1 in 4 people in the UK officially suffer with some form of mental illness – in reality, almost everyone will encounter a mental health issue either directly or indirectly at some points in their lives. Despite this huge number of people affected, mental health is still not something that´s spoken about enough in our …
A few days ago, our founder and president Felix Heintz and board member Philipp Reitz had the pleasure of giving an interview to Alexander Danner, a German Rotaractor who is the mastermind of the German Podcast: “Rotaract – Motto: Helfen, Lernen, Feiern”. We talked about our passion for metal music, about the basics of Rotarian …
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2020 has been an unforgettable year. All over the globe, the corona pandemic has wreaked havoc. The music industry has been hit very hard. No concerts, no tours, no party … But, my dear fellow metalheads, you always got to remember what a wise man once said:You can’t kill the metal! The metal will live …
In the latestet issue (December 2020) of the Rotary magazine the Rotarian Metalhead Fellowship has been featured for the second time since its foundation back in 2018. In this article, written by Joseph Derr, we had the chance to focus primarily on our passion of metal music and not only talk about the service we do. A bunch …
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Due to the Corona lockdown, all of the events that we had planned to attend, such as the Rotaract Germany conference, the Rotary International conference as well as two major Metal festivals in Germany, were cancelled. Hence, we had to come up with alternative ideas to promote our fellowship and to foster our love for …
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The corona pandemic hit the music industry quite hard … artists, musicians, producers, organizers, basically all professions involved in the music industry are facing one of their biggest challenges so far. To help these people, our partner, the Wacken Foundation, started a rescue fund. So, in May 2020, they decided to donate sums of up …
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One year ago, we had our first official outing as the ‘loudest fellowship out there’ at an event of the Rotarian family. It was at the DeuKo 2019, the big anual conference of German rotaracters with more than 1.000 guests. Back then, there was no Corona, just fun and joy and happiness … and awesome …
The general idea about starting the Rotarian Metalhead Fellowship dates back to 2013. 5 years later, in August 2018 the chair and founder got in touch with Rotary International to discuss the idea and possibilities of starting the Rotarian Metalhead Fellowship. On December the 4th 2018, after having successfully submitted the names of the founding board members, the board of …
“Rotary has really shaped me. I was a Rotary Youth Exchange student, and I was a Rotaractor for 13 years. And I’ve been listening to metal music since I was 10. I love it — it’s my passion, it’s my personality. But I didn’t see any connection between Rotary and metal music. “ On the …
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“There are all sorts of awful things going on in the world you look at the moment. Newspapers, you see it on the TV. All this bullshit, people going around killing people, murdering people in the name of religion or whatever the fucking is. I don’t give a shit, quite frankly. Because the one thing …
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