Hartmut Engler
Hartmut Engler (born November 24, 1961 in Großingersheim ) is a German singer and pop musician . Engler is the singer of the band Pur , for which he also writes the lyrics.
biography
Engler is the son of a Hungarian German and a Sudeten German . After graduating from the Ellentalgymnasium in Bietigheim-Bissingen , Engler studied English and German in Stuttgart and originally wanted to become a high school teacher. Shortly before the state examination, however, Pur received their first recording contract and he dropped out of his studies without a degree. Together with Pur, Engler is one of the most commercially successful German-speaking pop musicians.
In 2005 Engler released his first solo album, Just A Singer . In the same year he suffered from a vocal cord disease, in the course of which it was unclear whether he would ever be able to recur.
Engler was in a relationship with the Swiss singer Nubya from May 2003 to early May 2008 . He has a brother who works as a teacher and a sister, Ute Nagel, who used to support Pur as a background singer and who now appears with the gospel formation The Union . Hartmut Engler has two sons from his second marriage to Claudia. He lives in Bietigheim-Bissingen and on Mallorca.
In 2003, Engler sang with Hier bin ich the German cover version of Bryan Adams' hit Here I am in the film Spirit - Der wilde Mustang . In 2005 Engler sang the song Lied for the album Selma - Wrapped in Sehnsucht , on which a total of 12 poems by the poet Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger were set to music.
He also gave his voice to the main male character Garret in the cartoon The Magic Sword - The Legend of Camelot . In 2011 he published his autobiography Engler PUR .
Since 2014, Engler has been the patron of Herzenssache , the children's aid campaign run by SWR , SR and two Sparda banks .
In 2015 Engler is part of the VOX show Sing my Song - The Exchange Concert . On 31 October the same year he sang as part of the ProSieben telecast Joko against Klaas - The duel for the world , together with Klaas Heufer circulating the refrain of the song Pur- adventure land .
Awards
- 1991: Fred Jay Text Prize for his "socially critical and thoughtful texts"
- On May 8, 2010 Hartmut Engler was awarded the Order of Merit of the State of Baden-Württemberg by Prime Minister Stefan Mappus .
Filmography
Synchronization / singing of:
- 1997: The Fearless Four (Buster, the Dog)
- 1998: The Magic Sword - The Legend of Camelot (Garrett)
- 2002: Spirit - The wild Mustang
Discography (solo)
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Albums
- 2005: Just A Singer
Singles
- 2005: Fortunate Guy
Varia
In 2012 the album Ich bin by Heinz Rudolf Kunze was released with a duet title with Hartmut Engler.
Web links and sources
- Literature by and about Hartmut Engler in the catalog of the German National Library
- Hartmut Engler in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Portrait at laut.de
- Hartmut Engler biography
Individual evidence
- ↑ rejection. In: sueddeutsche.de. September 25, 2015, accessed May 14, 2018 .
- ↑ a b Chart sources: DE
- ↑ http://werkzeug.heinzrudolfkunze.de/musik/alben/ichbin.html
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| SURNAME | Engler, Hartmut |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German singer and pop musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 24, 1961 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ingersheim |