The German folk music icon Heino is 80

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Black sunglasses blonde hair: Heino is Germany’s most famous folk music star and a cult figure. “Black-brown is the hazelnut” is not the only musical monument that he has set.

  • Fighter career: from folk musicians to the metalheads

    The Boy with the guitar

    Fighter’s career started in 1967. With spirited voice, he sings upbeat folk music Schlager into the microphone, and pave a Hit after another on his way. Songs like “Karamba, Karacho, a Whisky”, “black-brown is the hazelnut” or “Black Barbara” in front of German music that has become home to movie-Idyll: a perfect world in the turbulent times of profound Upheaval of the late 1960s.

  • Fighter career: from folk musicians to the metalheads

    The only “true Heino”

    The Berlin-based punk singer Norbert Hähnel (above, center, with Fans) in the 1980s as “The real Heino”, also in support of the Punk Band “die Toten Hosen”. Don’t like the real Heino at all. He pulls in front of the court and is sought indeed an injunction. Hähnel may not occur more than Heino-Double. Makes but nothing, thousands of others are doing it – until today.

  • Fighter career: from folk musicians to the metalheads

    On-site Café in the Spa town of

    The Spa town of Bad Münstereifel gets, in 1996, a small highlight: The folk music star is opening a Café. Thus, the trained master Baker fulfilled a great desire. Sometimes he performs in his with Heino memorabilia decorated the town hall Café, the bakery, a Hand, or singing even in front of the Café for a good purpose. In 2012, the Café an Outlet must be soft-Store.

  • Fighter career: from folk musicians to the metalheads

    Karamba, Karacho – in Wacken!

    In 2013, the then 75-Year-old, the stage experience of his life. In Wacken he is suddenly 75.000 Metalheads. Along with Rammstein, he’s singing their Hit, “sun” and seems a little overwhelmed. The invitation to a joint appearance is Rammstein’s answer to the Fighter cover version of “sun” to listen to his Album “Sincerely yours” from 2013.

  • Fighter career: from folk musicians to the metalheads

    New star on the Metal sky

    Wacken has brought Heino on the taste. In 2014, his Album “Black gentian blooming”. You can take the man seriously? In the Video for the title track, he gives the gloomy Herald of the served boards of his Smash Hit “Blue gentian” from 1972 in a metallic minor chords in bloom on hard Guitar. In the audience, young Goths and rock at the end of oldsters. Heino has discovered the self-irony.

  • Fighter career: from folk musicians to the metalheads

    Like ice in the sunshine

    As a Hero of the German folk music of Heino has abdicated a long time ago. Not as an icon and a cult figure and he looks youthful as in his best times. As of 2015, the ice cream brand “Langnese” is 80 years old, makes Heino advertising for the Kulteis “Dolomiti” – of course, with sunglasses and a cover version of the Langnese-ad-song “Like Ice in the Sunshine”.

  • Fighter career: from folk musicians to the metalheads

    Back to the roots

    Lately, the concept of Home is stressed in Germany very often. Time for Heino, to remember back to his folk music roots. So he is posing on the occasion of a home to Congress in March, 2018 with the North Rhine-Westphalia, home Minister Ina pawing Bach and a Heino Album of the year in 1981: “The most beautiful German homeland and father country songs”.

    Author: Silke Wünsch


  • Fighter career: from folk musicians to the metalheads

    The Boy with the guitar

    Fighter’s career started in 1967. With spirited voice, he sings upbeat folk music Schlager into the microphone, and pave a Hit after another on his way. Songs like “Karamba, Karacho, a Whisky”, “black-brown is the hazelnut” or “Black Barbara” in front of German music that has become home to movie-Idyll: a perfect world in the turbulent times of profound Upheaval of the late 1960s.

  • Fighter career: from folk musicians to the metalheads

    The only “true Heino”

    The Berlin-based punk singer Norbert Hähnel (above, center, with Fans) in the 1980s as “The real Heino”, also in support of the Punk Band “die Toten Hosen”. Don’t like the real Heino at all. He pulls in front of the court and is sought indeed an injunction. Hähnel may not occur more than Heino-Double. Makes but nothing, thousands of others are doing it – until today.

