Paul Kalkbrenner

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Paul Kalkbrenner at SonneMondSterne 2018
Paul Kalkbrenner (2013)

Paul Kalkbrenner (born June 11, 1977 in Leipzig ) is a German musician who mainly appears as a live act . He is the brother of the musician and music producer Fritz Kalkbrenner , with whom he produced the hit Sky and Sand together . He published under his real name and the pseudonyms Paul dB + , Kalkito , Ikarus or Ickarus and Grenade .

Kalkbrenner also worked as an actor for the 2008 film Berlin Calling .

Life

Paul Kalkbrenner on the main stage of the SonneMondSterne Festival, 2018

Kalkbrenner was born in 1977 in Leipzig as the son of journalists Jörn and Carla Kalkbrenner , but grew up in Berlin-Lichtenberg . His grandfather was the painter and communist Fritz Eisel .

After training in music theory and playing the trumpet, Kalkbrenner turned to dance in the early 1990s , influenced by the publications of the Berliners Moritz von Oswald and Mark Ernestus ( Basic Channel ) . Together with his flatmate at the time, Sascha Funke , he began DJing in the city's youth clubs in 1992. After leaving the Georg-Christoph-Lichtenberg-Oberschule without a degree in 1996, he worked as an editor for various television productions.

Paul Kalkbrenner's mixer at a performance in the gas engine center in Unterwellenborn

In 1999 he released his first EP Largesse under the pseudonym Paul dB + , followed by the Friedrichshain EP on Ellen Allien's label BPitch Control .

His first album Superimpose was released in 2001. He achieved greater fame in the dance scene with his third album Self , released in 2004 , on which Kalkbrenner used downbeat and trance elements. The album received mostly good to very good reviews.

In 2008, Kalkbrenner took on the leading role as Berlin DJ Ickarus in Hannes Stöhr's film Berlin Calling , for which he also produced the soundtrack . He had previously contributed to the soundtrack for Stöhr's One Day In Europe tracks. He achieved his final breakthrough in 2009 with the single Sky and Sand , which was extracted from the Berlin Calling soundtrack and which was created together with his brother Fritz Kalkbrenner . More than three years after its release, the single reached number 29 in the singles charts in Germany and also achieved international chart placements. On May 4, 2012, Paul Kalkbrenner set a record with the single Sky and Sand , as it was represented in the German Top 100 for a total of 107 weeks and thus the previous record holder Ein Stern by DJ Ötzi and Last Christmas by Wham! referred to the following places. No other single since 1977 had a chart placement of more than 107 weeks. In total, the single stayed there for 129 weeks. The soundtrack went platinum in 2012 for over 200,000 copies sold.

In the winter of 2010/2011, Kalkbrenner performed without a fee as part of a troop visit for Bundeswehr soldiers in three field camps in Afghanistan, which in some cases earned the artist harsh criticism, but was defended as a "significant event" by colleagues such as Hans Nieswandt . Kalkbrenner rejects the Bundeswehr mission in Afghanistan.

In 2010, the musician separated from BPitch Control and founded his own label Paul Kalkbrenner Musik . Kalkbrenner's album Icke Wieder was released on June 3, 2011. It barely missed the top of the German album charts.

On August 3, 2012, Kalkbrenner released his new single Das Gezabel on Paul Kalkbrenner Musik. The track is also featured on the album Guten Tag , which was released on November 30, 2012. On May 30, 2014, the remix album x was released , including remixes by Pan-Pot and Joris Voorn .

Kalkbrenner has been married to the Romanian DJ Simina Grigoriu since August 25, 2012 . They married in secret at Schloss Herzfelde in Uckermark. Their daughter Isabella Amelie was born on April 20, 2015.

On November 9, 2014, Paul Kalkbrenner was part of the program at the “25 Years Fall of the Wall” festival at the Brandenburg Gate , the official celebrations for this anniversary.

In 2015 Paul Kalkbrenner announced the collaboration with the major label Sony Music . He was the first artist to have access to the Sony Music archive. For his tracks he was allowed to use the original vocals of Jefferson Airplane's hit “White Rabbit”, Luther Vandross classic “Never Too Much” or D-Trains “You Are The One For Me”. On August 7th, 2015 his seventh studio album "7" was released. It went from zero to number 1 in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, and the album was also successful internationally.

In July 2016, Kalkbrenner published the first mixtape for Back To The Future , a personal project in which he remixed the electronic songs of his youth and put them online for free. The musical chronology of his youth comprised a total of three mixtapes. The mixtapes have been downloaded over 1.5 million times. The press reacted accordingly, the American Rolling Stone described it as “viral, techno history lesson” and the US Billboard magazine described Back To The Future as “work of historical excavation”. In 2017 Kalkbrenner announced a back-to-the-future tour. For the first time since 1998 he will not play his own songs and will also appear in halls that are relatively small for him. The tour goes through Europe and is already sold out.

Discography

Studio albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH
2011 Icke again DE2
gold
gold

(21 weeks)DE 		AT4 (13 weeks)
AT 		CH4 (15 weeks)
CH
First published: June 3, 2011
2012 Good day DE4th
gold
gold

(16 weeks)DE 		AT8 (9 weeks)
AT 		CH1 (12 weeks)
CH
First published: November 30, 2012
2014 x DE56 (2 weeks)
DE 		AT46 (2 weeks)
AT 		-
First published: May 30, 2014
2015 7th DE1
gold
gold

(25 weeks)DE 		AT1 (6 weeks)
AT 		CH1 (12 weeks)
CH
First published: August 7, 2015
2018 Parts of Life DE7 (4 weeks)
DE 		AT14 (2 weeks)
AT 		CH4 (4 weeks)
CH
First published: May 18, 2018

Filmography

  • 2008: Berlin Calling (actor and soundtrack composer)
  • 2010: 2010 - A Live Documentary (tour documentary)

Prizes and awards

  • 2011: Echo : Nomination as Newcomer of the Year national
  • 2012: Echo : Nomination in the Club / Dance category (national or international)
  • 2013: Echo : Nomination in the Club / Dance category (national or international)
  • 2016: Echo : Nomination in the Dance national category

Web links

Commons : Paul Kalkbrenner  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Paul Kalkbrenner in an interview on the new album "Guten Tag" - egofm at youtube.de, accessed on May 29, 2013.
  2. ^ Paul Kalkbrenner: Junge aus Ostberlin bei zeit.de, accessed on July 25, 2014.
  3. ↑ a b Paul Kalkbrenner at laut.de, accessed on May 26, 2011.
  4. ^ Paul Kalkbrenner - Self , review at de-bug.de , accessed on May 27, 2011
  5. ^ Paul Kalkbrenner - Self ( Memento from September 26, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), review at intro.de , accessed on May 27, 2011
  6. ↑ chartsurfer.de: Paul & Fritz Kalkbrenner: Sky And Sand. ( Memento from June 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ chartsurfer.de: DJ Ötzi & Nik P .: A star (... Who bears your name). ( Memento from June 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ↑ chartsurfer.de: Wham !: Last Christmas . ( Memento from June 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  9. ↑ Kalkbrenner makes front-line entertainment: “Fat Beats” for soldiers in Afghanistan at taz.de, accessed on March 13, 2012.
  10. ↑ De: Bug 06.2011 (PDF; 32.8 MB), pages 11-12.
  11. ↑ Vom seductive melting at sueddeutsche.de, accessed on March 13, 2012.
  12. ^ Hans Nieswandt : From Detroit To Berlin. , accessed May 26, 2011.
  13. ↑ Three days of black hole at FAZ.net, accessed on January 25, 2015.
  14. ↑ Paul Kalkbrenner's new album "Guten Tag". at raveline.de, accessed on October 17, 2012.
  15. ↑ I'm a bit like Ramses. tagesspiegel.de Retrieved February 25, 2013.
  16. ↑ A music duo as a bridal couple , Berliner Morgenpost, August 25, 2012.
  17. ^ Paul Kalkbrenner: Welcome to the world Isabella Amelie Kalkbrenner !!! , on Facebook, accessed April 20, 2015.
  18. ↑ Press and Information Office of the Federal Government: 25 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall - big public festival at the Brandenburg Gate. In: bundesregierung.de. November 7, 2014, accessed February 28, 2017 .
  19. ^ Renzo Wellinger: Paul Kalkbrenner signs with Sony Music ( memento from March 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), musikmarkt.de from March 23, 2015
  20. ↑ Joe Coscarelli: Paul Kalkbrenner, a Techno Star, Rises From Berlin's Clubs. In: nytimes.com. August 14, 2015, accessed February 28, 2017 .
  21. ^ Paul Kalkbrenner Talks His Viral Techno History Lesson . In: Rolling Stone . ( rollingstone.com ).
  22. ^ Paul Kalkbrenner Embrace's Nostalgia On 'Back To The Future' mixtape . In: Billboard . ( billboard.com ).
  23. ↑ Chart sources: DE AT CH
personal data
SURNAME Kalkbrenner, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Paul dB + (pseudonym); Kalkito (pseudonym); Grenade (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German techno musician
DATE OF BIRTH June 11, 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig