Die Ärzte (pronounced DEE AIR-TS-teh, German for "The Doctors" or "The Phys… Read Full Bio ↴Die Ärzte (pronounced DEE AIR-TS-teh, German for "The Doctors" or "The Physicians") are a punk rock band from Berlin, Germany. Die Ärzte are one of the best-known German rock bands and have released over 20 albums. The band consists of guitarist Farin Urlaub, drummer Bela B. and bass player Rodrigo González. All three write and sing.
Die Ärzte were formed in 1982 by Jan Vetter (alias Farin Urlaub), Dirk Felsenheimer (alias Bela B.) and bassist Hans Runge (alias Sahnie). Bela and Farin had previously played together in the punk band Soilent Grün; after that band broke up they decided to form a band playing fun songs, in contrast to the mostly political bands of the punk scene at that time. While deriving from that punk scene, their early music was heavily influenced by pop and rock and roll, especially The Beatles, whom Farin heard a lot as a child due to his mother playing their records.
In the first two years they mostly played in clubs of their hometown of Berlin. Their first release was a contribution to the sampler "20 schäumende Stimmungshits" (roughly, "20 exuberant mood hits"), which contained a strong alcohol theme. In 1983 they won a rock contest in Berlin; with the prize money they recorded their debut EP "Uns gehts Prima" ("We're doing great"). Finally Columbia Records signed them, and they released their first LP "Debil" in 1984 and the second one ("Im Schatten der Ärzte") a year later.
After the second record they parted ways with Sahnie due to internal problems. On the third record he was replaced by producer Miccey Meuser; later Hagen Liebig, better known as The Incredible Hagen, played bass for them during live performances until their breakup.
In 1987 the German Federal Centre for Media Harmful to Young Persons put the songs Geschwisterliebe ("Sibling Love", a song about incest, from Die Ärzte), Claudia hat 'nen Schäferhund ("Claudia has a German Shepherd", about zoophilia, from "Debil") and Schlaflied ("Lullaby", about a monster coming and eating you after falling asleep, also from "Debil") on the German List of Media Harmful to Young People. This prohibited the band from performing the songs live and, more importantly, promoting the two albums, and shops from openly displaying the records in their shelves. After several trials against shops that still openly sold the records a lot of shops removed Die Ärzte completely from their stock. The result was a drop in record sales and big financial problems for the band. In response they released the compilation "Ab 18" ("Adults Only") with all their songs on the index and some other old and new tasteless songs, and the greatest hits album "Ist das alles?"("Is this everything?" but also can be translated as "Is this the end?"). The album and the new singles were fairly successful, partly because of growing media interest due to the previous censorship.
The following album "Das ist nicht die ganze Wahrheit" ("That is not the whole truth") was even more successful, climbing into the top 10 in the German album charts. They decided to go out on a high note in 1988, breaking up after doing one last tour and recording a live double album that became their first number one in the album charts.
Neither Farin's new band King Køng nor Bela's Depp Jones were really successful, so in 1993 they decided to do a reunion. As bass player they invited Rodrigo Gonzales, who was guitarist in Depp Jones and a friend of Bela. Their comeback single was Schrei nach Liebe ("Cry for Love"), their first ever political song, that they published as a statement against what was perceived as growing racism and right wing extremist violence in Germany at that time.
The album was more diverse than ever, with ballads, punk, rock and traditional German sounds. Both album and single became big hits in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The follow-up "Planet Punk" was also very successful.
In 1996 they wanted to make an EP just about hair, but they wrote too many songs for an EP and made the Album "Le Frisur" ("The Hairdo") instead. It was slightly less successful than its predecessors. Apart from their own tours they also supported Kiss in that year, a dream come true for Bela and Rod.
1998 was perhaps the most successful year of their career, the single "Männer sind Schweine" ("Men are Pigs") being their first Number 1 single in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, and the album 13 also being Number 1 in Germany and Switzerland. After a lot of promotion and touring in that year they decided to take a break, deciding also to never play again "Männer sind Schweine" at a concert due to the too great success this song had. They did not like the upcoming unwanted and rather unoriginal remakes by other bands as e.g. "Frauen sind Schweine" ("Women are pigs") and also did not like to see their song played at mass tourist beach parties at places like Mallorca/Spain.
