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Heinz Rudolf Erich Arthur Kunze (born 30 November 1956, in Espelkamp-Mittwald,
North Rhine-Westphalia North Rhine-Westphalia (german: Nordrhein-Westfalen, ; li, Noordrien-Wesfale ; nds, Noordrhien-Westfalen; ksh, Noodrhing-Wäßßfaale), commonly shortened to NRW (), is a States of Germany, state (''Land'') in Western Germany. With more tha ...
) is a German writer and rock singer. His greatest hit was ''Dein ist mein ganzes Herz'' (not to be confused with the homonymous song from the operetta
Das Land des Lächelns ''The Land of Smiles'' (German: ') is a 1929 romantic operetta in three acts by Franz Lehár. The German language libretto was by and Fritz Löhner-Beda. The performance duration is about 100 minutes. This was one of Lehár's later works, and ...
) in 1985.


Life and career

Kunze was born in the refugee camp
Espelkamp Espelkamp ( nds, Espelkämpe) is a town in the Minden-Lübbecke district, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Geography Espelkamp is situated approximately 10 kilometers north of Lübbecke and 20 kilometers north-west of Minden. Neighbouring pla ...
near
Minden Minden () is a middle-sized town in the very north-east of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, the greatest town between Bielefeld and Hanover. It is the capital of the district (''Kreis'') of Minden-Lübbecke, which is part of the region of Detm ...
. His family had been expelled from
Guben Guben (Polish and Sorbian: ''Gubin'') is a town on the Lusatian Neisse river in Lower Lusatia, in the state of Brandenburg, Germany. Located in the Spree-Neiße district, Guben has a population of 20,049. Along with Frankfurt (Oder) and Görlitz ...
(
Niederlausitz Lower Lusatia (; ; ; szl, Dolnŏ Łużyca; ; ) is a historical region in Central Europe, stretching from the southeast of the Germany, German state of Brandenburg to the southwest of Lubusz Voivodeship in Poland. Like adjacent Upper Lusatia i ...
, now partially Poland). His father, an officer for the
Waffen-SS The (, "Armed SS") was the combat branch of the Nazi Party's ''Schutzstaffel'' (SS) organisation. Its formations included men from Nazi Germany, along with Waffen-SS foreign volunteers and conscripts, volunteers and conscripts from both occup ...
and long-time
prisoner of war A prisoner of war (POW) is a person who is held captive by a belligerent power during or immediately after an armed conflict. The earliest recorded usage of the phrase "prisoner of war" dates back to 1610. Belligerents hold prisoners of wa ...
, had returned only in the same year. In the 1980s, he rose to prominence as a singer. HRK, as he is often called, has also written books, and has translated musicals into German. In 2002, Kunze narrated ''Piktors Verwandlungen'', a 40-minute piece of the German band
Anyone's Daughter Anyone's Daughter is a German progressive rock band founded in 1972 in Stuttgart by Uwe Karpa und Matthias Ulmer. They are considered Progressive rock, similar to German bands like Eloy and Novalis. History The band started out playing cov ...
after a fairy tale by German author
Hermann Hesse Hermann Karl Hesse (; 2 July 1877 – 9 August 1962) was a German-Swiss poet, novelist, and painter. His best-known works include ''Demian'', ''Steppenwolf (novel), Steppenwolf'', ''Siddhartha (novel), Siddhartha'', and ''The Glass Bead Game'', ...
, during a festival in honoring the late Nobel laureate in his home town
Calw Calw (; previously pronounced and sometimes spelled ''Kalb'' accordingly) is a town in the middle of Baden-Württemberg in the south of Germany, capital and largest town of the district Calw. It is located in the Northern Black Forest and is a ...
. In the national selection for
Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 Germany participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 with the song "Frauen regier'n die Welt" written by Matthias Haß and Frank Ramond. The song was performed by Roger Cicero. The German entry for the 2007 contest in Helsinki, Finland, was se ...
, the singer/songwriter entered with "Die Welt ist Pop" (The World Is Pop), finishing 3rd.


Work


Albums and CDs (selected)

:''"D" refers to highest German chart rank'' * 1981 – ''Reine Nervensache'' * 1985 – ''Dein ist mein ganzes Herz'' (D 8) * 1986 – ''Wunderkinder'' (D 18) * 1991 – ''Brille'' (D 4) * 1994 – ''Kunze: Macht Musik'' (D 10) * 1999 – ''Korrekt'' (D 12) * 2001 – ''Halt'' (D 10) * 2005 – ''Das Original'' (D 28) * 2007 – ''Klare Verhältnisse'' (D 21) * 2013 – ''Stein vom Herzen'' (D 18) * 2016 – ''Deutschland'' (D 8) * 2016 – ''Meisterwerke:Verbeugungen'' (D 37) * 2018 – ''Schöne Grüße vom Schicksal'' (D 16) * 2020 – ''Der Wahrheit die Ehre''


Literature

* 1991 – ''Sternzeichen Sündenbock'' * 1994 – ''Der Golem aus Lemgo'' * 2002 – ''Wasser bis zum Hals steht mir'' * 2006 – ''Kommando Zuversicht''


Singles (selected)

* 1985 – "Dein ist mein ganzes Herz" (D 8) * 1989 – "Alles was sie will" (D 51) * 1991 – "Alles gelogen" (D 78) * 1992 – "Finderlohn" (D 55) * 1994 – "Leg nicht auf" (D 56) * 1999 – "Aller Herren Länder" (D 75) * 2008 – "Langere Tage" (D 93)


Musicals

* 1987 – ''
Les Misérables ''Les Misérables'' ( , ) is a French historical novel by Victor Hugo, first published in 1862, that is considered one of the greatest novels of the 19th century. In the English-speaking world, the novel is usually referred to by its original ...
'' (translation into German) * 1994 – ''
Miss Saigon ''Miss Saigon'' is a stage musical by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil, with lyrics by Boublil and Richard Maltby Jr. It is based on Giacomo Puccini's 1904 opera ''Madame Butterfly'', and similarly tells the tragic tale of a doomed rom ...
'' (deutsche Version: Übersetzung HRK) * 1996 – ''
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat ''Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat'' (often colloquially known as ''Joseph'') is a sung-through musical with lyrics by Tim Rice and music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, based on the character of Joseph from the Bible's Book of Genesis. Thi ...
'' (deutsche Version: Übersetzung HRK) * 1999 – ''
RENT Rent may refer to: Economics *Renting, an agreement where a payment is made for the temporary use of a good, service or property *Economic rent, any payment in excess of the cost of production *Rent-seeking, attempting to increase one's share of e ...
'' (deutsche Version: Übersetzung HRK) * 2003 – '' Ein Sommernachtstraum'' (nach
Shakespeare William Shakespeare ( 26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's nation ...
, HRK gemeinsam mit Heiner Lürig) * 2004 – ''POE — Pech und Schwefel'' (HRK gemeinsam mit Frank Nimsgern) * 2007 – '' Kleider machen Liebe – oder: Was ihr wollt'' (nach Shakespeare, HRK gem. mit Heiner Lürig)


Books (selected)

* 1984 – ''Deutsche Wertarbeit — Lieder und Texte 1980–1982'' * 1986 – ''Papierkrieg — Lieder und Texte 1983–1985'' * 1992 – ''Mucken und Elefanten — Lieder und Texte 1986–1991'' * 1997 – ''Heimatfront — Lieder und Texte 1995–1997'' * 1999 – ''heinz rudolf kunze: agent provocateur'' * 2005 – ''Artgerechte Haltung — Lieder und Texte 2003–2005'' ;by others: * 2005 – ''Silbermond samt Stirnenfuß — HRK Texte und Musik von 1980 bis 2005'' von Holger Zürch * 2007 – ''Heinz Rudolf Kunze — Meine eigenen Wege. Die Biographie'' von Karl-Heinz Barthelmes


External links

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Stirnenfuss — Die Heinz Rudolf Kunze Community im Internet

Biographie bei Laut.de



Wunderkinder.de — Der Heinz Rudolf Kunze Fanclub im Internet

Große Akkorde und Tabulatur — Sammlung

ZDF-Meldung: HRK als Dozent der Fachhochschule Osnabrück
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