Wenn or WENN may refer to:

• WENN (AM), a radio station (1320 AM) licensed to Birmingham, Alabama, United States
• Remember WENN, a television series that aired from 1996 to 1998 on American Movie Classics
• World Entertainment News Network, an entertainment news wire service based in London, England
• Former callsign of WERC-FM, a radio station (105.5 FM) licensed to Hoover, Alabama, United States
• St Wenn, village and parish in the Restormel district of mid-Cornwall, United Kingdom
• Stuart Wenn, an Australian rules football field umpire in the Australian Football League

In German-language music:

• Wenn du da bist
• Wenn wir wollten
• Wenn alle untreu werden
• Wenn Der Letzte Schatten Fällt, album by L'Âme Immortelle
• Wenn der Himmel brennt

See also[link]

• Wenns, municipality in the Imst district of Austria

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Kool Savas
Kool Savas in 2010
Background information
Birth name	Savaş Yurderi
Also known as	King Kool Savas (KKS), Juks, Jux, Essah
Born	(1975-02-10) February 10, 1975 (age 37) Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Origin	Turkey
Genres	German hip hop
Labels	Essah Entertainment
Associated acts	M.O.R., Azad, Samy Deluxe, Lumidee, 40 Glocc, Ying Yang Twins
Website	Official website

Savas Yurderi (born 10 February 1975) also known as Kool Savas (or as well King Kool Savas), is a German rapper and hip hop artist. Savas is mostly referred to as "King of Rap" or "King of German Rap".^[1]

"Savaş" is the Turkish word for "war".

Biography[link]

Born in Aachen, Germany to a German mother and a Turkish father, Savas' family moved back to Turkey when he was one year old. His father, who is from Çorum, Turkey, was arrested because of his political posture against the government in Turkey, and as a result of his father's arrest, his mother was forced to return to Aachen with Savas.^[2] By 1987, his father was released and the entire family was reunited and relocated to Berlin. It was in Berlin where Savas first came across Hip Hop music.^{[citation needed]}

Savas lived with his girlfriend, Melbeatz, in Berlin for an extended amount of time. As a result, the majority of Savas' beats were produced by her. Although Savas and his girlfriend are no longer together, they remain close friends.^{[citation needed]}

Although Savas is popularly called a "Berlin rapper," he resides in Heidelberg. He is also a vegetarian.^{[citation needed]}

Career[link]

2000: Early career[link]

Savas started his rap career with the EP Warum rappst du, containing rather provocative lyrics in songs such as "L.M.S.", "Schwule Rapper" and "Pimplegionär". He first started under the name Juks and rapped mostly in English. He became successful through the groups Masters of Rap (M.O.R.) and Westberlin Maskulin.

In 2001, he and all of M.O.R. left former label Put Da Needle To Da Records, because of personal and artistic differences. They released a diss track against former label CEO Peter Sreckovic titled "Track gegen Peter" where Savas gave reason for his exit.

Beginning in 2002, he founded his own label, Optik Records, where he released his first solo album titled Der beste Tag meines Lebens, for which he won a Comet award. For the album, Savas worked together with several domestic and foreign musicians including Azad, Samy Deluxe, Kurupt, 40 Glocc, Dem Franchize Boyz, Lumidee, RZA, Moses Pelham, J-Luv, Bligg, Jadakiss, Royce da 5'9", Xavier Naidoo, Mobb Deep, Ying Yang Twins and Illmatic. The album sold over 90,000 copies worldwide.

With his record label, Savas tried to build up other artists. He discovered Eko Fresh and signed many upcoming artists such as DJ Nicon, Melbeatz, Ercandize, Caput, Amar, Sinan and Moe Mitchell.

In 2004, Savas released his first mixtape, "Kool Savas goes Hollywood" which was later made available as free online download.

Since early 2005, Savas has been supporting the efforts of his younger brother Sinan, his cousin Dimi and his brother-in-law Igor in their blooming rap careers.

In 2005, he released his mixtape titled "Die John Bello Story". It was the most successful mixtape in Europe in 2005 and also Savas' best to date at over 60,000 sold copies. In the same year he produced the album "One", together with Azad. The hit single "All 4 One" peaked at 4 in the German Top 100 Singles.

In 2006, Savas released the label sampler "Optik Takeover", a collaboration with several other artists signed to Optik Records. Also in 2006, he released an album with Optik Schweiz, the Swiss counterpart of Optik Records, titled "Wer Hatz Erfunden".

His second solo album, Tot oder Lebendig (eng. Dead or Alive), was released in 2007 and proved to be successful at 50,000 sold copies.

Savas released the sequel mixtape "Die John Bello Story 2" in 2008. He then went on to release an updated version labeled the "Brainwash Edition".

In 2009, he released the EP "Was hat S.A.V da vor" with the Hip Hop Magazine Juice. The same year saw the release of a collaboration album with Optik Russia which was called "New Russian Standard".

