De Randfichten

De Randfichten are a Trio from Johanngeorgenstadt in the ore mountains, which are to be assigned to the category of the folk music.

career/development

beginning of the career

the group of Thomas “Rups” Unger and Michael “Michl” rusty 1992 as original Arzgebirg edge spruces one based. Both played first predominantly in the private framework, whereby them starting from 1995 by the 2004 deceased Doris strive-lie on the guitar were supported. In August 1995 they arose for the first time on the television (MDR). 1997 pushed Thomas “Lauti” loud brook to the edge spruces. Since 2000 the Trio De Randfichten calls itself.

The name edge spruces means the trees at the edge of a forest, which are particularly exposed to the influences of the weather and therefore particularly strong and resistant must be.

The debut album of the edge spruces DO whistles dr fox… 1997 appeared. The fox became the Maskottchen of the Trios, so that fans along-brought foxes even stuffed to the concerts. After several appearances in regional television broadcasts, among other things in oh CIM hit parade De Randfichten were distinguished 2000 by the MDR with the Herbert Roth - price as the best new generation volume. 2001 wrote it the music for the MDR Doku Soap ski welfare at the Fichtelberg. In the year after De Randfichten created its own disk label Rafi record.

the “Holzmichl”

the largest success of their career the three musicians created 2004, as their single live dr old Holzmichl still? into the German single Charts and in July place 3 entered reached there. The song is an old Volkslied, which is common in different text versions in many parts of Germany. For example does it resemble the Volkslied “lives the old Hausmichel still?” (“The oide Hausmichl NO” lives), for example song sheet publishes No. from the Bavarian national association for homeland care e.V. 78.

The characteristic at the song is that the listeners with the text line “, he still” both arms lives into air tears. Thus it wins its character as tendency song, to which it owes its success to a large part also outside of the usual people music public. In the winter 2003/04 it was played on numerous winter sports meetings like the Biathlon world championship in upper yard and attained thereby also supraregional admittingness. In February 2004 it was published therefore as single.

This single was almost boycotted by many, above all West German, radio and music television stations. The fact that this boycott did not show any effect proves the fact that the song became the usually-sold German-language single in the year 2004. Of 16. February 2004 up to 7. March 2005 was the song altogether 56 weeks in the official German Verkaufscharts. There is a half dozen of songs, which brought it on more than one year in entire German hit parade history only. Both the single and the associated album reached platinum.

With the Holzmichl De Randfichten reached also a public outside of the people music scene. Among other things they appeared as the first music folk music in transmissions such as Top OF the Pops or The of cathedrals .

The popularity of the edge spruces and in particular the Holzmichl also the sales of T-Shirts and stickers with the label kills the Holzmichel by a Chemnitzer entrepreneur , who was judicially forbidden to this by De Randfichten , or one shows in the NDH - range settled Parodie of a formation named De Randgruppe with the title Holzmichel - the answer, which likewise entered in December 2004 into the Charts. The edge spruces knew successfully Merchandising - articles marked, all out in front in Seiffen/Erzgeb. manufactured Holzmichl - smoking males.

after the “Holzmichl”

meanwhile likewise his people music career began tonuses, the son of Thomas Unger. After it had won in December 2003 at the age of six years in oh CIM hit parade, his single I appeared bie e klaane flight-fenced in April 2004, and in the September of the same yearly its first album people music , that came is my life out.

To 12. De Randfichten with the title represented February 2005 go now the party correctly loosely the Free State Saxonia with first federal vision the Song Contest and achieved a noteworthy sixth place.

At the beginning of of 2006 followed with comes of rudders a new version of the number unity hit of 1964 of Peter Lauch & the Regenpfeifern.

Diskografie

albums

• 1997: DO whistles dr fox…
• 2000: Halli, hello…
• 2001: Christmas in the ore mountains
• 2002: s'Arzgebirg in the blood
• 2003: De Randfichten - the best
• 2004: dr Holzmichl, Christmas in the ore mountains (republication)
• 2005: Heja Ho, de Randfichten is DO!

Singles

• 2001: Ski welfare at the Fichtelberg
• 2004: Dr if old Holzmichl lives still, dr old Holzmichl lives still - club step by Remix, De merry wood-hacker-lead
• 2005: Now the party goes correctly loosely
• 2006: That comes of rudders

honors

• 1997: Talent competition of the sword brewery in Meissen
• 2000: Musi edge king in oh CIM hit parade and harsh ore Roth price (best group of new generations)
• 2002: Musi edge king in oh CIM hit parade
• 2003: Ehrenpreis of the city Johanngeorgenstadt
• 2004: Golden hen, golden tuning fork (best folk music), musi edge king in oh CIM hit parade and harsh ore Roth price (most successful group)
• 2005: ECHO (best folk music) and crown of the people music (most successful group of 2004)

see also

folk music, portal: Music

Web on the left of

• http://www.randfichten.de/ - official Website of the edge spruces
• http://www.erster-rafifanclub-westerzgebirge.de/ - first edge spruces - fan club

west ore mountains places itself before

• http://www.flugficht.de/ - official of the side of tonuses “flight-fences” (son of Thomas “Rups” Unger)