Herbert Grönemeyer

Herbert Grönemeyer (2014)

Herbert Arthur Wiglev Clamor Grönemeyer (born April 12, 1956 in Göttingen ) is a German musician , record producer , singer , composer , lyricist and actor . He was first known to a wide audience through his appearance in the movie Das Boot , before he was perceived as a musician. Since 1984, all of his German-language studio albums have been number one in the German album charts . His most successful album to date, Mensch (2002), sold 3.7 million times, including 3.15 million in Germany, making it the best-selling German album since 1975. With over 17 million records sold domestically, it is the most commercially successful contemporary album Musicians of Germany ; his striking way of singing and a marcato- like gesture when singing are his trademarks.

Life

Childhood and Adolescence (1956–1973)

When Herbert Grönemeyer was born, his parents lived in Clausthal-Zellerfeld . Grönemeyer's mother was the nurse Hella Carin, born from Hunnius, a descendant of the physician Carl Abraham Hunnius , who came from a German Baltic doctor family, and his father was the mining engineer Wilhelm Grönemeyer (1916-2003) from Westphalia . Since his mother had to consult a specialist for the birth, he was not born in Clausthal-Zellerfeld, but in Göttingen. He was the youngest child in the family, one of his brothers is the physician Dietrich Grönemeyer . When he was about a year old, his parents moved with him from Clausthal-Zellerfeld to Bochum , where he grew up. Thanks to his family on his mother's side, he came into contact with music and, like his brothers before, received piano lessons at the age of eight. In retrospect, he describes his upbringing as follows: "I think I grew up between love, artistic affection and a lot of severity." He was confirmed at the age of 14. In Bochum he attended the humanistic grammar school on the Ostring and was involved in the school choir, among other things. At school he also met the later actor Claude-Oliver Rudolph . Together with Rudolph, Grönemeyer earned his first living as a pianist at the Schauspielhaus Bochum , while his friend worked as an actor. A band from Wattenscheid was also important to him, and he invested a lot of time in rehearsals.

Artistic beginnings (1974–1983)

As the singer of the Bo-Band at the Bochumer Schauspielhaus, Grönemeyer first came into contact with theater life as an actor. He later worked there as a répétiteur and made his first compositions in 1974. He owes his discovery as an actor to Joachim Preen , who first brought him onto the stage for the play John, George, Paul, Ringo and Bert by William Martin Russell .

After graduating from high school in 1975, he began studying music and law at the Ruhr University in Bochum, but dropped out after five semesters.

In 1976 Grönemeyer became musical director at the Schauspielhaus Bochum and played other theater roles there, such as Till Eulenspiegel, Prince Orlofsky in Johann Strauss ' Die Fledermaus and Melchior in Frank Wedekind's Spring Awakening . Here he also worked with Peter Zadek and the choreographer Pina Bausch .

Although Grönemeyer never attended drama school, he played in a few television films. The acting career was promoted in 1977 with a role in the film The Hostage . Herbert Grönemeyer met actress Anna Henkel in 1978 while filming Jürgen Flimm's TV film Uns That Is Enough , who later became his wife. The next year his first record with Dieter Flimm's jazz rock group "Ocean Orchestra" (partly the music for this film) was released with Grönemeyer as the lead singer.

In 1979 he worked as an actor in the television film Home Among Strangers for ARD . In the same year he worked for a few months as musical director at the Württemberg State Theater in Stuttgart under drama director Claus Peymann . At the Schauspielhaus Köln he was Lorenzo in The Merchant of Venice . His solo debut album Grönemeyer received the "Golden Lemon" for the ugliest cover of the year. His second album Zwo from 1981 was not a commercial success either.

In Wolfgang Petersen's film Das Boot (based on the novel by Lothar-Günther Buchheim ), Grönemeyer appeared alongside actors such as Jürgen Prochnow , Klaus Wennemann , Martin Semmelrogge , Jan Fedder , Heinz Hoenig , Claude-Oliver Rudolph , Sky du Mont and Uwe Ochsenknecht as Lieutenant Werner.

