Heinz aus Wien are a rock band from Austria

Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

. They sing in German

German language

German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....

. The band was created 1995.

They became famous with songs as: "Schlafen ohne dich" (Sleep without you), "Ich hab mit Tocotronic

Tocotronic

Tocotronic is a German rock band founded in 1993 . Similar to Blumfeld or Die Sterne they are considered a part of the Hamburger Schule movement...

 Bier getrunken" (I drank beer with Tocotronic) or the birthday-song for FM4

FM4

FM4 is an Austrian national radio station, operated by the ORF. Its main target is the youth audience, and much of the music output is characterised by an alternative rock and electronic music slant....

 (a radio station in Austria) "Alles Gute FM4" (All the best FM4). Their second album "Elektroboot, bitte" was a solid continue of their first album "Welsfischen am Wolgadelta". The albums "Pasadena" and "Karate Karate" are intentionally more in the direction of pop

Pop music

Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...

 than rock

Rock music

Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...

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The band was nominated in 2001, 2002 and 2003 for the Amadeus Austrian Music Award.

Discography

• 1996 - Welsfischen am Wolgadelta
• 1997 - Elektroboot, bitte
• 2000 - Pasadena
• 2002 - Karate Karate
• 2003 - Live in Mexico
• 2005 - It's A Crazy World
• 2006 - It's A Crazy Remix Album
• 2007 - Die bunten Fahnen gehen über die Welt