Free wild
| Free wild | |
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 Logo of the band |
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 Frei.Wild (2013) |
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| General information | |
| origin | Bressanone , Italy |
| Genre (s) | German rock , hard rock |
| founding | 2001 |
| Website | www.frei-wild.net |
| Current occupation | |
| Philipp Burger | |
| Christian "Föhre" Forer | |
| Jochen "Zegga" Gargitter | |
Electric guitar |
Jonas Notdurfter |
Frei.Wild is a German rock - band from the town of Bressanone in South Tyrol ( Italy ). With several gold and platinum awards in Germany and Austria, the group is one of the most successful representatives of the genre. She is under contract with the Rookies & Kings label .
Various media accuse the band of being close to right-wing political motives. The group distances itself from extremism of any kind, including the rejection of anti-refugee positions and fans who represent them.
Surname
The name of the band is based on the word Freiwild , but was created through the composition of the adjectives free and wild . In legal transactions , the group acts as a company under civil law as Frei.Wild GbR Burger Forer Gargitter Notdurfter .
history
The band was founded in September 2001 by Philipp Burger ( vocals , electric guitar ) and Jonas Notdurfter (electric guitar). Soon afterwards, drummer Christian Forer and bassist Jochen Gargitter joined them. All band members are fans of the Böhsen Onkelz and other German-speaking rock bands such as Rammstein , Subway to Sally and In Extremo . The band name is also influenced by these rock bands, as Philipp Burger reported in an interview:
“We found the adjectives 'Frei' and 'Wild' awesome and also suitable for Onkelzsound! There are two words that are typical of youthful attitudes! Both together free, wild! It should just be a German name, because Frei.Wild only has German texts and will always have them! "
In 2002 the first album One Day was released . In 2003 the second album Where the sun laughs again was released on the Belgian label Razorwire Records . The third album Mensch oder Gott was announced for the beginning of 2004, but was released on July 30th 2004 due to problems with the label. Michael Clemenz founded the Frei.Wild Supporters Club , FWSC for short , in April 2005 . In 2006 Michael Clemenz took over the management of the band in addition to the fan club. In 2006 Frei.Wild switched to the Magdeburg label Asphalt Records , which re-released the debut album. In the same year, Mitten ins Herz was released , their fourth album. The first edition contained a DVD with three videos and an interview. The later pressings were delivered without a DVD. In 2007 the live DVD Von nah und Fern was released , and in 2008 the album Gegen alles, gegen nothing, in an initial edition of 2000 copies, which was sold out on the first day.
In 2009 the band founded their own label Rookies & Kings . On October 23, 2009 the album Hart am Wind was released in three CD versions: as a standard version in a jewel case with 15 songs, as a special edition in a digipak with 18 songs, as a fan box limited to 2000 copies, which in addition to the special edition CD also contains a merchandise package, as well as a picture vinyl version limited to 1000 copies. A video was released for the single Das Land der Vollidioten . With the album, the band was able to reach the German charts for the first time.
On October 1, 2010, the single was released alone forward , for which there is also a video , as with the song Not your day . The associated album Gegengift , which was released on October 15, 2010, reached number 2 in the album charts in Germany. This success brought Frei.Wild their first nomination for the Echo awarded by the German Phono Academy in the category Rock / Alternative (national) group . The 10-year edition of the album Gegengift has been available since May 20, 2011 . In addition to the 19 songs on the album, this includes five completely new songs and a new recording of the piece Smarter than the rest . This album also made it back into the charts (number 4).
With the song 1000 miles 1000 words under the project name Wilde Flamme , the band supported the South Tyrolean children's village , in whose premises they rehearsed in 2001 at the beginning of their career. The group donated a sum of money in advance to the charity and shortly afterwards released a single with guest musicians such as Matthias Röhr ( Böhse Onkelz ), Alexx ( Eisbrecher ), Delroy Rennalls ( Mr. President ), Norbert Rier ( Kastelruther Spatzen ), Christian Dejaco ( 4Twenty ), Pat ( Fiddler's Green ), and Nord ( hematoma ). After the donation amount was covered, the further proceeds went directly to the children's village. Another donation of 5,500 euros was made by the band's fan club in 2012 to the ProKids initiative from Villingen-Schwenningen .
