winter children

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winter children
Studio album by Rolf Zuckowski and his friends

publication
(s)

November 11, 1987

label(s) German gramophone

genre(s)

Nursery Rhyme , Christmas Carol

title (number)

13

length

34:25

Winter Children is a Christmas album for children by German songwriter Rolf Zuckowski . It was released in 1987; later editions appeared with the subtitle Winter Children... In Search of Christmas . With over 1.8 million copies sold, Winterkinder is one of the best-selling German-language Christmas albums. In particular, his best-known song, In der Weihnachtsbäckerei , is one of the classic German Christmas children's songs and has been covered many times.

background and content

About half of the album consists of new compositions by Rolf Zuckowski: the title song Winterkinder , Guten Tag, ich bin der Nikolaus , In the Christmas bakery , It's snowing , In search of Christmas and If heaven were always so close to us . The songs deal with topics related to the Christmas and winter season. The title song tells of the impatience of the children who stand by the window for hours and longingly await the first snow. This is followed by It snows , which tells of the joys in a snowy world. In Hello, I am Santa Claus, Santa Claus tells about his busy everyday life. In the Christmas bakery describes the sometimes chaotic process of baking cookies. According to Zuckowski, the song was written while on a concert tour after his wife told him on the phone that she was baking cookies with the children. In Search of Christmas is about the anticipation of Christmas and finding the right Christmas spirit amidst the pre-Christmas hustle and bustle. If heaven were always so close to us, the only song that also dealt with the religious aspect of Christmas, but without a clear reference to the Christian faith.

Zuckowski's own songs are complemented by traditional Christmas carols in new arrangements by Zuckowski with John O'Brien-Docker . When Are You Coming, Santa Claus is an adaptation of the French Christmas carol Petit Papa Noël .

title list

winter children 
No. title length
1. The Christmas Music Box 0:23
2. winter children 2:49
3. Hello, I'm Santa Claus 2:10
4. When Are You Coming Santa ( Petit Papa Noel ) 3:26
5. In the Christmas bakery 2:52
6. It's snowing 2:16
7. Looking for Christmas 3:29
8th. Let it snow 2:11
9. Jingle bell 2:14
10 Come ye Ye Children 2:36
11. Unterm Tannenbaum ( O Tannenbaum / O you happy ) 3:06
12. Gloria (Do you hear the angels singing) 2:51
13. If heaven were always so close to us 3:58
Overall length: 34:25

More edits

Three songs from the album (Looking for Christmas, In the Christmas Bakery and Were we in heaven always so close) were reinterpreted by Swedish pianist Martin Tingvall on the more adult-oriented album Were we in heaven always , released in 2017 so close – Rolf Zuckowski meets Martin Tingvall .

The children's musical Die Weihnachtsbäckerei , released in 2019, contains several songs from the album: Guten Tag, ich bin der Nikolaus, Winterkinder, It's snowing and In der Weihnachtsbäckerei as well as a Christmas bakery orchestral suite.

There are several cover versions of In der Weihnachtsbäckerei , including those by Helene Fischer , who recorded the song with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra for her album Weihnachts , and by Wolfgang Petry and Otto Waalkes .

reception

reviews

Stephan Imming from schlager.de described the album as "legendary", while Universal Music called the album a "perennial favorite ".

charts and chart positions

Although Winterkinder was released in 1987, the album made it into the German album charts for the first time in the chart week of December 13, 2004 . After the album was placed again in the following Christmas period 2005/06, there was a break before the album has been placed in the charts every year since the period 2010/11. Winterkinder achieved the best placement with number 34 in the chart week of January 1, 2021. So far, the album has been in the top 100 for 48 weeks.

period Top placement, total weeksChartschart positions
(Period, Placements, Weeks)
 EN
2004/05 EN65 (2 weeks)
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2005/06 EN64 (3 weeks)
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2010/11 EN59 (4 weeks)
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2011/12 EN76 (3 weeks)
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2012/13 EN59 (2 weeks)
EN
2013/14 EN76 (2 weeks)
EN
2014/15 EN80 (2 weeks)
EN
2015/16 EN83 (2 weeks)
EN
2016/17 EN82 (2 weeks)
EN
2017/18 EN49 (6 weeks)
EN
2018/19 EN58 (4 weeks)
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2019/20 EN61 (5 weeks)
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2020/21 EN34 (6 weeks)
EN
2021/22 EN48 (6 weeks)
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All in all EN34 (49 weeks)
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Awards for music sales

In 2012, Winterkinder was certified triple platinum for selling over 1.5 million units , making it one of the best-selling music albums in the country . The album previously achieved five-fold gold in 2002, double platinum in 1997 and platinum status in 1994. Winterkinder is the best-selling Christmas album in Germany along with Weihnachts with Heintje von Heintje . The album was entered in the Guinness Book of Records in 2012 as one of the best-selling German-language Christmas albums . Zuckowski received the record certificate on December 1, 2012 in the program The Advent Festival of 100,000 Lights . Sources say the album has sold over 1.8 million copies worldwide.

Country/Region Awarden for music sales (country/
region , award, sales) 		sales
 Germany (BVMI) Platinum record icon.svg 3× platinum 1,500,000
All in all Platinum record icon.svg 3× platinum
 1,500,000

web links

itemizations

  1. ↑ Carsten Kämmerer: "5 questions-5 answers" - special! Rolf Zuckowski announces his farewell! lokalkompass.de, December 7, 2012, retrieved May 29, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Stephan Imming: Winter Children by Rolf Zuckowski more popular than ever. In: schlager.de. December 12, 2017, retrieved January 2, 2022 .
  3. ↑ Rolf Zuckowski - Winter children ... in search of Christmas. In: universal-music.de. Retrieved January 2, 2022 .
  4. ^ a b Rolf Zuckowski and his friends - Winter Children. In: officialcharts.de. GfK Entertainment, retrieved December 26, 2021 .
  5. ↑ a b c Gold/Platinum Database. In: musikindustrie.de. Bundesverband Musikindustrie, retrieved December 26, 2021 .
  6. ↑ Günter Ehnert: Hit Balance - German Chart LP's 1962-1986 . Editor: Taurus Press. 1st edition. Publisher of popular music literature, Hamburg 1994, ISBN 978-3-922542-29-2 , p. 291 .
  7. ↑ Record for the best-selling German-language Christmas album. In: guinnessworldrecords.de. December 6, 2012, retrieved December 26, 2021 .
  8. ↑ Manuel J. Hartung, Luisa Hommerich: Rolf Zuckowski: "I worry about my songs" . In: Time Online . 18 April 2018 ( zeit.de [accessed 30 August 2018]).