On March 12, 2010, Savas released "Die John Bello Story 3" which sold roughly 50,000 copies. The album featured fellow rappers Azad, Curse, Ying Yang Twins, Olli Banjo, Ercandize, Moe Mitchell, Amar, Franky Kubrick, Kaas, Mo Trip, Sinan, Tua, Vega, Kitty Kat, Laas Unltd. and more.

His 2011 album Aura included a single with the same name and a song featuring Xavier Naidoo, titled LMS 2012.

Controversy[link]

Eko Fresh[link]

In 2002 Eko Fresh and Savas began to dispute. Eko Fresh left the label and continued his career without his colleague. He released "Die Abrechnung", a song which spoke out against Kool Savas and other German rappers. Savas replied with "Das Urteil", which also became a hit song.

Discography[link]

• 2002: Der beste Tag meines Lebens
• 2004: Die besten Tage sind gezählt
• 2007: Tot oder Lebendig
• 2011: Aura

References[link]

External links[link]

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• Official Homepage'
• Official Facebook Page'

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Udo Lindenberg (1987)

Udo Lindenberg (born 17 May 1946 in Gronau) is a German rock musician and composer.

Career[link]

Lindenberg started his musical career as a drummer. In 1969 Lindenberg founded his first band Free Orbit and also appeared as a studio and guest musician (with Michael Naura, Knut Kiesewetter). In 1970 he collaborated as a drummer with jazz-saxophonist Klaus Doldinger in Munich. In 1971, a band founded by Lindenberg, Passport put out its first album, with Lindenberg on drums. He also played drums for the theme music for the German TV series Tatort. The first LP of the Jazz rock group Emergency was released in 1971 but met with little commercial success.

The LP Lindenberg (also 1971, and sung in English, already with Steffi Stephan on bass) was likewise unsuccessful. In the following year, the fist LP in German was released: Daumen im Wind (produced by Lindenberg and Thomas Kukuck, who also produced the next 5 albums together), from which the single "Hoch im Norden" became a radio hit in northern Germany. 1973 brought a breakthrough with the album Andrea Doria and its catchy "Alles klar auf der Andrea Doria" and "Cello". Over 100,000 copies sold, and Lindenberg quickly received the largest record deal of any German-language musician up to that time. Lindenberg was earning a special place in the new German-language music of the 70s: Between internationally-oriented Krautrock and pop music, he found his niche. German-language rock had previously been confined to predominantly political message bands whose music was directed at a narrow audience.

Lindenbergs brash style, everyday subject matter ("Bei Onkel Pö…") and his feel for language were an unprecedented combination in German-language music. His pioneering work helped other artists such as Stefan Waggershausen and Marius Müller-Westernhagen get record deals of their own. In 1973 Lindenberg first went on tour with his Panikorchester (Panic Orchestra).

1976 was one of Udo Lindenberg's most productive years. Besides the LP Galaxo Gang he also published under the name Das Waldemar Wunderbar Syndicat I make you feel good, a first Best of Panik Udo and the first in a series of foreign-language publications No Panic, on which Lindenberg translated his songs to English. In the same year (and on another LP: Sister King Kong) with the song "Rock ’n’ Roll Arena in Jena", Lindenberg first mentioned a Panic Orchestra tour in the GDR. In 1976, Lindenberg discovered Ulla Meinecke and produced her first two albums. She was a guest artist and co-author of the 1977 LP Panische Nächte (Panic Nights) and the 1978 Dröhnland Symphonie. On Lindenbergs Rock Revue (1978) Lindenberg and Horst Königstein "Germanized" rock classics from Little Richard to The Beatles and The Rolling Stones, and went on a big tour. The Nr.-1-Hit "We Gotta Get out of This Place" was also published with German lyrics.

The subsequent Dröhnland-Symphonie-Tour was staged by Peter Zadek as a big multimedia stage show with a plethora of costumed extras. The result was Lindenbergs first live album Livehaftig. In 1979, Der Detektiv was the second Rock Revue, in which more international hits such as "Candle in the Wind" by Elton John, "Born to Be Wild" by Steppenwolf, "My Little Town" and "As Time Goes By" (from the film Casablanca) were "Germanized". Also 1997 was published "Belcanto - Udo Lindenberg & das Deutsche Filmorchester Babelsberg" which included hits like "Horizont", "Bis ans Ende der Welt" along with a song by Bertold Brecht and Udo's own interpretation of The Windmills of Your Mind - "Under the drunkard moon" ("Unterm Säufermond")^[1] (Lyrics: Udo Lindenberg, Horst Königstein).

