While he and Schröder are still friends, Schröder made the decision a couple years back to devote himself full-time to the band Tomte, leaving Schulz as a solo artist. His most recent release however, 2009’s “Es brennt so schön,” is the first that features the Olli Schulz name by itself. Now, a little under a decade since that turning point, he has four full-lengths, two EPs and countless singles to his name. Suddenly Schulz, who had struggled to find a purpose in life, saw the puzzle pieces fitting perfectly into place. And that was the beginning of my musician career.” “It was a little success in Germany,” he continued. You wanna hear it?’ And he said, ‘Yeah, sure, of course.’ So he heard the songs and said, ‘Hey, this is great, I wanna release a record with you.’ I said, ‘OK, let’s do it.’ So then I my first record,” Schulz recalled.Īnd so it was, in 2003, that “Brichst du mir das Herz, dann brech’ ich dir die Beine,” (loosely translated as: “You break my heart, then I’ll break your legs”), was released. “I told him, ‘Here, I got 15 or 16 songs. It was at this time that Schulz approached long-time friend and musician Marcus Wiebusch, who also is one of the founders of record label Grand Hotel van Cleef. For this project, Schulz called upon his friend, Max Schröder, and the two recorded an album together. This something new came in the form of a band, Olli Schulz und der Hund Marie. “And then I was really depressed,” he admitted, referencing hitting a rock bottom of sorts. “I would start playing whenever I’d find time, and I had a lot of time,” said Schulz, who quit school early and found himself holding down a rotating handful of odd jobs for the next decade or so. Yet he found himself regularly picking up his roommate-at-the-time’s guitar and messing around on it, which eventually led to the decision to buy one of his own. “I started very late,” he said, referring to the fact that many musicians began playing guitar in their teens, or earlier.Īnd although he had been active in the music scene, working in a record store and as a stagehand, he never considered himself much of a musician. In actuality, Schulz, who is in his late 30s, got his first guitar when he was an 18-year-old. “It was never a plan to be a musician,” he admitted right off the bat. In fact, Schulz, who was born in Hamburg and is now based in Berlin, is not only quick to laugh and make others laugh along with him, but he is true to the stereotypical German mentality everything about him is incredibly straightforward and uncensored. Olli Schulz is a musician as even-keeled and good-natured as they come.
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