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Ruhe (song)
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Wikipedia article
'Ruhe' (English: 'Silence' or 'peace') is the third single from the 1999 Schiller debut album Zeitgeist with vocals by an unknown woman and an unknown man and spoken word passages by German actor and voice actor Benjamin Vlz (* 13. Mai 1960), who became famous in the German-speaking countries as the voice of FBI Special Agent Fox Mulder from the American television series 'The X-Files'. The song is titled internationally as "Peace". The trance music single was officially released on 29 November 1999 in Germany and was peaking at number 24 on German Singles Chart in 1999 and at number 69 in Switzerland. The cover art work shows a graphic of an empty box.
The album version ('Langspiel-Fassung') and the single and TV version ('Fernseh-Fassung') of Ruhe are unlike versions with completely different music. Only the spoken words are the same. The spoken words of the song are including the poem "ber die Einsamkeit" by Swiss philosophical writer Johann Georg Zimmermann (1728-1795). The poem is:
Translation from German: "Peacefulness, the greatest happiness on earth, comes very often only through solitude into the heart."
Ruhe was featured in the 2009 German cinema movie Zweiohrkken and was included on the Official Sound Track of Zweiohrkken.
Track listing
Maxi single
Vinyl
Credits and personnel
* Composed and produced by Christopher von Deylen and Mirko von Schlieffen
* Bass and rhythm guitar by Tissy Thiers
* Voice by Benjamin Vlz
* Recorded and mixed at the Sleepingroom in Hamburg
* Voice recorded by Stefan Knauthe at the Kokon Studio in Berlin
Music video
The official music video for "Ruhe" has a length of 3:45 minutes. The video features three couples with people of different ethnic origin, who are walking and strolling through an inner courtyard of an office building in the style of a Japanese garden. The video was aired and was shown for example on German music television channel VIVA in 1999.
Charts
References
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