On October 5, 2012, the eighth studio album Feinde Deine Feinde was released , which, like its predecessor, reached number 2 in the German album charts and received a gold record for more than 100,000 copies sold . On April 19, 2013, the album Feinde Deine Feinde was re-released as a gold edition and in early May 2013 rose to the top of the German charts as the first Frei.Wild album . The sales of both versions are added together. After the album against everything, against nothing was re-released on August 30, 2013 and reached number 4 in the German charts, the band's first acoustic album, Still , was released on November 22, 2013 . This went straight to number 1 in the official German album charts.
On April 3, 2015, the band's tenth studio album, called Opposition , was released, again topping the German charts. At the Echo Awards 2016 Frei.Wild won the Echo in the Rock / Alternative National category.
The eleventh studio album by Frei.Wild 15 Years of German Rock & Scandals was released on July 29, 2016 on the occasion of the 15th anniversary of the band's existence. According to the band, this is not an official studio album, but a "project album" as a gift to fans for 15 years of Frei.Wild. This was the first studio album since Gegengift , which only reached number 2 in the German album charts. 20,000 CDs were given away on the occasion of the anniversary concert in Berlin's Wuhlheide and were therefore not taken into account when determining the chart position. On August 14, 2016, the band announced the provisional end of their performances from December 2016.
On July 9, 2017, the band interrupted their break and released the song Power you all flat against the background of the riots in Hamburg's Schanzenviertel as part of the G20 summit . According to their own statement, the band opposes any form of extremism, whether from the left, the right or religiously motivated.
Frei.Wild's twelfth studio album Rivalen und Rebellen was released on March 16, 2018, which in turn reached number 1 in the German charts.
On June 21, 2019 they released the cover album Our Favorite Songs , which contains nine cover versions by artists (including Die Ärzte , Die Toten Hosen , KIZ ) who have criticized Frei.Wild in the past.
On November 29, 2019, their second acoustic album Still II was released with new songs and previously released songs that were re-recorded with acoustic arrangements. It reached the top of the official German charts as the band's fifth album.
On April 10, 2020 Frei.Wild released their fifteenth studio album Corona Quarantäne Tape on the occasion of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and the restrictions in public life . This became her sixth album at the top of the official German charts.
On August 7, 2020 members of Frei.Wild released the album Brotherhood together with the American motorcycle manufacturer Orange County Choppers under the cooperation name Brüder4Brothers .
Appearances
In mid-June 2005 Frei.Wild, who at that time were still poorly known, gave a small concert during the two-day farewell festival Vaya Con Tioz of the Böhsen Onkelz on the Lausitzring campground , which was not part of the official framework program of the Onkelz Festival, but was specially organized . Frei.Wild had a secret show at the Wacken Open Air 2009 and an appearance each at the Wacken offshoots Wacken Rocks South and Wacken Rocks Seaside . In line with the album Hart am Wind , Frei.Wild started a tour of the same name in 2009. In the summer of 2010, she performed at various festivals such as the With-Full-Force , Wacken Open Air , Summerbreeze , Viva-los-Tioz and the Ehrlich & Laut Festival. Frei.Wild played for the sixth time at the GOND Festival in 2011 Before the 2010 World Cup round of 16 between Germany and England, the band played three songs in front of around 500,000 spectators at the FIFA Fan Fest in front of Berlin's Olympic Stadium. A tour through Germany and Austria took place from October to November.
In 2011 Frei.Wild also organized a Ladies Night in Berlin in March , a concert exclusively for women. The highlights of the 2011 festival season included the GOND, the Rock am Schlern in Kastelruth , which was held as part of the Kastelruther-Spatzen-Open-Air , a headlining appearance at the Rockharz Open Air and the appearance on the Black Stage , one of the two main stages of the Wacken Open Air. Since 2009 the band has been going on the so-called X-Mas Meetings tour between Christmas and New Year's Eve . In 2011, Gonzo, Warthy (from the band Justice ), Alexx von Eisbrecher and Doro Pesch played a medley on this tour in Stuttgart together with Frei.Wild . On June 22nd 2012 Frei.Wild performed at the AlpenFlair in Natz near Brixen. The performance was preceded by a bike marathon organized by the band for the first time, which from June 13th took the participants in ten stages from Halle (Saale) via Thuringia, Bavaria, Innsbruck (North Tyrol) and the Brenner to the venue in South Tyrol. The money raised during the marathon went to the Children's Cancer Aid.