  • Fighter career: from folk musicians to the metalheads

    On-site Café in the Spa town of

    The Spa town of Bad Münstereifel gets, in 1996, a small highlight: The folk music star is opening a Café. Thus, the trained master Baker fulfilled a great desire. Sometimes he performs in his with Heino memorabilia decorated the town hall Café, the bakery, a Hand, or singing even in front of the Café for a good purpose. In 2012, the Café an Outlet must be soft-Store.

  • Fighter career: from folk musicians to the metalheads

    Karamba, Karacho – in Wacken!

    In 2013, the then 75-Year-old, the stage experience of his life. In Wacken he is suddenly 75.000 Metalheads. Along with Rammstein, he’s singing their Hit, “sun” and seems a little overwhelmed. The invitation to a joint appearance is Rammstein’s answer to the Fighter cover version of “sun” to listen to his Album “Sincerely yours” from 2013.

  • Fighter career: from folk musicians to the metalheads

    New star on the Metal sky

    Wacken has brought Heino on the taste. In 2014, his Album “Black gentian blooming”. You can take the man seriously? In the Video for the title track, he gives the gloomy Herald of the served boards of his Smash Hit “Blue gentian” from 1972 in a metallic minor chords in bloom on hard Guitar. In the audience, young Goths and rock at the end of oldsters. Heino has discovered the self-irony.

  • Fighter career: from folk musicians to the metalheads

    Like ice in the sunshine

    As a Hero of the German folk music of Heino has abdicated a long time ago. Not as an icon and a cult figure and he looks youthful as in his best times. As of 2015, the ice cream brand “Langnese” is 80 years old, makes Heino advertising for the Kulteis “Dolomiti” – of course, with sunglasses and a cover version of the Langnese-ad-song “Like Ice in the Sunshine”.

  • Fighter career: from folk musicians to the metalheads

    Back to the roots

    Lately, the concept of Home is stressed in Germany very often. Time for Heino, to remember back to his folk music roots. So he is posing on the occasion of a home to Congress in March, 2018 with the North Rhine-Westphalia, home Minister Ina pawing Bach and a Heino Album of the year in 1981: “The most beautiful German homeland and father country songs”.

    Author: Silke Wünsch


Since 1967, Heino is the most famous face of the German Schlagertums. And up to today. While his colleagues of the time that’s either no longer the land of the Living, or age-related externally, have greatly changed, he’s remained an iconic Image loyalty: Very bright hair and a very dark pair of sunglasses – which he must wear due to an eye disease. No matter whether he wears a simple turtleneck sweater with a jacket, or a death’s-head ringed in a black leather jacket throws.

Heino is not only shock fans of the cult. Almost everyone in Germany knows him. The one that is today called “Best Agers”, grew up with his songs necessarily, because these offices rang in the parental living out of the suitcase radio and music chests. The next Generation has seen him next to Dieter Bohlen in the Jury of the TV Casting Show “Germany seeks the Superstar” and knows advertising his mobile Phone (“So fast, fast, fast the LTE is”). Fans of pretty much every well-known German rock band know that Heino of the Doctors to Rammstein has everything covered, what came to him in the Finger and that he was in Wacken on stage at the biggest Metal Festival in the world.

A really tough guy: Metal-greeting with Skull and crossbones

“The songs can’t help it”

You also know that Heino, the name is actually Heinz Georg Kramm, have been people sang, which were also smashed by the Nazis. When asked about this, he says: “The songs can’t help it.” Also known is that Heino in 1983 and 1986, made a tour through South Africa, as the country was still under the apartheid regime, and the international was outlawed. And also this story you know: in 1993, he took the “song of Germany” – the German national anthem, with all three stanzas, and thus also with the one that was sung in the third Reich (“Germany, Germany above everything”).

