Heinz Rudolf Kunze / discography

	Heinz Rudolf Kunze - discography
	Heinz Rudolf Kunze (2011)
Publications
Studio albums	28
Live albums	11
Compilations	7th
EPs	6th
Singles	45
Video albums	4th
Box sets	4th

This discography is an overview of the musical works of the German pop-rock - singer Heinz Rudolf Kunze . According to his own information, he has sold more than 4.5 million records to date (as of February 2020). His most successful releases are the studio albums Your is my whole heart and Wunderkinder , each with over 250,000 units sold.

Albums

Studio albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)			Remarks
year	title	DE	AT	CH	Remarks
1981	Just a matter of nerves	-	-	-	First published: May 29, 1981
1982	Some form of violence	-	-	-	First published: January 1982
1983	The heavy courage	-	-	-	First published: January 27, 1983
1984	state of emergency	-	-	-	First published: October 4, 1984
1985	My heart is all yours	DE8th gold (22 weeks)DE	-	-	First published: October 25, 1985 Sales: + 250,000
1986	Child prodigies	DE18th gold (17 weeks)DE	-	-	First published: October 23, 1986 Sales: + 250,000
1988	One for all	DE13 (8 weeks) DE	-	-	First published: August 25, 1988
1989	Good entertainment	DE31 (25 weeks) DE	-	-	First published: October 27, 1989
1991	glasses	DE4 (17 weeks) DE	-	-	First published: January 15, 1991
1992	Daredevil	DE22 (12 weeks) DE	-	-	First published: August 28, 1992
1994	Kunze: Makes music	DE10 (15 weeks) DE	-	-	First published: February 25, 1994
1996	Richter scale	DE46 (9 weeks) DE	-	-	First published: February 23, 1996
1997	alter ego	DE33 (5 weeks) DE	-	-	First published: February 28, 1997
1999	Correctly	DE12 (11 weeks) DE	-	-	First published: March 1, 1999
2001	Stop!	DE10 (7 weeks) DE	-	-	First published: January 15, 2001
2002	I have water up to my neck	DE65 (1 week) DE	-	-	First published: February 4, 2002
2003	Tailwind	DE26 (4 weeks) DE	-	-	First published: March 31, 2003
2005	The original	DE28 (3 weeks) DE	-	-	First published: February 28, 2005
2007	Clear conditions	DE21 (5 weeks) DE	-	-	First published: January 26, 2007
2009	protest	DE15 (8 weeks) DE	-	-	First published: January 30, 2009
2011	The favor of the hour	DE8 (6 weeks) DE	-	-	First published: January 21, 2011
2012	In here out there	DE23 (1 week) DE	-	-	First published: September 7, 2012 with robber civilian
2013	Stone from the heart	DE18 (5 weeks) DE	-	-	First published: October 25, 2013
2015	depth of field	-	-	-	First published: February 27, 2015 with robber civilian
2016	Germany	DE8 (5 weeks) DE	-	-	First published: February 12, 2016
2016	Masterpieces: bows	DE37 (1 week) DE	-	-	First release: September 30, 2016 cover album
2018	Greetings from fate	DE16 (4 weeks) DE	-	-	First published: May 4, 2018
2020	Honor the truth	DE3 (5 weeks) DE	-	-	First published: February 21, 2020

gray hatching : no chart data available for this year

Live albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)			Remarks
year	title	DE	AT	CH	Remarks
1987	Germans sing at work	DE65 (1 week) DE	-	-	First published: October 1, 1987
2009	Robber civilian	DE86 (1 week) DE	-	-	First published: September 18, 2009

More live albums

1984: The cities look like sleeping dogs
1991: Scapegoat zodiac sign
1994: The Golem from Lemgo
2003: Being there is everything
2005: See you
2006: Command Confidence
2011: Calw live ( Anyone's Daughter with Heinz Rudolf Kunze)
2013: Nobody asks us (with Tobias Künzel )
2014: Stein vom Herzen - Live on Radio Berlin

