Große Freiheit (album)
{{Infobox album
| name = {{Lang|de|Große Freiheit}}
| type = Album
| artist = Unheilig
| cover = Grosse_Freiheit.jpg
| alt =
| released = 19 February 2010
| recorded = 2009
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = {{flatlist|
- {{Lang|de|Neue Deutsche Härte|italic=no}}
- pop rock
- alternative rock
- gothic rock
- synthpop
}}
| length = 1:06:19
| language = German and English
| producer = Der Graf
| prev_title = {{Lang|de|Puppenspiel}}
| prev_year = 2008
| next_title = {{Lang|de|Lichter der Stadt}}
| next_year = 2012
| misc = {{Extra album cover
| header = Limited Fanbox Edition
| type = Box
| cover = Grosse_Freiheit_Limited_Fanbox_Edition.jpg
| border =
| alt =
| caption = The Limited Fanbox Edition is strictly limited to 5,000 copies.
}}
{{Singles
| name = Grosse Freiheit
| type = album
| single1 = Geboren um zu leben
| single1date = 29 January 2010
| single2 = Für immer
| single2date = 21 May 2010
| single3 = Unter deiner Flagge
| single3date = 24 September 2010
}}
{{Extra album cover
| header = Grosse Freiheit - Winter edition
| type = studio
}}{{Singles
| name = Grosse Freiheit - Winter edition
| type = studio
| single1 = Winter
| single1date = November 19, 2010
}}
}}
{{Lang|de|Große Freiheit}} (German for 'Great Freedom') is the seventh album by the {{Lang|de|Neue Deutsche Härte|italic=no}} band Unheilig. It was released on 19 February 2010 as a standard 14-track album and a Fanbox Edition boxset which was limited to 5,000 copies that contains the following:
- a limited edition 16-track studio album (including 2 bonus tracks) in digipak.
- a bonus CD of unreleased studio recordings of Unheilig from the current studio sessions and recordings and songs from the first musical steps of Der Graf so far (never published).
- an Unheilig flag.
- Autobiography of Der Graf, 176-sided: Der Graf tells of his first musical steps up to his latest album {{Lang|de|Große Freiheit}}.
The album's title refers to a street in Hamburg-St. Pauli, the Große Freiheit, a side-street of the Reeperbahn.
Track listing
{{tracklist
| extra_column = English translation
| title1 = Das Meer
| extra1 = The Sea
| length1 = 3:39
| title2 = Seenot
| extra2 = Distress
| length2 = 4:22
| title3 = Für Immer
| extra3 = Forever
| length3 = 3:22
| title4 = Geboren um zu Leben
| extra4 = Born to Live
| length4 = 3:50
| title5 = Abwärts
| extra5 = Downwards
| length5 = 3:30
| title6 = Halt mich
| extra6 = Hold Me
| length6 = 3:47
| title7 = Unter Feuer
| extra7 = Under Fire
| length7 = 5:03
| title8 = Große Freiheit
| extra8 = Great Freedom
| length8 = 3:48
| title9 = Ich gehöre mir
| extra9 = I Belong to Me
| length9 = 3:34
| title10 = Heimatstern
| extra10 = Home Star
| length10 = 4:10
| title11 = Sternbild
| extra11 = Constellation
| length11 = 4:28
| title12 = Unter Deiner Flagge
| extra12 = Under Your Banner
| length12 = 4:10
| title13 = Fernweh
| extra13 = Wanderlust
| length13 = 4:51
| title14 = Schenk mir ein Wunder (Bonus track)
| extra14 = Send me a Miracle
| length14 = 4:36
| title15 = Auf Kurs (Bonus track)
| extra15 = On Course
| length15 = 4:38
| title16 = Neuland
| extra16 = Newland
| length16 = 4:31
}}
=Bonus disc=
Image:Unheilig Fruhe Werke.jpg
- Human Nations (First Musical Steps in 1992)
- The Beast (First Musical Steps in 1992)
- Lost Heaven (Unpublished song from the early Unheiligzeit)
- Faded Times (Unpublished song from the early Unheiligzeit)
- Seenot (Demo)
- Für Immer (Demo)
- Unter deiner Flagge (Demo)
- Geboren um zu leben (Demo)
- Geboren um zu leben (Demo 2)
Live album
On 11 June 2010 a live album was released with the same name, which contains a boxset with a CD and the DVD featuring the show. A Limited Deluxe Edition contains four discs while the Special Edition contains two discs.
