Lord Knud

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Lord Knud (* March 18, 1944 as Knud Friedrich Martin Kuntze in Lissa / Wartheland , today: Leszno / Poland ; † June 15, 2020 in Berlin ) was a German beat musician, disc jockey and radio host . He became an institution with the radio show Schlager der Woche on the Berlin broadcaster RIAS , which he moderated from 1968 to 1985.

Life

Knud Kuntze was born in 1944 as the second son of the businessman Hans Kuntze (1904–1990) in Wartheland , where his pregnant mother Eva Kuntze (1908–2001) had been evacuated from Berlin before the bombing raids . His paternal grandfather was the publisher John William Kuntze, who founded the travel guide publishing house Polyglott Kuntze Kosmos in Berlin-Schöneberg in 1902 . In 1955 the company became part of the Langenscheidt publishing group . Knud Kuntze grew up in the West Berlin districts of Lichterfelde and Zehlendorf . After school he learned to be a shoe seller.

Election poster for the 1971 election of the CDU Berlin : Lord Knud, the CDU candidates Gero Luckow , Dieter Lonschant , Peter Lorenz and Jürgen Wohlrabe

In 1962, at the age of 18, Kuntze became bassist in the band The Lords , which had been founded three years earlier as Skiffle Lords and which now switched to English-language beat music . On September 6, 1964, The Lords were chosen as Germany's “Beat Band No. 1” on the occasion of the premiere of the Beatles film Yeah Yeah Yeah after a nationwide competition in the Hamburg “ Star Club ” . After an accident with the tour bus (which was driven by Peter Donath) during a tour of the Lords on February 9, 1965 on the Westring in Wuppertal , Knud Kuntze had to have his right leg amputated in the Elberfeld Municipal Hospital . He left the Lords and was replaced by bassist Bernd Zamulo. Shortly afterwards he started as a disc jockey in the Berlin “Hajo-Bar” and quickly made a name for himself in the Berlin scene, with regular appearances in the “Hajo-Bar”, the “Riverboat on Fehrbelliner Platz” and “Eden Playboy” -Club ”and other popular clubs at the time. After improving his pronunciation through speaking lessons at a drama school, he became a moderator at RIAS. There he sat in front of the microphone for the first time on January 28, 1968 in the program RIAS-Schlager Cassette , which started on January 7, 1968 . Here he alternated with Jack White , Henno Lohmeyer , "Atze" Hans Karl Schmidt and Michael Holm (together with Joachim Heider ). On May 19, 1968, Lord Knud became the sole speaker. Gregor Rottschalk took over this broadcast on September 29, 1968 . Lord Knud's only solo single, Love's a waiting game / I'm your guy (1967), was not a success.

On October 7, 1968, Lord Knud was heard for the first time as the successor to Fred Ignor and Charlie Hickman in the hits of the week that have been running since 1946 , which he - apart from holiday cover - up to the last, the 1916th edition on September 27, 1985 moderated. The program was the first German-language hit parade and had a wide reach , especially among young people in East Berlin and the GDR . Through Knud's brash manner and his jokes at the expense of Honecker and other GDR comrades loyal to the line , Lord Knud quickly became the enemy of the GDR leadership in the struggle for influence on the youth. His Saturday show Evergreens à Go-Go (Saturday morning with Lord Knud) with oldies also had high ratings; the SFB determined a rate of 71 percent in the mid-1970s. The Evergreens moderated Knud October 5, 1968 to July 2, 1983. In addition, moderated Lord Knud the shipment top hits - the German hit parade . Here nine colleagues from the other ARD stations announced their German and international leaders every four weeks. Between October 3, 1970 and March 28, 1979, 104 episodes were produced, which were also broadcast by NDR and WDR .

The sometimes rough jokes for his programs were provided by Lord Knud, who made no secret of his enthusiasm for hashish , often Schreiber, in earlier years his program director Herbert Kundler , and later the cabaret artist Wolfgang Neuss . In 1986, the RIAS separated from Lord Knud. The occasion was a joke classified as sexist , which Wolfgang Hälbig had already spread on February 11, 1985 during a substitute broadcast Schlager der Woche . He then advised Ulrich Schamoni on his re-establishment of the station Hundert, 6 , but was not obliged to start the program. In the first episodes of the RTL daily soap Unter uns , he played the aging radio presenter Udo Kaiser in a supporting role in 1994.

In the German version of the disaster film Achterbahn (original: Rollercoaster ) from 1976, Lord Knud can be heard as the stadium announcer. a. the pop group Sparks announces the opening of a theme park as a live band.

Lord Knud lived in a bungalow in Berlin-Dahlem since 1974 . Here he died on June 15, 2020 at the age of 76. His nephew is the director and theater director Kay Kuntze .

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  1. ↑ a b c The place of birth is often incorrectly given as "Berlin", see interview by Carsten Teuber with Lord Knud  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (MP3; 21.9 MB), broadcast on February 15, 2005 in Radiocafe 97.2 on Offenen Kanal Berlin, first broadcast on Berliner Rundfunk in 1991 or 1992.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / web50.cyberwebserver-02.de  
  2. ↑ Radio legend Lord Knud is dead. In: Der Tagesspiegel , June 17, 2020
  3. ↑ Lord Knud's mother is dead. In: BZ , November 26, 2001
  4. ↑ With Polyglott through Berlin. In: Berliner Morgenpost , June 2, 2008.
  5. ^ Polyglott Verlagsgeschichte ( Memento from January 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) polyglott.de, Langenscheidt, accessed February 16, 2011.
  6. ↑ Andreas Dorfmann : The shortest path between two people is a smile . ( Memento from May 22, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Lord Knud from RIAS - love among people is most important to him . In: Der Abend , September 29, 1980. ZDB -ID 40001-4
  7. ↑ Heiner Stahl: Sketch of a city history of sound . In: Uta A. Balbier, Christiane Rösch (ed.): Courted Class Enemy - The Relationship of the GDR to the USA . Ch. Links, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-86153-418-5 , pp. 247-261.
  8. ↑ RIAS broadcast timetable from October 5, 1968, holdings in the German Broadcasting Archive .
  9. ↑ RIAS broadcast schedule of July 2, 1983, holdings in the German Broadcasting Archive .
  10. ↑ RIAS broadcast recording from February 11, 1985, presumably in the German Broadcasting Archive .
  11. ↑ a b Alexander Osang : Laborious steps to the rainbow. Former RIAS star disc jockey Lord Knud lost his leg, money, friends, job, audience - and kept going . In: Alexander Osang: The book of temptations: 20 portraits and one self-accusation . Ch. Links, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-86153-107-0 , pp. 60-66.
  12. ↑ Lord Knud in the Internet Movie Database (English)
  13. ↑ How the Berlin cult radio man Lod Knud lives today . At: morgenpost.de , January 11, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Lord Knud
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kuntze, Friedrich Martin (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German beat musician, DJ and radio host
DATE OF BIRTH March 18, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Lissa / Wartheland
DATE OF DEATH June 15, 2020
Place of death Berlin