In 2013, he brings in an Interview with the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung” a Hitler quote. On a question about his then latest record, he said: “If I fall down now and dead am, then it’s been the last Album. You don’t know. But still, I’m steel Yes hard as Krupp, tough as leather and nimble as a Greyhound.” A slightly unfortunate choice of words, he put into perspective later: He didn’t know it was a Hitler quote. The Ruch a certain sympathy for the rights of disposition Heino has vehemently: “I’m not black-brown, your hazelnuts!”

Since 40 years ago, the dream couple of folk music: Heino and Hannelore

Musical Home Minister

Whether black, brown or blond – the man belongs to the German folk music scene like no other: after all, he preserved in a time in which half the world is in a cultural and social upheaval, a piece of German soul. Against the Background of the students of ‘ 68, the Flower-Power revolts-motion, and Beat-Revolution, sings the then-30-Year-old home, mountains, valleys and forests, gentian, horses, Indians and Cowboys. So he sold more records than the Beatles. “I draw in my songs heal the world, because I want to have a perfect world,” he says much later in an Interview.

Solid Weeble-Mentality

The concept holds for decades, Heino remains true to itself. So he piles music awards, Golden and platinum records. He considers it, he parodied constantly, and spurned, ridiculed. A German music critic referred to him as “an emetic the generations”. Even abroad, he stands out: Punk icon and Ex-Dead Kennedys singer Jello Biafra has created, just to document, “what an incredible fucking music in the world”, a complete Heino-plate collection.

Heino is not distracted and always shows his unwavering Weeble-mentality. With his third wife on the side – the equally famous Hannelore – he opened a Café in a resort town in the Eifel region, and serves a likewise iconic cake – black-and-brown hazel-nuts, of course. As the Café has to give way to the age of 16 to an Outlet Store, he goes after the first Grumble with the new owners a lucrative symbiosis: He sings for shoppende audience, which can strengthen after the bargain-hunting in his new Heino Café.

For a real metal band with a decent Logo must be

Metamorphosis as a career Kick

Musically, Heino enters with over 70 years of uncharted territory: He discovered the rock music. In 2013, he brings out an Album that the Nation is split more than a rash then geträllerte people from the Gestapo-song-book: Under the title “Sincerely (The banned Album)” covert, he cheerful Songs of his German Pop and Rock counterparts. Most of those Affected are almost horrified and try to ban Songs. No Chance: If the covered songs 1:1 are played back, that is all right, as long as the author will receive the royalties.

Not amused: The dead trousers

His old nemeses, the pants of the dead, need not stunned to listen to Heino reminds her success song “Young” knödelt and feel painful to the fact that Heino’s mind 20 years earlier, so much fun, as the pants made their way over Heino’s funny: they went in the 1980s with their Punk friend Norbert Hähnel in the role of “True Heino” on Tour to Heino this by a court order to prohibit.

The only ones who can deal with this strange Heino-Rock record, are the heavyweights of Rammstein. Invite Heino on the Metal Festival in Wacken. In front of 75,000 metalheads, the 74-Year-old floor is stiff between wild pyrotechnics, and 400 kilowatts of Sound-banging and singing bravely Rammstein-number “sun”. At a respectful distance by Till Lindemann, the acts, as if he would devour him skin and hair. The Metalheadz in the audience and in the network are divided.

But Heino has tasted blood. Especially since his controversial Album landed at number one on the German Charts. So the next rock record comes out a year later with the title “Black is the gentian”. In 2016, released for the UEFA European football championship, the Album “ass card” with a covered football classics.

Heino smiles a goodbye

…and bye

In November 2018 traitor, but a parting gift – appears finally for his Fans and for his enemies. Because here he covert again, what keeps this stuff: including “days like these” by the Toten Hosen and Rammstein-title “angels”. The latter, he must be supposed to take in the last Minute of the plate: This was not discussed with Rammstein. A little PR stunt to push sales of the album? The attentive reader knows, the is allows for 1:1 cover…

With the Album “…and bye” is Germany’s most famous national bard in March 2019, on a farewell tour – he will enjoy his evening of Life, with his wife, Hannelore, in a way, since their marriage in 1979, from his side, and said that she has made her husband what he is today: A “cool dude”.