Joachim Witt
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Joachim Witt (born February 22, 1949 in Hamburg, Germany) is a German musician and actor.
[edit] Life and work
Witt became a major star of the German pop scene during the Eighties with huge hits such as "Herbergsvater" and "Der Goldene Reiter". He was one of the biggest names of the so-called "Neue Deutsche Welle" (new German wave), a musical movement, that people like Nena belonged to.
He made a big comeback at the end of the Nineties, when he scored a major hit with "Die Flut", a duett with Peter Heppner, the singer of popular German synth pop group Wolfsheim. Witts album "Bayreuth 1" (1997) scored platinum in Germany and Austria. "Bayreuth 2" followed four years later. His music in those days resembled the hard hitting sounds of Rammstein, albeit with a gothic touch, that owed a lot of inspiration to legendary German composer Richard Wagner.
Was the guitarist/singer in Seventies Krautrock band Duesenberg. He released three albums with them, "Duesenberg" (1977), "Duesenberg 2" (1978) and "Strangers" (1979), before embarking on a solo career as a singer and actor.
Witt also contributed the song "Vandemar" to the 2006 album "Where's Neil When You Need Him?" which is a compilation of songs based on the works of author Neil Gaiman. "Vandemar" is based on a character from Gaiman's novel "Neverwhere."
[edit] Discography
- Silberblick (1980)
- Edelweiß (1982)
- Märchenblau (1983)
- Mit Rucksack und Harpune (1985)
- Moonlight Nights (1985)
- 10 Millionen Partys (1988)
- Kapitän der Träume (1992)
- Goldener Reiter (1996)
- Witt / Das Beste (1998)
- Bayreuth 1 (1998)
- Bayreuth 2 (2000)
- Eisenherz (2002)
- Pop (2004)
- Bayreuth 3 (2006)