Kristof Schreuf
Kristof Schreuf (* 1963 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German musician and journalist.
biography
Schreuf was the singer and lyricist for the band Kolossale Jugend in the late 1980s . With this he significantly shaped the beginnings of the so-called Hamburg School . After the dissolution of the band in 1991, he founded four years later, together with Luka Rothmann and Martin Buck, the band roar with which he 1997 album Schatzitude published. For the 2007 sampler On The Road Again Mama from the pearls of German-speaking pop music series , he joined forces with Martin Buck and Stefan Feser to form the band Rock , and together they recorded the piece Only Words Go Further Than Me .
For the NDR documentaries by Oliver Schwabe My Generation. The Sound of Revolte (2006) and Disco Love Machine - In the Beat Lies Sehnsucht (2007), Schreuf reinterpreted numerous classics of rock and disco history by bands such as AC / DC , The Who or Judas Priest . These pieces appeared on April 16, 2010 on the album Bourgeois with Guitar . For this album he was nominated for the ECHO Critics' Award in 2011 . In the Spex annual charts , the album was voted fifth by the editors.
Since the 1990s Schreuf has also been writing for magazines and newspapers such as Spex , taz and Junge Welt . For his text “ Truth is what men like to say that they care about them”, it was proposed in 2003 by Iris Radisch for the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize .
Web links
- Kristof Schreuf at laut.de.
- Kristof Schreuf on Myspace
- Kristof Schreuf on indiepedia.de
- Kristof Schreuf at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Portrait of the band Roar
- ↑ Bourgeois With Guitar on indiepedia.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schreuf, Kristof |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German musician and journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1963 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt am Main |