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Roger Baptist (born July 14, 1966 in Großenhain-Germany) is a german musician and lyricist. He is known as the vocalist Rummelsnuff.

Biography[link]

Personal life[link]

Roger Baptist is the son of a musician family. His mother, Renate Baptist, was violin teacher. She was vocalist in the Gerd-Michaelis-Chor. His father, Peter Baptist, was trombonist and band leader of the Peter-Baptist-Combo. He grew up in the near of Dresden were he started to learn the bassoon.

In the early 1980's he began to write his first songs with an old Keyboard, Microphones, Drums, and a Bass Guitar. In 1987 he formed the band Kein Mitleid. The lyrics of this band were mostly in English. In 1989 he joined the Dresdner Untergrundband Freunde der italienischen Oper (FDIO). After the break up of FDIO in 1992 he joined the EBM Band Automatic Noir, which existed till 1999.

Baptist worked as a Bodybuilder-Trainer and is since 2007 bouncer in the Berlin Technoclub Berghain. Due the contacs that he got through his work and the mass of work on new music he created a first draft of the character Rummelsnuff together with the norway artist Bjarne Melgaard in 2004.

Since 2005 he works on his single project under the name Rummelsnuff. His first album Halte Durch! was published in 2008. In the same year he started his Germany Tour and worked together with other German artists. His latest album is Himmelfahrt from 2012. On live shows he is supported by guest musicans^[1]

In 2013 he appeared in a music video of the famous German band Fettes Brot.

Discography[link]

Kein Mitleid[link]

(active from 1987 till 1989, other members of the band: Jörg und Kathrin Schittkowski, Thomas Schön)

Freunde der italienischen Oper[link]

(active from 1989 till 1992)

Albums

• 1991: Um Thron Und Liebe LP (Par Excellence)
• 1997: Um Thron Und Liebe CD (Strandard63 / What's So Funny About )
• 1997: Edle Einfalt Stille Größe CD (Strandard63 / What's So Funny About)
• 1997: Rare, seltene und rätselhafte Aufnahmen (Um Thron und Liebe / Edle Einfalt, stille Größe) CD-Box (Strandard63 / What's So Funny About)

Compilations

• 1992: Eine Eigene Gesellschaft mit Eigener Moral CD (What's So Funny About)
• 2001: Musik in Deutschland 1950–2000 CD-Dokumentation – Angewandte Musik CD-Box – Titel Faust, ebenfalls auf Musik für Schauspiel CD-Box (RCA / Bertelsmann)
• 2006: Spannung Leistung Widerstand – Magnetbanduntergrund DDR 1979–89 CD (ZickZack Records)
• 2007: Kinder der Maschinenrepublik CD

Automatic Noir[link]

(active from 1992 till 1999, other members of the band: Jörg Schittkowski, Andy Német, Toddy Scheel)

Veröffentlichte Tonträger

• Automatic Noir MC
• Schwert und Schild MC
• 1997: Kaiserschnitt CD (Noiswork Records)

Beiträge auf Kompilationen

• 1995: Blue Monday CD – Titel King Of Witers (Noiseworks Records)
• 1996: Magic Of The Place CD – Titel Kavkaz (Amöbenklang / SubFlora)
• 1998: Moderne Menschen Kaufen CD – Titel Stein (Noiseworks Records)

Rummelsnuff[link]

(active since 2005)

Albums

• 2008: Halt durch! CD (ZickZack Records / Indigo)
• 2010: Sender Karlshorst CD (Out Of Line Music)
• 2011: Brüder / Kino Karlshorst EP+DVD (Universal Music / Out Of Line Music)
• 2012: Halt' Durch! CD, Neue Edition (ZickZack Records / Out Of Line Music)
• 2012: Himmelfahrt CD (Out Of Line Music)

Digital Singles

• 2013: Bratwurstzange/Minderleister (nur als Download erhältlich)

Compilations

• 2007: What's So Funny About.. ZickZack CD – Titel Halt durch! (ZickZack Records)
• 2007: Lüge CD – Titel Halt durch! (Zickzack Records / Persona Non Grata)
• 2008: Lieder der Berge CD – Titel Kumpel, Glück auf! (Electric Tremor)
• 2008: Advanced Electronics CD+DVD – Video Vollnarkose (SPV / Synthetic Symphony)
• 2009: Leæther Strip – Yes I'm Limited V Doppel-CD – Titel Der Heizer (Alfa-Matrix / Soulfood)
• 2010: Advanced Electronics Vol. 8 CD+DVD – Video Freier Fall (SPV / Synthetic Symphony)
• 2010: EBM – The Compilation CD – Titel Pumper (Leather Strip Remix) (Universal Music / Out of Line Music)
• 2011: Gegengerade 20359 St. Pauli (Soundtrack) CD – Titel Salzig schmeckt der Wind (Audiolith Records / Broken Silence)
• 2011: A Tribute to Japanische Kampfhörspiele CD+LP – Titel Minderleister (unundeux / Schnapsidee Records)
• 2012: mit Shambhu And The True Love Hearts – Sadness / Machen Wir Den Tanz! Vinyl-Maxi-Single (Ostgut Ton)
• 2012: Symphonies from the Abyss CD – Titel Himmelfahrt (Rough Trade Records / Out Of Line Music)

Movies[link]

• 2008 Morgen, ihr Luschen! Der Ausbilder-Schmidt-Film, Regisseur: Mike Eschmann, Rolle: Blindes Kraftpaket
• 2009 Phantom Party, Regisseur: Edwin Brienen, Rolle: Phantom
• 2009 Phantomanie, Regisseur: Miron Zownir, Rolle: Masseur
• 2013 Lose your head, Regisseure: Patrick Schuckmann & Stefan Westerwelle, Rolle: Gregor

References[link]

External links[link]

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