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Knorkator
Stumpen, Buzz Dee, Alf Ator (from left)
Background information
Origin
Berlin, Germany
Genres
Heavy metal, Neue Deutsche Härte, comedy rock
Years active
1994–2008, 2011–present
Labels
Tubareckorz, Nuclear Blast
Members
Stumpen (Gero Ivers)
Alf Ator (Alexander Thomas)
Buzz Dee (Sebastian Baur) (since 1996)
Rajko Gohlke (since 2010)
Philipp Schwab (since 2020)
Past members
J. Kirk Thiele (until 1997)
Thomas Görsch (until 1998)
Chrish Chrash (Christian Gerlach) (1998–2003)
Tim Buktu (Tim Schallenberg) (2003–2008)
Sebhead Emm (Sebastian Meyer) (2012–2014)
Nick Aragua (Nicolaj Gogow) (2003–2012,2014–2020)
Website
knorkator.de
Knorkator is a German band from Berlin that combines heavy metal with comical elements. They proclaim themselves to be "Germany's most band in the world" (German: Deutschlands meiste Band der Welt), as the title "The best band in the world" was already taken by Die Ärzte. The name Knorkator is a personification of knorke, a dated adjective used in Berlin and the Ruhr basin meaning "great" or "fabulous" (similar to the English slang word "swell"). The band was founded in 1994, but only played in the Berlin/Brandenburg area until 1998.
Singer Stumpen at Rockharz Open Air 2016Keyboardist Alf Ator at Rockharz 2014Rajko Gohlke and Buzz Dee at Rockharz Open Air 2018
Knorkator gained further fame (and some notoriety) in 2000 with their performance of Ick wer zun Schwein (sic; literally, in Berlin dialect, "I'm turning into a pig") in the German national qualification for the Eurovision Song Contest. After the qualification show, German tabloid BILD notoriously headlined "Wer ließ diese Irren ins Fernsehen?" ("Who let these lunatics on TV?").[1]
Knorkator announced the end of the band in a MySpace bulletin on 14 June 2008, the last concert was played on 5 December that year in Berlin. The official reason given for the band's breakup was that Alf Ator wanted to leave Germany to start a new life in Thailand. In autumn 2010 a bulletin by Stumpen announced the bands' reunion. A first "small" tour followed in April 2011 as well as some concerts at well-known festivals like Wacken Open Air. The tour was called the "77 minutes tour", as the setlist was planned to be exactly 77 minutes long. A digital clock that counted down the minutes was placed on stage to make sure the time limit was not exceeded. Their new album Es werde Nicht (translates to "Let there be Not" or "Let Not Be", a pun on Es werde Licht – "Let there be Light") was in September 2011, followed by a big tour with concerts of regular length.
^Article in the newspaper "Berliner Zeitung", retrieved: November 21, 2016 (in German)
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