Peter Hein

This article covers the German punk musician. For the rowers from the GDR see Peter Hein (rowers) .

Peter Hein (l.) At a Fehlfarben concert in 2006.

Peter Hein ( Fehlfarben ) at the Würzburg Harbor Summer on August 7, 2010.

Peter Hein, false colors

Peter Hein (* 1957 in Düsseldorf ) is a German musician and was one of the punk pioneers in Germany. He was best known as the singer of the bands Fehlfarben and Family Five .

biography

In his home town of Düsseldorf, Hein (he called himself, after a song by The Clash , Janie J. Jones ) was a first generation punk. In 1977 Franz Bielmeier brought him into the band Charley's Girls . There he worked as a singer and lyricist. In 1978 the band broke up “during a concert”, and at the same time the almost personal-identical band lunch break was formed . In 1979 the lunch break broke up and Fehlfarben was founded.

In 1981, after the release of the album Monarchy and Everyday Life , Hein left the false colors. Hein himself later cited the reason that he had taken three weeks of vacation at his employer (the trained office clerk Hein worked in the IT department of the computer company Rank Xerox in Düsseldorf) for a Fehlfarben tour, but the tour was extended to 5 weeks at short notice .

In 1982 he founded the band Family 5 with Xao Seffcheque . In 1991 Hein teamed up again with the Fehlfarben to record The Tiananmen Record . In 2001 a joint Fehlfarben album was released again with Knietief im Dispo . In 2004 Hein and Seffcheque released the Family 5 album Paths to Fame .

In 2003, Hein was dismissed by Rank Xerox after 30 years with severance pay (“rationalized away”). Approx. In 2005 he moved to Vienna for private reasons.

In 2006 Hein sang the new song Chirurgie 2010 on the Fehlfarben anniversary album 26½ . Together with TV Smith he rocked A Year - It's Going Forward and in a duet with Harry Rag Die wilde Dreizehn . Hein is the singer on the other Fehlfarben studio albums Handbuch für die Welt (2007), Glücksmaschinen (2010), Xenophonoe (2012) and Über ... Menschen (2015). He recorded his last album to date in 2018 with Family 5 under the title A real life in bottles .

In 2007, Hein's first book Geht so was published. Directions , 2009 The lyrics 1979–2009 .

In November 2017, the box we stay , which presents the studio oevre of his band Family 5 from the first creative decade 1981–1991 on five CDs, was released on Wallpaper Records .

Publications

• Goes so. Directions. Lilienfeld Verlag, Düsseldorf 2007, ISBN 978-3-940357-03-8
• The Songtexte 1979–2009 , Lilienfeld Verlag, Düsseldorf 2009, ISBN 978-3-940357-11-3

literature

• Teipel, Jürgen: Waste your youth . A documentary novel about German punk and new wave. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2001. ( ISBN 3-518-39771-0 )

Web links

• Literature by and about Peter Hein in the catalog of the German National Library
• Peter Hein in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Wrong colors, official website
• Peter Hein at Discogs (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} It goes ahead , Süddeutsche Zeitung (print edition) of December 1, 2015, p. 9
2. ^ "Fehlfarben" singer Hein: "I don't want a Goethe-Institut pension!" , Spiegel online from February 15, 2010