Chart performance
In Germany, it remained at No. 1 for 23 non-consecutive weeks, to date the longest stay of any album in the 21st century and the first album by a German artist to do so.:de:Liste der Nummer-eins-Alben in Deutschland
{{Lang|de|Große Freiheit}} is the second most downloaded album of all time in Germany behind Adele's 21, with digital sales between 100,000 and 140,000.{{cite web |url=http://www.gfk-entertainment.com/news/adele-stellt-download-rekord-auf.html |title=Adele stellt Download-Rekord auf |trans-title=Adele holds download record |language=German |work=Media Control|date=November 30, 2011}}{{cite web|url=http://www.gfk-entertainment.com/news/download-lps-stadtaffe-mit-den-hoechsten-verkaeufen.html |title=Download-LPs: "Stadtaffe" mit den höchsten Verkäufen - media control |publisher=Media-control.de |date=November 17, 2010 |accessdate=March 10, 2012}}
Spending 52 weeks in the German top ten, the album is the 17th album to spend a year or longer there and the first to do so since Ich + Ich's Vom selben Stern, which was released in July 2007.{{cite web |author=Chartsurfer.de |url=http://chartsurfer.de/dauerbrenner/album/de/1/index.html |title=Dauerbrenner Top 10 Auswertung (ab Monat 07/1962) |publisher=Chartsurfer.de |date=July 15, 1962 |accessdate=February 20, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101208040122/http://www.chartsurfer.de/dauerbrenner/album/de/1/index.html |archive-date=December 8, 2010 |url-status=dead }} {{Lang|de|Große Freiheit}} left the top 5 of the German Albums Chart for the first time the week it achieved this feat.{{cite web|url=http://musicline.de/de/chartverfolgung_summary/title/Unheilig/Grosse+Freiheit/longplay |title=Unheilig: Chartverfolgung: Grosse Freiheit (Longplay) |publisher=musicline.de |date= |accessdate=February 20, 2012}}{{cite web|url=http://musicline.de/de/chartverfolgung_summary/title/Unheilig/Grosse+Freiheit+Live/longplay |title=Unheilig: Chartverfolgung: Grosse Freiheit Live (Longplay) |publisher=musicline.de |date= |accessdate=February 20, 2012}}
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=Chart positions=
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!Chart (2010) !Peak |
| Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 40)[http://austriancharts.at/showitem.asp?interpret=Unheilig&titel=Grosse+Freiheit&cat=a Austrian charts]
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| Germany (Media Control Charts){{Cite web |url=http://musicline.de/de/chartverfolgung_summary/artist/Unheilig/?type=longplay |title=German charts |access-date=2010-08-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110105132230/http://musicline.de/de/chartverfolgung_summary/artist/Unheilig/?type=longplay |archive-date=2011-01-05 |url-status=dead }}
| align="center"|1 |
| Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade)[http://hitparade.ch/showitem.asp?interpret=Unheilig&titel=Grosse+Freiheit&cat=a Swiss charts]
| align="center"|3 |
| European Top 100[http://www.billboard.com/#/charts/european-albums Billboard European Top 100 Albums]{{failed verification|date=January 2019}}
| align="center"|5 |
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Certifications and sales
{{Certification Table Top}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=Austria|type=album|title=Große Freiheit|artist=Unheilig|relyear=2010|certyear=2012|award=Platinum|number=4|accessdate=4 July 2017}}
{{Certification Table Entry|type=album|region=Germany|artist=Unheilig|title=Große Freiheit|award=Platinum|number=9|certyear=2017|relyear=2010|accessdate=4 July 2017}}
{{Certification Table Entry|type=album|region=Switzerland|artist=Unheilig|title=Grosse Freiheit|award=Platinum|number=2|relyear=2010|certyear=2011|accessdate=4 July 2017}}
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Große Freiheit (Winter Edition)
This album was re-released on 19 November 2010, with all of the standard 14 tracks from Große Freiheit, excluding the two bonus songs. A second disc contains "Winterland" and its remixes. There is a new cover to reflect the title.