In 2000 they came back with another very successful album, "Runter mit den Spendierhosen, Unsichtbarer!", and two top 10 singles. As the third single from the album they released the 30-second-song "Yoko Ono", which, according to the Guinness Book of Records, is the shortest single ever released - another example of their sense of humour. On their tour in 2001 they sold the limited Album "5, 6, 7, 8 Bullenstaat" consisting of short punk songs that were written and recorded while recording the full length album published a year before, and some cover songs published in 1994 on a tour only EP.
After that they again took a break: Bela did some acting, Farin recorded his first solo album (Endlich Urlaub!). In late 2002 they did an MTV Unplugged in a school auditorium together with the school band. After that they made a new double album Geräusch that was released in 2003. On the next tour a Live DVD was recorded and published one year later.
On 2 November 2007, Die Ärzte released their latest album, Jazz ist anders ("Jazz is nothing like this", literally "Jazz is different").
In August 2011 the band announced that they are working on a new album which is set to be released in 2012 with a tour called "Das Ende ist noch nicht vorbei" ("The end is not over yet") following in the summer 2012.
The official homepage for Die Ärzte is www.bademeister.com
Die Ärzte were formed in 1982 by Jan Vetter (alias Farin Urlaub), Dirk Felsenheimer (alias Bela B.) and bassist Hans Runge (alias Sahnie). Bela and Farin had previously played together in the punk band Soilent Grün; after that band broke up they decided to form a band playing fun songs, in contrast to the mostly political bands of the punk scene at that time. While deriving from that punk scene, their early music was heavily influenced by pop and rock and roll, especially The Beatles, whom Farin heard a lot as a child due to his mother playing their records.
In the first two years they mostly played in clubs of their hometown of Berlin. Their first release was a contribution to the sampler "20 schäumende Stimmungshits" (roughly, "20 exuberant mood hits"), which contained a strong alcohol theme. In 1983 they won a rock contest in Berlin; with the prize money they recorded their debut EP "Uns gehts Prima" ("We're doing great"). Finally Columbia Records signed them, and they released their first LP "Debil" in 1984 and the second one ("Im Schatten der Ärzte") a year later.
After the second record they parted ways with Sahnie due to internal problems. On the third record he was replaced by producer Miccey Meuser; later Hagen Liebig, better known as The Incredible Hagen, played bass for them during live performances until their breakup.
In 1987 the German Federal Centre for Media Harmful to Young Persons put the songs Geschwisterliebe ("Sibling Love", a song about incest, from Die Ärzte), Claudia hat 'nen Schäferhund ("Claudia has a German Shepherd", about zoophilia, from "Debil") and Schlaflied ("Lullaby", about a monster coming and eating you after falling asleep, also from "Debil") on the German List of Media Harmful to Young People. This prohibited the band from performing the songs live and, more importantly, promoting the two albums, and shops from openly displaying the records in their shelves. After several trials against shops that still openly sold the records a lot of shops removed Die Ärzte completely from their stock. The result was a drop in record sales and big financial problems for the band. In response they released the compilation "Ab 18" ("Adults Only") with all their songs on the index and some other old and new tasteless songs, and the greatest hits album "Ist das alles?"("Is this everything?" but also can be translated as "Is this the end?"). The album and the new singles were fairly successful, partly because of growing media interest due to the previous censorship.
The following album "Das ist nicht die ganze Wahrheit" ("That is not the whole truth") was even more successful, climbing into the top 10 in the German album charts. They decided to go out on a high note in 1988, breaking up after doing one last tour and recording a live double album that became their first number one in the album charts.
Neither Farin's new band King Køng nor Bela's Depp Jones were really successful, so in 1993 they decided to do a reunion. As bass player they invited Rodrigo Gonzales, who was guitarist in Depp Jones and a friend of Bela. Their comeback single was Schrei nach Liebe ("Cry for Love"), their first ever political song, that they published as a statement against what was perceived as growing racism and right wing extremist violence in Germany at that time.
The album was more diverse than ever, with ballads, punk, rock and traditional German sounds. Both album and single became big hits in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The follow-up "Planet Punk" was also very successful.