For the German-German co-production of the Peter Schamoni film Spring Symphony , in which he played Robert Schumann - alongside Nastassja Kinski as Clara Wieck and Rolf Hoppe as Friedrich Wieck  - Grönemeyer lived in Leipzig for half a year in 1983. This film was the first West German production that could be shot on original locations in the GDR .

He focused increasingly on his music. For the next albums he only wrote the songs Anna and Musik when it is loud . His classic currywurst was also created during this time (see also Bratwursthaus ), but was penned by Diether Krebs , Jürgen Triebel and Horst-Herbert Krause . During a tour, numerous concerts were canceled due to lack of interest. The albums that were created in collaboration with Otto Draeger and Edo Zanki were so unsuccessful that Intercord Ton GmbH terminated the contract after the album Mixed Feelings, which was released in 1983 .

The breakthrough with Bochum and further successes (1984–1991)

Cover of LP 4630 Bochum from 1984

Herbert Grönemeyer's concert in June 2009 in Bochum

After switching to EMI , the album 4630 Bochum , which was released on August 14, 1984, was a great success in the music business , especially after a concert recording for the WDR series Rockpalast on November 16, 1984. The album  (picture) , the title of which refers to the city's zip code at the time , stayed in the top 100 of the hit parade for 79 weeks and was the most successful album of the year in Germany in 1984. Above all, the single Men made the artist known throughout Germany . In addition, the title song Bochum became the city's unofficial anthem, which can now be heard - alongside the club anthem - in the home stadium shortly before every VfL Bochum game . And the ballad Flugzeug im Bauch also developed into a classic of German-language rock and pop music. In 1985 Grönemeyer played alongside Julie Christie , Burt Lancaster and Bruno Ganz in the Deutz film Fathers and Sons by the director Bernhard Sinkel .

With the album Sprünge in 1986 he took a political stance. The titles Dance and Smile are commentaries on the state of the nation. They attack the CDU - FDP government coalition and the then Federal Chancellor Helmut Kohl . This was underlined again two years later on the album Ö and the title Mit Gott on it.

At the Anti-WAAhnsinns Festival in Burglengenfeld , Upper Palatinate , Grönemeyer played for the first time in front of over 100,000 spectators.

In 1987 he took part in a solo appearance at the Aufru (h) r of the Ruhr area in the Rheinhausen steelworks with many well-known artists to demo for the maintenance of the steelworks and for the financial support of the workers, which earned him a lot of recognition and popularity among the population.

In the television film Sommer in Lesmona , based on the novel of the same name by Marga Berck , which was filmed under the direction of Peter Beauvais with Katja Riemann , Benedict Freitag and Richard Münch among others , he appeared as an actor and directed the 1988 with Adolf-Grimme Price awarded gold soundtrack at. Mainly the titles Halt mich, Vollmond and Was soll das? Contributed to the commercial success of the album Ö . at. At the same time, Grönemeyer's greatest hits were released in English on What's All This . The title song of the album hit the singles charts in Canada . A tour of Canada followed.

The album Bochum was also released in 1989 by the GDR record label AMIGA. This was preceded by negotiations about the title Now or Never and another title, which the government at the time did not want to publish.

After the fall of the Berlin Wall , he published the record Luxus . The concert on May 18, 1991 on a meadow in Ahrensfelde near Berlin as part of the tour was attended by around 100,000 people. This means that Grönemeyer still holds the audience record for a German musician today.

The English language version of the album Luxus was released in Canada in 1991; it also includes a French version by Marie .

New ways with chaos , everything stays different and human (1993-2005)

On January 20, 1993, Grönemeyer married his partner Anna Henkel , the mother of his two children.

In the same year the album Chaos was released . It reached number one on the German charts. The accompanying tour was visited by well over 600,000 people in the following months.

The music broadcaster MTV invited Grönemeyer as the first non-English speaking artist to appear on the TV show MTV Unplugged . The concert took place on May 15, 1994 in the Babelsberg studios .

In early 1998 he and his family moved to London , where he spent most of the year until 2007. It was there that he began working with his long-time producer Alex Silva . Grönemeyer maintained his own studio in Mayfair Studios , where he continued to produce in German.

On April 21, 1998, Grönemeyer published Bleibt alles anders . In addition to the classic rock band line-up, Grönemeyer increasingly found electronically generated sounds in his studio work. The album reached platinum in Germany after less than four weeks . Around 350,000 visitors experienced the first part of the tour.

With the death of his brother Wilhelm on November 1, 1998 and his wife Anna on November 5, 1998, Grönemeyer met two severe blows of fate. It took Grönemeyer over a year to be artistically active again. He later dedicated the song Der Weg on the album Mensch (2002) to his wife .

After the continuation of the Bleibt-alles-anders tour in 1999, Grönemeyer played two concerts at the EXPO in Hanover with the NDR Pops Orchestra under the direction of Nick Ingman, which later resulted in the double DVD Stand der Dinge . In the same year he played with the same arrangement in Berlin in front of the Brandenburg Gate and in the Goitzsche Landscape Park in Saxony-Anhalt .

The album Mensch was released in August 2002 . It went platinum even before it was released due to pre-orders. In the end, it received 21 gold medals and was number 1 in the German album charts for eleven weeks . The single Mensch was Grönemeyer's most successful song so far, with which he reached number one in the German single charts for the first time.

From 2002 Herbert Grönemeyer toured Germany as part of his Alles-Gute-von-yesterday-bis-Mensch tour. He also performed in the city of his youth, the city of Bochum , again and again, most recently with the album Mensch in the Ruhrstadion . The tour was supposed to end on July 8, 2003 in Montreux . Until then, 1.5 million viewers had seen the performances. Because of the great success, the tour was continued in June 2004 with eight more dates and ended on January 8, 2005 as part of the opening ceremony of the Düsseldorf Arena with a three and a half hour concert after more than two years.

The live DVD, released in 2003, was the first DVD ever to make it to number one in the German album charts.

Football World Cup anthem and album 12 (2006–2007)

On May 19, 2006, Grönemeyer's single Time, That Was Turns, was released . The song is the official World Cup anthem for the 2006 World Cup , which he sang together with the Mali- based duo Amadou & Mariam . The English title is Celebrate the Day, the French version is Fetez cette journée . Herbert Grönemeyer presented the song live at the opening of the 2006 World Cup in the Allianz Arena in Munich on June 9, 2006. A few days later the single reached the top of the charts and brought Herbert Grönemeyer the second number one hit of his career.

On October 14, 2006, Grönemeyer signed an application for membership with VfL Bochum and received membership number 4630 as an allusion to his successful album 4630 Bochum .

The single Lied 1 - Stück vom Himmel , released on February 20, 2007, was the first release from the album 12 . It reached first place in the singles chart on February 13 and is Grönemeyer's third number one hit . The album, released on March 2, 2007, reached number 1 in the world charts and stayed in the German album charts for 71 weeks, including 5 weeks at number 1. 12 was the second most successful album in 2007 in Germany and could only be released by Nelly Furtados Loose be beaten.

In summer Grönemeyer went on an open-air tour and played 23 stadium concerts. He has made guest appearances in Germany, Austria, Italy, Liechtenstein and Switzerland. The tour ended on June 27, 2007 in front of a packed house in the Stade de Suisse in Bern. In autumn, Grönemeyer followed up the successful tour with concerts in front of a small audience in exclusive houses. In addition, he played - mostly " unplugged " - for example in the Dresden Semperoper , in the Royal Albert Hall in London and in the Heineken Music Hall in Amsterdam.

Since 2007 Grönemeyer has been living in Berlin again, where he had lived until 1998.

Best-of album Was muss muss sein and new projects (2008-2010)

Herbert Grönemeyer at the Berlinale 2009

In 2008 Grönemeyer continued the successful 12 tour. Twelve more dates were on the program. At the end of the tour, Grönemeyer gave a three-and-a-half-hour concert on September 13, 2008 to mark the opening of the Berlin O ₂ World .

On November 21, 2008, the first “best of” double album Was muss muss must be released . It contains 33 songs from 11 albums and also the titles Glück und Zeit, that was turning and Will I Ever Learn . Will I Ever Learn is a duet with Antony Hegarty of Antony and the Johnsons and was previously released as Lena for the Georg Büchner - comedy Leonce and Lena . In addition, a 72-page earbook was released , which in addition to the double album also contains a DVD with music videos, a 10-inch remix vinyl and a USB card with rarities, remixes and a video interview on all titles. The DVD also includes the originally discarded English-language video Full Moon .

