Wolfgang Petry
Wolfgang "Wolle" Petry (* 22. September 1951 as Franz Hubert Wolfgang Remling in Cologne-Raderthal ) is a German pop singer and songwriter . His best-known titles are Wahnsinn (1983) and Falling in love, lost, forgotten, forgive (1992). According to its own information from November 2018, Petry has sold around 18 million records. He is also active as a rock singer under the stage name Pete Wolf .
biography
Personal life and beginnings
Petry was born in 1951 in the Raderthal district of Cologne and grew up there. As a 16-year-old, after his father's death, he had to take responsibility for his brother, who was five years his junior. During school he founded the band Screamers, then he trained as a precision mechanic . At the time of his apprenticeship, he toured with his band in Cologne and the surrounding area. They later performed with the Top Singers. Petry has been married since 1972 and has a son who is himself a singer and songwriter under the name Achim Petry .
discovery
Petry was discovered by the producer team Tony Hendrik and Karin Hartmann in 1975 during a performance in the Forsbach disco "Whiskey Bill" . You wrote and produced Petry's debut album Ein Freund - ein Mann , which was released in December 1976 and from which, among other things, the single Every friend is also a man / Who knows Julie? was decoupled. Petry's debut single Sommer in der Stadt was also taken from this LP and was Petry's first hit with rank 16. With this piece he appeared on the ZDF hit parade on July 31, 1976 . The audience voted Petry in second place behind Jürgen Drews with Ein Bett im Kornfeld . This was followed by the LP Zweisaitig with the single Ruby . Petry went on tour with the first songs. The singles Wenn ich go ' and Jessica , which was number 8 in the German single charts in 1981, followed. The Hendrik / Hartmann team was also responsible for the LPs Einfach Leben und Wahnsinn from 1983 with the single of the same name . In total it produced 20 singles and seven LPs for Petry by 1984.
tape
At the beginning of his career, Petry appeared on television shows with playback musicians . In 1996 he was looking for a suitable band to present his music live. His manager at the time, Armin Rahn, who also represented the band The Public, established contact between Petry and the members of this group. The "Petry-Band" was then occupied by Axel Kowollik (bass), Rolf Pröpper (guitar), Richard Schuster (drums), Rainer Jäger (keyboard) and Wolfgang Petry (vocals). Bernd Kühl joined the team as a guitarist and the band went on various stadium tours. The most famous tour took place in 1999. The concert in what was then the Georg Melches Stadium in Essen was called Wolfgang Petry - Simply Geil! released on DVD. The band, which consisted mostly of rock 'n' roll musicians, gave Petry's music a new style. Schlager was combined with rock, which had a great influence on his live concerts.
Career
After Petry had become quieter at the end of the 1980s, he made his comeback in 1991 with the hit written by Jürgen Dönges in love, lost, forgotten, forgive . The song had previously been offered to Jürgen Drews, who refused. From then on, Petry could be heard on the radio again and featured in the charts. At the German Schlager Festival in 1994 , his song Denn one day perhaps took first place ahead of Michelle and Andreas Martin . For this he was presented with the "Golden Muse" from Dieter Thomas Heck . In 1996, Petry's best-of album Alles was released , which sold more than two million times. In 1997 he brought out the single women . This also landed high in the charts. In August of the same year, the album was released never enough . The CD Einfach geil followed in 1998 , with which he went on tour.
In 1996 and 1998 Petry was the annual winner of the German Schlager Parade and in 1997, 1998 and 1999 the annual winner of the ZDF hit parade. The Golden Tuning Fork Petry received a total of ten times, including from 1996 to 2003 without interruption and 1998, the tuning fork in platinum. 1997 to 2001 he received the German music award Echo . In 2002 he parted with his friendship bracelets , which were auctioned for the benefit of the victims of the floods in the summer of 2002. In 2004, Petry took first place in the RTL program Die ultimative Chartshow - The most successful long-running hits with The longest single in the world . Six more albums had been released by 2005.
In September 2006 Petry celebrated his 30th stage anniversary; on this occasion he was awarded another platinum tuning fork. On September 16, 2006, Petry announced the end of his career as part of the recording of the broadcast for the award of the Golden Tuning Fork. It was broadcast on October 8th on ZDF . In February 2014 an album was released with the title Once again! containing reinterpretations of his songs. In the summer of 2014, Petry appeared in public for the first time in eight years in the music video for the single Lifeboat of his son. In February 2015 his comeback album Brandneu was released and in March 2016 followed 40 years - 40 hits . Both albums were composed or arranged and produced by René Lipps .
In October 2017, the album Happy Man was released with English rock , blues and country pieces, which he released with the band under the stage name Pete Wolf.
engagement
As a reaction to the arson attacks in Lübeck and Solingen , Wolfgang Petry and Helmuth Rüssmann launched the Mut zur Menschlichkeit campaign as a symbol against xenophobia, for more cooperation and tolerance. The result was the benefit single CD Who Closes Your Eyes (Will Never See the Truth) , in which all those involved waived their income. There were GG Anderson , Tom Astor , Roberto Blanco , Andy Borg , Bernhard Brink , Brunner and Brunner , Dirk Busch , Klaus Densow , Jürgen Drews , Karel Gott , Hanne Haller , Ibo , Claudia Jung , Patrick Lindner , Andreas Martin , Michelle , Wencke Myhre , Nicki , Nadine Norelle , Wolfgang Petry, Rosanna Rocci , Edward Simoni , Tommy Steiner and the Zillertaler Schürzenjäger . In 2015 there was a new edition of the action with 19 artists from the hit scene, in December 2019 another ten artists were added. All proceeds go to the aid organization Aktion Deutschland Hilft .