After the release of the album Feinde Deine Feinde , the band went on a tour of the same name through Germany, Austria and Switzerland in early November 2012 and in April. The tour started with an appearance in the sold-out Westfalenhalle in Dortmund. After Frei.Wild took a break in 2014 and only appeared at the AlpenFlair in June, they were back on tour in 2015 with a new album in various halls in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and South Tyrol. In December 2015 the band played two sold-out shows in the Mercedes-Benz Arena Berlin in Berlin and in the Lanxess Arena in Cologne. From March to April 2016 the band toured again on the "Opposition Xtreme" tour through Germany, Austria, Italy and Switzerland. In contrast to the previous year, they did not visit the big halls in big cities, but new regions with rather small halls, in which the band either never was or hasn't been for a long time. For the 2018 tour to rivals and rebels in Germany, the Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland and Italy, Frei.Wild has hired the band Goitzsche Front from Bitterfeld as support.
At the end of 2018 Frei.Wild again played 4 "X-Mas-Shows" between Christmas and New Years. Three of the four shows were sold out, a total of 40,000 people came to these concerts.
On July 5, 2019, the band played in a stadium for the first time: around 28,400 visitors came to Frankfurt's Commerzbank-Arena under the motto "The stadium has antlers" . During this concert, "Rivals and Rebels" was awarded platinum for over 200,000 records sold. Frei.Wild invited the bands inviolable and zero hour, also from South Tyrol, as support .
Style and self-image
The style of Frei.Wild can be assigned to German rock, and various media assign them to the New German Hardness . So far, both very rocking pieces and gentle ballads have been featured on the albums.
Frei.Wild's lyrics are mostly about various life and everyday experiences. This is how it goes B. friendship, money, alcohol, driving license revocation, freedom, dealing with setbacks and defeats as well as home. The band itself attaches great importance to not being seen as a politically-minded musical group. A position has already been taken on this several times in interviews or concerts. Frei.Wild also distances itself from right-wing and left-wing extremism. This attitude is also evident in numerous lyrics.
At the reception, Philipp Burger sees a German problem above all:
“But you just have to consider: We are not Germans! We are South Tyroleans. [...] Nobody there has a problem with our texts who understand what we are talking about. When there is a public holiday there, the Tyrolean flag is hung in front of the house, everywhere. They also have a lot of associations that cherish and cultivate this and also want to maintain this bond with South Tyrol. We grew up in this environment and from our point of view speak as South Tyroleans, not as Germans. Apparently some don't understand that. I don't have to constantly consider the fact that as a German you are not allowed to develop or show national pride because you are immediately insulted as a Nazi. As a German, you're only allowed to do that during the European Championship or World Cup. I know that it provokes a lot of people, but these are just things that are important to us. "
In addition to their own songs, Frei.Wild also played covers by Böhsen Onkelz , Toten Hosen , Dimple Minds , WIZO and a few other bands. Musically, the musicians also lean heavily on these bands. Philipp Burger wrote almost all of the pieces, only the song One Day was composed by Jonas Notdurfter.
Controversy and Political Classification
In the opinion of critics, patriotic and nationalistic ideas become clear in many texts, especially in the context of the close ties to South Tyrol that are propagated.
Burger previously sang with the right-wing rock band Kaiserjäger . It shows the Hitler salute in a CD booklet published in the early 2000s. The song Südtirol , which is about love for their homeland , also dates back to the last days of this band . Kaiserjäger broke up in 2001 after a concert "that ended in a mass brawl between German and Italian-speaking neo-Nazis ". In addition, singer Philipp Burger regularly expresses his conviction that he consciously feels like a South Tyrolean and not an Italian. In December 2010, for example, he said in an interview with the Sächsische Zeitung : “We never made it a point to be Italian. History got us that. And as German-speaking South Tyroleans, we also make German-language music for German-speaking fans. "
In 2008, the band's announcement that they would perform at an event organized by the South Tyrolean party Die Freiheitlichen led to a public discussion. The singer Philipp Burger was a member of the party until October 2, 2008. The Frei.Wild Supporters Club fan club criticized the band for the planned concert. Under pressure from management, the band withdrew from the event and distanced themselves. The collaboration with Asphalt Records was discontinued by the label. In an interview with the online portal Laut.de , Burger later described the goals and paths of the Freedom Party as “anything but great”.