Compilations

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)			Remarks
year	title	DE	AT	CH	Remarks
1999	Nonstop - The best so far from Heinz Rudolf Kunze	DE17 (7 weeks) DE	-	-	First published: November 1, 1999
2012	I am - in a duet with	DE12 (4 weeks) DE	-	-	First published: February 24, 2012
	Number one albums	DE-DE	AT-AT	CH-CH
	Top 10 albums	DE7thDE	AT-AT	CH-CH
	Albums in the charts	DE27DE	AT-AT	CH-CH

More compilations

1993: I need you now - 13 ballads
1993: With body and soul
1999: Agent Provocateur
2002: portrait
2010: Stars & Hits
2019: My Star 2.0

EPs

1982: 6 song album - Extra Price
1987: Amiga Quartet: Heinz Rudolf Kunze (released in the GDR)
2003: Tailwind - audio samples
2012: In the next life I will become a player woman
2014: Quentin Qualle - The moray eel has migraines (EP with children's songs)
2015: Quentin Qualle - Rock am Riff (EP with children's songs)

Singles

Chart placements

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)			Remarks
year	Title album	DE	AT	CH	Remarks
1985	Your is my whole heart Your is my whole heart	DE8 (18 weeks) DE	-	-	First published: December 9, 1985
1989	All she wants. Good entertainment	DE51 (18 weeks) DE	-	-	First published: November 13, 1989
1991	If you don't come back glasses	DE54 (13 weeks) DE	-	-	First published: March 4, 1991
1991	Everything lied to glasses	DE78 (5 weeks) DE	-	-	First published: July 8, 1991
1992	Finder's reward daredevil	DE55 (11 weeks) DE	-	-	First published: August 17, 1992
1994	Don't rely on Kunze: make music	DE56 (10 weeks) DE	-	-	First published: February 7, 1994
1994	Simple man Kunze: makes music	DE54 (11 weeks) DE	-	-	First published: June 20, 1994
1997	You are not the only alter ego	DE84 (8 weeks) DE	-	-	First published: February 10, 1997
1999	All over the world correct	DE75 (9 weeks) DE	-	-	First published: February 15, 1999
2003	Get a tailwind	DE63 (1 week) DE	-	-	First published: March 3, 2003
2008	Long days / astronaut in Baghdad protest	DE93 (1 week) DE	-	-	First published: December 12, 2008

Chart placements as a guest musician

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)			Remarks
year	Title album	DE	AT	CH	Remarks
1985	Naked in the wind	DE3 (10 weeks) DE	AT18 (10 weeks) AT	CH21 (3 weeks) CH	First published: January 21, 1985 with Band für Afrika
2006	Won't Forget These Days 2006	DE48 (7 weeks) DE	-	-	First release: June 9th, 2006 with Music Team Germany
	Number one singles	DE-DE	AT-AT	CH-CH
	Top 10 singles	DE2DE	AT-AT	CH-CH
	Singles in the charts	DE13DE	AT1AT	CH1CH

more publishments

1981: For nothing and again nothing
1982: They keep coming back
1983: In transit
1983: Security Service
1984: Don't believe a singer
1984: Lola
1985: a man must do what a man must do (a man do what a man must do)
1985: Green Wall (with Hans Hartz , Udo Lindenberg , Hendrik Schaper & Rolf Zuckowski )
1986: With body and soul
1986: Trappers / neon tubes
1986: This is Klaus
1987: Find Mabel!
1987: child prodigies
1987: I need you now (live)
1988: my own way
1988: Fat Pappa
1988: love is tenderness
1990: All soldiers want to go home (with Reinhard Mey , Klaus Hoffmann & Hans Scheibner )
1990: bigger than both of us
1992: hero of work
1994: Tohuwabohu
1996: I'll stand by you
1996: Shut up
1997: Give the ring back
1997: lioness
1999: raspberry baby
1999: Nonstop - Nothing is relative
2001: Pegasus
2005: more than that
2011: a hundred thousand roses
2013: Hello heaven
2016: Flowers made of ice
2019: The Preacher

Video albums

1991: An evening with glasses
2003: Being there is everything
2005: 25 HRK - See you - The edition for the 30th stage anniversary
2010: Heinz Rudolf Kunze - In old freshness

Author participation

The following list includes songs that Kunze wrote for other artists. Cover versions are not listed.

