Henning Wehland

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Henning Wehland (2014)

Henning Wehland (born December 2, 1971 in Bonn ) is a German rock musician .

Life

Wehland with the H-Blockx at the Open Flair 2015

Wehland was born in Bonn and lived in Münster-Wolbeck since he was five . At the local high school Wolbeck he passed his Abitur. He grew up in a street with Johann-Christoph “Mason” Maass, who together with Stephan “Gudze” Hinz had founded a band in his youth. It was through Hinz that Wehland met David Rebel, the owner of a dance studio in Münster, who was committed to helping music-interested students at the Wolbeck grammar school. In 1990, Wehland and three school friends, including Maass and Hinz, founded the band H-Blockx in Münster , whose singer, frontman and co-songwriter he is to this day. In addition, he has been singing with the Sons of Mannheim since 2007 and was part of the Heirs of the Shards , a tribute project for Rio Reiser .

In June 1996 he had a serious accident at the Woodstage Summer Open Air in the Saxon town of Glauchau when he jumped from the stage into the audience during a stage diving performance with the H-Blockx and collided with a 17-year-old festival visitor, the serious one Suffered fractures in the cervical spine and has suffered from the consequences ever since. Wehland dislocated a shoulder in the accident.

Together with Tim Humpe, Wehland founded the music office BLX-Music & Entertainment GmbH in 2001 , which is now the sole managing director and manager of bands such as Pohlmann and The BossHoss . Wehland has lived in Berlin since 2004 . In 2008, BLX-Music produced under the direction of Kira Zimmermann the pilot for the music format Lobby Sounds , which was broadcast on December 26th, 2008 on NDR .

Among other things, Wehland moderated the shows Zone Zwei and D-Tonal on the music broadcaster VIVA Zwei and produced other artists, mostly together with the Münster-based songwriter and producer Jan Löchel . He has performed with him as Duo Les Sauvignons for more than ten years. Wehland owns a music agency at the port of Münster . In 2010 he worked with Sasha and Jan Josef Liefers on the title Endlos Sommer on the Stefan Waggershausen album So ist das Spiel mit. Together with Tim Bendzko and Lena Meyer-Landrut , Wehland formed the jury for the casting show The Voice Kids , which was broadcast on Sat.1 in spring 2013 . The winner was his protégé Michèle. In 2014 he was on the jury of the show and won again, this time with the candidate Danyiom.

In September 2015 he was part of the jury for Superkids - The world's greatest little talents on Sat.1. On September 23, 2016 he released the single Bonnie & Clyde together with Sarah Connor . On January 27, 2017, his German-language album The Last at the Bar was released , on which Sarah Connor, LaBrassBanda and Xavier Naidoo appeared as guest musicians.

Since 2013, Wehland has repeatedly stated that he wants to become Lord Mayor of Münster as soon as he has moved his center of life from Berlin back to Münster. On September 16, 2019, he started a one-week internship with Markus Lewe , the incumbent Lord Mayor of Münster.

Discography

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
The last one at the bar (Henning Wehland & friends)
  DE 13 02/03/2017 (6 weeks)
Singles
Bonnie & Clyde (with Sarah Connor )
  DE 24 
gold
gold
09/30/2016 (11 weeks)
  AT 39 07/10/2016 (6 weeks)
  CH 64 10/02/2016 (1 week)

H-Blockx

Söhne Mannheims

Albums

  • 2017: The last one at the bar (Henning Wehland & friends)
  • 2019: Law of Tolerance

Singles

Awards for music sales

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

Country / Region Gold record icon.svg gold Platinum record icon.svg platinum Sales swell
Awards for music sales
(country / region, awards, sales, sources)
Germany (BVMI) Germany (BVMI) Gold record icon.svg gold1 0! P- 200,000 musikindustrie.de
All in all Gold record icon.svg gold1 -

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Münstersche Zeitung : The unknown star: Jan Löchel from Angelmodde composes hits and stays in the background , Münster, Peter Sauer, August 26, 2009
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g GIG: Now speaks: Henning Wehland , Interview by Alexandra Mai, September 2013, No. 328, p. 5
  3. ↑ Bravo , No. 33, August 8, 1996: Brutal stage diving! The 17 year old Martin was seriously injured during the H-Blockx performance! Heinrich Bauer Spezialzeitschriften-Verlag KG, Munich. P. 18 f.
  4. ↑ Sat.1 : New year, new coaches! , accessed April 20, 2014
  5. ↑ Image : “The Voice Kids” final: Danyiom wins for Team Henning , May 10, 2014
  6. ↑ Westfälische Nachrichten : Henning Wehland wants to become mayor: “Münster is like a beautiful woman” ( online ), Münster, Münster, Karin Völker, March 20, 2014
  7. ↑ Westfälische Nachrichten : "Münster is not a metropolis": Henning Wehland finds his hometown "arrogant" , Westphalia, Münster, Karin Völker, March 20, 2014
  8. ↑ Westfälische Nachrichten : More than just making coffee - Henning Wehland starts a one-week internship with Mayor Markus Lewe , Münster, Münster, Pjer Biederstädt, September 17, 2019
  9. ↑ a b Chart sources: Germany - Austria - Switzerland

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personal data
SURNAME Wehland, Henning
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German rock musician
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd December 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Bonn