Fiva (musician)

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Albums

The city is mine again   AT 41 03/09/2012 (3 weeks) Everything lights up   DE 48 04/07/2014 (1 week)   AT 8th 04/07/2014 (12 weeks) Don't be afraid of legends   AT 22nd 10/21/2016 (1 week) Nina   DE 85 11/01/2019 (1 week)   AT 28 11/08/2019 (1 week)

Singles

The best is not over yet   AT 60 06/13/2014 (2 weeks)

Fiva [ ˈfaɪva ] (* 1978 as Nina Sonnenberg in Munich ) formerly Fiva MC , is a German rapper , presenter and author . Together with DJ Radrum [ ˈrædrʌm ] (bourgeois Sebastian Schwarz), she founded the label headphone recordings in 2005. She is a radio presenter on FM4 ( ORF ) and was a television presenter on ZDFkultur .

music

Fiva at Rock am Ring 2012

Fiva at the Zelt-Musik-Festival 2014 in Freiburg

Fiva first came into contact with German rap in 1995 and then practiced quietly for four years until she made her first freestyle appearance in Munich's Flava Club 70 in 1999 . A year later she went on tour with MC Rene through Germany, Austria and Switzerland . In 2001 Fiva MC and Radrum signed their first record deal with the Hamburg label Buback. In 2001 she recorded her first single Status Quo with Radrum at Buback and her debut album Spiegelschrift , which was released in autumn 2002. The debut album was produced by Edward Sizzerhand , among others .

Backstage in the city park in Hamburg

In spring and December 2005 she toured with Fettes Brot .

In autumn 2005 she founded her own label headphone recordings together with DJ Radrum , on which the second album headphone was released in November 2006 .

Rotwild appeared in February 2009 . Because Radrum was busy with his graduation, Flip from Texta produced the album and also took care of the beats.

Her fourth studio album was released on February 24, 2012, entitled The city is mine again . It was produced by the Munich artists Rüde Linhof ( Sportfreunde Stiller ) and Paul Reno (formerly Emil Bulls ). Fiva appears with a band as "Fiva & Das Phantom Orchester". In September 2012 they took part in the Bundesvision Song Contest ( Pro7 ) for Bavaria and landed on 14th place.

On June 20, 2014, the studio album Everything is lit was released . Guests on the album were u. a. 5 / 8erl in Ehr'n , Bernadette La Hengst and Peter Balboa from Sportfreunde Stiller.

In 2016, she and the Jazzrausch Bigband presented her current album Don't be afraid of legends on a tour.

Spoken Word / Poetry Slam

Fiva is also successful on the poetry slam stages. She took third place in the individual competition at the German-speaking Slam Championships in 2002, and in 2004 in Leipzig, she and her team Tha Boyz with tha Girlz in Tha Back (with Nora-Eugenie Gomringer and Mia Pittroff) became the best slam team in the German-speaking region chosen. In autumn 2007 she published a book with spoken word CD entitled Klub Karamell .

Nina Sonnenberg aka Fiva gives spoken word and literature workshops for young people. Her work as an author led her a. a. already to the Poetry Festival Oslo (Norway), to the European Lebanese Rap Festival (Beirut / Lebanon), to Israel and Palestine and to Siberia (Barnaul / Omsk / Novosibirsk).

In 2010 he was engaged as a music theater writer and director at the Kiel Opera . Together with the choreographer Mario Schröder and the dramaturge Beate Anders she staged the “ Nibelungen ”. Sonnenberg rewrote “Die Nibelungen” from the perspective of Kriemhild and took on the role of the narrator.

Radio moderation

Since 2007 Nina Sonnenberg has been moderating on the Austrian channel FM4 ( ORF ) z. B. “Fivas Ponyhof” (music broadcast, weekly) and “Unter Palmen” or “Unter Tannen” (talk show, seasonal); earlier programs she moderated were Zündfunk ( Bayern 2 ) and “Fivas Reim auf die Welt” / “Das Leben ist ein Scheibe” on on3radio ( BR ).

TV moderation

From May 2011, Nina Sonnenberg presented the program “Der Marker” under her real name on the now discontinued ZDFkultur station , which was nominated for the Grimme Prize in January 2012 . She also reported on European theater festivals with her series “Theater: Ein Fest” for ZDFkultur, moderated the “ZDFkultur Poetry Slam” together with Jo Schück and reported live for ZDFkultur on music festivals across Europe. From September 2012 she also moderated the young culture magazine zdf.kulturpalast , alternating with Pegah Ferydoni , which was shown on Thursday at 8:15 pm on ZDFkultur and on Saturdays at 7:25 pm on 3sat ; the magazine was nominated for the Grimme Prize in 2013. The show was later broadcast on 3Sat on Saturdays at 7.30 p.m. as Kulturpalast and will be discontinued with the show on December 1, 2018.

Awards

• 2018: Bavarian Culture Prize

Discography

Albums

• 2002: Spiegelschrift (as Fiva MC with DJ Radrum)
• 2006: headphones (with DJ Radrum)
• 2009: red deer
• 2012: The city is mine again (with the Phantom Orchestra)
• 2014: Everything lights up
• 2016: Don't be afraid of legends (with JRBB )
• 2019: Nina

EPs

• 2005: back to back (with mnemonic )

Singles

• 1999: Demotape (as Fiva MC with DJ Radrum)
• 2001: Status Quo (as Fiva MC with DJ Radrum)
• 2002: Bruecken / Ich bin (as Fiva MC with DJ Radrum)
• 2003: Opposites (as Fiva MC with DJ Radrum feat.Pyranja)
• 2005: Back (to the Future) (as Fiva MC with DJ Radrum)
• 2012: The city is mine again (with the Phantom Orchestra)
• 2012: Your smile turns heads (with the Phantom Orchestra)
• 2014: The best is not over yet
• 2014: Everything shines (feat. 5 / 8erl in Ehr'n )
• 2019: Treat yourself (with Granada )
• 2019: To me
• 2019: "The apple falls" with Flo Mega

Sampler contributions, collaborations

• 2002: Meine Schrift (as Fiva MC with DJ Stylewarz) - on The cut by DJ Stylewarz
• 2005: Fädärläsä (as Fiva MC with DJ Questionmark) - on Jugend & Kultur by Kutti MC
• 2006: End (as Fiva MC with DJ Radrum) - "Juice-Exclusive" on Juice Vol. 70
• 2007: Klub Karamell (as Nina "Fiva" Sonnenberg ) - book with CD, spoken word album
• 2010: Always when I rhyme (Mammut Remix) ( Kool Savas feat. Franky Kubrik , Tone , Patrick on purpose , Kitty Kat , Ercandize , Amar , Caput , Sinan, Vega , Tua , Kaas , Fiva MC & MoTrip ) - on the bonus -CD of the mixtape John Bello Story 3

literature

• Angelika Baier: "I have to write my name in the sky". Narration and self-constitution in German rap. Tübingen 2012 (analyzes songs from the Spiegelschrift and headphones albums ) .

Web links

Commons : Fiva  - collection of images

• Sound carriers by Nina Sonnenberg in the catalog of the German National Library
• Official website
• Fiva's pony farm at FM4
• Fiva MC and DJ Radrum at laut.de.
• Fiva MC at Discogs (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Chart sources: DE AT
2. ↑ Fiva now leaves out the job title MC ( memento of the original from June 8, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ cd-check.de
4. ^ Biography ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) on fiva-radrum.de
5. ↑ Discography on sizzerhand.com
6. ↑ Fiva MC ( Memento of the original from August 17, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on buback.de 
7. ↑ Interview with Fiva about "Rotwild"
8. ↑ laut.de
9. ↑ Bundesvision Song Contest 2012
10. ↑ hiphop.de
11. ↑ With an unpretentious presence . Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , January 5, 2016
12. ↑ On stage: Deep down - not me on wdr.de ( Memento of the original from April 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
13. ↑ Franconian Literature Days  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
14. ↑ goethe.de
15. ↑ fivasolo.de  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
16. ↑ fiva-radrum.de ( Memento from June 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
17. ↑ fivasolo.de ( Memento from September 21, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
18. ↑ fivasolo.de ( Memento from April 21, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
19. ↑ zdf.de ( Memento from May 26, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
20. ↑ culture.zdf.de  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
21. ↑ zdf.de ( Memento of the original from December 2, 2016 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.  
22. ↑ zdf.de ( Memento of the original from March 31, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed March 13, 2012  
23. ↑ fernsehserien.de , accessed on May 19, 2011
24. ↑ grimme-institut.de
25. ↑ 3sat.online: "Kulturpalast" on December 1st - Beauty. Accessed November 30, 2018 (German). 
26. ↑ https://www.regensburger-nachrichten.de/service/85988-der-kulturpreis-bayern-2018
27. ↑ Entry on Discogs
28. ↑ Entry on Discogs
29. ↑ Brief introduction to Voland & Quist