City
- 2002: May I
- 2002: catch on
- 2002: I am all eyes
- 2002: never again
- 2002: Take off your clothes

Herman van Veen
- 1989: Blauwe plekken (position 35 in the Netherlands)
- 1990: The bleus partout
- 1993: As ever to come; Yes; You or you
- 1996: Twee Reizigers

Milva
- 1988: come back to me
- 1988: only if you like me

Sarah-Stephanie
- 2010: she loves them

Nicole
- 2019: 50 is the new 25
- 2019: All people are special
- 2019: don't say everything
- 2019: The Maharajah
- 2019: a real woman
- 2019: Can't We Stay Strangers?
- 2019: Happy to be alive

Kunze as an author in the charts

year	Title artist	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, artist , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)			Remarks
year	Title artist	DE	AT	CH	Remarks
2002	Yours is my whole heart DJ ROCK	DE40 (8 weeks) DE	-	-	First published: October 14, 2002

Special publications

Audio book

"Speaking of the devil - live reading in Leipzig in March 2020", recorded in the Kupfersaal Leipzig, published in May 2020

Guest Posts

1988: 125 years of the SPD - The soft water breaks the stone (with Albert Mangelsdorff , Senta Berger , Willy Brandt & Götz George )
1990: I lowered my rust arbor (with Reinhard Mey )
2003: You or You ( Herman van Veen feat. Heinz Rudolf Kunze)
2004: Hart am Ball ( Achim Reichel feat. Heinz Rudolf Kunze, Inga Rumpf , Jan Fedder , Klaus Lage , Lotto King Karl , Pe Werner , Piet Klocke & Stoppok )
2012: Nothing can happen to us ( Purple Schulz feat. Heinz Rudolf Kunze)
2014: Gone Again ( Paul Millns feat. Heinz Rudolf Kunze)

Sampler contributions

1980: Inventory ("Folk, Lied, Song")
2017: The day was awake early (Rosalie) (" Manfred Krug - His Songs"; with Joo Kraus )

Box sets

1983: The heavy courage & the cities look like sleeping dogs
2010: Remastered Deluxe Box Set
2013: When all else fails
2014: The three other albums - Zodiac sign scapegoat / The Golem from Lemgo / Water up to my neck suits me

Awards for music sales

Note: Awards in countries from the chart tables or chart boxes can be found in these.

Country / Region	gold	platinum	Sales	swell
Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources)
Germany (BVMI)	2 × gold2	0! P-	500,000	musikindustrie.de
All in all	2 × gold2	-

Web links

Extensive, detailed HRK archive
Images of all HRK albums, singles, books and much more on deutsche-mugge.de
Full-length video by Wolfgang Meisinger of Heinz Rudolf Kunze's concert and reinforcement in 1983 in Osnabrück, probably the artist's first detailed concert documentation
Heinz Rudolf Kunze / Discography in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Great Chords and Tablature Collection
Chart sources: DE AT CH

