Wolfgang Rohde

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Wolfgang Rohde (2008)

Wolfgang Michael "Wölli" Rohde (born January 9, 1950 in Kiel ; † April 25, 2016 in Meerbusch ) was a German musician. From 1986 to 1999 Rohde was the drummer in the band Die Toten Hosen .

Life

Rohde grew up in Kiel as the third child of a civil servant family and first completed an apprenticeship as an electrician . When he was about to be drafted into the German Armed Forces in 1968, he moved to Berlin and stayed in the Rio Reiser scene . Rohde began making music himself in his mid-twenties.

Rohde was a member of the Berlin band Die Suurbiers when he was recruited by Campino as the drummer for Die Toten Hosen . In 1986 Rohde moved to Düsseldorf and has played for this band ever since. At the end of the 1990s, after several herniated discs , it became more difficult for him to hold concerts in full length. When recording the album Immortal , he was involved in four quieter pieces. Shortly afterwards he gave up his post at Vom Ritchie .

From 2004 he ran the music label Goldene Zeiten and, as a co-founder of the annual Rock am Turm festival in Meerbusch, mainly presented young bands.

In December 2007, Rohde's band Goldene Zeiten Orchestra released their first single, A Little Nicotine . Rohde still belonged to the "Toten-Hosen family"; after his departure, mutual guest appearances were common. In 2004, for example, he played the pieces Bis zum bitteren Ende and Opel-Gang on drums at Rock am Ring and the band Die Toten Hosen performed at Rock am Turm under the pseudonym “Die Jungs von der Opel-Gang”.

In September 2011, the JKP label released the album Das ist nicht alles from “Wölli & Die Band des Jahres”, which Rohde recorded together with five musician friends. He mainly acted as a singer. The lyrics, most of which he wrote, deal with his eventful life as a musician. He was supported on two of the twelve songs by members of the band “Die Toten Hosen”: All over again , which was released as a preliminary single, Rohde sang in a duet with Campino, while Andreas von Holst was involved as guitarist, and in Two Drunken Drummers accompanied him from the Ritchie. From October to November 2011 the band "Wölli & Die Band des Jahres" gave 14 club concerts.

In November 2014 Rohdes became aware of kidney cancer , of which he died in April 2016.

In memory of Wolfgang Rohde, Die Toten Hosen covered the song No reason to sadness on the album Laune der Natur in May 2017. Wolfgang Rohde's vocals come from the original, which Rohde composed with Cäpt'n Suurbier in 2011 and for the album That's not all his band had recorded.

Web links

Commons : Wolfgang Rohde  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ oeh: Died: Wolfgang Rohde . In: Der Spiegel . No. 18 , 2016 ( online ).
  2. ↑ Bertram Job : Die Toten Hosen tell their story . Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1996, p. 287.
  3. ↑ Bertram Job: Die Toten Hosen tell their story . Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1996, p. 280.
  4. ↑ Official video from JKP
  5. ↑ Krebs - Former pants drummer Wolfgang “Wölli” Rohde is dead. In: RP Online . April 26, 2016. Retrieved April 26, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Düsseldorf: Tote Hosen honor ex-drummer Wölli. In: RP Online. Retrieved May 6, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Rohde, Wolfgang
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rohde, Wolfgang Michael (full name); Wölli; Cherrywaterking
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musician
DATE OF BIRTH January 9, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel
DATE OF DEATH April 25, 2016
Place of death Meerbusch