Rummelsnuff

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Rummelsnuff 2007 in the Rüdersdorf lime works

Rummelsnuff (born July 14, 1966 in Grossenhain as Roger Baptist ) is a German musician and lyricist who represents the styles of electropunk and modern workers' songs.

Life

Baptist is the son of a family of musicians. His mother is the violin teacher Renate Baptist, who sang in the Gerd Michaelis Choir before playing keyboards and violin with Frank Schöbel . His father is the trombonist Peter Baptist, band leader of the Peter Baptist Combo, with which artists such as Hartmut Schulze-Gerlach and Dieter Birr from the Puhdys played. He grew up near Dresden and was trained as a bassoonist as a child and adolescent . At a young age he played in the symphony orchestra of the Grossenhain district .

In the early 1980s, Roger Baptist began experimental work with old keyboards, microphones, drums, a bass guitar and various tape recorders . Under the influence of the Leipzig band Die Art , he founded the band Kein Mitleid in 1987, which was mainly devoted to English-language music. In 1989 he joined the Dresden underground band Friends of the Italian Opera (FDIO) and, as a co-author of Jänz Dittschlag and RJKKHänsch, created numerous songs for the band, which were published on the record Um Thron und Liebe and the CD Edle Einfalt Stille Größe . After the Friends of Italian Opera broke up in 1992, Baptist founded the EBM and NDH band Automatic Noir, which existed until 1999. After the decline of the project followed several years of abstinence from music.

Baptist worked as a bodybuilding trainer and from 2007 to 2014 worked as a bouncer at the Berlin Technoclub Berghain . Through the contact and various artistic works with the Norwegian artist Bjarne Melgaard , the design for the figure of "Rummelsnuff" was created in 2004.

After the former singer of the FDIO, RJKKHänsch, also known as Ray van Zeschau, on the occasion of his fortieth birthday was able to persuade Baptist on April 17, 2004 to a "special concert" by the Friends of Italian Opera and above all to sing, he finally celebrated in December 2005 in the Kurländer Palais in Dresden, together with Kaltfront, publicly his “rebirth” as a hype.

The first album was released in March 2008 Halt durch! on Alfred Hilsberg's label ZickZack Records . In the same year Rummelsnuff completed a tour of Germany. This was followed by the collaboration with the Bolshevik Kurkapelle schwarz-rot , Arctic Circle 18 , the directors Miron Zownir and Edwin Brienen and others. Baptist also drew attention to himself as an actor in some feature films.

In May 2010 the musician released a second album with the Karlshorst station , which has since switched to the Berlin label Out of Line . This was followed in January 2011 by the DVD plus EP box Brüder / Kino Karlshorst . It contains nineteen music videos previously published by Rummelsnuff. The EP features a new version of The Partisan, written by Anna Marly . He had this song of the French Resistance performed by Christian Asbach , who has since accompanied Rummelsnuff on tours, initially occasionally, and later constantly, and provides vocal enhancement and reinforcement in later pieces.

Rummelsnuff calls his style "Derbe Strommusik" or Electropunk - Gassenhauer . Sports and workers anthems are represented as well as gloomy ballads . Most of the texts are in German . In addition to the Spanish-language piece Hombres, Hombres , the partly Romanian-language Salutare and Hammerfest , which is partly sung in Norwegian , he also recorded several cover versions in the original language, such as Mongoloid from the US new wave band Devo and the French chanson Nathalie by Gilbert Bécaud . Barry Manilow's world hit Mandy, however, translated Rummelsnuff into German. Auf Himmelfahrt (2012) there is a new version by the Italian hit song Azzurro with the original Italian text, performed together with fellow campaigner Christian Asbach.

Performance at Amphi Festival 2017

Live the solo project Rummelsnuff was and is accompanied by various guest musicians, for example from 2005 to 2010 by drummer Ralph Qno Kunze and since 2009 by Rajko Gohlke as guitarist, who otherwise plays bass with Knorkator and FDIO . The Hamburg accordion player Bernd Butz accompanies the so-called Stromlos concerts .

In 2013 he appeared in video clips of Fettes Brot and The dead crack whores in the trunk . At the end of October 2013 his album Kraftgewinn was released . In addition to Rummelsnuff, Christian Asbach, Bela B , King Khan , Häusi Eisenkumpel, Oleg Matrosov (Apparatschik) as well as guitarist Rajko Gohlke and trumpeter Christian Magnusson contribute to the various songs on the album .

Music projects with discography

No pity

(active from 1987 to 1989, other members: Jörg and Kathrin Schittkowski, Thomas Schön)

Friends of the Italian Opera

(active from 1989 to 1992, other members: see FDIO )

Published phonograms
  • 1991: Um Throne und Liebe (LP, Par Excellence )
  • 1997: Um Thron und Liebe (CD, Strandard63 / What's So Funny About )
  • 1997: Edle Einfalt Stille Größe (CD, Strandard63 / What's So Funny About)
  • 1997: Rare, rare and enigmatic recordings (Um Throne und Liebe / Noble simplicity, quiet greatness) (CD-Box, Strandard63 / What's So Funny About)
Contributions to compilations
  • 1992: A company of its own with its own morals (CD, What's So Funny About)
  • 2001: Music in Germany 1950–2000 (CD documentation - applied music , CD box - title Faust , also on music for drama CD box, RCA / Bertelsmann )
  • 2006: voltage power resistance - magnetic tape underground DDR 1979–1989 (CD, zigzag )
  • 2007: Children of the Machine Republic (CD)

Automatic noir

(active from 1992 to 1999, other members: Jörg Schittkowski, Andy Német, Toddy Scheel)

Published phonograms
  • Automatic Noir (MC)
  • Sword and shield (MC)
  • 1997: Caesarean section (CD, Noiswork Records )
Contributions to compilations
  • 1995: Blue Monday (CD - King of Witers , Noiseworks Records)
  • 1996: Magic of the Place (CD - Title Kavkaz , Amöbenklang / SubFlora )
  • 1998: Modern People Buy (CD - Title Stein , Noiseworks Records)

Rummelsnuff

(active from 2005)

Published phonograms
  • 2008: hold on! (CD, zigzag / indigo )
  • 2010: Sender Karlshorst (CD, Out of Line Music )
  • 2011: Brüder / Kino Karlshorst (EP + DVD, Universal Music / Out of Line Music)
  • 2012: Hold on! (CD, new edition, ZickZack / Out of Line Music)
  • 2012: Ascension (CD, Out of Line Music)
  • 2013: Power Gain (Double CD, Out of Line Music)
  • 2016: Rummelsnuff & Asbach (double CD, Out of Line Music)
  • 2018: Salty Tastes of the Wind (Double CD, Out of Line Music)
  • 2019: Apprenticeship years 04-06 (music cassette, limited in-house production)
  • 2019: world renown (music cassette, limited in-house production)

Singles

  • 2010: Free Fall / The Stoker (Download)
  • 2013: Bratwurst tongs / underperformers (Download)
  • 2013: Shipwreck (Download)
Contributions to compilations
  • 2007: What's So Funny About .. ZickZack (CD title Halt durch!, ZickZack)
  • 2007: Lie (CD - Title Halt durch!, ZickZack / Persona Non Grata )
  • 2008: Songs of the Mountains (CD - Track buddy, Good luck! . Electric Tremor )
  • 2008: Advanced Electronics (CD + DVD - Video general anesthesia , SPV / Synthetic Symphony )
  • 2009: Leæther Strip - Yes I'm Limited V (Double CD - Title Der Heizer . Alfa-Matrix / Soulfood )
  • 2010: Advanced Electronics Vol. 8 (CD + DVD - Video Freier Fall , SPV / Synthetic Symphony)
  • 2010: EBM - The Compilation (CD - Title Pumper (Leather Strip Remix) , Universal Music / Out of Line Music)
  • 2011: Gegengerade 20359 St. Pauli (Soundtrack) (CD - Title Salzig schmeckt der Wind , Audiolith / Broken Silence)
  • 2011: A Tribute to Japanese Kampfhörspiele (CD + LP - Title underachiever , Unundeux / Schnapsidee Records)
  • 2012: with Shambhu And The True Love Hearts - Sadness / Let's Do The Dance! (Vinyl maxi single, Ostgut Ton )
  • 2012: Symphonies from the Abyss (CD - Title Himmelfahrt , Rough Trade Records / Out of Line Music)

Filmography

  • 2008: Tomorrow, you guys! The Ausbilder-Schmidt-Film , director: Mike Eschmann , role: Blindes Kraftpaket
  • 2009: Phantom Party , director: Edwin Brienen, role: Phantom
  • 2009: Phantomanie , director: Miron Zownir, role: masseur
  • 2012: Rosas Welt - 70 new films by Rosa von Praunheim
  • 2013: Lose your head , directors: Patrick Schuckmann & Stefan Westerwelle, role: Gregor
  • 2014: Temporal Power , directors: Umberto Baccolo, role: Markus

literature

Reviews

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Reni Baptist - German Mugge. Christian Reder, accessed November 17, 2013 .
  2. ↑ "Two years ago I finally had to give up my part-time job as a bouncer in the Berghain Laboratory because there was simply no more time." Rummelsnuff in tip , issue 13/2016, p. 20
  3. ↑ RUMMELSNUFF - ELECTRIC MUSIC FOR THE PEOPLE. Roger Baptist, accessed June 24, 2011 .
personal data
SURNAME Rummelsnuff
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Baptist, Roger (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musician and lyricist
DATE OF BIRTH July 14, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Grossenhain