Wir sind Helden

Wir sind Helden (German for "We are heroes") is a German Alternative Rock band. They're largely responsible for bringing rock sung in German back into the mainstream of Germany. In doing so, they created a new style generally dubbed Neue Neue Deutsche Welle (the "New New German Wave", after the movement of the 80s).

The band consists of:

 * Judith Holofernes, lead singer and guitar
 * Pola Roy, drums
 * Mark Tavassol, bass and guitar
 * Jean-Michel Tourette, guitar and keyboard


 * Die Reklamation (2003)
 * Von hier an blind (2005)
 * Soundso (2007)
 * Bring mich nach Hause (2010)

As the band sings almost only in German, they aren't very well known outside the German-speaking regions of Europe. In addition to that, their lyrics are usually a Hurricane of Puns, and thus a lot would get Lost in Translation.


 * Album Title Drop: For their first album, on the track Guten Tag. The other albums have a song of the same name on them.
 * Anti-Love Song: "Geht Auseinander" ('Break Up'), a song urging two people to break up already.
 * Creator Couple: Judith Holofernes and Pola Roy are married and have two children.
 * Grief Song: "Meine Freundin war im Koma und alles was sie mir mitgebracht hat war dieses lausige T-Shirt" ('My friend was in a coma and all she got me was this lousy t-shirt').
 * Hurricane of Puns
 * Long Title: "Meine Freundin war im Koma und alles was sie mir mitgebracht hat war dieses lausige T-Shirt" ('My friend was in a coma and all she got me was this lousy t-shirt'), again, as well as "Ich will mein Leben lang üben, dich so zu lieben, wie ich dich lieben will, wenn du gehst" ('I want to train loving you like I want to love you when you go for all my life').
 * Love Dodecahedron: In "Die Ballade von Wolfgang und Brigitte"
 * Misaimed Fandom: "Müssen nur wollen" was intended as a parody of inspirational self-help media. Quite a lot of fans took it as an inspirational self-help song.
 * Motor Mouth: Judith certainly can sing very fast.
 * One-Woman Song: "Aurélie", about a French woman in Germany having trouble hooking up.
 * Spoken Word in Music: "Denkmal" opens with a text-to-speech program reading a short message via phone.
 * Stage Names: Mark Tavassol is the only one not using one.
 * Translated Cover Version: +44's "When Your Heart Stops Beating". They covered "Guten Tag" in return.