=Track listing=
{{Track listing
| extra_column = English Translation
| title1 = Winterland
| extra1 =
| length1 =
| title2 = Geboren um zu leben (Piano Version)
| extra2 = Born to Live (Piano Version)
| length2 =
| title3 = Unter deiner Flagge (Piano Version)
| extra3 = Under your Flag (Piano Version)
| length3 =
| title4 = Winterland (Single Version)
| extra4 =
| length4 =
| title5 = Winterland (Gregorian Version)
| extra5 =
| length5 =
| title6 = Der Graf liest Dornröschen
| extra6 = The Count reads Sleeping Beauty
| length6 =
}}
Grosse Freiheit Tour 2010-2011
=2010=
- March 5 - Berlin, Germany - The Dome 53 at Velodrom
- March 19 - Bochum, Germany - RuhrCongress Halle
- March 20 - Erfurt, Germany - Stadthalle
- March 27 - Giessen, Germany - Hessenhalle
- April 1 - Munchen, Germany - Zenith
- April 3 - Berlin, Germany - Columbia Halle
- April 4 - Dresdon, Germany - Alter Schlachthof
- April 5 - Dresdon, Germany - Alter Schlachthof
- April 9 - Magdeburg, Germany - Factory
- April 10 - Hamburg, Germany - Docks Club
- April 11 - Hamburg, Germany - Docks Club
- April 12 - Hamburg, Germany - Docks Club
- April 16 - Leipzig, Germany - Agra Halle
- April 17 - Cologne, Germany - Palladium
- April 30 - Pratteln, Switzerland - Z7
- May 1 - Pratteln, Switzerland - Z7
- May 2 - Bosen, Germany - Hexentanz Festival
- May 6 - Bielefeld, Germany - Ringlokschuppen
- May 7 - Bielefeld, Germany - Ringlokschuppen
- May 8 - Wurzburg, Germany - Posthalle
- May 9 - Berlin, Germany - Columbia Halle
- May 12 - Vienna, Austrua - Gasometer
- May 14 - Cologne, Germany - Palladium
- May 15 - Oberhausen, Germany - Turbinenhalle
- May 20 - Stuttgart, Germany - The Dome 54 at Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Halle
- May 21 - Stuttgart, Germany - Liederhalle
- May 22 - Stuttgart, Germany - Liederhalle
- May 29 - Hamburg, Germany - Grand Prix Party at Spielburdenplatz
- June 11 - Interlaken, Switzerland - Greenfield Festival
- June 12 - Gelsenkirchen, Germany - Blackfield festival
- July 10 - Göttingen, Germany - MTV Campus Invasion 2010
- July 16 - Waregum, Belgium - Gothic Festival
- July 30 - Grafenheinichen, Germany - Jump Community Party at Ferropolis
- July 31 - Hanau Am Main, Germany - Amphitheater
- August 1 - Hanau Am Main, Germany - Amphitheater
- August 7 - Hildesheim, Germany - Mera Luna Festival
- August 15 - Schwetzingen, Germany - Grosse Freiheit Open Air
- August 20 - Stormthal, Germany - Highfield Festival
- August 21 - Schwerin, Germany - Freilichtbuhne
- August 27 - Hamburg - Germany - HTA Hambuger Trab-Arena
- August 28 - Potsdam, Germany - Metropolis Halle
- September 2 - Wiesen, Austria - Two Days A Week Festival
- September 17 - Hemer, Germany - Landesgartenschaugelande
- September 18 - Bern, Switzerland - Bierhubeli
- September 19 - Zurich, Switzerland - One By One Festival
- October 1 - Berlin, Germany - Bundesvision at Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Halle
- October 22 - Hohenems, Austria - Tennis Events Center
- October 23 - Linz, Austria - Posthof
- October 24 - Graz, Austria - Helmut-List-Halle
- November 12 - Siegen, Germany - Siegerlandhalle
- November 13 - Siegen, Germany - Siegerlandhalle
- November 18 - Frankfurt, Germany - Jahrhunderthalle
- November 19 - Frankfurt. Germany - Jahrhunderthalle
- November 20 - Regensburg, Germany - Donau Arena
- November 25 - Vienna, Austria - Gasometer
