Jennifer Rostock
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| Jennifer Rostock | |
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 Jennifer Rostock at the Unifest 2008 in Karlsruhe.
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| Background information | |
| Origin | Berlin, Germany |
| Genre(s) | Rock Punk rock Electropop |
| Years active | 2007–present |
| Label(s) | Warner Music |
| Website | http://www.jenniferrostock.de |
| Members | |
| Jennifer Weist Johannes "Joe" Walter-Müller Alex Christoph Baku |
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Jennifer Rostock is a German rock band from Berlin.
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[edit] History
Jennifer Weist and Johannes "Joe" Walter-Müller are both natives of the German Baltic island Usedom and first met in kindergarten. Walter-Müller started taking music lessons as a five-year-old; he initially began to learn the violin, later he started to play piano. At the age of 13, he met Weist again when she sang at a karaoke show and he invited her to join his school band. They experimented with different genres such as rock, pop, and swing, in the beginning singing in English, later in German and eventually writing their own songs.[1] In 2004, both founded the band Aerials.[2]
They met Werner Krumme who would later become their producer during a songwriting workshop in Rostock.[3] After both finished school with the Abitur in summer 2006, they moved to Berlin to pursue a career in music. There they also met their future band members Alex, Christoph, and Baku.[1]
The band's name was based on a misunderstanding at first. Employees at the Planet Roc studios in Berlin repeatedly wrote notes for them addressed to "Jennifer Rostock." Weist later explained, "Jennifer was directed at me, and Rostock, because they remembered we are from the coast, and Rostock was probably the only town the studio guys knew up there."[1] This working title was eventually embraced by the band and became their official name.[4]
In 2007, the group gave their first concerts as Jennifer Rostock and they signed a recording contract with Warner Music.[1] They mainly performed in the Berlin club scene and played as opening acts for the British bands Chikinki and Gallows.[3] In Oktober, Jennifer Rostock released their first EP Ich will hier raus and started to get air time with local radio stations in Berlin.[5] In February 2008, their first single "Kopf oder Zahl" was placed in rotation by MTV Germany. They competed with that song at the Bundesvision Song Contest, a German television show based on the Eurovision Song Contest, and came in at fifth place.[6] Jennifer Rostock’s debut album Ins offene Messer was released the following day and entered the German album charts at number 31.[7]
The band's unorthodox and innovative German lyrics are collectively written by Weist and Walter-Müller who also compose and arrange the songs.[1] Although the group is difficult to categorise, Jennifer Rostock are often compared to the Neue Deutsche Welle, especially due to their first single, "Kopf oder Zahl," and its similarities to the German 1980's band Ideal. The newspaper taz described their music as "somewhere between glam punk, electropop and Berlin-rock".[8]
[edit] Discography
[edit] Albums
| Year | Title | Peak positions | ||
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| GER [9] | AT | CH | ||
| 2008 | Ins offene Messer
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31 | — | — |
[edit] Singles
| Year | Single | Album | Peak positions | ||
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| GER [10] | AT [11] | CH | |||
| 2008 | "Kopf oder Zahl" | Ins offene Messer | 48 | 69 | — |
[edit] EPs
- 2007: Ich will hier raus
[edit] References
- ^ a b c d e Usedomer Band rockt beim Bundesvision Song Contest für M-V. MVregio. December 12, 2007. Accessed February 19, 2008. (German)
- ^ Jennifer Rostock. FanLexikon.de. Accessed February 19, 2008. (German)
- ^ a b Jennifer Rostock (Biographie). laut.de. Accessed February 19, 2008. (German)
- ^ Newcomer-Band als Geheimtipp. Yahoo! Nachrichten. Februar 13, 2008. Accessed February 19, 2008. (German)
- ^ Jennifer Rostock: Ich will hier raus. musik.AOL.de. October 31, 2007. Accessed February 19, 2008. (German)
- ^ Die Sieger des BuViSoCo: Subway To Sally. mtv.de. Februar 15, 2008. Accessed February 19, 2008. (German)
- ^ Jennifer Rostock Ins offene Messer - CD-Review. Musicheadquarter.de. Februar 15, 2008. Accessed February 19, 2008. (German)
- ^ Mecklenburg-Vorpommern - Jennifer Rostock. taz. Dezember 17, 2007. Accessed February 19, 2008. (German)
- ^ Chartverfolgung / Jennifer Rostock / Longplay. musicline.de. (German)
- ^ Chartverfolgung / Jennifer Rostock / Single. musicline.de. (German)
- ^ Jennifer Rostock - Kopf oder Zahl. austriancharts.at. (German)
[edit] External links
- Official website (German)
- Profile at Warner Music Germany (German)
