Uwu Lena

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Schland o Schland
  DE 4th 07/02/2010 (7 weeks)
  AT 70 07/16/2010 (1 week)

Uwu Lena is an eight-piece German pop music group . On the occasion of the Soccer World Cup 2010 , she recorded a cover version of the Eurovision Song Contest winner song Satellite, sung by Lena Meyer-Landrut , by Julie Frost and John Gordon under the title Schland o Schland, and achieved a chart success in Germany as a result of a great hype .

history

The name of the group "Uwu Lena" is a paragram or a suitcase word , formed from the words Uwe Seeler , Vuvuzela and Lena . The group consists mainly of students from Münster . In addition to Christian Landgraf, the text author of Schland o Schland and medical students, this includes the photographer Timo Bühring, Nikolai Gaschütz, Sören Glück, Johannes Jötten, Robert Krotoszynski, Matthias Landgraf and Moritz Schefers. Even before the emergence of Schland o Schland , they often made music together, but without pursuing commercial intentions. The publication of the song shortly before the World Cup was, according to Johannes Jötten, a coincidence, actually the song was only intended as fun for friends and acquaintances. After the publication of Schland o Schland on Universal Music , Uwu Lena appeared at a number of events and television programs, including on June 17, 2010 as a surprise guest at the JuWi festival in her hometown of Münster and on June 20, 2010 in the ZDF television garden .

Formation of Schland o Schland

According to the band, Christian Landgraf had the idea for a song with the title line "Schland o Schland" on the tune of Satellite the day after Lena Meyer-Landrut's victory with this title at the 2010 Eurovision Song Contest . This resulted in a song text within two days, written by Landgraf, which revolves around the German national football team and their participation in the 2006 World Cup , the 2008 European Championship and the 2010 World Cup . The song consists of three German-language stanzas as well as a chorus and four English-language lines at the end, which, according to Landgraf, are an "homage to the original song".

The deduced from "Germany" portmanteau " Schland " was first held during the accompanying coverage of the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Stefan Raab's show TV total media attention. It has been protected as a word mark since November 18, 2005, and the rights to it are held by Raab's production company Raab TV GmbH, in which the umbrella organization Brainpool has held a 50 percent stake since 2008. Raab TV GmbH sells various merchandising products with the brand name "Schland" .

Production and publication on the Internet

The production of the song took place a short time after the text was finished and took a week to complete. Nikolai Gaschütz's lead vocals were recorded in Kiel, further recordings and mastering took place in Münster. The music video for the song was recorded under Schefers' direction in collaboration with Timo Bühring on the evening of June 9, 2010 in the south park of Münster. A day later, it was published on the YouTube video portal . The protagonist of the video is Christian Landgraf, he can be seen in a disguise that imitates Lena Meyer-Landrut and is wearing a black mini dress and a long hair wig. In addition to Landgraf, other members of Uwu Lena and some extras appear in costumes typical of football fans. Gaschütz, the lead singer of the song, was not involved in the video recording.

The production quality and targeting of the music video soon aroused the suspicion of the professional world and led to speculation about authorship and actual background, which can, however, also be explained by the well-documented history of its creation. Some members of Uwu Lena work part-time with videos and music and can refer to several years of production experience. Moritz Schefers, who is responsible for camera and direction of the music video for Schland o Schland and a student of communication studies , runs a small studio for multimedia productions, including commercial assignments , together with Johannes Jötten, who only works as a background singer at Uwu Lena . Already for the 2006 World Cup, Jötten, who among other things offers workshops for hip-hop video productions, repackaged Oliver Pocher 's World Cup song Black and White in blue and yellow and recorded it with his teammates at the local Gimbter football club in the recording studio as well as a small edition on CD produced.

Copyright dispute

On June 11, 2010, the music publisher EMI Music Publishing , which holds the exploitation rights to the composition Satellite , prohibited further distribution of the video by telephone, as the publication of a cover version with new text usually requires approval. Uwu Lena herself then deleted the video from YouTube. However, the cancellation and the prohibition of further spread of the video wore against the background of immediately informed Münster local press - which the messages also stante pede to dpa forwarded - rather help to increase the attention on. This phenomenon is commonly referred to as the Streisand effect : other YouTube users uploaded the video again to the video portal, so that the number of viewers increased exponentially . The music group's website under the domain www.schlandrut.de was also taken offline for a short time after EMI requested it to be deleted, but later put back online without the video.

