Heinz Rudolf Kunze

Kunze worked across composer, writer, singer, recording artist and actor and 2 further recorded occupations. The registers place that work in rock music. This article rests on 101 catalogued compositions, 13 published texts, 97 issued recordings and 7 scholarly references drawn from named institutional registers. Every statement below returns to a source shown in the evidence panel; where the record is silent or divided, the article says so instead of resolving it.

• Name — Heinz Rudolf Kunze • Born — 30 November 1956 • Birthplace — Espelkamp-Mittwald, North Rhine-Westphalia • Occupation — * Singer-songwriter • musician • author • translator • Genre — Rock, Pop • Instruments — * Vocals • guitar • Years Active — 1981–present

Kunze was born in the refugee camp Espelkamp near Minden. His family had been expelled from Guben (Niederlausitz, now partially Poland). His father, an officer for the Waffen-SS and long-time prisoner of war, 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 after a fairy tale by German author Hermann Hesse, during a festival in honoring the late Nobel laureate in his home town Calw. 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.

• "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

• 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)

• 1987 – Les Misérables (translation into German) • 1994 – Miss Saigon (German version) • 1996 – Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (German version) • 1999 – RENT (German version) • 2003 – Ein Sommernachtstraum (after Shakespeare, HRK and Heiner Lürig) • 2004 – POE — Pech und Schwefel (HRK and Frank Nimsgern) • 2007 – Kleider machen Liebe – oder: Was ihr wollt (after Shakespeare, HRK and Heiner Lürig)

Heinz Rudolf Kunze is recorded with the occupation recording artist. Classed in the genre rock music. Established in Library of Congress under n85247693. Established in Discogs under 152640. Established in FAST under 202446. Recorded as having received Goldene Stimmgabel and Lower Saxony State Prize. Identity and origins. The authorities additionally record the heading Heinz Rudolf Erich Arthur Kunze. His recorded language was German.