As a protest action against the supposedly “ German national German rock milieu” in which Frei.Wild would move, the Berlin punk band Frei Schnauze changed the band logo from Frei.Wild in 2011. Wild was crossed out on a T-shirt sold by the band and the word snout was added. In addition, the T-shirt contained the slogan "Politcore instead of commercial rock". Frei.Wild GbR issued a warning against the band, which led to criticism of the band in a number of punk magazines and other media.
In February 2012, the journalist Thomas Kuban assigned Frei.Wild to the term identity rock, which is widespread in the neo-Nazi scene. In Kuban's opinion, in addition to the text of the song Südtirol , other texts by Frei.Wild are nationalistic and ethnic . In March 2013 Kuban even assigned the album Feinde Ihre Feinde to right-wing rock . In the texts contained on this CD there are subtle hints that “neo-Nazi bands also work”. In the song, do-gooders and moralists would Frei.Wild to the anti-Semitic stereotype allude allegedly rich Jews. In addition, Kuban emphasizes the passage in the text “History that still brings coal”. However, in the context of the song, this passage is attributed to sanctimonious journalists and priests and other authorities of public opinion. In the song with the text passage "Today there is the stamp, no more star", which in the fascism-critical song We ride in the downfall refers to the political stamping of the band, Frei.Wild plays down the persecution of the Jews, according to Kuban.
According to Christoph Schulze, an employee of the anti-fascist press archive and education center Berlin (Apabiz), the band represents “ultra-nationalist” political content, as it asserts a connection between human origins and homeland. The song True Values , which prophesies the downfall of the people, is cited as an example . Migrants are not included in this definition of people. The song, in which the band clearly distances itself from fascism and national socialism (“We hate fascists and national socialists”), addresses the preservation of national customs and love of the homeland.
The managing director of the Brandenburg Institute for Community Advice, Dirk Wilking , judges the band to be right-wing extremists, as they spread “Nazi ideologies”. He cited the song Südtirol as an example of this : “In the song“ Südtirol ”, for example, Italy is clearly attacked: South Tyrol should no longer belong to Italy, they want something more German. It is a classic model of the right-wing extremist scene that the national geography of Europe is being called into question. "
The band itself denies these allegations and claims to represent no particular political direction. However, according to the Frei.Wild enjoys time and Internet portals such as the Ruhr barons in the far-right scene great popularity, which for example by appropriate comments in relevant forums or through a web TV show of the NPD -Funktionärs Patrick Schröder will clear. During the band's concerts, fans occasionally attracted attention with right-wing extremist acts. The journalist Markus Wilhelm published documents on this on his website.
The band was criticized by lines such as "South Tyrol, you are my homeland, the heart of this world" (from the song South Tyrol ) or "Language, customs and beliefs are the values of the homeland, without them we perish, our little people die" (from the song True Values ). Other passages like “South Tyrol, torn from your brothers, shout it out, let everyone know. South Tyrol, you are not lost yet. Your enemies should burn in hell ”(also from the song Südtirol ) are also described as openly nationalistic. Another quote from the song Call it Coincidence, calls it Plan , in the opinion of the band's critics, propagates a “pure racket mentality” which “also meets with approval from violent neo-Nazis”, but is actually also widespread in the apolitical hooligan scene: “We've got it Done, We did it, We beat people up, Didn't think about the consequences, We claimed the streets of the city for ourselves, We didn't take any prisoners, We drank and boxed, Often stood in front of the judge, No remorse, laughed about it ".
Mainly because of the echo controversy, television and radio broadcasts also became aware of the increasingly successful band, and they address the allegations in their reporting. At various concerts, the band let the audience chant “Nazis out” and stated that they would not let “Nazis” into the concerts. However, Jörn Menge von Laut criticized the Nazis for the fact that "Frei.Wild [...] had so far only distanced themselves as far as was necessary". The TV show Aspects also accused the band of not distancing themselves enough. Opponents like the journalist Andreas Speit or the band Jupiter Jones accuse the band of occupying classic right-wing rock topics and thus making them suitable for the mainstream. The journalist Thomas Kuban described singer Philipp Burger as the “first right-wing rock star in the classical sense”, “because his work [is] not limited to any scene, he [reaches] the bourgeois spectrum, without being more political or civil society Resistance would rain. Frei.Wild [sell and establish] nationalism and anti-anti-fascism as a hip protest culture ”.
The rock band Jennifer Rostock announced in January 2013 that visitors with Frei.Wild T-shirts are no longer welcome at their concerts, as their lyrics offer a “large area of identification for nationalist ideas”. Frei.Wild singer Philipp Burger, in an interview with the South Tyrolean daily newspaper, described the T-shirt ban as a "cheaply planned PR gag."
Also in 2013 Frei.Wild's nomination for the Echo Music Prize in the Rock / Alternative National category became a political issue. After protests and boycott threats from the politically left-wing bands MIA. , Kraftklub and Die Ärzte , those responsible at the German Phono Academy withdrew the nomination on the grounds that the "Echo Prize" was not a suitable venue for a public political debate. Frei.Wild fans protested the claims of the bands via the social network Facebook .
A few days after the announcement, the band canceled a planned appearance at the Festival With Full Force in June 2013. The reason for this were protests on social networks such as Facebook and an opinion piece in the music magazine Visions , which opposed the participation of Frei.Wild. In addition, Visions , Jägermeister and the Tattoo Magazine , among others , withdrew their support for the festival due to the band's planned appearance. The online magazine Laut.de described the pressure exerted on the festival organizer in this context as "unprecedented".
In the run-up to the planning for 2013, the organizers of the Ehrlich und Laut festival faced the same hostility and problems as the organizers of With Full Force . In a detailed statement, they commented on the events leading up to the 2013 festival. In the justification for the decision to let Frei.Wild perform for the sixth time at the festival in 2013 despite the expected difficulties with sponsors and other planned bands, it said, among other things, that one should not “only have any form of right-wing thought as well as left and right Reject extremism ”, but also“ unjustified restrictions on freedom of expression and speech, false convictions, prejudices, all kinds of smear campaigns and digital bullying (Shitstorm & Co) ”.
In January 2014, a "vandal act" was carried out on the band shop in Brixen. The facade of the shop was sprayed with "left-wing extremists [...] slogans and communist symbols".
Despite their renewed nomination, the band rejected the invitation to the 2014 Echo Awards. Frei.Wild demanded an apology from the Echo-Akademie for the 2013 discharge. The band did not receive this.
In 2015 Frei.Wild was accused of having taken over a guitar riff by the neo-Nazi band Stahlgewitter . This plagiarism lawsuit was dismissed by the Hamburg Regional Court.
The album Opposition , released in 2015, features the song Accepted Fascist , in which the band once again distances itself from fascists and right-wing extremists in response to statements from the media.
In 2015, the co-founder of the Berlin Archive of Youth Cultures, Klaus Farin , assessed the members of the band as “conservative anti-fascists”. In an interview with Bayerischer Rundfunk , Farin said: “There is actually no objective reason to call Frei.Wild a right-wing rock band. This is an absolute trivialization of neo-Nazi music scene. "The blog malfunction indicator of time online threw Farin then before, a" band that right-wing terrorism glorified, "a" to give general absolution ".
In 2017 the music sociologist Friederike Haupt came to the conclusion that Frei.Wild's music served a South Tyrolean victim image and “ blood and soil ” motifs. In doing so, "old-fashioned, unsolved patriotism questions ... are used to heroize themselves."
In a report by Spiegel from May 2018, author Maik Großekathöfer writes about Frei.Wild that they are “not a Nazi band, not right-wing extremists”, but that they are definitely right-wing populists and that they “play with fire”. The band sounds “like the soundtrack to the AfD party program”. Singer Philipp Burger says in the same article that he is aware of the concerns of ordinary people.
In an interview with shz.de, singer Philipp Burger expressed sympathy for the South Tyrol Liberation Committee , which was responsible for some fatal terrorist attacks.
Indexing process
In November 2013, the Thuringian Minister for Social Affairs, Family and Health, Heike Taubert ( SPD ), initiated a review of Frei.Wild's publications at the Federal Testing Office for Media Harmful to Young People , following a suggestion by journalist Thomas Kuban . The BPjM's review only referred to the song Vengeance Must Be from the debut album One Day , released in 2002 . The application was rejected by the BPjM for formal reasons, as the websites or URLs mentioned by the Thuringian Ministry of Social Affairs in the application could no longer be accessed. In the meantime, Philipp Burger distanced himself from the controversial song Rache muss sein . In January 2014 the song Rache muss sein was objected to a second time by the Thuringian Ministry of Social Affairs. In the second indexing application, the CD One Day was enclosed. After a renewed examination on February 6, 2014, the Federal Inspectorate for Media Harmful to Young People decided in favor of Frei.Wild and rejected an indexing. The reason given was that the artistic context in the album One Day was otherwise non-violent and in some cases explicitly non-violent.
Media work
In January 2013, the band started their own media project on the Internet with a website on the subject of "Reporting on Frei.Wild in the media" under the domain die-macht-der-medien.de , which is a contact point for all information seekers on the subject of Frei.Wild should be. There, on the one hand, all publications available about the band should be collected, commented on by the band and archived as far as legally possible. In addition, Frei.Wild wanted to make all the facts, opinions and data about Frei.Wild relevant from their point of view available online. A large part of the content consisted of collected interview questions and the associated answers from the band.
One reason for starting this media project is the band's opinion that most of the media and media representatives prefer to use third-party reporting as a source when researching Frei.Wild, instead of relying on the results of their own research. The site has since been taken off the network.
According to the web portal Endstation Rechts , on the other hand, the website Macht-der-Medien uses "another right-wing extremist cliché with the 'fairy of the (system) press'". This would see "right-wing fans who you don't even want to have at the concerts [...] confirm their view of the world". The Endstation Rechts portal refers to the comments as a “negative list” because, in addition to “articles from the 'Störungsmelder', the taz or the WDR, there are also some contributions from Endstation Rechts. landed ".
In an interview with NDR for the program ZAPP , the freelance music journalist Daniel Köhler commented on the question of how traditional media would have to adapt to websites like macht-der-medien.de in the future: “[…] die [Frei.Wild ] don't have to be objective! They don't have to be factual! They represent their cause and it is their right to say in freedom of expression if they disagree with media reports. ”Köhler continues to describe the website as the band's interest-driven tool.
The band engaged Micaela Schäfer for their live album With Love, Pride and Passion . To promote the band's DVD and CD, they appeared naked on billboards. The poster companies found the pictures too sexist and provocative, so that various areas had to be pasted over with large bars.
Discography
Studio albums
| year | title |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks | ||
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| 2002 | Someday | - | - | - |
First published: 2002 - First edition: 1,000 copies
Republished: 2006, October 9, 2009 |
| 2003 | Where the sun shines again | - | - | - |
First published: 2003
Republished: May 28, 2010 |
| 2004 | Man or god | - | - | - |
First published: July 30, 2004 - First edition: 1,000 copies
Republished: May 28, 2010 |
| 2006 | Right in the heart | - | - | - |
First published: March 15, 2006 - First edition: 2,500 copies