Commercial publication

Shortly after the video was published on YouTube, the rights holders of Satellite EMI Music Publishing, Universal Music Germany and Brainpool, led by Stefan Raab , advised on how to proceed. Finally, it was agreed to aim for a commercial release, and so Universal Music and Raab TV GmbH signed Uwu Lena. The song's single was released on June 16, 2010 as a download and on June 22, 2010 as a CD single . On June 18, 2010 the song reached first place on the German iTunes store charts. In the German single charts , Schland o Schland reached number four. After the authors of “Satellite” and Stefan Raabs agreed to the use of the word “Schland”, the eight guys from Münster got together with a management team from the media industry, consisting of Ulf-Gunnar Switalski and Michael “Mike” Schmitz, who was born in Münster .

Second single "In der Diskothek"

On November 5, 2010 the single "In der Diskothek" was released.

The eight people from Münster were able to win over the jazz musician and television presenter Götz Alsmann , also from Münster, for the video . Sascha “Busy” Bühren was responsible for mastering the single, who had also mastered Lena's Grand Prix winner song “Satellite”, as well as the multiple platinum albums by Peter Fox , Silbermond and Unheilig .

"Sound shift"

Christian Landgraf and seven other musicians competed with the title Magic for our song for Denmark , the preliminary decision for the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 under the band name Lautverschaltung .

reception

The first press reports about the Schland o Schland published on YouTube were published on June 11, 2010 in the Münsteraner daily newspapers. At this point, the reports also made reference to the fact that the copyright holders of the original song had requested the cover version be deleted. In the course of popularizing the song, numerous media reported; the dpa news agency took up the topic on June 14, 2010. After the commercial single was announced, there were reports on the song and the legal problems on June 15, 2010 in the ZDF morning magazine and the local time on WDR television. The tabloid magazines Brisant and taff treated the topic in the broadcasts of 16 June 2010. On the same day reported the bottom -contribution the evening news about the song and suggested that Uwu Lena could be the "secret stars of the World Cup."

In their World Cup reports, Zeit Online describedthe song as the new "World Cup anthem". RP Online presented the funniest World Cup songs from the net and said that Schland o Schland was "already the classic among Internet World Cup hits". Oddsmeter.de disguised the song as "a cheap carnival song that can only be endured with at least 2 per thousand".