- November 26 - Furth, Germany - Stadthalle (Furth)
- November 27 - Munster, Germany - Halle Munsterland
- December 2 - Bochum, Germany - 1 Live Krone 2010
- December 4 - Bremen, Germany - Bremen-Arena
- December 5 - Kiel, Germany - Sparkassen-Arena
- December 10 - Braunschweig, Germany - Volkswagen Halle
- December 11 - Chemnitz, Germany - Messe
- December 14 - Mannheim, Germany - Maimarktclub
- December 15 - Kassel, Germany - Kongress Palais-Blauersaal
- December 17 - Ulm, Germany - Donauhalle
- December 18 - Trier, Germany - Trier Arena
- December 25 - Berlin, Germany - Berlin Arena
- December 26 - Berlin, Germany - Berlin Arena
- December 28 - Kempton, Germany - BigBox
- December 29 - Freiburg, Germany - Rothaus Arena
- December 30 - Düsseldorf, Germany - Phillips Halle
=2011=
- January 2 - Lingen, Germany - Emslandhallen
- January 7 - Magdeburg, Germany - Stadthalle
- January 8 - Bamburg, Germany - Stechert Arena
- January 9 - Salzburg, Austria - Salzburg Arena
- January 14 - Dortmund, Germany - Westfalenhallen
- January 15 - Karlsruhe, Germany - Europahalle
- January 20 - Augsburg, Germany - Schwabenhalle
- January 21 - Hannover, Germany - AWD Hall
- January 22 - Erfurt, Germany - Thuringenhalle
- January 28 - Rostock, Germany - Stadthalle
- January 29 - Cottbus, Germany - Messehalle
- February 4 - Cologne, Germany - Lanxess Arena
- February 5 - Magdeburg, Germany - Stadthalle
- March 24 - Berlin, Germany - Echo 2011
- May 27 - Hannover, Germany - Expoplaza
- June 4 - Gelsenkirchen, Germany - Amphitheater
- June 5 - Gelsenkirchen, Germany - Amphitheater
- June 17 - Bonn, Germany - Kunst-und Ausstellungshalle
- June 18 - Fulda, Germany - Messe-Galerie
- June 25 - Frankfurt, Germany - Stadion Im Sportpark
- July 1 - Basel, Switzerland - St.Jacobshalle
- July 2 - Clam, Austria - Burgclam
- July 3 - Clam, Austria - Burgclam
- July 7 - Dresden, Germany - Elbufer
- July 8 - Dresden, Germany - Elbufer
- July 9 - Dresden, Germany - Elbufer
- July 10 - Heilbrenn, Germany - Wertwiessen Park
- July 15 - Bielfeld, Germany - Ravensburger Park
- July 16 - Ulm, Germany - KlosterWiblingen
- July 17 - Baden-Baden, Germany - Rennplatz
- July 22 - Emmendingen, Germany - Schlossplatz
- July 23 - Munchen, Germany - OlympiaPark
- July 24 - Schwabisch Gmind, Germany - Schiesstal Platz
- July 30 - Erfurt, Germany - Streigerwald Stadion
- August 6 - Berlin, Germany - Kindl-Buhne Wuhlheide
- August 7 - Berlin, Germany - Kindl-Buhne Wuhlheide
- August 20 - Braunschweig, Germany - Volksbank Brawobuhne
- August 21 - Coburg, Germany - Schlossplatz
- August 26 - Losheim, Germany - Stranbad
- August 27 - Bremen, Germany - Pier 2
- August 28 - Hamburg, Germany - Trabenbahn
- September 1 - Rostock, Germany - IGA Park
- September 2 - Monchengladbach, Germany - Warsteiner Hockey Park
- September 3 - Gronau, Germany - Burgerhalle
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| header = Grosse Freiheit Tour Setlist
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- Das Meer
- Seenot
- Schenk Mir Ein Wunder
- Unter Deiner Flagge
- Feuerengel
- Abwarts
- Halt Mich
- An Deiner Seite
- Freiheit
- Astronaut
- Grosse Freiheit
- Kleine Puppe
- Unter Feuer
- Maschine
- Fur Immer
- Lampenfieber
- Geboren Um Zu Leban
- Ich Gehore Mir
- Mein Stern
}}
See also
References
{{Reflist|2}}
{{Unheilig}}
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