Dirk Riegner

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Dirk Riegner (2016)

Dirk Riegner is a German musician , songwriter and music producer .

Life

Riegner learned his first musical instrument at the age of five and now plays guitar, piano and trumpet. In his youth he was drawn to the Ruhr area , where he graduated from high school . After graduating from high school, Riegner studied law . Over the years the enthusiasm for rock music decreased more and more. He moved to Cologne and from then on devoted himself to electronic music . His first band was called BSOne.

Musical career

As a solo artist

In 1999 Riegner released the single Don't Mean a Thing under the pseudonym Space Jazz Dub Men . Since 2014 he has been traveling solo under the pseudonym Caleidoscop . Riegner himself assigns the project's music to the genres of electro-pop , new romantic and synth-pop .

With bands

Secret Discovery (since 1997)

Riegner joined the Bochum rock band Secret Discovery as a keyboardist in 1997 . With them he recorded a total of four studio albums until 1999 before the band split up. A compilation followed , the final tour with a live album and the separation of the band. In 2002 the band got together again and performed as a support act for Oomph! , Tiamat and Nightwish . The last two studio albums were released in 2004 and 2006. After the release of the last studio album, Alternate , a tour with Unheilig followed . It was not until 2014 that the band released a sound carrier again, the single Auf Wiedersehen (In the direction of victory) .

Alice 2 (2001)

During Secret Discovery's band break, Riegner founded the alternative rock duo Alice 2 together with the founding member of Secret Discovery, Kai Hoffmann . From this collaboration the studio album Brave New World emerged, as well as the singles It's a Crime and Don't Rush . Hoffmann was the singer and guitarist, and Rieger was the keyboardist. Both composed the songs together, they were produced by Riegner.

Shadowheart (since 2013)

In 2013 Riegner founded the pop duo Schattenherz together with the German pop singer Marianne Rosenberg . Rosenberg acts as the singer of the duo and Riegner as the keyboard player, together they write all the songs on their own and Riegner produces the pieces at the same time. The first single Alles klingt von dir was released on September 13, 2013. The debut album Das Leben ist schön followed a month later on October 18, 2013 and reached position 94 on the official German album charts .

As a writer and producer

Riegner works on almost all songs in which he is involved as a composer or producer. In the 90s he composed and produced almost exclusively songs in which he was also musically involved. This has not been the case since the 2000s. Riegner did his first background work in 2000, as a programmer for the Guano Apes album Don't Give Me Names . In 2003 he also worked on the Guano Apes album Walking on a Thin Line . Both albums reached position one in the German album charts and were awarded gold . This was followed by collaborations with the DSDS winner Elli Erl and Xandria . With the singer Rya and the band In Strict Confidence worked on two albums. In 2011 he worked on the 19th studio album Rain rhythm of Marianne Rosenberg with, which later became the common Duo Schattenherz emerged. In the last few years he worked closely with Peter Heppner . He wrote and co-produced both of the top 10 albums solo and My Heart of Stone . He went on tour with him five times. In 2018 Riegner contributed again to the two new Heppner recordings Confessions & Doubts and TanzZwang Lieder.

Tours

Discography

Singles

  • 1999: Don't Mean a Thing

Guest Posts

Remixes

Author participations and productions

Riegner mainly produces and writes for other musicians. The following table contains all chart successes in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, which Riegner celebrated in his function as author (A) and as music producer (P). It provides information about the work, the artist as well as details about the publication and sales figures.

year Title
artist 		Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, artist , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH
2004 In My Dream P
Elli 		DE40 (5 weeks)
DE 		- -
First published: July 12, 2004
Not My Type P
Elli 		DE90 (1 week)
DE 		- -
First published: October 4, 2004
From Gold A, P
Milù with Kim Sanders & Peter Heppner 		DE73 (5 weeks)
DE 		- -
First published: December 6, 2004
2007 The heart P
Melotron 		DE81 (1 week)
DE 		- -
First published: January 19, 2007
2010 House of the three suns P
Nena & Heppner 		DE39 (4 weeks)
DE 		- -
First published: November 5, 2010
2012 My world A, P
Peter Heppner 		DE44 (4 weeks)
DE 		- -
First published: May 4, 2012

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Peter Heppner Fanclub Germany - Contributions. facebook.com, October 3, 2018, accessed October 3, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Dirk Riegner: Caleidoscope - Info. facebook.com, May 16, 2014, accessed October 3, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Shadowheart - Life is beautiful. officialcharts.de, accessed on December 30, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Dirk Riegner. officialcharts.de, accessed on October 3, 2018 .

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SURNAME Riegner, Dirk
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musician, songwriter and music producer
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century