Discography
Studio albums
| year | title |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 DE
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 AT
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 CH
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| 1976 | A friend - a man | - | - | - |
First published: 1976
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| 1979 | Two-string | - | - | - |
First published: 1979
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| 1981 | Live simply | - | - | - |
First published: September 1981
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| 1983 | madness | - | - | - |
First published: July 1983
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| 1984 | Rough ways | - | - | - |
First published: 1984
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| 1987 | With open arms | - | - | - |
First published: February 1987
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| 1988 | Some like it hot | - | - | - |
First published: September 1988
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| 1991 | Where is the problem? | - | - | - |
First published: February 1991
|
| 1992 | Fall in love, lost, forgotten, forgive |
DE45  (10 weeks)DE |
- | - |
First published: June 22, 1992
Sales: + 250,000 |
| 1993 | longing for you |
DE70 (8 weeks) DE |
- | - |
First published: November 22, 1993
|
| 1994 | Free for you |
DE21 (15 weeks) DE |
- | - |
First published: October 10, 1994
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| 1995 | No matter |
DE25 (11 weeks) DE |
- | - |
First published: September 22, 1995
|
| 1997 | Never enough |
DE2  × 2
(64 weeks)DE |
AT13 (16 weeks)AT |
CH16 (10 weeks)CH |
First published: August 25, 1997
Sales: + 1,050,000 |
| 1998 | Just crazy! |
DE1 × 3
(33 weeks)DE |
AT14 (8 weeks) AT |
CH21st (6 weeks)CH |
First published: October 5, 1998
Sales: + 775,000 |
| 2000 | Concrete |
DE1 × 3
(27 weeks)DE |
AT32 (9 weeks) AT |
CH33 (11 weeks) CH |
First published: June 19, 2000
Sales: + 450,000 |
| 2001 | Roller coaster |
DE2 (15 weeks)DE |
AT52 (3 weeks) AT |
CH63 (2 weeks) CH |
First published: October 1, 2001
Sales: + 150,000 |
| 2003 | No reason to panic |
DE5 (11 weeks)DE |
- | - |
First published: September 22, 2003
Sales: + 100,000 |
| 2004 | Typical |
DE11 (10 weeks)DE |
- | - |
First published: October 25, 2004
Sales: + 100,000 |
| 2005 | I am a Cologne boy |
DE40 (3 weeks) DE |
- | - |
First published: September 23, 2005
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| 2006 | My favourite songs |
DE81 (1 week) DE |
- | - |
First published: July 7, 2006
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| 2015 | Brand new |
DE1 (11 weeks) DE |
AT38 (1 week) AT |
CH54 (1 week) CH |
First published: February 27, 2015
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| 2017 | Happy man |
DE65 (1 week) DE |
- | - |
First released: October 27, 2017
as the Pete Wolf Band |
| 2018 | Just now! |
DE3 (11 weeks) DE |
AT44 (1 week) AT |
CH60 (1 week) CH |
First published: November 30, 2018
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| 2019 | 2084 | - | - | - |
First released: December 6th, 2019
as the Pete Wolf Band |
gray hatching : no chart data available for this year
Awards
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ECHO Pop
- 1997: for "hits / folk music artist national / international"
- 1998: for "Schlager / folk music artist national / international"
- 1999: for "hits / folk music artists national / international"
- 2000: for "hits / folk music artists national / international"
- 2001: for "hits / folk music artist national / international"
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Golden tuning fork
- 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2005 - "Most successful soloist in German Pop / Schlager"
- 1998 and 2006 - "Platinum Life Award"
Web links
- Literature by and about Wolfgang Petry in the catalog of the German National Library
- Wolfgang Petry's website
- Wolfgang Petry at laut.de
- dpa : "Hell" or "Madness"? - Wool Petry is making hits again. Twelve years after his one-time departure from the hit circus, there is another new record by Wolfgang Petry. “Right now!” Picks up on his big hits. However, one step is still missing for a full return. Leipziger Volkszeitung , online portal, November 27, 2018. Accessed December 1, 2018 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ dpa : "Hell" or "Madness"? - Wool Petry is making hits again. Twelve years after his one-time departure from the hit circus, there is another new record by Wolfgang Petry. “Right now!” Picks up on his big hits. However, one step is still missing for a full return. Leipziger Volkszeitung , online portal, November 27, 2018. Accessed December 1, 2018 .
- ↑ a b c d Wolfgang Petry . In: Pop-Archiv International 01/2003 / Munzinger-Archiv . January 15, 2003.
- ↑ achimpetry.net ( Memento from October 15, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ History on wolfgangpetry.de ( Memento from May 9, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Petry ( memento from February 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) accessed on March 24, 2011.
- ↑ a b Wolfgang Petrys biography
- ↑ Wolfgang Petry: Resignation with tuning fork. Accessed March 24, 2011.
- ↑ frz: "That's my thank you to you!": Wolfgang Petry back: Comeback CD is coming in February. In: Focus Online . January 2, 2014, accessed October 14, 2018 .
- ↑ sonymusic.de accessed on April 26, 2016
- ↑ http://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/happy-man-von-pete-wolf-band-die-transformation-des.2177.de.html?dram:article_id=399217
- ↑ Supplement to the 6-CD album Complete by Wolfgang Petry, third penultimate page (not numbered), 1999
- ↑ https://www.swr.de/swr4/bw/musik-events/wolfgang-petry-biografie,article-swr-10708.html , accessed on February 16, 2020
- ↑ https://www.facebook.com/pg/mutzurmenschlichkeit/posts/ , accessed on February 16, 2020
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Petry, Wolfgang |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Remling, Wolfgang (real name); Remling, Franz Hubert Wolfgang (full real name); Petry, wool (nickname) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German pop singer and songwriter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 22, 1951 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cologne-Raderthal |