Robin Haefs

Robin Haefs (born September 27, 1980 in Berlin-Schöneberg ) is a German songwriter and rapper from Berlin , who was also active under the pseudonym Mad Maks .

Life

Robin Haefs grew up as the son of parents from the 1968 movement . During his school days he started with graffiti and later with rap.

From a collaboration with the opera singer Rainer Scheerer, whom Robin Haefs met at school in 1998, the joint label Springstoff was founded a little later. As a rapper, he published various sound carriers and recorded songs with artists such as Damion Davis , Morlockk Dilemma and Sookee . He worked with producers like Beatzarre , Djorkaeff and DJ Ilan . Robin Haefs is no longer part of Springstoff today.

From 2002 to 2004 Haefs studied Design Technology at the TU Berlin, 2004 to 2007 Multimedia Arts at the SAE Institute Berlin. In addition to workshops, concerts, music and video productions, Robin Haefs, as project manager, develops “audience development concepts”, which are usually brought to the stage in the form of rap musicals. Examples are Romeo feat. Julia for the SWR or ALICE! for the Darmstadt State Theater .

Haefs performed as a support act during the SDP tours in 2013 and 2014 and was part of the SDP live band as a DJ. Geil, 'ne Banane (feat. SDP) is his most successful song as a rapper to date.

Discography

As a rapper

• 2004: Maksimale Sikkness (Collabo album with Sikk, Springstoff)
• 2009: Halleluja Berlin (album, Springstoff)
• 2013: Aijajajajajajajay (EP, Viva Berolina)

As an author (chart successes)

year	Title artist	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, artist , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)			Remarks
		DE	AT	CH
2016	We're big Mark Forster	DE3 platinum (29 weeks)DE	AT18th gold (20 weeks)AT	CH16 platinum (20 weeks)CH	First published: April 1, 2016 Sales: + 445,000
	Number Eins Stereoact feat. Chris Cronauer	DE40 (7 weeks) DE	AT29 (5 weeks) AT	CH89 (2 weeks) CH	First published: December 30, 2016
2017	Roller coaster Helene Fischer	DE10 (14 weeks) DE	AT37 (1 week) AT	CH25 (3 weeks) CH	First published: September 8, 2017
2018	Whenever we meet LEA × Cyril	DE16 gold (32 weeks)DE	AT59 (8 weeks) AT	-	First published: August 17, 2018 Sales: + 200,000
2019	Not just his stereo act	DE92 (1 week) DE	-	-	First published: February 22, 2019
	194 countries Mark Forster	DE13 (... weeks) DE	AT14 (... weeks) AT	CH48 (16 weeks) CH	First published: September 13, 2019
	110 Capital Bra & Samra feat. LEA	DE1 platinum (… Where.)DE	AT2 (... weeks) AT	CH2 (... weeks) CH	First published: September 20, 2019 Sales: + 400,000
	Once in a lifetime Wincent Weiss	DE60 (1 week) DE	-	CH37 (1 week) CH	First published: September 20, 2019
	110 (prologue) LEA	DE43 (10 weeks) DE	-	CH80 (1 week) CH	First published: October 18, 2019
2020	At the end Samra & Elif	DE4 (13 weeks) DE	AT3 (7 weeks) AT	CH8 (4 weeks) CH	First published: January 24, 2020
	Stairwell LEA	DE18 (... weeks) DE	AT48 (... weeks) AT	CH98 (1 week) CH	First published: March 6, 2020
	For me, Celine	DE70 (5 weeks) DE	-	-	First published: March 13, 2020
	Okay LEA	DE85 (2 weeks) DE	-	-	First published: May 15, 2020
The following songs did not appear as single, but were made available for download and streaming through the album and were thus able to achieve a placement:
2019	Purple Rain Capital Bra & Samra feat. Santos	DE50 (3 weeks) DE	-	-	Chart entry: October 25, 2019
	Number one singles	DE1DE	AT-AT	CH-CH
	Top 10 singles	DE4thDE	AT2AT	CH2CH
	Singles in the charts	DE14thDE	AT8thAT	CH9CH

Awards for music sales

Note: Awards in countries from the chart tables or chart boxes can be found in these.

Country / Region	gold	platinum	Sales	swell
Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources)
Germany (BVMI)	gold1	2 × platinum2	1,000,000	musikindustrie.de
Austria (IFPI)	gold1	-	15,000	ifpi.at
Switzerland (IFPI)	-	platinum1	30,000	hitparade.ch
All in all	2 × gold2	3 × platinum3

Trivia

He runs the Kauz & Kiebitz bar in Berlin.

literature

• Robin Haefs: Rap in the theater. For stage art without clichés. In: Matthias Rettner (Ed.): Power of Diversity. The Crossing Lines Project . Theater der Zeit, Berlin 2018, pp. 72–77

Web links

• Official website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mad Maks | Hallelujah Berlin | Biography. MadMaks.de, accessed on February 23, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Bye, Springstoff: The Early Years. VivaBerolina.de, accessed on February 23, 2017 . 
3. ↑ Mad Maks: Take off! feat. Damion, Sookee and BierPimp. YouTube.com, accessed February 23, 2017 . 
4. ↑ Mad Maks: War in Berlin (Remix) feat. Sookee. YouTube.com, accessed February 23, 2017 . 
5. ↑ Mad Maks: Fredi the bottle man [♫ by Beatzarre]. YouTube.com, accessed February 23, 2017 . 
6. ↑ Mad Maks: Do you know that? [♫ by Djorkaeff]. YouTube.com, accessed February 23, 2017 . 
7. ↑ Mad Maks: Camouflage (soldiers are murderers) [♫ by Ilan]. YouTube.com, accessed February 23, 2017 . 
8. ↑ SPRINGSTOFF imprint. Springstoff.de, accessed on February 23, 2017 . 
9. ^ Rapucation »Rap, theater, education! “ALICE! Rapucation.de, accessed on February 23, 2017 . 
10. ↑ Mad Maks - introductory poem SDP [Live in Berlin 04/05/2014]. YouTube.com, accessed February 23, 2017 . 
11. ↑ Mad Maks & SDP - Great, a banana! YouTube.com, accessed February 23, 2017 . 
12. ↑ Robin Haefs. hitparade.ch, accessed on May 14, 2020 . 
13. ↑ Repertoire search. online.gema.de, accessed on May 12, 2020 . 
14. ↑ Robin Haefs (@robinhaefs) • Instagram photos and videos. Instagram.com, accessed September 28, 2016 .