadcast MyVideo - Webshow Let's Play Together , in which it weekly messages from the computer games reported scene, playing various computer games and received guests. On August 23, 2013, they appeared as part of an “XXL edition” of the program in front of 4,000 viewers at the Gamescom computer games fair . On March 1, 2013, Gronkh competed on the MyVideo web show Last Man Standing as part of the Let's Play Together team against the PietSmiet team in various computer games. The first competition ended in a draw. On November 30, 2013, both teams competed against each other again in a second edition of the show. The second competition ended with a narrow victory for the Let's Play Together team. In 2013 and 2014, Gronkh hosted the MyVideo web show Let's Play Poker several times , in which various web video producers compete against each other in poker . However, Range publicly distanced himself from the format at the beginning of 2015 because he did not want to promote games of chance and will therefore no longer be available for this in the future.

Since 2014, Gronkh has broadcast a live stream on Twitch every Monday and Friday in which he plays computer games, answers questions from viewers and receives guests. Since March 2018, the regular streams have been limited to Friday, as he wants to withdraw from the Monday streams due to time constraints. These only take place irregularly.

Computer games journalism

In 2009 Range and Rahmel founded PlayMassive GmbH, which operates, among other things, the Playnation.de portal, which offers news, tests and trailers for various computer and video games. In 2018, Range retired from the company's management.

Computer game development

In 2014 Erik Range, Valentin Rahmel and Manuel Schmitt founded looterkings GmbH, which published the dungeon game Looterkings on Steam Greenlight in 2015 . The game has been in the early access stage since August 2016 .

Friendly fire

On December 12, 2015, Gronkh organized the charity live stream together with befriended web video producers , in which donations of over 123,000 euros were collected for the aid association Gaming Aid.

The sequel Friendly Fire 2 took place on December 4, 2016; In the twelve-hour live stream, over 300,000 euros were collected in donations. Half of the proceeds went to the German food bank , 30% to the animal protection association Vier Pfoten and 20% to the Herzsprung animal shelter.

In Friendly Fire 3 , 535,000 euros were raised for the association “Silberstreifen”, the “Vogelgnadenhof und Altenheim für Tiere e. V. ", the" Mukoviszidose e. V. ”and the project“ One last wish ”.

At Friendly Fire 4, over 887,000 euros were collected for Deutsche Depressionshilfe , Deutsche Krebshilfe , the Exit Germany initiative , School without Racism - School with Courage , the Weeze Zoo and the Tiernotruf.de project . Each of these six clubs will receive around € 146,000.

Speaking roles

Range synchronized various characters in adventure games from Daedalic Entertainment . In the special edition of Harvey's new eyes (2012) he speaks the kitchen lady Doris, in Chaos auf Deponia (2012) and Goodbye Deponia (2013) he speaks the homeless Goon, in The Night of the Rabbit (2013) he speaks the garden rabbit and in Die Säulen der Erde (2017) a cantor. In 2014 he took on the speaking role for the character Bumpy in the 1954 game Alcatraz . In 2015 Range dubbed a troll in the German-language version of the role-playing game The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt . In the same year Range took over the German-language dubbing of the police chief Heat in the action game Just Cause 3 .

In 2016 Range had a speaking role in the thriller game The Town of Light . He has also acted as a voice actor in the early 2017 films Resident Evil 6: The Final Chapter , The LEGO Batman Movie and Alien: Covenant . He also lent his voice to one of the actors in the film Planet of the Apes: Survival, which will also be released in 2017 . In the same year he and his partner Tatjana Werth dubbed characters in the video game The Evil Within 2 . In the final credits, their names are listed as "Erik 'Gronkh' Range" and "Tatjana 'Pandorya' Range", which he called an Easteregg .

At the end of 2018 he was first heard in Spider-Man: A New Universe as the antagonist Wilson Fisk aka Kingpin.

music

In his youth, Range was active in the Braunschweig hip-hop scene under the stage name e . In 2002 he published the track La Familia with the rappers Cappuccino and Krizz , which is about the action game Grand Theft Auto III . The track was published on a cover CD for the computer game magazine PC Action .

In 2013, Gronkh and Sarazar released the song Elektrotitte (5,000 volts) , which developed from an inside joke. The song reached 17th place in the German single charts and 29th place in the Austrian single charts for one week each .

HWSQ - The "Howaizen Squad"

From June 2016, Gronkh started playing the game Dead by Daylight with his YouTube colleagues Pandorya , Tobinator and HerrCurrywurst . Together the four built a large community. They published 99 episodes of the game every two days until December 19, 2016. On December 21, 2016, a new project began with the game mode TTT ( Trouble in Terrorist Town ) in the game Garry's Mod , which was also released every two days. Several episodes were recorded in a row during the recordings. On July 15, 2017, the format was also ended after 99 episodes. Two days later, the third and longest joint Let's Play of the four YouTubers , the HWSQ project, started. The name of the project comes from a statement by YouTuber MrMoreGame . In this project, the aim of the four Let's Players was to try out different multiplayer games together and to get the viewers to buy the games themselves in order to support the developers. The four YouTubers' biggest ever multiplayer project with 347 episodes lasted until July 6, 2019, but was then ended abruptly because of a scandal surrounding the YouTuber HerrCurrywurst.

