Paula (band)

Paula
General information
origin	Berlin , Germany
Genre (s)	Electro pop
founding	1997
Founding members
Vocals , guitar	Elke Brauweiler
Keyboard , sampler	Berend Intelmann (until 2005, from 2013)
Current occupation
Vocals , guitar	Elke Brauweiler
Keyboard , sampler backing vocal	Berend Intelmann (until 2005, from 2013)
guitar	Benjamin Schlez (until 2005, from 2013)
former members
guitar	Patrick Arp (2006-2007)
guitar	Thomas Hessler (2006-2007)
bass	Arne Gosh (2006-2007)
Drums	Nils Oljenczak (2006-2007)
Bass , guitar , keyboard	Daniel Baumann (2008-2013)
Drums	Marco Barotti (2008-2013)

Paula is a corporation founded in 1997, Pop - band from Berlin .

history

Paula was founded by Berend Intelmann and Elke Brauweiler as a German-language electro-pop band, each of which has a French-language title on some albums. Paula's roots lie in the so-called Berlin living room scene , from which other musicians such as Quarks , Barbara Morgenstern and Mia. Emerged. While Paula only consisted of Brauweiler and Intelmann live in the first years of its existence, who, as a pure electro project, handled keyboards and samplers on stage, the band now performed in the traditional line-up with additional musicians on guitar, bass and drums on. In 2005 Intelmann left the band, but continued to work as a producer and composer. Between 2008 and 2013, the band consisted of Elke Brauweiler, who now plays guitar more often, of Daniel Baumann (see also Nachlader ) on bass, guitar and keyboard and Marco Barotti on drums.

In February 2014, Paula released a new album with the original line-up Brauweiler / Intelmann (with Benja Schlez on guitar). A first track on this album ("1987") was previously released in October 2013 as a video on the Internet.

Founding myth

Statements about the founding of the band Paula and the origin of the name Paula are repeated in the press that are wrong:

• Intelmann and Brauweiler met at a concert, but not at a Pet Shop Boys concert in London.
• The name "Paula" was not planned for a child together.

Awards

• Nomination for the Echo Award 2001: Berlin Young Talent Award for the promotion of national pop music
• Nomination for the Echo Award 2002: National Artist of the Year for the album Liebe .

Discography

Albums

year	title	Chart positions
		DE
2000	Ascension	-
2001	love	86
2002	Why Berlin	99
2005	Keep calm	-
2008	Like now	-
2014	Paula	-

Singles

year	title	Chart positions	album
		DE
2000	When it happened	-	Ascension
2000	Jimmy	-
2001	From good parents	-	love
2001	Dearest	-
2002	The town	-	Why Berlin
2002	I don't think about you often	-
2005	Everything always turns out differently	99	Keep calm
2006	I miss you	-
2008	When	-	Like now
2008	Like now	-
2010	Straight	-
2014	See in color	-	Paula

Others

year	title	Compilation
2003	Middle of the night	Rio Reiser - family album
2005	I've come a long way	Hildegard Knef - your songs are different

Web links

• Paula on Facebook
• Paula at laut.de
• Paula at Discogs (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ westzeit.de
2. ↑ laut.de
3. ↑ blog.zeit.de
4. ↑ spiegel.de
5. ↑ neon.de
6. ↑ laut.de
7. ↑ ^{a b} Sources for Charts: DE