Republished: October 9, 2009 Sales: 6,000 (by the end of 2007) |
| 2008 | Against everything, against nothing |
DE4 1 (3 weeks) DE |
AT7 1 (4 weeks) AT |
CH68 1 (1 week) CH |
First publication: March 30, 2008 - First edition: 2,250 copies
Republication: October 9, 2009, August 30, 2013 |
| 2009 | Close to the wind |
DE15th  (7 weeks)DE |
- | - | |
| 2010 | Antidote |
DE2  (28 weeks)DE |
AT15th (6 weeks)AT |
CH66 (1 week) CH |
First release: October 15, 2010
Re-release: May 20, 2011 as a 10 year anniversary edition Sales: + 207,500 |
| 2012 | Enemies of your Enemies |
DE1 (39 weeks)DE |
AT2 (13 weeks)AT |
CH12 (8 weeks) CH |
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| 2013 | Quiet |
DE1 (19 weeks)DE |
AT4th (10 weeks)AT |
CH17 (4 weeks) CH |
First release: November 22nd, 2013
Acoustic album sales: + 107,500 |
| 2015 | opposition |
DE1 (69 weeks)DE |
AT1 (21 weeks)AT |
CH2 (12 weeks) CH |
First release: April 3rd, 2015 Republication
: December 4th, 2015 as Xtreme edition Sales: + 207,500 |
| 2016 | 15 years of German rock & scandals |
DE2 (9 weeks)DE |
AT3 (7 weeks) AT |
CH2 (8 weeks) CH |
First published: July 29, 2016
Sales: + 100,000 |
| 2018 | Rivals and rebels |
DE1 (51 weeks)DE |
AT1 (23 weeks) AT |
CH3 (21 weeks) CH |
First published: March 16, 2018
Sales: + 200,000 |
| 2019 | Our favorite songs |
DE8 (2 weeks) DE |
AT19 (1 week) AT |
CH42 (1 week) CH |
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| Still II |
DE1 (15 weeks) DE |
AT7 (3 weeks) AT |
CH6 (2 weeks) CH |
First release: November 29, 2019
acoustic album |
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| 2020 | Corona quarantine tape |
DE1 (6 weeks) DE |
AT3 (1 week) AT |
CH8 (2 weeks) CH |
First published: April 10, 2020
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Awards
- ECHO Pop 2016: Group Rock / Alternative National for the album Opposition
literature
- Klaus Farin (2015): Frei.Wild: South Tyrol's conservative anti-fascists. Brain food KG; ISBN 978-3-945398-22-7 .
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Discussion: How to deal with mainstream actors who refer to radical right-wing ideologies? The example of Frei.Wild . In: Britta Schellenberg , Martin Becher (Hrsg.): Civil society engagement against racism and right-wing extremism. Challenges and success factors in dealing with right-wing extremism, anti-Semitism and racism. A German-Czech anthology (= non-formal political education . Volume 9). Wochenschau Verlag, Schwalbach 2015, ISBN 978-3-7344-0142-8 . Posts there:
- Thomas Rammerstorfer : What (h) re values - The band "Frei.Wild" and their critics . P. 99 ff.
- Heribert Schiedel : Free. Wild: A right-wing rock band that doesn't want to be (anymore) . P. 106 ff.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Thorsten Hindrichs: Heimattreue patriots and the land of idiots - Frei.Wild and the new German rock scene . In: Dietrich Helms, Thomas Phleps (Hrsg.): Typisch deutsch? Transcript Verlag, ISBN 978-3-8394-2846-7 , pp. 155-160 .
- ↑ Antonie Rietzschel: German-speaking band Frei.Wild: "For the right we should actually be traitors". In: Süddeutsche Zeitung Online . November 11, 2012, accessed February 9, 2020 .
- ↑ Klaus Farin: Frei.Wild . Hirnkost, 2016, ISBN 978-3-945398-55-5 , p. 268 ( limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed June 27, 2019]).
- ↑ Sebastian Bartoschek : The Ruhr barons do not play along. In: hpd.de . April 15, 2016, accessed July 6, 2020.
- ↑ a b c Frei.Wild. Biography. In: laut.de . Retrieved August 14, 2020 .
- ^ Sebastian Kuboth: Interviews - Frei.Wild. In: punkrocknews.de. August 1, 2005, accessed April 24, 2017 .
- ↑ Roger Bühl: FREI.WILD - Video premiere 'Land der Vollidioten'. (No longer available online.) In: stormbringer.at. October 22, 2009, archived from the original on July 13, 2011 ; Retrieved October 18, 2012 .
- ↑ Today “Echo”: Spatzen und Frei.Wild nominated. (No longer available online.) In: stol.it. Südtirol online, March 9, 2011, archived from the original on March 11, 2011 ; Retrieved March 16, 2011 .
- ↑ Michael Edele: "We don't chase any trend". Interview. In: laut.de . October 14, 2012, accessed April 11, 2020 .
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