Robbers (band)

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robber
The Robbers, 2006
The Robbers, 2006
General information
Genre (s) Cologne dialect and carnival music
founding 1991
Website www.deraeuber.de
Founding members
Lead vocals, guitar (until 2016)
 Karl-Heinz Brand
Keyboard , vocals
 Kurt Feller
Norbert "Nobby" Campmann (until 2007, † 2007)
Current occupation
Main vocals, electric bass
 Sven West (since 2019)
Keyboard, accordion, vocals
 Kurt Feller
Drums, vocals
 Wolfgang Bachem (since 2001)
Electric guitar, acoustic guitar, vocals
 Andreas "Schrader" Dorn (since 2015)
E-bass, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, vocals
 Jürgen "Geppie" Gebhard (since 2015)
former members
Vocals, bass
 Torben Klein (2012-2018)
Vocals, electric guitar, acoustic guitar
 Gino Trovatello (2007-2015)
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Beware of robbers
  DE 80 02/18/2002 (1 week)
Dat it home
  DE 49 January 15, 2016 (2 weeks)
World hits op Kölsch - live
  DE 32 06/16/2017 (1 week)
Singles
Everything for the cat
  DE 63 01/29/2001 (6 weeks)
And she wasn't much older than 18 years
  DE 83 03/03/2003 (2 weeks)
Allah have mercy on me
  DE 78 01/24/2005 (4 weeks)
What would men be without women?
  DE 63 02/02/2007 (5 weeks)
One night (is not enough for me)
  DE 88 11/23/2007 (3 weeks)
Wonderful (The Wedding Waltz)
  DE 76 03/11/2011 (2 weeks)

The robbers , even De robbers , is a dialect - band with roots in the Cologne Carnival . Her repertoire consists largely of songs in the Cologne language, but some are also written in High German .

history

The group was founded in 1991 by Karl-Heinz Brand and Kurt Feller; guitarist Norbert Campmann joined them two years later. Wolfgang Bachem followed in 2001; 2007 Matthias Kalenberg and Gino Trovatello († 2020). In 2012 Kalenberg left the band; his successor was Torben Klein . The robbers perform mainly in Germany, they also gave concerts in Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Spain and Austria. They toured Namibia three times and performed in Pennsylvania at the German Folklore Festival. In September 2006 the group took part in the German-American Steuben Parade at the invitation of the “New Yorker Funken” . On May 25, 2007, Campmann died of heart failure after a pulmonary embolism .

The robbers worked on over 150 radio and television productions and released ten albums by 2016. They were three times with their singles Who tattooed the rose on my bum , I have something that you don't have and everything for the cat in the top 100 of the German single charts , eleven weeks with their ballad from Kölschen Bloot in “Cologne Charts ”, seven weeks of which at number one, and with the waltz Ding Auge they reached number 2 in the WDR4 listener hit parade. Her carnival hits Sulang die Botz still holds (2006) and What would be the men without women? (2007) won the BRF2 Belgian charts. They received the “Närrischen Oskar” three times from the Cologne EXPRESS and were awarded the “Kölschen Hätz” by ZDF for their services in the carnival. Gino Trovatello left the band after the 2014/2015 carnival session. In August 2015, Andreas Dorn alias "Schrader" and Jürgen "Geppie" Gebhard joined the group. The singer Torben Klein was replaced by Sven West at the end of 2018.

Discography

Albums

  • 1993: When the Trommelche is gone
  • 1995: Real Kölsch
  • 1996: That's a hammer
  • 1998: Kölsches Bloot
  • 2001: Beware of robbers
  • 2003: Have a laugh
  • 2005: Sulang that Botz still holds
  • 2009: à la carte
  • 2012: Kölle alaaf You
  • 2016: Dat es Heimat
  • 2017: World hits op Kölsch - live

Web links

swell

  1. ↑ a b Chart sources Germany: top rankings / details
  2. ↑ "Mourning in Cologne's music scene. He played for Räuber and Fööss: Gino Trovatello is dead ” on express.de on April 27, 2020
  3. ^ Report on the death of Norbert Campmann in the Bild newspaper
  4. ^ "De Räuber": New front man there - Klein booted out by email