Thees Uhlmann
Thees Uhlmann (born April 16, 1974 in Hemmoor ) is a German musician , author and audio book interpreter. He is a founding member and singer of the Hamburg band Tomte , and he is also active as a solo artist.
Life
Uhlmann grew up with his brother in the small town of Hemmoor. He calls his upbringing "humorous-conservative" and "authoritarian-free-spirited". During his school days, Uhlmann founded the band in the late 1980s, from which Tomte was to emerge in 1994 . After High School on school Warstade in Hemmoor in 1993 Uhlmann made community service and started in 1996 a teaching degree in the subjects of politics and English at the University of Cologne . After two years he moved to the University of Hamburg . After his initial success with Tomte , he dropped out of college in 2000.
In 1999 Thees Uhlmann accompanied the befriended band Tocotronic on tour and wrote the book We could become friends about it . The Tocotronic tour diaries . He also wrote for Intro , Spex , Visions and Musikexpress, among others .
Together with the Kettcar musicians Marcus Wiebusch and Reimer Bustorff , he founded his own label Grand Hotel van Cleef (GHvC) in 2002 .
In 2005 he stood in front of the camera with Jürgen Vogel and Heike Makatsch for the film No songs about love . He played the guitarist of the initially fictional Hansen Band , which went on tour in the same year and released an album. On May 6, 2011, a tribute album for the band Superpunk was released on Wallpaper Records , for which Uhlmann contributed the song A Little Soul .
Uhlmann started his solo career in summer 2011. With his band around Tobias Kuhn (guitar), Nikolai Potthoff (guitar), Julia Hügel (keyboard), Markus Perner (drums) and Hubert Steiner (bass), he played at numerous festivals in the summer of 2011, including Rock am Ring and Rock im Park , Hurricane Festival , Area4 and the Highfield Festival . In mid-June 2011 a 7 " single was released on the occasion of a mini-tour through Canada , on which Uhlmann recorded two of his songs in English and French together with the Canadian band Imaginary Cities and also covered the band's song Hummingbird . On August 26th The self-titled solo album Thees Uhlmann was released at the Grand Hotel van Cleef in 2011. With the first single, Zum Laichen und Die Salmon sind die Salmon auf die Salmon Uhlmann competed for Hamburg in the 2011 Bundesvision Song Contest and took 8th place.
On August 30, 2013, the second solo album was released under the name # 2 . The first single was released on March 7th , an homage to the birthday of Uhlmann's mother, in which various cultural and historical events of that day are listed. Migratory birds followed as the second single . In an interview after the release of his second solo album, Uhlmann stated that he did not want to include any Tomte songs in the setlist on his tours with Thees Uhlmann & Band; in the meantime, however, songs by Tomte (such as The Beauty of Chance ) do appear in live performances as a solo artist .
At the end of 2014 Uhlmann took part in the charity campaign Band Aid 30 Germany and the German version of the song Do They Know It's Christmas? .
On October 8, 2015 Uhlmann's first novel with the title Sophia, der Tod und Ich was published by the publishing house Kiepenheuer & Witsch . This was followed by a reading tour through Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
On September 20, 2019, his third solo album was released under the name Junkies and Scientologists . The song Thank You for Fear contained on the album pays homage to the American horror writer Stephen King .
On October 10, 2019, his third book Thees Uhlmann about Die Toten Hosen , in which he describes his friendship with the German band Die Toten Hosen , was published by Kiepenheuer & Witsch .
He is the father of a daughter.
Discography
Studio albums
| year | title |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks | ||
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| 2011 | Thees Uhlmann |
DE4 (9 weeks) DE |
AT16 (3 weeks) AT |
- |
First published: August 26, 2011
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| 2013 | # 2 |
DE2 (5 weeks) DE |
AT5 (3 weeks) AT |
CH96 (1 week) CH |
First published: August 30, 2013
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| 2019 | Junkies and Scientologists |
DE2 (8 weeks) DE |
AT22 (2 weeks) AT |
CH72 (1 week) CH |
First published: September 20, 2019
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Singles
| year | Title album |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
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| 2011 | The salmon move up the river Thees Uhlmann to spawn and die |
DE52 (7 weeks) DE |
- | - |
First published: August 19, 2011
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| & Jay-Z sings us a song Thees Uhlmann |
- | - | - |
First published: November 4th 2011
feat. Casper |
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| 2012 | The girl from till 2 Thees Uhlmann |
- | - | - |
First published: March 16, 2012
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| 2013 | March 7th # 2 |
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First published: August 16, 2013
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| Migratory birds # 2 |
- | - | - |
First published: November 8, 2013
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Guest appearances and sampler contributions
- 2004: We are not budge on the universe is too far from the stars
- 2007: Wir Raven on Excess Express by Plemo feat. Torsun ( Egotronic )
- 2010: This is football (Naki Edit) on the St. Pauli One Hundred sampler
- 2011: A little soul on Oh, that sound - Stars play Superpunk on the tribute album for the band Superpunk
- 2011: XOXO on XOXO from Casper
- 2012: Me & You in a duet with Alba Rohrwacher on the soundtrack album for the film Glück
- 2013: Reading of the fairy tale The Wolf and the Seven Young Goats on the audio book Once Upon a Time and When You Didn't
- 2014: Black Angels on the album Heartbeater - The Remix Album by Atomic
- 2014: Do They Know It's Christmas? with Band Aid 30 Germany
- 2015: It can get ugly on feelings from the ashes of Olli Schulz
Works
- We could become friends. The Tocotronic tour diaries . Ventil Verlag, Mainz 2000. ISBN 3-930559-79-X .
- Sophia, death and me . Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2015. ISBN 3-462-04793-0 .
- Thees Uhlmann on Die Toten Hosen . Kiepenheuer & Witsch , Cologne, 2019. ISBN 978-3-462-05369-2
Awards
- 2011: HANS - The Hamburg Music Prize - Hamburg Artist of the Year
- 2011: 1 Live Krone - Best Plan B Act
literature
- Astrid Vits : You and many of your friends . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-89602-621-6 .
- Hilmar Bender : The beauty of the opportunity. Days on tour with Tomte . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-89602-697-6 .
Web links
- Thees Uhlmann's website
- Insa Kohler: Thees Uhlmann: musician, author and football fan (portrait, January 2016)
- Thees Uhlmann at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ T. Uhlmann: Die Toten Hosen. Cologne 2019. p. 9.
- ^ T. Uhlmann: Die Toten Hosen. Cologne 2019. p. 9.
- ^ T. Uhlmann: Die Toten Hosen. Cologne 2019. p. 159.
- ↑ Jan Hauser: Education seminars were terrible. In: Spiegel Online . February 16, 2010, accessed November 9, 2015 .
- ↑ Oliver Noffke: On a journey through time with Thees Uhlmann. In: The star . August 28, 2013, accessed November 9, 2015 .
- Jump up ↑ Frank Kaltofen: "No Tomte songs to die for". In: Unique . November 15, 2013, accessed November 9, 2015 .
- ↑ German music stars sing new charity songs . rbb-online.de, November 18, 2014
- ^ T. Uhlmann: Die Toten Hosen. Cologne 2019. p. 113.
- ↑ a b Chart sources: DE AT CH
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Uhlmann, Thees |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German singer and music publisher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 16, 1974 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hemmoor |