Ruhe (English: ''Silence'' or ''peace'') is the third single from the 1999

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debut album

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with vocals by an unknown woman and an unknown man and spoken word passages by German actor and voice actor Benjamin Völz (* 13. Mai 1960), who became famous in the German-speaking countries as the voice of FBI Special Agent

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from the American television series ''

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''. The song is titled internationally as "Peace". The trance music single was officially released on 29 November 1999 in Germany and was peaking at number 24 on German Singles Chart in 1999 and at number 69 in Switzerland. The cover art work shows a graphic of an empty box. The album version (''Langspiel-Fassung'') and the single and TV version (''Fernseh-Fassung'') of Ruhe are unlike versions with completely different music. Only the spoken words are the same. The spoken words of the song are including the poem "Über die Einsamkeit" by Swiss philosophical writer

Johann Georg Zimmermann Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann / Johann Georg Zimmermann (8 December 1728, in Brugg, Aargau7 October 1795, in Hanover) was a Swiss philosophical writer, naturalist, and physician. He was the private physician of George III and later Frederick ...

(1728-1795). The poem is: Translation from German: "Peacefulness, the greatest happiness on earth, comes very often only through solitude into the heart." Ruhe was featured in the 2009 German cinema movie

Zweiohrküken ''Rabbit Without Ears 2'' (German title: ''Zweiohrküken'', "Two-Eared Chick") is a 2009 German romantic comedy film, written, produced and directed by Til Schweiger. A sequel to 2007's ''Rabbit Without Ears'' (''Keinohrhasen''), it was co-writte ...

and was included on the Official Sound Track of Zweiohrküken.

Track listing

Maxi single

Vinyl

Credits and personnel

* Composed and produced by Christopher von Deylen and Mirko von Schlieffen * Bass and rhythm guitar by Tissy Thiers * Voice by Benjamin Völz * Recorded and mixed at the Sleepingroom in Hamburg * Voice recorded by Stefan Knauthe at the Kokon Studio in Berlin

Music video

The official

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for "Ruhe" has a length of 3:45 minutes. The video features three couples with people of different ethnic origin, who are walking and strolling through an inner courtyard of an office building in the style of a Japanese garden. The video was aired and was shown for example on German music television channel

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in 1999.

Charts

References

External links

Official music video of Ruhe

The music video of Ruhe

Ruhe live

The single on Discogs

{{Authority control Schiller (band) songs 1999 singles Songs written by Christopher von Deylen 1999 songs