Egmont Lüftner

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Egmont "Monti" Lüftner (born November 12, 1931 in Leoben , Styria , † May 7, 2009 in Garching near Munich ) was an Austrian music manager.

Grave of Monti Lüftner at the Bogenhauser Friedhof in Munich

Career

Lüftner put 1949 in Graz the Matura and studied in connection economics at the University of Vienna . In order to finance his living, he worked, among other things, in a steel mill and later as a bookseller at Bertelsmann . This activity paved his entry into the music business. After graduating from university with honors in 1956, he founded the Ariola Schallplatten GmbH record company for Bertelsmann in Austria. In 1964 he came to Munich as managing director .

Artists like Udo Juergens , Peter Alexander , Rex Gildo , Mireille Mathieu and Heintje became stars with his help. He was also able to tie Michael Holm and The Hollies to Ariola. Whitney Houston , Bob Marley and Cat Stevens were later among the singers he marketed in Germany. Also discovered Lüftner Frank Farian , the later founder of Boney M. .

In 1967 Lüftner took over the general management of the foreign branches of Ariola-Eurodisc. When Bertelsmann relocated Ariola sales from Gütersloh to Munich in 1969 , Lüftner and Friedel Schmidt took over the management of the Ariola Eurodisc production company. Under his aegis, the label developed into the fourth largest record company in the world.

In 1972 Lüftner became director of the Bertelsmann Group's music division, which he continuously built up and expanded to include film and television.

Lüftner had been a member of the Bertelsmann Executive Board since 1977. In 1987 the Bertelsmann Music Group was founded , with Lüftner taking over the position of co- chairman . In the early 1990s he left Bertelsmann as Vice Chairman and President of Artist & Repertoire and CEO / President of BMG in German-speaking countries after 36 years with the group and retired.

At the Wörthersee and in Munich he organized the celebrity tennis tournament Monti-Cup .

Lüftner was a bachelor all his life. A daughter comes from a relationship with the former RTL presenter Isolde Tarrach .

On May 7, 2009 he was run over by a truck and killed at a recycling center in Garching near Munich.

Lüftner's urn is buried next to the grave of Rainer Werner Fassbinder in the Bogenhausen cemetery in Munich.

Awards

Web links

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  1. ^ Tragic accident - mourning for Monti Lüftner www.merkur-online.de from May 8, 2009
  2. ↑ Music manager "Monti" Lüftner dies in an accident www.spiegel.de on May 8, 2009
  3. ↑ Bertelsmann mourns Monti Lüftner www.boersenblatt.net from May 8, 2009
  4. ↑ Truck runs over music manager ( Memento of the original from May 11, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. www.sueddeutsche.de from May 8, 2009 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sueddeutsche.de
  5. ↑ Run over music manager Lüftner at the recycling yard www.welt.de from May 7, 2009
  6. ^ Mourning for "Monti" Lüftner www.focus.de on May 8, 2009
  7. ↑ Hundreds say goodbye to the legendary music manager www.focus-online.de on May 19, 2009
personal data
SURNAME Lüftner, Egmont
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lüftner, Monti (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian music manager
DATE OF BIRTH November 12, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Leoben , Styria
DATE OF DEATH May 7, 2009
Place of death Garching near Munich