Individual evidence

↑ Heinz Rudolf Kunze in an interview. nordbuzz.de, February 17, 2020, accessed on February 23, 2020 .
↑ http://mystar.damusic-news.de/mystars/heinz-rudolf-kunze
↑ Heiner Lürig (2010): “I wanted to show the path of a band that - without even knowing it at the time - fit together ideally and especially with Heinz Rudolf Kunze, like no other line-up before or after. When the "Rumor Brass" joined the very successful 1986 band, the peak of musicality and power development on stage was reached, which the 1991 "Brille" concert, recorded in Cologne's "E-Werk", impressively shows. It was recorded at the highest point of the curve, so to speak. In the series 1985 Hamburg - 1989 Berlin - 1991 Cologne - 1994 Cologne the stations are traced: The way in which Heinz changed during this time, how his singing style developed, how the songs became more complex - towards "Goethe's Banjo", what Atonal ends and stands at one end of the musical spectrum. At the other end, however, a love song like “Ich habs tried.” This balancing act shows the full strength of HRK & reinforcement. As the absolute highlight of the box, I see a document from spring 1989, when HRK & Reinforcement were allowed to give a concert in East Berlin shortly before the end of the GDR. The German version of “Imagine” was incredibly intense. The concerts that should be used were quickly clear. It took a long time to get all rights to The audio and visual material was examined by Phil Friederichs, Heinz and I. The biggest problem was initially to find the original tapes, as they were not really comprehensible equipment. We discovered that most of the multitrack tapes could no longer be played and could not be restored - hope for a good ending waned ... I then tried to create a usable sound from the existing audio material until everyone involved was satisfied and believed in the project again. There was only a mono recording of one of the concerts, but even with that I was able to work in the end. Some of the image cuts were also revised, as the camera recordings from some concerts were still available. It took a total of five years - from the first idea to the finished box. The result is more than satisfactory. For those involved at the time, it is touching to see and a fantastic document of this nine-year, extremely creative phase of a German rock band. "- Source: Original template by Heiner Lürig , April 2020
↑ Compositions for the seven songs for Nicole by Jens Carstens , source: https://schlagerprofis.de/8105/ , accessed on February 28, 2020
↑ https://www.heinzrudolfkunze.de/index.php/2020/04/01/neues-hoerbuch-zur-live-lesung-shirt/ , accessed on May 24, 2020

[1] Heinz Rudolf Kunze in an interview. nordbuzz.de, February 17, 2020, accessed on February 23, 2020 .

[2] ttp://mystar.damusic-news.de/mystars/heinz-rudolf-kunze

[3] Heiner Lürig (2010): “I wanted to show the path of a band that - without even knowing it at the time - fit together ideally and especially with Heinz Rudolf Kunze, like no other line-up before or after. When the "Rumor Brass" joined the very successful 1986 band, the peak of musicality and power development on stage was reached, which the 1991 "Brille" concert, recorded in Cologne's "E-Werk", impressively shows. It was recorded at the highest point of the curve, so to speak. In the series 1985 Hamburg - 1989 Berlin - 1991 Cologne - 1994 Cologne the stations are traced: The way in which Heinz changed during this time, how his singing style developed, how the songs became more complex - towards "Goethe's Banjo", what Atonal ends and stands at one end of the musical spectrum. At the other end, however, a love song like “Ich habs tried.” This balancing act shows the full strength of HRK & reinforcement. As the absolute highlight of the box, I see a document from spring 1989, when HRK & Reinforcement were allowed to give a concert in East Berlin shortly before the end of the GDR. The German version of “Imagine” was incredibly intense. The concerts that should be used were quickly clear. It took a long time to get all rights to The audio and visual material was examined by Phil Friederichs, Heinz and I. The biggest problem was initially to find the original tapes, as they were not really comprehensible equipment. We discovered that most of the multitrack tapes could no longer be played and could not be restored - hope for a good ending waned ... I then tried to create a usable sound from the existing audio material until everyone involved was satisfied and believed in the project again. There was only a mono recording of one of the concerts, but even with that I was able to work in the end. Some of the image cuts were also revised, as the camera recordings from some concerts were still available. It took a total of five years - from the first idea to the finished box. The result is more than satisfactory. For those involved at the time, it is touching to see and a fantastic document of this nine-year, extremely creative phase of a German rock band. "- Source: Original template by Heiner Lürig , April 2020

[4] Compositions for the seven songs for Nicole by Jens Carstens , source: https://schlagerprofis.de/8105/ , accessed on February 28, 2020

[5] ttps://www.heinzrudolfkunze.de/index.php/2020/04/01/neues-hoerbuch-zur-live-lesung-shirt/ , accessed on May 24, 2020