SS Andrea Doria		"Sonderzug nach Pankow"

One of his most famous songs is Sonderzug nach Pankow (Special train service to Pankow), an adaptation of Chattanooga Choo Choo, released as a single on 2 February 1983. It originated from the refusal of eastern German authorities to allow Lindenberg a concert in the German Democratic Republic (GDR).

On June 3, 2011 Lindenberg performed at Kampnagel unplugged. The recording was later released as an album within the MTV unplugged series. Lindenberg was the 8th German artist in that series. The album became the second number 1 album for Lindenberg declared Platin status for 200.000 sold units after two weeks.^[2] The second single from the album "Cello" (feat. Clueso) went number 4 giving Lindenberg the highest chart position in German singles charts ever reached.^[3]

Lindenberg has worked collaboratively with various local and international recording artists (Eric Burdon, Helen Schneider, David Bowie, Tom Robinson, Keith Forsey, Gianna Nannini, and Nena) on a number of projects. He currently lives in Hamburg in the Hotel Atlantic (for several years now). His somewhat hoarse voice is the result of too much liquor and cigarettes. In 1989 he survived a heart attack. In 2010 he designed two stamps, themed on his songs "Andrea Doria" and "Sonderzug nach Pankow", for the Deutsche Post.

Singles[link]

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D: Germany, A: Austria, CH: Switzerland

¹Udo Lindenberg & Pascal
²Freundeskreis feat. Udo Lindenberg
³Nena & Friends (Udo Lindenberg, Sasha, Ben, ...)
⁴Udo Lindenberg feat. Inga Humpe
⁵Udo Lindenberg feat. Clueso

Albums[link]

D: Germany, A: Austria, CH: Switzerland

¹ Udo Lindenberg & Panikorchester
² Udo Lindenberg & Das Deutsche Filmorchester Babelsberg

References[link]

• "Udo Lindenberg" (in German). Who's Who. The People-Lexicon. rasscass Medien Content Verlag. http://www.whoswho.de/templ/te_bio.php?PID=696&RID=1. 

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Udo Lindenberg

• Official website (German)
• "Udo Lindenberg & more", Art gallery
• Udo Lindenberg in the German National Library catalogue (German)
• Udo Lindenberg at the Internet Movie Database

Konstantin Wecker (Concert, 1986)

Konstantin Alexander Wecker (born June 1, 1947, Munich) is one of the best-known German singer-songwriters ("Liedermacher"); he also works as a composer, author, and actor.

Life and work[link]

One of his first jobs as a songwriter was at Munich's cabaret "Münchner Lach- und Schießgesellschaft" in 1973. His breakthrough as a singer came in 1977 with the LP Genug ist nicht genug ("Enough Is Not Enough"), which includes the popular talking blues "Willy," about a presumably close friend of Wecker's who was slain by drunken Nazis.

Wecker has released more than forty albums, and has also composed music for film, theater, and children's musicals.

In 2003, Wecker became a public opponent of the U.S-government-led war in Iraq, joining his leftist Liedermacher colleagues Hannes Wader and Reinhard Mey. He is connected to the far-left party Die Linke (The Left).

In March 2006 Wecker was forced to cancel a scheduled performance in the small town of Halberstadt, Saxony-Anhalt. This came after the far-right National Democratic Party (NPD) pressured local authorities and threatened to forcibly disrupt the concert. Wecker pledged to return to Halberstadt in the summer of 2006,^[1] and eventually performed in Halberstadt on 17 June 2006, accompanied by fellow singer-songwriter Hannes Wader and Afghan percussionist Hakim Ludin.^[2]

Selected works[link]

Albums[link]

• 1972: Die sadopoetischen Gesänge des Konstantin Amadeus Wecker (later renamed as: Konstantin's Erste)
• 1974: Ich lebe immer am Strand
• 1977: Genug ist nicht genug
• 1978: Eiie ganze Menge Leben
• 1979: Live
• 1980: Liederbuch
• 1981: Live in München
• 1982: Das macht mir Mut
• 1984: Inwendig warm
• 1987: Wieder dahoam - Live in Austria
• 1989: Stilles Glück, trautes Heim
• 1993: Uferlos
• 1996: Gamsig
• 1998: Brecht
• 2001: Vaterland
• 2005: Am Flußufer
• 2006: Politische Lieder
• 2007: Alles das und mehr (DVD music video)
• 2011: Wut und Zärtlichkeit

Collaborations[link]

• 1988: Joan Baez / Konstantin Wecker / Mercedes Sosa: Three worlds, three voices, one vision
• 1999: Jutta Richter / Konstantin Wecker: Es lebte ein Kind auf den Bäumen // book and CD
• 2001: Konstantin Wecker / Hannes Wader: Was für eine Nacht
• 2003: Reinhard Mey / Hannes Wader / Konstantin Wecker: Das Konzert
• 2010: Konstantin Wecker / Hannes Wader: Kein Ende in Sicht

Movies[link]

