Rocko Schamoni | |
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Nationality | German |
Occupation(s) | author, musician, entertainer and writer |
Website | Official website Rocko Schamoni at MySpace |
Rocko Schamoni (born May 8, 1966), real name Tobias Albrecht, is a German entertainer, author, musician, club proprietor and member of the comedy ensemble Studio Braun.
Rocko Schamoni was born in Kiel, Germany, and grew up in the small town of Lütjenburg. He released his first vinyl-single Liebe kann man sich nicht kaufen in 1987 followed by a lot of albums and singles. In 1998 he started the project Studio Braun with two other musicians from Hamburg.
In 2000 he also started authoring books. Rocko Schamoni released three autobiographical novels called Risiko des Ruhms (2000), Dorfpunks (2004) and Sternstunden der Bedeutungslosigkeit (2007). Dorfpunks became a German success, an autobiography narrating Schamoni's youth first as a fan of punk and then as a punk himself in his village Lütjenburg at the end of the 70s and at the beginning of the 80s. Schamoni was invited to several well-known TV shows as TV Total to promote his novel.
Together with Schorsch Kamerun and others Rocko Schamoni co-founded the Golden Pudel nightclub in Hamburg, well known as a hub of the Hamburger Schule movement. [1]
Additionally he works as part-time actor also known as King Rocko Schamoni, Bims Brohm, IBM City Star, Mike Strecker, and Silvio Strecker.
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