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Heinz Rudolf Erich Arthur Kunze (born 30 November 1956, in Espelkamp-Mittwald,
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) 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) in 1985.


Life and career

Kunze was born in the refugee camp
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near
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. His family had been expelled from
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(
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, now partially Poland). His father, an officer for the
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and long-time
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, 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 (band), Eloy and Novalis (band), Novalis. History The ...
after a fairy tale by German author
Hermann Hesse Hermann Karl Hesse (; 2 July 1877 – 9 August 1962) was a Germans, German-Swiss people, Swiss poet and novelist, and the 1946 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. His interest in Eastern philosophy, Eastern religious, spiritual, and philosophic ...
, during a festival in honoring the late Nobel laureate in his home town
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. In the national selection for Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 2007, 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 19th-century French literature, French Epic (genre), epic historical fiction, historical novel by Victor Hugo, first published on 31 March 1862, that is considered one of the greatest novels of the 19th century. '' ...
'' (translation into German) * 1994 – ''
Miss Saigon ''Miss Saigon'' is a sung-through musical theatre, 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 ''Madama Butterfly'', and similarly tells th ...
'' (deutsche Version: Übersetzung HRK) * 1996 – '' Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat'' (deutsche Version: Übersetzung HRK) * 1999 – '' RENT'' (deutsche Version: Übersetzung HRK) * 2003 – '' Ein Sommernachtstraum'' (nach
Shakespeare William Shakespeare ( 23 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 natio ...
, 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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