Thees Uhlmann

Born on 16 April 1974 in Hemmoor, Lower Saxony, German musician and author Thees Uhlmann rose to fame as a founding member of 1990s and 2000s indie-pop staples Tomte, who formed in Hamburg in the late 1980s and released their debut EP, Blinkmuffel, in 1996. They scored a breakthrough album with "Hinter all diesen Fenstern" (Behind All These Windows) in 2003 and experienced their first taste of mainstream success a decade after forming thanks to 2006's Buchstaben über der Stadt, before going on hiatus in 2008. Three years later, in the summer of 2011, Thees Uhlmann began carving out his own lane, adding his voice to rapper Casper's XOXO album and a few months later launching his own solo career with a debut self-titled LP. The record, which also featured the aforementioned rapper and was performed predominantly on the piano rather than Thees Uhlmann's trusty acoustic guitar, was a critical and commercial success, peaking at number four in Germany where it hung around on the charts for two months and also charting in Austria. The follow-up, the aptly titled #2, arrived in 2013 via his own Grand Hotel van Cleef records and drew influence from Bruce Springsteen. It went to number two on the German Album Charts and also reached the top five in Austria. After a six-year break between albums, Thees Uhlmann returned in 2019 with his third full-length Junkies und Scientologen. Several singles followed, including 2021's "Club 27" and "Das hier ist Fußball", with live album 100.000 Songs in Hamburg emerging in 2022.

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