Other works

  • 2014: The story of Pjoter (archive footage)
  • 2014: Attack on the ninja temple (archive footage)
  • 2014: Not My Day (as Gronkh)
  • 2015: The Ninjago Tournament (sound recordist)

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Synchronization (selection)

Awards

When Germans Webvideopreis 2012 won Gronkh three prizes. For the video GTA 5 - Real Life Grand Theft Auto , Y-Titty and Gronkh were awarded the audience award in the categories “Web Video of the Year” and “ Let's Play ”. In the video, Y-Titty re-enact scenes from the action game Grand Theft Auto , which Gronkh comments in the style of a Let's Play, although the fifth part of the series did not yet exist at the time. Rahmschnitzel and Gronkh were awarded the jury prize in the “Let's Play” category for the video “ Coal Metal ”. The video is a metal version of a song produced by Rahmschnitzel that Gronkh sang during his video series Let's Play Minecraft .

In 2013, Gronkh received the Golden Play Button, which is awarded to YouTube channels with more than one million subscribers.

In 2014, Gronkh and Sarazar were inducted into the Hall of Fame of the Berlin Computer Game Museum as the most famous German Let's Players .

At the German Web Video Prize 2014, Gronkh was awarded 1000 years of Random Brainfakks !! awarded the prize in the “Let's Play” category. The video is the 1000th episode of his Let's Play Minecraft video series . In this episode, Gronkh defeats the Ender Dragon, the most powerful enemy in the world of Minecraft, and ends up destroying large parts of the world with an atomic bomb .

At the 2015 German Web Video Prize, Gronkh was awarded the “National Honorary Prize”. The Academy of the German Web Video Award honored Gronkh as one of “the first Let's Player in Germany at all”, who is now the “most successful YouTuber in Germany”. Gronkh goes "again and again away from the commercially paved asphalt road", criticizes "the industry with clear words and heart" and is a web video producer, without whom the German scene would lack a voice it needs.

Web links

Commons : Gronkh  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

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  4. ↑ GIGA TV live: Episode 3 (from 1:50:30) on YouTube
  5. ↑ a b c 'snurn test / foreplay (from 0:12:54) on YouTube
  6. ↑ Quest for the Crown (from 0:01:17) on YouTube
  7. ↑ Gronkh: Often asked: My POLITICAL orientation! (+ Cannabis) ? MINECRAFT LiTW # 410. April 5, 2017. Retrieved April 5, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Stream from November 28, 2016 (from 4:26:00). In: Twitch.tv. Retrieved January 13, 2017 .
  9. ↑ Gronkh and Sarazar with Stefan Raab (from 0:01:19) on YouTube
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  11. ↑ a b Let's slide towards 2013 (from 0:06:00) on YouTube
  12. ↑ a b Bergbude, second floor, second (from 0:05:42) on YouTube
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  22. ^ Open Sourced Brain. January 24, 2017, archived from the original on January 24, 2017 ; accessed on October 19, 2018 .
  23. ↑ Best Of Panik # 02 - Friday the 13th (from 0:48:33) on YouTube
  24. ↑ Gronkh outed his relationship with Pandorya
  25. ↑ Let's Play Together 86-3 / 3 (from 0:19:29) on YouTube
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  40. ↑ Last Man Standing. In: Gronkh Wiki. Retrieved January 1, 2016 .
  41. ↑ Last Man Standing 2. In: Gronkh Wiki. Retrieved January 1, 2016 .
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  45. ↑ Looterkings - Officially released on Steam Early Access. In: PlayNation.de. Retrieved February 18, 2017 .
  46. ↑ Project page Gaming Aid. In: Gaming-Aid.de. Retrieved April 19, 2016 .
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  49. ↑ http://www.gamestar.de/artikel/friendly-fire-3-neuer-spendenrekord-beim-charity-stream-mit-gronkh-co,3323058.html
  50. ↑ Gameswirtschaft: Friendly Fire 4: Record donations of over 887,000 euros (update). In: GamesWirtschaft.de. March 12, 2019, accessed on August 29, 2019 (German).
  51. ↑ Gronkh as Doris in Harvey's New Eyes
  52. ↑ A very special guest role! on YouTube
  53. ↑ Gronkh speaks Gartenhase on The Night of the Rabbit on YouTube
  54. ↑ on IMDb.com
  55. ↑ Gronkh, Sarazar & Maxi play 3 trolls on YouTube
  56. ↑ Gronkh speaks Heat on YouTube
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  58. ^ Article from December 20, 2016. In: Gamecontrast.de. Retrieved December 22, 2016 .
  59. ↑ Article from December 22, 2016. In: Playnation.de. Retrieved December 22, 2016 .
  60. ↑ Erik Range. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on June 28, 2017 .
  61. ↑ Gronkh: THE EVIL WITHIN 2 ? 045: love, sacrifice, asshole ... END? In: youtube.com. November 28, 2017. Retrieved November 29, 2017 .
  62. ↑ Grand Theft Auto / La Familia on YouTube
  63. ↑ Let's Play Together 47-1 / 3 (from 0:22:34) on YouTube
  64. ↑ Dead by Daylight. In: youtube.com. Retrieved November 10, 2019 .
  65. ^ Trouble in Terrorist Town - YouTube. Retrieved on November 10, 2019 (German).
  66. ↑ HOWAiZEN SQUAD. In: youtube.com. Retrieved November 10, 2019 .
  67. ↑ r / Laesterschwestern - The Currywurst Drama - A summary. Retrieved November 10, 2019 (American English).
  68. ↑ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm6285756/
  69. ↑ GTA 5 - Real Life Grand Theft Auto on YouTube
  70. ↑ Gronkh receives the Golden Play Button on YouTube
  71. ↑ Gamefest in Berlin with Gronkh and Sarazar (part 2) (from 0:08:44) on YouTube
  72. ↑ Gronkh. In: German Web Video Prize. Retrieved June 26, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Gronkh
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Range, Erik (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German web video producer, computer game journalist, computer game developer, voice actor, musician and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH April 10, 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig