Thomas Wenzel

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Thomas Wenzel at the performance of the band Die Goldenen Zitronen at the Haldern Pop Festival 2013
Thomas Wenzel (on drums) in the piece Not Punk, Pololo von Ginterdorfer / Klaßen, 2015

Thomas Wenzel , also known under the pseudonym Julius Block , is a German musician . He became known as the bass player for the Hamburg bands Die Sterne and Die Goldenen Zitronen .

Life

Thomas Wenzel grew up in Elmshorn in Schleswig-Holstein . In the 1980s he was part of the scene around the cassette label Fast Weltweit in Bad Salzuflen . There he was a member of the band Die Bienenjäger, which, in addition to the future Blumfeld head Jochen Distelmeyer, also included Mirko Breder , who played in the band Die Sterne . At the beginning of the 1990s, Wenzel moved to Hamburg, where he has since moved musically around the so-called " Hamburg School ".

Thomas Wenzel has been playing at the Goldene Zitronen under the pseudonym Julius Block since 1992, where he operates, among other things, synthesizers , bass, tape samples and the manual drum computer . In the same year he became a member of Die Sterne, who moved to Hamburg. He also works as a pedal steel player and sometimes as a singer for the Hamburg alternative country band Cow .

In addition, Thomas Wenzel as Julius block the soundtrack to the documentary Park Fiction - The wishes will leave the house and on the road going from Margit Czenki and with former The stars -Keyboarder Frank Will the soundtrack to the movie The beach at Trouville by Michael Hofmann produced . He also played in the bands Naked Navy , 3 Normal Beatles (with Ted Gaier ) , Die Stars and Kommando Sonne-nmilch and produced songs for various samplers .

In 2018 he left the stars together with founding member Christoph Leich .

Filmography (selection)

  • 1998: Trouville Beach (feature film), (film music)
  • 2003: Golden Lemons (documentary), (participation)
  • 2007: Hell Hamburg (feature film), (actor)
  • 2007: Remaining mature attitudes (documentary), (participation)
  • 2010: Stars (television documentary), (participation)

Radio play music

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Short portrait of Thomas Wenzel at Tod's & Fred's music publisher
  2. ↑ Indiepedia article about Thomas Wenzel
  3. ↑ Frank Spilker: New star album will be released on February 28, 2020. In: THE STARS. October 30, 2019, accessed on November 6, 2019 (German).
The golden lemons
Hans Platzgumer (until 2000) • Aldo Moro • Ale Sexfeind • Psycho 1 • Rodrigo González


Studio albums

Porsche, Genscher, Hallo HSV (1987) • Kampfstern Mallorca docks (1988) • Fuck You (1990) • Punkrock (1991) • The little manslaughter (1994) • Economy Class (1996) • Dead School Hamburg (Give Me A full-time work ) (1998) • Scaffold to the Elevator (2001) • Lenin (2006) • The Making of the Night (2009) • Who's Bad (2013) • Flogging a Dead Frog (2015) • More Than A Feeling (2019)

Remix albums

Because We Agree - Remixes (1998)

Compilation albums

Testimony against testimony (2002)

The stars
Frank Will (until 2000), Richard von der Schulenburg (2000–2009)
Studio albums

Important • In real • Poses • Of all thoughts, I appreciate the most interesting ones • Where is here • Crazy light • The universe is too far • Robbers and intestines • 24/7

personal data
SURNAME Wenzel, Thomas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Block, Julius (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musician
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century