• Mein ganzes Herz ist voll Musik, BR Deutschland 1959, Musikfilm (Mitwirkung und Soloauftritt im Rudolf Lamy Kinderchor)
• Die Autozentauren, BR Deutschland 1972, TV-Film (Darsteller)
• Liebe in drei Dimensionen, BR Deutschland 1973, 93 min., Sexfilm, (Rudi)
• Der Ostfriesen-Report: O mei, haben die Ostfriesen Riesen, BR Deutschland, 1973, 80 min., Komödie / Sexfilm (Hinnerk)
• Unterm Dirndl wird gejodelt, BR Deutschland 1973, Sexfilm (Florian)
• Geilermanns Töchter – Wenn Mädchen mündig werden, BR Deutschland 1973, Sexfilm (Stefan)
• Liebesmarkt – Matratzen-Horchdienst, BR Deutschland 1973, Sexfilm (Tom)
• Beim Jodeln juckt die Lederhose, BR Deutschland 1974, Sexfilm (Sepp)
• Schwestern oder Die Balance des Glücks, BR Deutschland 1979, 95 min., Frauenfilm / Drama (Robert Edelschneider)
• Die weiße Rose, BR Deutschland, 1982, 123 min., Politthriller / Biografie
• Peppermint Frieden, BR Deutschland 1982, 110 min., Drama / Jugendfilm (Schreiner Lustig)
• Sag nein, BR Deutschland 1983, 98 min., Dokumentarfilm (Konzertausschnitt)
• Ende der Freiheit, BR Deutschland 1983, 85 min., Dokumentarfilm (Konzertausschnitt)
• Is' was, Kanzler!?!, BR Deutschland 1984, 92 min., Komödie (Straßenmusikant)
• Atemnot, Österreich 1983 / 84, 95 min., Drama (Konzertauftritt mit Sigi Maron und Konstantin)
• Martha Dubronski, Schweiz 1984, 96 min., Literaturverfilmung / Drama (Fleischhauer)
• Stinkwut, BR Deutschland 1986, TV-Spiel (Sänger Titellied mit Zither)
• Kir Royal, BR Deutschland 1986, TV-Serie (Studiomusiker, 6.Folge)
• Spaltprozesse, BR Deutschland 1987, Dokumentarfilm (Konzertausschnitt mit Konstantin Wecker)
• Dreifacher Rittberger, BR Deutschland 1987, TV-Comedyserie (Klavierträger, 4.Folge)
• Der Geisterwald – Blutbuche und Rabenrache, Deutschland 1988, TV-Serie (Rabe)
• Deutsche Redensarten und ihr Ursprung – Jemandem einen Korb geben, Deutschland 1989, TV-Kurzfilm (Spielmann)
• Die Republikaner, Deutschland 1990, Dokumentarfilm (Konzertausschnitt)
• Tatort - Blue Lady, Deutschland 1990 (Rainer Seifert)
• Go Trabi Go, Deutschland, 1991, Filmkomödie (Playboy)
• Ein Mann für jede Tonart, Deutschland 1992, 92 min., Komödie (Barpianist)
• Lilien in der Bank, Deutschland 1992, 104 min. (Turnlehrer)
• Das Babylon Komplott, Österreich 1993, TV-Film (Thomas)
• 1945, Österreich 1994, TV-Film (Bauer Mühlberger)
• Ärzte: Dr. Schwarz und Dr. Martin, Deutschland 1994 / 1996, TV-Serie in 8 Folgen (Franzl Unterrainer)
• Für mich soll's rote Rosen regnen, Deutschland 1995, Dokumentation über Hildegard Knef (Gesprächsausschnitt mit K. Wecker)
• Kriminaltango, Deutschland 1995, TV-Krimiserie (Mischa König, Folge 6 „Münchner Freiheit“)
• SOKO 5113: Tommy, Deutschland 1999, Folge aus der TV-Krimireihe (Manfred Brunnhorst)
• Mit 50 küssen Männer anders, Deutschland 1999, TV-Film (Bildhauer Gerd)
• Dunkle Tage, Deutschland 1999, TV-Film (Herr Rinser)
• Ein lasterhaftes Pärchen, Deutschland 2000, TV-Film (Frank)
• Alles mit Besteck, Deutschland 2001, Kurzfilm (Pianist)
• Edelweiß, Österreich 2000 (Paul Richter)
• In der Mitte eines Lebens, Deutschland 2003, TV-Dreiteiler (Tom Hochreiter)
• Apollonia, Deutschland 2005, TV-Zweiteiler (Müller Vinz)
• Wer früher stirbt, ist länger tot, Deutschland 2006

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Konstantin Wecker

• German Homepage of Konstantin Wecker
• A Website about Konstantin Wecker in English, including translations of some of his songs
• Konstantin Wecker at the Internet Movie Database
• more about the Halberstadt ongoing