Barbara Clear

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Barbara Clear (born April 24, 1964 in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe , actually Barbara Klier) is a German folk rock singer, songwriter and painter.

Life

Klier graduated in 1983 in Oberursel (Taunus) the High School .

From the end of the 1980s, Barbara Clear was on stage. As a solo artist or with the Zitronentaler group , she gave regional appearances in pubs or at festivals.

Barbara Clear has been a solo artist since 2000. After two failed attempts to get a record deal for her music, she toured Germany and Austria as an independent artist. After smaller appearances in front of up to 500 guests, she and her partner Ralph Dittmar began preparing and selling tickets for her first major appearance in the Olympiahalle in Munich in summer 2001 . The event should be the end of their Tour Ticket to Munich , which began in 2003 . For this she rented the location at her own expense (approx. 60,000 euros) and took care of the announcement of the concert herself. Admission was comparatively cheap at 10 euros. Their first concert was attended by almost 8,000 people.

As part of the Dwarf Uprising tour , she also performed in the Berlin Velodrom , the Stadthalle Bremen and the Festhalle Frankfurt. In July 2008, she started her googly eyes tour , for which she did not charge entry.

Clear lives in Tiefenbach and organizes concerts and the distribution of their music on their own without a record contract or producer.

Despite the low artistic popularity, Barbara Clear managed to draw attention to herself in the media through her resistance to GEMA and the unconditionally practiced independence of record companies.

music

Barbara Clear mostly composes herself, but also performs her own interpretations of pieces by Deep Purple and Janis Joplin .

painting

Barbara Clear has also dedicated herself to painting for several years. She exhibits her works in her own art and event gallery "Taureha" in Tiefenbach and shows them at her stage shows "Sound of Life". She is successful with live paintings at trade fairs and events.

Discussion with GEMA

Clear is a critic of GEMA . So she complains z. For example, that she had to pay EUR 2,007 to rent the same concert hall in 2004, EUR 459 in 2005 and EUR 1,233 in 2006.

On April 2, 2009, a lawsuit took place before the Munich District Court I , in which Clear, as plaintiff, demanded a court-based disclosure of GEMA's business practices. According to its own information, Clear paid a total of 80,000 euros in fees between 2004 and 2007 and received around 10,000 euros in dividends; according to their calculations, they expected a reimbursement of around 33,000 euros. In the judgment passed by the Regional Court Munich I on June 10, 2010, GEMA was right on all points; the negotiated sums were limited to around 23,000 euros in fees to GEMA and a required distribution of around 10,000 euros due to incomplete information from Clear. The reasoning for the judgment stated that any claim for payment does not result from the assignment agreement concluded between the parties. On January 21, 2010, the Munich Higher Regional Court dismissed Barbara Clear's appeal against the judgment of the Munich Regional Court in full.

Awards and competitions (selection)

  • Winner of the Country Contest Europe, Female Vocalist Europe 1998
  • Female Album of the Year 2000 for her 2nd 'Unplugged' CD "Pur & timeless Vol.2

Albums (selection)

  • Pure & Timeless Vol.1 (1998)
  • Pur & Timeless Vol.2 (2000)
  • Clear Live! (2002)
  • Ticket To Munich (2003)
  • Ticket To Munich (DVD / 2004)
  • look out! (2004)
  • Live in the Olympiahalle Munich (2004)
  • Live in the Olympiahalle Munich (DVD 2004)
  • Precious (2005)
  • 10th (2006)
  • Part of it all (2006)
  • Stand up! (2008)
  • 1997-2007 (2008)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Barbara Clear: She organizes success at her own expense
  2. ↑ sueddeutsche.de Barbara Clear: The March through the Desert ( Memento from March 9, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ markenlexikon.com Artist names and pseudonyms, accessed on March 25, 2009
  4. ↑ www.taureha.de
  5. ↑ Resistance is growing. ( Memento from January 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) on: schwaebische-post.de from January 24, 2009.
  6. ↑ Jens Berger: Growing resistance against GEMA. In: Telepolis. June 24, 2009, accessed December 11, 2014 .
  7. ↑ Judgment: file number 29 U 3700/09, cf. Reason 1, II b) and c)
  8. ↑ Ghandy: GEMA vs. Barbara Clear: Appeal rejected! ( Memento from January 25, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) February 15, 2010, accessed on August 25, 2010.
  9. ↑ GEMA does not have to pay artists anything. June 30, 2009.
  10. ↑ Clear appeal refused - GEMA gets right again in court. ( Memento of December 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved August 25, 2010

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personal data
SURNAME Clear, Barbara
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Klier, Barbara (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German folk rock singer and songwriter
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Homburg vor der Höhe