Rock house

Rock house
Rockhaus performing at the Fritz Club in Berlin (November 2009)
General information
Genre (s)	German rock
founding	1978
Website	http://www.rockhaus.net/
Current occupation
Vocals , guitar	Mike Kilian (until 1994, from 2005)
Guitar , vocals	Reinhard Reini Petereit (Mr. Petereit)
Drums , vocals	Michael Heinz Angel Haberstroh
Bass guitar	Robert Protzmann (since 2019)
former members
Bass guitar, vocals	Ingo York (1978–1987, 2010 as guest)
singing	Acki Ackumulator Noack (1994–1996)
Keyboard	Carsten Beathoven Mohren (1988-2017)
Bass guitar	Reinhardt Maxs Repke (1988-2018, from Reform )

Rockhaus 1989 in Zepernick

Annual hit parade of the GDR

title

Candies and chocolate   GDR 22nd 1982 Disco in the subway   GDR 14th 1983 Bärbel   GDR 18th 1983 I have to talk about it   GDR 43 1983 End of work   GDR 30th 1984 At night   GDR 32 1984 Forget me   GDR 11 1985 Endless   GDR 36 1985 stay cool   GDR 14th 1987 Feelings   GDR 15th 1987 Without you   GDR 31 1987 ILD   GDR 1 1988 Just for love   GDR 8th 1988 To love me   GDR 1 1989 Where?   GDR 1 1990 Dancing (in the middle of November)   GDR 9 1990

Rockhaus is a German rock band and one of the (East) German representatives of the Neue Deutsche Welle and New Wave . In the 1980s they were one of the most popular rock bands in the GDR . In the all-time ranking of the GDR's annual hit parade (since 1972), they come in second, right after the Puhdys and closely followed by Lift for the number one hits.

history

In 1978 the group was formed from two school bands. She entered the GDR rock scene in 1981. Musically she was very much oriented towards New Wave and funk and later developed into straightforward rock music. Her texts were strongly based on the time and music feeling of the GDR youth at the time and were therefore very well received there. The first productions met with so much popularity that in 1983 already, both the first single and the first LP called sweets and chocolate at Amiga appeared. Disco in the U-Bahn from this LP was the first German hip-hop song , according to musicologist Michael Rauhut . The 1985 album Alles Klar? also included some more successful songs. On the LP ILD , released in 1988, the band presented itself musically more mature. In the same year Rockhaus was named Band of the Year . The title song Ich liebe Dich became the number one hit in the GDR annual hit parade in 1988. In 1989 the song Mich zu liebe - also from the ILD album - also made it to the top of the charts.

After the fall of the Wall , the band produced two more albums, of which Merciless Dreams in particular was quite successful. From autumn 1994 to 1996 Acki Noack was the singer of Rockhaus. In 1998 the band broke up due to internal difficulties. Mike Kilian, the singer of the group, continued to work as a solo artist. In 2005 the band Die Prinzen was looking for an opening act for their tour. Tobias Künzel persuaded the band to make a comeback. Rockhaus toured in a row as the opening act for The Princes. The success of the tour made the band want to be back on stage together. In 2006 they went on their own East Germany tour, and the group was well received by the audience. During this tour, Rockhaus had a live DVD produced, which was released in 2009 under the name Rockhaus - Danke .

In 2006 the LP ILD from 1988 was remastered and released on CD. Jürgen Ehle von Pankow , Uwe Haßbecker and Rüdiger Barton von Silly took part as guest musicians . Petereit and Mohren produced this LP together with Jürgen Ehle.

In 2009 the CD Positiv was released and then they went on tour.

In 2010 the DVD edition Ost-Rock Klassik appeared , on which numerous " Eastern bands" such as Karat , Pankow , Eisbrenner , Electra , Silly , Renft , City and Puhdys performed together with the German Film Orchestra Babelsberg . On this live DVD, which was recorded on September 11, 2010 in the Berlin Kindl-Bühne Wuhlheide , Rockhaus is represented with Mich zu liebe , Bleib cool and ILD . In the booklet is Ingo York under its previous name Ingo Griese mentioned as co-composer.

At the beginning of 2011, Rockhaus began producing their new album, Treibstoff. This album was recorded in the studio of Rainer Oleak , whom they could also engage as the producer of the CD. Fuel was released on February 3, 2012, while the band went on a tour to 17 East German cities.

On November 22, 2016 the band announced that Mohren was seriously ill; Mohren died on January 31, 2017.

In addition to his work as a singer for Rockhaus, Mike Kilian also plays in his own Rolling Stones cover band Starfucker. In addition, he produced some solo albums. He was also involved in the GDR group Gitarreros , in which he was a singer alongside Herbert Dreilich ( Karat ), Tamara Danz ( Silly ) and Toni Krahl ( City ).

occupation

• Mike Kilian ( guitar , vocals ) (until 1994, 1996–1998, from 2005)
• Reinhard Reini Petereit (Mr. Petereit) (guitar, vocals)
• Michael HeinzAngel Haberstroh ( drums , vocals)
• Ingo York ( bass guitar , vocals) (until 1987, then to Pankow ; 2010 as a guest)
• Reinhardt Maxs Repke ( bass guitar ) (from 1988, from Reform )
• Carsten Beathoven Mohren ( Keyboard ) (1988–2017, from We )
• Acki Ackumulator Noack (vocals) (1994–1996)

Discography

Albums

• 1983: candies and chocolate (Amiga)
• 1985: All right ..? (Amiga)
• 1988: ILD (Amiga), 1994 also as CD with Edel Records , 2006 as CD with Buschfunk
• 1990: Merciless dreams
• 1995: wonderful
• 1996: The Best
• 2009: Ild (30 years Rockhaus)
• 2009: positive
• 2012: fuel
• 2015: Therapy
• 2016: Therapy - Live in Berlin , limited album, (Killingkilian Records / Buschfunk)
• 2019: Tempozoo

Singles

• 1983: Disco in the subway / The new teacher
• 1984: All right / Forget me
• 1987: dreams, dreams / feelings / keep cool / without you
• 1990: Where to / Rudi, Rudi
• 1996: You forgot the color film / ice

DVDs

• 2009: Rockhaus - Thank you! 30 years live
• 2017: Rockhaus - Live in Berlin (last concert with Carsten Mohren )

literature

• Götz Hintze: Rock Lexicon of the GDR . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-89602-303-9 , p. 249.

Web links

Commons : Rockhaus  album with pictures, videos and audio files

• Official website
• Portrait at deutsche-mugge.de
• Rockhaus at Hitparade.ch
• Rockhaus at ostmusik.de ( Memento from July 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (archive version)
• Rockhaus at ostbeat.de ( Memento from June 19, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (archive version)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Rock Lexicon of the GDR
2. ↑ Rockhaus at discogs