Campino

While still a child, in 1964, he moved to Mettmann with his parents. Growing up in the middle class, he came into contact with punk music at an early age. She then joined the punk scene, despite her mother's protests. Campino made his stage debut in 1970 as a 16-year-old. In 1982 he founded the German punk group "Die Toten Hosen" from two Düsseldorf punk bands, "ZK" and "KFC". Meanwhile, he attended the Humboldt-Gymnasium in Düsseldorf, where he graduated from high school in 1983. The band's first single was released in 1983. The title "Ice-cold Bommerlunder" shaped the image of the band around Campino as a drinking and rowdy combo. The first LP with the title "Opel-Gang" followed in the same year. After the band's second album "Under False Flags", Trini Trimpop left the band as drummer and became their manager instead. Wolfgang "Wölli" Rohde was hired as the new drummer. In 1986 they recorded their third album "Damenwahl". Despite their high popularity, there was no economic success,