Winterland (band)

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Winter land
General information
Genre (s) skirt
founding 1996
Website www.markuspfeffer.com
Current occupation
Guitar, bass, keyboard
 Markus Pfeffer
singing
 Stephan Hugo
singing
 Thorsten Fries
former members
bass
 Holger Kuntz (1997–1998)
Drums
 Chris Guckeisen (1997-2003)
bass
 Charly Knaup (1999-2003)

Winterland is a German rock band from Kaiserslautern . Initially their lyrics were in English, with the penultimate album Alles Geht (2010) they switched to German lyrics.

Band history

The rock band Winterland was founded in 1996 by Markus Pfeffer and Thorsten Fries in Kaiserslautern. The two musicians began to write songs together that can be classified into the realm of melodic-melancholy and handmade rock music . Between 1997 and 2008 Winterland released the five albums Under the Flood (1997), Blind (1998), The Truth (2000), perSonality (2003) and evening STAR (2008). In spring 1997 the studio project turned into a live band with the addition of guitarist Stephan Hugo, bassist Holger Kuntz and drummer Chris Guckeisen. This line-up first registered the band name "Winterland" with the German Patent and Trademark Office in April 1998. The cover of the album Blind , which was released in the same year, shows a sculpture by the artist Gunther Stilling , which stands in front of the Pfalztheater in Kaiserslautern. Shortly afterwards, the band experienced another change in the line-up, in which the singer and lyricist Thorsten Fries was replaced by Stephan Hugo and bassist Charly Knaup (former singer of GO90) was added. Composer and multi-instrumentalist Markus Pfeffer continued to play the guitar. After the release of the album The Truth (2000), Winterland played numerous concerts in southwest Germany. For the front cover of the CD perSonality , guitarist Markus Pfeffer chose Herbert List's goldfish bowl photograph , which was taken in Santorini in 1937. The band obtained permission for this from Max Scheler , the curator of the List estate.

After a release break, Markus Pfeffer and singer Thorsten Fries started again as a duo in 2007 to write songs together and in the summer of 2008 the album evening STAR was released , which, like all the other albums, was recorded in English. After this release and 13 years after the founding, the two musicians were looking for a new challenge and decided to record the next album with the same musical influences, but entirely in German. So the lyrical aspect of the music could be emphasized even more. The band produced and distributed the first edition of the album on their own. With this album, Winterland signed a contract with the 7us label and on May 28, 2010 the album was re-released with bonus tracks and a video by 7us in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

In the summer of 2011, the band announced that the former vocalist Stephan Hugo will take the place of Thorsten Fries as the singer. The former band member Charly Knaup on bass is also back as a guest. The first production of the group, which now appears as a trio, will be released for a new album to be completed in 2013, the song Ewige Beginner , in which numerous well-known musicians from the Kaiserslautern music scene will participate in the choir.

In November 2010 confusion arose when the German rock band Unheilig announced a single called "Winterland", the cover of which had an artwork similar to the Winterland album Alles geht confusingly. Guitarist and songwriter Markus Pfeffer, as the owner of the trademark "Winterland", registered with the German Patent and Trademark Office in Class 9 (including CDs) and 41 (cultural performances), had an attorney Universal Music point out the trademark issue. Then the cover of the Unheilig single was changed and the song was now called Winter . There are different statements as to whether there was a warning or even a lawsuit in the case.

Discography

Studio albums
  • 1997: Under the Flood
  • 1998: Blind
  • 2000: The Truth
  • 2002: Winterland Collection
  • 2003: perSonality
  • 2008: evening STAR
  • 2010: Anything goes
  • 2014: For a lifetime
  • 2017: arrived

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Band biography
  2. ↑ Trademark registration Winterland
  3. ↑ Photo: Fishbowl
  4. ↑ stern.de - A picture and its story
  5. ↑ Album announcement for "Alles Geht" on venue music ( Memento from January 14, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ venue music: "Unheiliges Winterland" - comparison of the two covers ( Memento from December 4, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ Message on the Unheilig homepage about the name change ( memento from January 1, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ↑ "Markus Pfeffer (Winterland): From" Unheilig "fan to" Unheilig "victim" Press release from Winterland on the subject and the process