In 1996 they wanted to make an EP just about hair, but they wrote too many songs for an EP and made the Album "Le Frisur" ("The Hairdo") instead. It was slightly less successful than its predecessors. Apart from their own tours they also supported Kiss in that year, a dream come true for Bela and Rod.
1998 was perhaps the most successful year of their career, the single "Männer sind Schweine" ("Men are Pigs") being their first Number 1 single in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, and the album 13 also being Number 1 in Germany and Switzerland. After a lot of promotion and touring in that year they decided to take a break, deciding also to never play again "Männer sind Schweine" at a concert due to the too great success this song had. They did not like the upcoming unwanted and rather unoriginal remakes by other bands as e.g. "Frauen sind Schweine" ("Women are pigs") and also did not like to see their song played at mass tourist beach parties at places like Mallorca/Spain.
In 2000 they came back with another very successful album, "Runter mit den Spendierhosen, Unsichtbarer!", and two top 10 singles. As the third single from the album they released the 30-second-song "Yoko Ono", which, according to the Guinness Book of Records, is the shortest single ever released - another example of their sense of humour. On their tour in 2001 they sold the limited Album "5, 6, 7, 8 Bullenstaat" consisting of short punk songs that were written and recorded while recording the full length album published a year before, and some cover songs published in 1994 on a tour only EP.
After that they again took a break: Bela did some acting, Farin recorded his first solo album (Endlich Urlaub!). In late 2002 they did an MTV Unplugged in a school auditorium together with the school band. After that they made a new double album Geräusch that was released in 2003. On the next tour a Live DVD was recorded and published one year later.
On 2 November 2007, Die Ärzte released their latest album, Jazz ist anders ("Jazz is nothing like this", literally "Jazz is different").
In August 2011 the band announced that they are working on a new album which is set to be released in 2012 with a tour called "Das Ende ist noch nicht vorbei" ("The end is not over yet") following in the summer 2012.
The official homepage for Die Ärzte is www.bademeister.com
Mädchen
Die Ärzte Lyrics
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Sie hieß Angelika,
Und sie war plötzlich da
Sie zog ins Nachbarhaus
Seitdem war alles aus
Ich hab' an sie gedacht
Sie hat mich angelacht
Und eines Tages dann
Da sprach ich sie an (Mädchen)
Mädchen (Mädchen, Mädchen)
Mädchen (Mädchen, Mädchen)
Mädchen
Mädchen (Mädchen, Mädchen)
Mädchen (Mädchen, Mädchen)
Mädchen
Als ich ins Kino ging,
Wo gerad' der Film anfing
Es war sehr dunkel hier
Da saß ein Mädchen neben mir
Sie schien nett zu sein
Ich lud sie zu mir ein
Wir haben uns wiedergesehen
Ihr müsst verstehen (Mädchen)
Mädchen (Mädchen, Mädchen)
Mädchen (Mädchen, Mädchen)
Mädchen
Mädchen (Mädchen, Mädchen)
Mädchen (Mädchen, Mädchen)
Mädchen
Marilyn, (Monroe)
Nastassia, (Kinski)
Boy, (George)
Und Nena, (Kerner)
Ich seh' sie im Café (Mädchen)
Auf dem Champs-Elysées (Mädchen)
Am Niagarafall (Mädchen)
Mädchen gibt es überall (Mädchen)
Gehen sie an mir vorbei (Mädchen)
Dann bricht mein Herz entzwei (Mädchen)
Doch bleibt ein Mädchen stehen (Mädchen)
Dann ist das Leben wieder schön (wunderschön)
Mädchen (Mädchen, Mädchen)
Mädchen (Mädchen, Mädchen)
Mädchen
Mädchen (Mädchen, Mädchen)
Mädchen (Mädchen, Mädchen)
Mädchen
Und sie war plötzlich da
Sie zog ins Nachbarhaus
Seitdem war alles aus
Ich hab' an sie gedacht
Sie hat mich angelacht
Und eines Tages dann
Mädchen (Mädchen, Mädchen)
Mädchen (Mädchen, Mädchen)
Mädchen
Mädchen (Mädchen, Mädchen)
Mädchen (Mädchen, Mädchen)
Mädchen
Als ich ins Kino ging,
Wo gerad' der Film anfing
Es war sehr dunkel hier
Da saß ein Mädchen neben mir
Sie schien nett zu sein
Ich lud sie zu mir ein
Wir haben uns wiedergesehen
Ihr müsst verstehen (Mädchen)
Mädchen (Mädchen, Mädchen)
Mädchen (Mädchen, Mädchen)
Mädchen
Mädchen (Mädchen, Mädchen)
Mädchen (Mädchen, Mädchen)
Mädchen
Marilyn, (Monroe)
Nastassia, (Kinski)
Boy, (George)
Und Nena, (Kerner)
Ich seh' sie im Café (Mädchen)
Auf dem Champs-Elysées (Mädchen)
Am Niagarafall (Mädchen)
Mädchen gibt es überall (Mädchen)
Gehen sie an mir vorbei (Mädchen)
Dann bricht mein Herz entzwei (Mädchen)
Doch bleibt ein Mädchen stehen (Mädchen)
Dann ist das Leben wieder schön (wunderschön)
Mädchen (Mädchen, Mädchen)
Mädchen (Mädchen, Mädchen)
Mädchen
Mädchen (Mädchen, Mädchen)
Mädchen (Mädchen, Mädchen)
Mädchen
The lyrics to "Mädchen" by Die Ärzte talk about a group of wild girls who are chasing and attacking the singer. The singer is clearly afraid and screams for help, warning others to save themselves as well. The references to specific locations such as Kurfürstendamm and the Keller add to the feeling of being trapped and pursued.
The song can be interpreted in multiple ways. On a surface level, it could be seen as a warning to young men to be careful of wild and dangerous girls. On a deeper level, it could be a commentary on the power dynamics between men and women, with the girls representing a force that the singer cannot control or resist.
Overall, the song has a fast and intense pace, reflecting the urgency of the situation. The repetition of "ouh" adds to the chaotic vibe and makes the chorus catchy and memorable.
Line by Line Meaning
Wilde Mädchen sind hinter mir her
There are wild girls who are chasing after me.
Wilde Mädchen fallen mich an
These wild girls are attacking me.
Wilde Mädchen, ich schreie laut
I am screaming loudly because of these wild girls.
Wilde Mädchen
These are some wild girls.
Rette sich, wer kann
Everyone should save themselves from these girls.
Ouh, wilde Mädchen
Oh, those wild girls
Wilde Mädchen auf dem Kurfürstendamm
There are wild girls on Kurfürstendamm.
Wilde Mädchen im Keller
There are wild girls in the basement.
Wilde Mädchen verfolgen dich
These wild girls are following you.
Wilde Mädchen sind schneller
These wild girls are faster than you.
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
Written by: Jan Vetter
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@TetsuyaSeijaku
Nichts auf dieser Welt spiegelt meine Gefühle als Teenager so sehr wieder, als diese Ärzte Songs. Das erste Mal verliebt sein, der erste Kuss, ein gebrochenes Herz, Sehnsucht. Ich habe das Gefühl dort etwas verloren oder vergessen zu haben... leider kommt diese Zeit nie wieder. Trotz allem weiß ich, die Zeit war wunderschön, auch oder gerade wegen solcher Songs.
@mel.k.3482
Wie gut das ich ein Mädchen bin. Ich liebe diesen Song höre ihn noch immer sehr gerne.
@79wolfgar
Oh man ich will die 80 er zurück!!!☺️😍
@Olli779
so trashig, so gut, so unfassbar zeitlos!
@FrankEhrlicherOffiziell
Alda wie Hübsch die Frauen damals noch wahren excellent
@heinzkastenholz6238
Beste Band der Welt
@TWAINCOMPANY
Stimmt
@susarell6156
Mal ein ehrliches Wort am Dienstag: Bela war schon immer ne geile Sau!!
@TheJanice154
U is er IMMERNOCH 😏🥵❤️🔥😉
@spyd603
Jan hatte ich schon mit 14 Jahren geheiratet und würde es jetzt 25 Jahre später immer noch...💚☺️