Lotto King Karl

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Lotto King Karl at the Holsten Brewery Festival 2015

Lotto King Karl aka Karl King (* 4 February 1967 as Gerrit Heesemann in Hamburg ) is a German musician and TV and radio host.

Live and act

The son of a bank clerk and a housewife graduated from the Johanneum School of Academics . Jobs as packer and courier driver and military service in the navy followed. Heesemann calls himself “Lotto King Karl” because of his self-invented legend of the forklift driver Karl König who wins the lottery. In 1995 the debut single "Ich hab 'den Jackpot" was released. In 1996 his debut album "Weiß 'Bescheid ?!" was released. His band, called “Die Barmbek Dream Boys”, consisted at that time of Klaus Volland (guitar), Frank Ramond (choir, guitar, keyboard), Lukas Hilbert (guitar, bass), Frank Itt (bass), Thorsten Heintzsch (keyboard ), Jan Carstensen (saxophone, clarinet) and Lorenz Hoppe (drums). With this album and his presence on a local radio station, he rose to a local size in Hamburg, also because his songs deal with Hamburg topics ( HSV , Reeperbahn , Elbe and Hopihalido ). One of the few songs that became known nationwide is the hymn to his hometown "Hamburg, my pearl".

On February 18, 2000, Lotto King Karl took part in the “ Countdown Grand Prix 2000 ”, the German preliminary decision for the Eurovision Song Contest, with the song “Fly” and took 7th place.

Lotto King Karl sells his records through its own label Northcoast Records in the distribution of Sony . He regularly gives concerts that he calls the “Rock Over Hamburg” tour, and he is present in the local media.

The single "No Limits, No Fences" was used as an advertising jingle in Berentzen's TV commercials in 2004 and is the only single from "König" that made it into the charts in Germany. In 2003 Lotto King Karl played Andy Ommsen, known as "Stullen-Andi", in The Last Lude in his first film role .

Lotto King Karl at the Radio Hamburg Easter Mega Hit Marathon

After successfully working with Frank Ramond (now solo on the road and songwriter for Annett Louisan and Ina Müller ) as main songwriter on his first album , he subsequently wrote many songs with his long-time friend Carsten Pape (formerly Clowns & Heroes and Roh ).

Lotto King Karl is often a guest as a commentator or co-presenter on TV shows such as “The 100 most annoying ...” and at the “Chartshow” on RTL . He also moderates the "90s" on RTL 2 . From 2003 to December 2011 he was a radio presenter at Radio Hamburg , where from 2005 he presented the "90s". Lotto King Karl was also one of the stadium speakers at Hamburger SV for 14 years until 2019 . Before every home game, between August 2005 and May 2019, for the first team of HSV, he sang his "hymn" Hamburg, my pearl in the soccer version Hamburg, my soccer pearl live from a crane.

In August 2005 Lotto King Karl began its first nationwide tour under the title “Born2Rock-Live2Die”; so far, his live performances have only been limited to stages in northern Germany .

On May 16, 2006, the police found a small amount of cocaine during a raid on his apartment in Hamburg-Winterhude . According to its own statements, it should have been an older remnant. The court case was dropped in July 2006 against a fine of 12,500 euros.

In April 2008 his album "Seitenwechsel" was released. It was created with his band, the Barmbek Dream Boys. On June 12, 2009, the joint work by Lotto King Karl and Carsten Pape came onto the market. This is their second album together after friends .

On 6 May 2011, the new album was released , "What's up with Frank?" . This is also recorded together with the Barmbek Dream Boys. Lotto King Karl is actively involved in the Laut gegen Nazis association and takes a stand against xenophobia.

After a six-year album break, his latest album 360 Grad was released on May 12, 2017 . The album entered the German charts at number 17 on May 19, 2017.

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Icarus
  DE 51 05/15/2006 (1 week)
Change of sides (& Barmbek Dream Boys)
  DE 33 05/12/2008 (1 week)
Home game on holy ground (& Barmbek Dream Boys)
  DE 73 December 15, 2008 (1 week)
The great love (Lotto & Pape )
  DE 100 06/26/2009 (1 week)
What about Frank? (& Barmbek Dream Boys)
  DE 15th 05/23/2011 (3 weeks)
360 degrees
  DE 17th 05/19/2017 (1 week)
Singles
Flying (with raw )
  DE 58 03/06/2000 (2 weeks)
Nothing but Truth (with Modern System)
  DE 94 02/24/2003 (1 week)
No borders, no fences
  DE 70 09/20/2004 (3 weeks)

Discography

  • 1995 I got the jackpot (single)
  • 1995 Allergy (single)
  • 1996 There's the Door (single with Roberto Blanco )
  • 1996 I know ?! (Album)
  • 1997 I love you (single)
  • 1998 I like trash (title on the sampler Ernie, Bert, Hip Hop & Co. )
  • 1999 The old S-Class (album)
  • 1999 Victims of Justice (single)
  • 1999 Football Is Our Life (single, with Stone The Crow and Rage )
  • 2000 flies (single, with raw )
  • 2000 Bier her now (album)
  • 2000 Until the Doctor Comes (Single)
  • 2001 Dieter B.'s secret diary (album)
  • 2001 Back in possession (EP)
  • 2001 The HSV Album (Album)
  • 2001 Redshift (album)
  • 2002 Nothing but Truth (Modern System / Single)
  • 2003 The hottest things (Best-of-Album)
  • 2004 For the Love of Game (Album)
  • 2004 It's so much fun to fuck with you (single EP with Carsten Pape )
  • 2004 No Limits - No Fences (Maxi-CD, from a commercial for Berentzen )
  • 2005 Friends (album with Carsten Pape )
  • 2006 Icarus (album)
  • 2008 page change (album)
  • 2009 The great love (album with Carsten Pape )
  • 2011 What about Frank? (Album)
  • 2017 360 degrees (album)

Movies

Web links

Commons : Lotto King Karl  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cocaine discovery Lotto King Karl under drug suspicion In: Stern.de , May 17, 2006.
  2. ↑ a b Chart sources: DE
personal data
SURNAME Lotto King Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES König, Karl (pseudonym); Heesemann, Gerrit (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musician
DATE OF BIRTH 4th February 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg