Dieter Meier

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Dieter Meier (October 2011)
Dieter Meier at the Swiss Film Prize 2012

Dieter Meier (* 4. March 1945 in Zurich ) is a Swiss conceptual artist and musician who primarily as a singer of the electro - duo Yello became internationally known.

Life

Dieter Meier began studying law , but broke it off. He then worked in a bank and then as a professional poker player . His father - coming from a poor background - was a successful entrepreneur as a private banker .

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Meier, who describes himself as an individual anarchist , drew attention to himself with extraordinary activities: for example, in 1968 he staged a street theater at the main entrance of the Zurich department store Magazine zum Globus and in 1971 he gave in New York City gave each passer-by a receipt for a US dollar that said the words "Yes" or "No" to them.

In 1972, as a contribution to the Concept Art program of documenta 5 at Kassel Central Station , Meier had a metal plaque concreted in with the following inscription: "On March 23, 1994 from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. Dieter Meier will stand on this plate". He then realized this. The plaque was removed that same day. He said on the NDR Talk Show in April 2014: “Time and finiteness, that concerns me in many aspects. It was a really touching event to be standing there 22 years later, which was presumptuous [...] A lot of people came, some of whom even flew over to the place. Hundreds of people stood there. For them this board, over which they went to work every day, was that some Meier will be there 22 years later, it was like a memento mori [...] It was this nonsensical date of a very unimportant fact [...] The People came to see what kind of guy is this. I had made up my mind not to actually talk, but just stand there. I've talked to dozens of people who even held out their plane tickets to sign. "

Another Meier project is called Le Rien En Or ( The Nothing in Gold ). Aside from a gold ball, he used this title to gold plate eleven everyday objects in downtown Zurich; this includes, for example, parts of bridge railings, signal boards, street posts and gutters. This gilding should give the objects more attention. The golden ball La Boule d'Or Centenaire ( golden ball of the century ) is supposed to cover twelve meters on a wooden track on eight specified dates over the next 100 years. On April 26, 2008, for example, this happened in front of a casino in Hamburg .

Dieter Meier has been married for the second time since 1974, father of three daughters and a son from this marriage and a son from the first marriage. He has five residences located in Zurich, Berlin, Los Angeles, Argentina and Ibiza . When his trademark his mustache, neckerchief, handkerchief and cigar apply.

music

At the end of the 1970s, Dieter Meier met Boris Blank . Together with Carlos Perón they formed the band Yello . Meier is a singer and lyricist at Yello and is also responsible for the production of the music videos . One of Yello's most commercially successful songs is The Race . It was used from 1988 to 1990 as the theme tune for the Formula One music program and later for trailers by the television station Eurosport .

In 1988 Meier started a film project with the music of Yello as a producer, director and actor. The film was completed in 2001 and shown at the 2002 Berlinale . A revised version was shown at the Zurich Film Festival in 2009.

In 1996 Meier bought the former villa of the silent film star Antonio Moreno in Los Feliz , a district of Los Angeles . In the music studio there, Meier works with Boris Blank on film music and videos.

In spring 2014 Meier released the first solo album of his music career (title Out of Chaos ).

On October 26, 2016, Yello gave a concert for the first time - it was performed with an eleven-member band and took place in Berlin.

Entrepreneur and Investor

Argentinian restaurant by owner Dieter Meier in Frankfurt am Main (2017)
Dieter Meier's chocolate shop in Zurich: “Oro de Cacao” - Chocolat Dieter Meier

As an entrepreneur, Dieter Meier has a stake in Euphonix , a company for digital mixing consoles and DAW controllers in Silicon Valley that belongs to AVID . Meier also grows organic vegetables and red wine, designs watches and raises cattle.

In 1973 he came up with the idea of running an organic farm in Argentina when, on a trip, he recognized the possibilities of agriculture there. In 1997 he bought 2,200 hectares of land four hours by car from Buenos Aires . At the Pampa Humeda nearby estancias Ojo de Agua and Algarobo operates Meier on an area of approximately 20,000 hectares around 10,000 cattle a comprehensive breeding breeds Hereford and Aberdeen Angus . The wine he has grown in the Agrelo Alto wine-growing region in Mendoza is certified organic. His shop is called Ojo de Agua (water eye), in which Meier sells wine, meat, corn, soy, grain and vegetables. He now employs 20 people.

In autumn 2008, Meier opened a restaurant called Bärengasse in Zurich , which also sells products from his farm Ojo de Agua . At the end of November 2013, his first restaurant in Germany was opened in Frankfurt am Main, followed in March 2015 by the Ojo de Agua Beef & WineKontor in Berlin .

On April 7, 2010, reports published by the SIX Swiss Exchange regarding the disclosure of shareholdings revealed that Meier held several shareholdings through his Campdem Development SA, registered in the British Virgin Islands , such as 13.6 percent in BVZ Holding and 13 , 99 percent of Orell Füssli Holding . This makes him the second largest single shareholder in Orell Füssli Holding after the Swiss National Bank , which holds a 33 percent stake. According to the Swiss Stock Exchange , the reporting requirement stipulated by the Swiss Stock Exchange Act came into effect several years earlier, at least before January 1, 2009, and was never disclosed by Dieter Meier. The value of the two investments at the time of disclosure was 51.6 million Swiss francs.

Discography

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Out of chaos
  DE 62 04/25/2014 (1 week)
  CH 14th 04/20/2014 (5 weeks)
Singles
Side By Side (with Com & Com )
  CH 95 09/01/2002 (1 week)

Studio albums

  • 2014: Out of Chaos
  • 2016: Toy (Yello with Boris Blank)

Compilations

Singles

  • 1978: Cry for Fame
  • 1978: Jim for Tango
  • 2002: I Want You Back (X-Press 2 featuring Dieter Meier)
  • 2002: Side by Side ( Com & Com featuring Dieter Meier)
  • 2009: Gimme (Headman featuring Dieter Meier)
  • 2014: Paradise Game
  • 2014: Buffoon
  • 2016: Limbo (Yello with Boris Blank)

Filmography

Music videos

In addition to the music videos for Yello, Meier has also created music videos for other artists, including:

literature

  • Hans-Kurt Boehlke: Art in Public Space - Kassel 1950 - 1991 ; Marburg 1991, ISBN 3-89445-109-2 .
  • Heiner Georgsdorf: Art in Public Space Volume 2 - Kassel 1992 - 2005 ; Marburg 2007, ISBN 3-89445-347-8 .
  • Exhibition catalog (with additions): documenta 5. Survey of Reality - Imagery Today ; Catalog (as a file folder) Volume 1: (Material); Volume 2: (list of exhibits); Kassel 1972.
  • 2011: Works 1969 - 2011 and the Yello Years , Falckenberg Collection , Hamburg and then at the ZKM , Karlsruhe; Retrospective of the artist's conceptual art and electro-pop music

Web links

Commons : Dieter Meier  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Non-fiction book: Art in public space . 3 volumes, with an essay and a photograph of the 61x61 centimeter cast iron plate. Jonas Verlag, Marburg. Editor: Magistrate of the City of Kassel (Cultural Office)
  2. ^ Sebastian Fuchs, Carola Conze: NDR Talk Show. Television broadcast. In: Norddeutscher Rundfunk . April 11, 2014, archived from the original on April 17, 2014 ; accessed on April 13, 2014 (120 min.).
  3. ↑ Stefan Lüscher: Dieter Meier's son doesn't want to be forgotten . In: Balance . February 26, 2015. Retrieved August 12, 2017.
  4. ↑ Dieter Meier - millionaire idle. In: faz.net. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , June 14, 2010, accessed on January 26, 2011 .
  5. ↑ Simon Brauer: Two enjoyable hours with Yello in Berlin. In: RBB Online. October 27, 2016. Retrieved October 27, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Our wines. Ojo de Agua Winery , Argentina, accessed September 1, 2019.
  7. ↑ The local appointment: beef and grapes. FAZ.net from May 11, 2014.
  8. ^ Ojo de Agua Beef & WineKontor Berlin.
  9. ↑ Major shareholders of BVZ Holding AG according to Federal Act on Stock Exchanges and Securities Trading, SIX Swiss Exchange , April 8, 2010.
  10. ↑ BVZ Holding AG: Ad hoc media release of April 7, 2010 (PDF) ( Memento of February 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ).
  11. ↑ Major shareholders of Orell Füssli Holding AG according to Federal Act on Stock Exchanges and Securities Trading, SIX Swiss Exchange , April 8, 2010.
  12. ↑ Dieter Meier reveals holdings. ( Memento from April 28, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Handelszeitung , April 7, 2010.
  13. ↑ In a portrait of the Rheinische Post dated March 14, 2011: “'And because my father had a bank, he invested the money. I didn't care. ' [...] Meier ignored the reportable threshold for share ownership of three percent out of ignorance, and now the stock exchange supervisory authority has imposed a fine: 200,000 francs. 'I was very surprised at what came together,' says Meier. "
  14. ↑ a b Chart sources: DE CH
personal data
SURNAME Meier, Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss artist
DATE OF BIRTH March 4, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich