Philipp Burger
Philipp Burger (born March 25, 1981 in Sterzing , Italy ; nickname Fips ) is a South Tyrolean singer , songwriter , guitarist and author . He became known as the front singer and lyricist of the German rock band Frei.Wild .
Life
Time before Frei.Wild
childhood
Philipp Burger grew up in Brixen with a Catholic faith, which he has retained. His father is a geometer and his mother a teacher . Burger was her second child alongside two sisters. Even as a child he was musically active and so Burger played the recorder and accordion . He was also a fan of the Zillertal Schürzenjäger at the time .
youth
As a teenager, Burger was a skinhead and singer of the right-wing rock band Kaiserjäger . In the booklet of a demo CD, private pictures from the environment of his skinhead group at the time are printed. There you can find pictures of Burger with his right arm in a row of Nazi skinheads to the Hitler salute. In another picture you can see him with the bold greeting, which is also forbidden in Germany . The band broke up in 2001 after a concert ended in a mass brawl between German and Italian skinheads.
Burger then turned away from the scene. In later publications, including the fan biography published by Klaus Farin , Alone Forward , Kaiserjäger was later portrayed as a harmless provocation tape that would have been merely patriotic. Today he criticizes his right-wing youth in the harshest terms and describes it as the "shitty time of my life" . After graduating from middle school, Burger earned a journeyman's certificate as a carpenter . Then he went into business for himself .
Frei.Wild to this day
In September 2001, Burger founded the German rock band Frei.Wild together with Jonas Notdurfter, which Christian Fohrer and Jochen Gargitter soon joined. In the early years of the band, Burger still worked in the carpentry shop and had built up a relatively large craft business. He closed this to concentrate fully on the band, which he has not regretted to this day. Together they have released 16 albums so far and reached the top of the charts in Germany several times.
When they were left without a permanent record deal in 2008, Burger and their manager at the time, Stefan Harder, who had previously worked at Universal , founded the Rookies & Kings label, which in addition to Frei.Wild has and had many other artists from the German rock scene under contract. Among other published there also Matt Gonzo Roehr ( Böhse Onkelz ), hematoma , serum 114 , BRDigung and Untouchable albums and singles.
In addition to Frei.Wild, Phillip Burger also founded the charity project Wilde Flamme , a multinational band that worked with Peter Maffay , among others . Four singles have now appeared, the proceeds of which went to social projects. Together with the other members of Frei.Wild, he is also involved in the AlpenFlair festival , which is held annually near Brixen.
Private life
Burger is married and has two children. In 2014 he received an agricultural diploma , and a little later he also trained as a beekeeper . After living in Munich for years, he moved back to South Tyrol on January 1, 2019 and opened a farm there.
From July to September 2008, Burger was a brief member of the then bourgeois liberal-conservative party Die Freiheitlichen . After this membership was made public, Burger resigned from the party. In an interview with the television critics TV format , Burger denied his former membership in the party on the pretext that he had only had talks with the then party chairman Pius Leitner .
Discography
Other publications (selection)
- 2000: Get up from Kaiserjäger
- 2011: Just a moment by Kastelruther Spatzen (songwriting)
- 2012: A day in September by Bad Jokers on the album Alte Rituale
- 2013: Saying dead but reborn part 2 of Hematoma
- 2015: Welcome to Alpenflair - The Official Festival Anthem
- 2016: Everyone is a winner (anthem for the Brixen Marathon)
- 2017: There is still heart beating in your life from Bad Jokers & Friends
- 2018: Meine Stadt von Goitzsche Front on the album Deines Glückes Schmied
- 2019: Borders are destroyed by Kaestel on the album No more compromises!
Web links
- Philippsburg at Discogs (English)
- Interview with Philipp Burger
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Drunk up. 5 wine questions for… Philipp Burger. In: weinlese.it. April 22, 2009. Retrieved January 15, 2019 .
- ↑ Efrem Oberlechner: Exclusive interview - Philipp Burger looks back at his childhood. In: unsertirol24. January 7, 2008, accessed July 8, 2015 .
- ↑ a b Frei.Wild: the band, the truth, the Hitler salute. In: Rechtsaussen.de. Retrieved May 17, 2019 (German).
- ↑ Johannes Radke: The new imperial chapel. Dull patriotic rock from South Tyrol conquered arenas all over Germany. In: Zeit Online . May 10, 2012, accessed July 8, 2015 .
- ↑ Frei.Wild - right or not? - Interview with the scandal band DASDING. YouTube channel DASDING, December 13, 2013, accessed January 8, 2017 .
- ^ A b Anne Lena Mösken: Philipp Burger von Frei.wild: The folk musician. December 18, 2012, accessed on May 17, 2019 (German).
- ↑ biography. Laut.de , accessed on July 8, 2015 .
- ↑ Philipp Burger: 17 questions for everyone and some more. In: Merch Magazin No. 11, 2016, p. 3.
- ↑ Marlene Halser : Frei.Wild about their closeness to right: “Traditions are important to us” . In: The daily newspaper: taz . April 2, 2015, ISSN 0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed on May 17, 2019]).
- ^ "An economic engine". In: The New South Tyrolean Daily Newspaper. Retrieved May 17, 2019 .
- ↑ Audiobook from Frei.Wild: Opposition (Limited Box-Set)
- ↑ You are Tyrol Cooperative: Philipp Burger is a student again. In: Unsertirol24. Retrieved May 17, 2019 .
- ↑ “The excavators will come on Monday”. In: Südtirol News. Retrieved May 17, 2019 (German).
- ↑ News! Archived from the original on October 3, 2008 ; accessed on February 13, 2016 .
- ↑ Frei.Wild: The complete interview. In: YouTube . January 12, 2013, accessed February 13, 2016 .
- ↑ Kastelruther Spatzen - Just a moment. In: hitparade.ch. Retrieved May 17, 2019 .
- ↑ One day in September (feat. Philipp Burger) | Bad Jokers | Official Website | Up the Jokers. In: Bad Jokers | Official website. Retrieved May 17, 2019 (German).
- ↑ Pressure Magazine: The band Hämatom made a video for the song "Totgesagt noch Neugeboren". In the newly recorded version of the song, they received prominent support from two musicians. Every information is here. In: Music News - Pressure Magazine. September 8, 2013, accessed on May 17, 2019 (German).
- ↑ "Everyone is a winner - run to the limits". In: brixenmarathon.com. Retrieved May 17, 2019 (German).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Burger, Philipp |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian singer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 25, 1981 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brixen |