Biographie
1987
In this year Wolfsheim was founded by Markus Reinhardt and his brother. The name 'Wolfsheim' is inspired by a character apiring in the german translation of the novel The Great Gatsby by Scott F. Fitzgerald. His brother and the vocals left the band during the year and Peter Heppner joined Wolfsheim. This lineup remains unchanged until today.
This autumn Wolfheim presented their first concert in the 'Werkstatt 3' in Hamburg.
Erstes Konzert
1991
The Band signed its record agreement with Strange Ways Records. This year they released their first maxi The Sparrows and the Nightingales.
1992
This year their first album No Happy View is released. Because of a money shortage, they had to record it in only three weeks.
1993
This year Wolfsheim went on tour as part of the Strange Ways Festival Tour. Already one year after their first album No Happy View Wolfsheim released their second album Popkiller this September. According to an interview in the german music magazin Zillo Wolfsheim weren't very satisfied with this album. B.t.w the cover of the album was designed by Peter Heppner himself.
1994
This year Wolfsheim went on tour as part of the Strange Ways Festival Tour again. Also their maxi Elias is released. Besides the new song Elias it contains several remixes of popkiller songs. The cover was also designed by Peter Heppner.
1995
It's a little quiet this year. Only 55578, a compilation of titles from their singles and previously unreleased tracks is published. The title of the compilation is a gag. Somewhere in Rheinland-Pfalz (a part of germany) there is small village called 'Wolfsheim' which has the postal code 55578. Appropriate to this the cover presented an areal photograph of this small village.
Markus 1995Peter 1995
1996
Two and a half years after their last album in february Wolfsheim released their third album called Dreaming Apes. The album did even managed to get into the german top 100 (somewhere between 70 and 80). In may Wolfsheim went on their Dreaming Apes Tour. One of the concert was even broadcasted on the german radio station Eins Live.Wolfheim 1996
1997
First it was planned to release an E.P. called E. After Peter Heppner got ill they had to change their plans and so only the live album Hamburg - Rom - Wolfsheim with recordings from the Dreaming Apes Tour is published in octobre.
B.t.w. the Name and the cover of the album where inspired by an wireless set from Grundig called 'Heinzelmännchen'. On the display of the set one could see several cities and among them the cities Hamburg, Rom and ... Wolfsheim.
1998
The singer Peter Heppner has great commercial success together with Joachim Witt with the title Die Flut.
In octobre after a long break the maxi Once In A Lifetime is published. The CD manages to enter the german top 30. Wolfsheim publish their first film music for the film Liebe deine Nächste of Detlev Buck.
1999
Wolfsheim 1999The new album Spectators is released. On the following Spectators tour Wolfsheim play at sold out locations. On the second single from the Spectators album they put a remix of the title song Künstliche Welten they recorded together with the praha simphonic orchestre.
2001
Nothing so far...
will be completed...;-)
Source: Zillo 12/98-1/99 and my memory ;-).
Photos from Zillo 03/96 & from 55578-Booklet, last Photo by Oliver Schulz-Berndt