Arno Löb
Arno Löb (born April 3, 1949 in Augsburg ) is a German musician and author.
Life
Löb attended the technical college for design in Augsburg. In 1977 he founded Augsburg's first city magazine Lueginsland and later the PR magazine Szene, which continues to exist as Neue Szene . Löb also founded the nonprofit concert agency AK Afra (concerts with Can , Rory Gallagher , Kraan , Ton Steine Scherben , Birth Control , Wallenstein , Bröselmaschine , Embryo , Guru Guru , UFO , Doldingers Passport ) and the first Augsburg record label AuBuMu. Augsburg bands were produced on it.
In the 1980s he was the lyricist and voice of the punk band Impotenz, whose underground hit "Nutten an die Macht" was. Impotenz rejected a record deal in order to be free from the "record industry". In 2006 Arno Löb got back into Impotenz as a lyricist and singer. At the end of 2007 he went to the studio with impotence to record a new album with Jawoll, wrong . The release Afghanistan: Fatal Greetings from the Taliban appeared in advance as a single. The song deals critically with the deployment of the Bundeswehr in Afghanistan. Then followed the album "Nutten an die Macht" and "Da du must durch".
As editor, Löb produced the Vampire Lexicon, Dracula's Return, German Rock Lexicon, Hippie Lexicon and a Beat Lexicon. As a literary agent, he founded literary series with Kurt Idrizovic such as “Literature in the Beer Garden”, “Literary Culinary”, “Spät -lese” and “Sound & Reading”. With Styria, he organized the literature festival “Literary Graz Walk” in Augsburg.
Löb and Kurt Idrizovic organized the “Festival of Poetry - Moscow / Augsburg” in 1990 as a German-Russian literature festival with poetry, painting and sculptures. To this end, Löb developed a poetry pilgrim path that led through historic Augsburg.
Löb is active as a diverse culture maker in Augsburg and organizes manga exhibitions, children's festivals (book jungle in the city library) and other cultural activities for children, young people and adults. His motto: “Augsburg has to be more culturally praiseworthy!” Among other things, he is the author of the book Sweet Baby mein - Roy Black's wild youth and wrote the libretto for the Roy Black musical Ganz in Weiß . Occasionally he is also active as an idea generator, actor and reciter of crime novels by Peter Garski and other authors.
As a culture marketing man, Löb also made the “Days of Independent Film” and the “Augsburg Children's Film Festival” more popular with original PR activities.
Awards
Löb received the following awards for his cultural commitment:
- silver pine nut for original cultural work in Augsburg
- Augsburg Marketing Prize for popular and successful cultural marketing
Books
- 1996: As editor: Dracula's return, New vampire stories by German authors Weitbrecht , ISBN 3-522-72160-8
- 2012: The Neuschwanstein Code, Invisible Publishing House , ISBN 978-3-942920-09-4
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Löb, Arno |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German musician and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 3, 1949 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | augsburg |