Wir sind Helden's breakthrough came in 2002 without the support of a record label, when the band's song "Guten Tag" was played by radio stations and a self-produced music video for the song received heavy rotation on MTV Germany. The band was initially briefly called Helden (which means "Heroes") before being renamed Wir sind Helden (which means "We are heroes"). They formed a band together, though Nietzky was later replaced by bassist Mark Tavassol. In mid-2000, Holofernes met drummer Pola Roy, keyboardist/guitarist Jean-Michel Tourette and bassist Stefan Nietzky at a pop music workshop in Hamburg. Some of the songs from the EP, such as "Außer dir" and "Aurélie", would be later re-recorded by Wir sind Helden for the band's debut album. Towards the end of the nineties, she performed in Berlin clubs as a solo artist and self-released the EP Kamikazefliege (1999), though only 500 copies were produced. Holofernes was able to focus on music after leaving university. Music career Late nineties: Early endeavours At the university, she was concerned with anti-consumerism, one of her activities being to set up the German website of Adbusters, a Canadian-based anti-consumerist magazine. After she received her secondary education at Staudinger Gesamtschule, she returned to Berlin to study Communication in Social and Economic Contexts at Berlin University of the Arts, but did not complete her studies. From the age of 14, she busked in the city's pedestrian zone as a singer/guitarist. Holofernes was born in Berlin and moved at the age of six with her mother to the city of Freiburg im Breisgau in the south of Germany. Since then, Holofernes has recorded a solo album ( Ein leichtes Schwert, 2014) and has also had a book of poems published ( Du bellst vor dem falschen Baum, 2015). The band received critical acclaim owing in part to Holofernes' lyrics, which are characterized by their playful use of words and their often sociocritical nature.Īfter recording four albums that were chart successes in the German-speaking world, Wir sind Helden went on indefinite hiatus in 2012.
She is best recognized as the lead singer of Wir sind Helden, a German pop rock band that came to fame in Germany following the release of the song "Guten Tag" in 2002. Judith Holfelder-Roy (née Holfelder-von der Tann born 12 November 1976), known by her stage name Judith Holofernes, is a German singer, guitarist, songwriter and author.
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