Die Sterne is a two/three/four-piece indie pop

Indie pop

Indie pop is a genre of alternative rock music that originated in the United Kingdom in the mid 1980s, with its roots in the Scottish post-punk bands on the Postcard Records label in the early '80s, such as Orange Juice, Josef K and Aztec Camera, and the dominant UK independent band of the mid...

 band, from Hamburg

Hamburg

-History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...

, Germany

Germany

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. They were formed in 1992 and have released eight studio albums, the most recent in 2010.

Members

The band consists of Frank Spilker (vocals and guitar), Thomas Wenzel (bass and vocals), and Christoph Leich (drums). Frank Will and Richard von der Schulenburg were both former keyboarders for the band.

Thomas Wenzel is also a member of the bands Die Goldenen Zitronen

Die Goldenen Zitronen

Die Goldenen Zitronen are a punk rock band from Hamburg, Germany that are known for their entertaining and politically relevant style. Their original name was Die Deutschen Nazikartoffeln . When the band formed in 1984 at the beginning of the “Fun-Punk”-movement, punk was their main style...

and Cow, while keyboardist Richard von der Schulenburg and singer Frank Spilker pursue their own solo projects.

Studio albums

• Wichtig (1993)
• In echt (1994)
• Posen (1996), peaked at position #64 on the German Music Charts
  Media Control Charts
  The official music charts in Germany are gathered and published by the company Media Control GfK International on behalf of Bundesverband Musikindustrie...
  
  
• Von allen Gedanken schätze ich doch am meisten die interessanten (1997), #43
• Wo ist hier (1999), #27
• Irres Licht (2002), #36
• Das Weltall ist zu weit (2004), #70
• Räuber und Gedärm (2006), #58
• 24/7 (2010)

Singles

• Ein verregneter Sommer (1987)
• "In Einer Nacht Wie Dieser" (1988)
• Fickt das System (1992)
• Universal Tellerwäscher (1994)
• Was hat dich bloß so ruiniert (1996)
• Trrrmer (1996)
• Trrrmer-Remixe (1996)
• Unter Geiern II (1996)
• Widerschein (1996)
• Themenläden Remixe 1 (1997)
• Themenläden Remixe 2 (1997)
• Swinging Safari (1997)
• Die Interessanten (1997)
• Abstrakt (1997)
• Bis neun bist du O.K. (1997)
• Stell die Verbindung her (1998)
• Big in Berlin (1999)
• Das bißchen besser (1999)
• Nur Flug (2002)
• Wenn dir St. Pauli auf den Geist fällt (2002)
• Gerechtes Brett (2003)
• In diesem Sinn (2004)