Thorsten Wingenfelder

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Thorsten Wingenfelder (2007)

Thorsten Wingenfelder (born March 23, 1966 in Hamburg ) is a German musician and as such was guitarist and songwriter in the band Fury in the Slaughterhouse, which was dissolved in 2008 . He is now working as a photographer and has been guitarist and singer with Wingenfelder since 2010 .

Career

1986 Wingenfelder founded the rock band Fury in the Slaughterhouse in Hanover together with his brother Kai as well as Rainer Schumann , Christof Stein-Schneider and Hannes Schäfer . The band sold in almost 20 years, four million records, was repeatedly echo -nominiert and boarded in 1994 even the Billboard Modern Rock chart in the US. Many of the songs that have made the band famous over the years, such as: B. Time To Wonder , Won't Forget These Days or Radio Orchid come from him and his brother Kai. Thorsten Wingenfelder was also responsible for the first Fury long form video Click Songs and Peppermint Stories as well as various other videos and the Fury tour documentation on the Welcome to the Other World DVD .

In March 2003, Wingenfelder released his first solo album, Songs of Love and Hope, under the project name Driftland . On April 7th, 2006 the second solo album 360 ° Heimat was released , this time with German lyrics and under his real name. Thorsten Wingenfelder has also been working as a photographer since 2007. In 2007 he won the portrait prize at the Franconian Media Days and was responsible, for example, for promotional photos of the duo Carolin No , of Fools Garden or the actors Ann Kathrin Kramer and Jan Josef Liefers, as well as for campaign photos for the Schwarzkopf brand .

In 2010 Thorsten Wingenfelder founded the band Wingenfelder with his brother Kai . In 2011 their first German-language album Besser zu zwei was released , which reached number 35 in the German charts. In 2012 the duo released the charity single When the time comes for Christmas , which reached number 35 in the German single charts. In June 2013, Fury in the Slaughterhouse played together again at the Expo-Plaza five years after the band ended in Hanover . 25,000 visitors came to the event, which was known as the “class reunion” well in advance. In 2013 the two brothers shortened their band name to Wingenfelder and released their official second album with self-timer , which reached number 23 in the German charts. In 2015, Retro was officially released, their third album, this time financed entirely by crowdfunding . It came to number 25 in the German charts. The subsequent “retro” tour took the band through 40 cities and ended with a sold out gig at the Capitol in Hanover.

In 2017 Thorsten Wingenfelder celebrated their 30th birthday with his old band Fury in the Slaughterhouse. From March 10 to 12, 2017, three concerts were played in the TUI Arena in Hanover, which were sold out with a total of 35,000 visitors. The best of album 30 , which was released at the same time, reached number 3 in the German charts. In the same year, an acoustic live double album, Little big world , was released, which reached number 5 in the German charts. In 2018, Wingenfelder's fourth album, Sieben Himmel hoch , was released, which reached number 9 in the German charts and is the band's most successful album to date.

Exhibitions

  • Castillo, Hanover 2009
  • Palais Hainstrasse, Bamberg 2010
  • Exhibition GeZeiTeN , AWD building, Hanover, 5 / 2011–11 / 2011
  • Opening vernissage Paderborn Photo Days 2012
  • Haus der Kunst, Nümbrecht as part of Art & Music / GeZeiTeN 2013
  • Three / 3 at the Lebensart trade fair as part of the infa in Hanover 2015

Private

Thorsten Wingenfelder has lived near Clenze in Wendland since 2020 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Booklet of the album Loveland by Carolin No.
  2. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento from October 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ http://www.mix1-music.de/wingenfelder-wingenfelder/off-the-records/
personal data
SURNAME Wingenfelder, Thorsten
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German guitarist, singer and songwriter of the band Wingenfelder, formerly in the rock band Fury In The Slaughterhouse, photographer
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg