Heinz Rudolf Kunze

Dubbed by wags “the singing secondary schoolteacher” due to his often didactic lyrics, German rocker Heinz Rudolf Kunze loved his very best success within the mid-’80s via the smashes “Dein Ist Mein Ganzes Herz” and “Mit Leib und Seele.” Blessed November 30, 1956, in Espelkamp-Mittwald, Kunze was suffering from acute bone tissue disease throughout youth, channeling his limited energy into books and music. He initial pursued a profession as a article writer, earning some way of measuring fame for brief tales including Zu Karla Übers Wochenende and Romanze den 1. Through the middle-’70s Kunze started singing using the rock and roll group Provinzriesen, as time passes learning electric guitar and piano. In 1980 he made an appearance at Würzburg’s Pop-Nachwuchs-Festival alongside guitarist Mick Franke, therefore impressing viewers and judges that he arrived a five-record cope with WEA. Kunze’s debut LP Reine Nervensache implemented in 1981. A crucial smash, the record earned some honors, especially the Berliner Wecker as well as the Willy-Dehmel-Preis. His 1983 work Der Schwere Mut was believe it or not acclaimed, so when his notoriety grew Kunze extended into other press, penning an article on American vocalist/songwriter Randy Newman for Der Spiegel and hosting radio series for NDR and SFB. Using the name cut from 1985’s Dein Ist Mein Ganzes Herz he obtained his first German TOP hit, even though recording was his last with longtime collaborator Franke, a rest that for most fans signaled the final outcome of Kunze’s most innovative period. The 1986 launch of Wunderkinder however proved his continuing industrial viability. The recording quickly entered the very best 20, notching the strike solitary “Mit Leib und Seele,” and he continued to get the desired Goldene Stimmgabel. Kunze continued to be among German rock’s biggest celebrities through the entire remainder from the 10 years, scoring some strike singles including “Alles Was Sie,” “Größer als Wir Beide,” and “Heul mit den Wölfen.” In the top of his popularity he shifted gears once again, in 1991 submitting the book Sternzeichen Sündenbock. That same calendar year, Kunze also released the record Brille, his best-selling discharge to date. Using the follow-up, Draufgänger, he drew impact in the grunge sound after that in vogue within the U.S. In 1994, he released a second book, Der Golem aus Lemgo, with Kunze: Macht Musik also landed in the government’s Bundesprüfstelle index because of the questionable “Sex mit Hitler.” Kunze gained two extra Goldene Stimmgabel honors in the next half of the 10 years, but his product sales dwindled. Furthermore, his extracurricular initiatives outside of rock and roll led to fees by critics that he was coping with a midlife turmoil, charges bolstered with the 2002 publication of his third book, Wasser bis zum Hals Steht Mir. Kunze responded by recruiting Blumfeld’s Chris von Rautenkranz to make a handful of monitors for his following LP, Wasser bis zum Hals Steht Mir. In 2003 he premiered his initial stage musical, Ein Sommernachtstraum, implemented a year afterwards by way of a sequel, POE: Pech und Schwefel. In 2007, Kunze appreciated a surge of restored reputation when his “Die Welt Ist Pop” positioned third in competition to represent Germany within the annual Eurovision Melody Contest, dropping to Roger Cicero’s “Frauen Regier’n expire Welt.” The associated LP, Klare Verhältnisse, was his most commercially effective outing in near a 10 years.