Occasionally there were statements that the genesis of Schland o Schland presented in the vast majority of the publications could not correspond to the facts and only serve to generate the greatest possible sales-promoting hype .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chart sources: Germany ( Memento from July 14, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) - Austria
  2. ↑ a b "Schland" makes it into the top four media control press releases . June 29, 2010.
  3. ↑ Michael Müller: Vuvuzela, Uwe Seeler, Uwu Lena. In: FAZ.NET . June 16, 2010.
  4. ↑ Uwu Lena: "Schland o Schland": World Cup hit from the Internet (with video) , rp-online.de, June 17, 2010
  5. ↑ Schland-o-Schland singer Christian Landgraf: From the charts back to cardiology , Westfälische Nachrichten, July 15, 2015
  6. ↑ PrePixel Photography Timo Bühring In: Website of PrePixel Photography Timo Bühring. June 22, 2011.
  7. ↑ Studentenjux is the World Cup anthem In: wdr.de . June 15, 2010.
  8. ↑ John Puthenpurackal, Eva de Lubomirz: Do you topple the real Lena from the top of the chart? In: bild.de . June 20, 2010.
  9. ↑ a b c Volker Probst: From zero to one "Schland o Schland". In: n-tv.de . June 16, 2010.
  10. ↑ Oliver Koch: A song goes around the world In: Münstersche Zeitung . June 15, 2010.
  11. ↑ Uwu Lena in front of a home audience. Westfälische Nachrichten of June 16, 2010.
  12. ↑ Celebrating in the sea of ​​flags.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. BBV of June 18, 2010.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.bbv-net.de  
  13. ↑ World Cup anthem "Schland O Schland" now also live. ( Memento from June 20, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) dpa report from June 17, 2010.
  14. ↑ a b Simon Schnepper: First live gig enthusiastic In: Münstersche Zeitung . June 18, 2010.
  15. ↑ Review: ZDF-Fernsehgarten from June 20, 2010 at ZDF.de (accessed on June 23, 2010)
  16. ↑ a b Eight in Schland fever - "Uwu Lena": Students from Münster and Kiel sing their own World Cup anthem In: Schwäbisches Tagblatt . June 17, 2010
  17. ↑ Lyrics: Schland o Schland (Christian Landgraf)
  18. ↑ Detlef Gürtler: Schland In: Blog Wortistik on blogs.taz.de . June 16, 2010.
  19. ↑ Entry at the German Patent and Trademark Office (accessed on June 18, 2010)
  20. ^ Schland: Five answers from a fan scarf seller ( Memento from April 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) In: fudder.de . May 14, 2010.
  21. ↑ a b c Tobias Weckenbrock: Lena-cover song from Munster conquered Football Germany. ( Memento from May 22, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) In: Münstersche Zeitung. June 11, 2010.
  22. ↑ a b Günter Benning: Schland poets from Münster conquer the capital with their World Cup anthem In: Westfälische Nachrichten . June 17, 2010
  23. ↑ Nina Jauker: "Satellite" parody becomes the World Cup Hit ( Memento of 16 June 2010 at the Internet Archive ) In: FTD.de . June 15, 2010.
  24. ^ A b Christian Feld: Bottom light - With "Schland o Schland" the secret stars of the World Cup ( Memento from June 18, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (Video: 1:45 min) In: Tagesthemen from June 16, 2010.
  25. ↑ Blue and yellow are the colors of the municipal coat of arms of Gimbte and also those of the football club SC Blau-Gelb Gimbte eV .
  26. ↑ Claudia Ix: Ex-Gimbter lands huge hit In: Ruhr Nachrichten . June 18, 2010.
  27. ↑ Yannick Schiep, Lars Wienand: "Schland" -Schlamassel: Lena cover is challenging music industry. In: Rhein-Zeitung . June 15, 2010.
  28. ↑ Schland. A summer fairy tale ( memento from January 25, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
  29. ↑ a b Anke Beimdiek: "Schland o Schland" online again - but without video. In: Westfälische Nachrichten. June 11, 2010.
  30. ^ K. Riehl: "We like to trot" In: sueddeutsche.de . June 18, 2010.
  31. ↑ Tobias Weckenbrock: "Schland o Schland" receives a record deal with Universal. ( Memento from June 19, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) In: Ruhr Nachrichten . June 15, 2010.
  32. ↑ iTunes availability since June 16, 2010
  33. ↑ Information on publication at Musicline .
  34. ↑ http://www.purebeats.de/
  35. ↑ Amazon : (In Der) Diskothek, Uwu Lena, November 5, 2010  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.amazon.de  
  36. ↑ YouTube : Video "In der Diskothek"
  37. ↑ http://www.truebusyness.com/
  38. ^ Westfälische Nachrichten : “Uwu Lena” heirs at the song contest? - Münsterische Band wants to go to Copenhagen ( online ), Münsterischer Anzeiger, Münster, Sandra Peter, January 31, 2014
  39. ^ Münstersche Zeitung : Our song for Denmark: Three bands from Münster want to go to the Eurovision Song Contest  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Münster, Jennifer Wirschky, January 31, 2014@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.muensterschezeitung.de  
  40. ↑ The message appeared, for example, on N24 Online: Lena song for the World Cup rewritten: "Schland O Schland" June 14, 2010.
  41. ↑ Video Morgenmagazin: Enthusiasm online - Gauck and WM (June 15, 2010, from approx. 2:28 min)  in the ZDFmediathek , accessed on January 31, 2014. (offline). On the same day, the record contract for World Cup catchy tune from the Internet appeared on heute.de . ( Memento of the original from May 27, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.heute.de
  42. ↑ Studis WM hit create report by Rolf Heutmann in the local time Münsterland WDR television on 15 June of 2010.
  43. ↑ Report in the ARD-Boulevard-Magazin Brisant  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. dated June 16, 2010.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.mdr.de  
  44. ↑ Report in taff on Pro7. June 16, 2010.
  45. ↑ Student joke song causes a sensation in WM, briefly noted by Zeit Online . June 17, 2010.
  46. ↑ These are the funniest World Cup songs on the net In: RP Online . June 17, 2010.
  47. ↑ Glenn Ried Meier: From, Waka Waka 'to' Schland o Schland ' on Quotenmeter.de from June 20, 2010