On January 9th, 2010 Herbert Grönemeyer performed his Ruhr area anthem Komm zur Ruhr , written for this special event, for the first time at the opening ceremony of the European Capital of Culture RUHR.2010 in Essen at the Zeche Zollverein .

Grönemeyer composed the soundtrack for Anton Corbijn's film "The American" , a Hollywood production with George Clooney in the leading role. The film was released on September 9th. A day later the CD with the soundtrack was released.

On September 29, 2010 Herbert Grönemeyer presented his plans for his 2011 open-air tour in Rostock , which will mainly take him through stadiums in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. On 7./8. December 2010 Grönemeyer gave three more press conferences in Hamburg , Düsseldorf and Munich . He explained more about the new album and the upcoming stadium tour.

Album and tour Schiffsverkehr (2011–2012)

On February 4, 2011 the single Schiffsverkehr was released , the title song of the studio album released on March 18, 2011. The single reached the top 10 of the German charts in the first week.

Herbert Grönemeyer produced the album Schiffsverkehr , which was made in London , Stockholm , Berlin and New York , again with Alex Silva. Michael Ilbert and Michael H. Brauer from New York were responsible for the mix. Immediately after its release, it achieved gold status and reached number 1 on the album charts in Germany , Austria and Switzerland . The album contains eleven songs and after the last track Just like me and an eleven-minute break, the " hidden track " November . According to Grönemeyer, this album is “more punchy and guitar-heavy” than the last album.

On May 6th, the second single was released with Fernweh . The ship traffic open air tour 2011 started on May 31st with a concert in the IGA Park in Rostock. Concerts in Hamburg, Hanover, Berlin, Gelsenkirchen, Düsseldorf, Kassel, Frankfurt am Main, Cologne, Stuttgart, Leipzig, Vienna, Klagenfurt, Munich and Bern followed. The concert in the Bodenseestadion Konstanz on June 24th concluded. Grönemeyer's stage resembled a sailing ship with five masts on which screens hung and was developed by Anton Corbijn . The concert on June 16 in the Leipzig stadium was recorded and was released on November 18, 2011 as a double DVD and Blu-ray disc . The tour was attended by more than 550,000 people and counted a total of 16 concerts. Grönemeyer played for up to three and a half hours. According to the industry magazine Pollstar, Grönemeyer's tour is currently ranked 11th in the world, making it currently the most successful German production. The magazine evaluates the tours of artists and bands every six months based on ticket sales and income. In 2012 Herbert Grönemeyer received the Echo as Best Live Act national for his tour. He continued the tour with 22 concerts in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Belgium, Holland and Luxembourg. On July 14, 2012, the final concert took place as part of the Montreux Jazz Festival . By then, over 750,000 spectators had seen the shipping tour . The performance at the Jazz Festival was published on November 16, 2012 as a DVD and Blu-ray edition under the title Live at Montreux 2012 .

In 2011 Grönemeyer could be seen in Sesame Street at Ernie & Bert Songs.

I Walk and Anniversary Club Tour (2012-2013)

Grönemeyer during the premiere of the single Morgen from the album Dauernd now at Wetten, dass ..? in Graz on November 8, 2014

The English language album I Walk was released in October 2012 in Great Britain and the Benelux countries. It was created in collaboration with international artists such as Anthony Hegarty, Welsh frontman and guitarist for the Manic Street Preachers James Dean Bradfield . The work comprises twelve titles and the bonus track Mensch , a duet with the U2 front man Bono . The majority of the pieces were translated into English, other pieces such as Will I Ever Learn or Same Old Boys have not yet been produced in German. The album cover is from Anton Corbijn , who took the photo in Portugal back in 2010.

A concert in the legendary London Roundhouse took place at the end of October. A few days later Herbert Grönemeyer started his anniversary club tour Looking back - 30 years halftime through Germany, Austria and Switzerland, which took him through smaller halls and clubs. Grönemeyer only played songs here that had not been heard live for a long time. For fans there was a vote on the setlist on his homepage . On February 19, 2013, I Walk was also released in the USA. Concerts in New York and Chicago followed in late February, and an extended tour was announced for the fall. The I Walk Tour ended in autumn 2013.

His North American tour began on September 11, 2013, during which Grönemeyer presented his English album to the US audience. Starting in Atlanta , she took him to twelve cities (ten in the US, two in Canada). On September 19, after 24 years, he played again in Montreal , where he had already appeared in 1989, at the time supporting the Canadian singer Tom Cochrane .

A Most Wanted Man and album Always Now (2014-2015)

Herbert Grönemeyer composed the soundtrack for Anton Corbijn's film A Most Wanted Man , an agent thriller that was shot in Hamburg and Berlin. Grönemeyer can be seen in a supporting role. The film and soundtrack were released in 2014.

Around three and a half years after Schiffsverkehr was released, Grönemeyer's 14th studio album, Dauernd now, was presented in November 2014 . The album went straight to number 1 in the charts in Germany , Austria and Switzerland . After a week it got gold and after a month it got platinum status in Germany. In February 2015, Grönemeyer received the Golden Camera for best national musician . He was also for now Steady as Best Artist National Rock / Pop with the echo honored. In 2015 and 2016 Grönemeyer presented the album live on concert tours.

On April 22, 2016, he and Felix Jaehn published the song Everyone for Everyone for the 2016 European Football Championship .

Album Live in Bochum (2016)

On November 25, 2016, a double live album was released. This includes recordings from the concerts that Grönemeyer gave on June 19 and 20, 2015 in the Ruhrstadion in Bochum . The double CD also contains a new version of the classic Bochum , to which a new verse has been added. WAZ and Radio Bochum had previously called for the composition .

New album Tumult und Tour (2018-2019)

The new album Tumult was released on November 9, 2018; in advance, the singles Second Gluck appeared on September 28, 2018, Doppelherz / İki Gönlüm (with BRKN ) on October 11, 2018 and Why on November 2, 2018. In 2019, Grönemeyer presented the album on his Tumult Tour in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and in the Netherlands. The tour counted a total of 34 concerts and 500,000 visitors. It graduated on October 12th and 13th in Basel.

The band

Grönemeyer keyboardist Alfred Kritzer from Mannheim (2019)

Sometimes even before the breakthrough in 1984 while the band now consists of the bassist Norbert Hamm , the drummer Armin Rühl , the guitarist Jakob Hansonis and Stephan Zobeley , the jazz - saxophonist Frank Kirchner and the keyboardist Alfred Kritzer , who also for numerous strings arrangements responsible for. As a percussionist occurs Mark Essien on. In addition, Rainer Scheithauer has accompanied the band on the keyboards since the Schiffsverkehr 2011 tour .

The label "Grönland Records"

→ Main article : Greenland Records

The label Grönland was founded in 1999 in connection with the 8-CD box set Pop 2000 , which was created in a project by Grönemeyer together with the television series of the same name . Grönemeyer ran the label together with René Renner until the end of 2008. The label has been based entirely in Berlin since 2009 and is looked after by label manager Mareike Hettler.

Current and former Greenland artists include AK4711 , Boy , Dextro, Gloria , Kira , William Fitzsimmons , Lockdown Project, Merz, Neu! , Petra Jean Phillipson, Psapp , Philipp Poisel , Philipp Dittberner , Roedelius , Sol Seppy and The Earlies.

Social and political engagement

In 1985 Grönemeyer initiated the Ribbon for Africa project . Similar to Band Aid , it was a joint project by various artists with the aim of collecting donations for projects in Africa. The single Nackt im Wind reached number 3 on the German hit parade in 1985.

In 1985 Grönemeyer appeared at the first major AIDS benefit organized by Rosa von Praunheim in Berlin.

Interview on the 1st White Band Day in Berlin (2005)

Since 2005, Grönemeyer, together with the umbrella organization for development-policy non-governmental organizations ( VENRO ), has supported the " Your voice against poverty" campaign . The campaign reminds the Federal Government that Germany, like all other member states of the United Nations , has committed itself to implementing the Millennium Development Goals , including halving extreme poverty, by 2015. The project is the German version of Bob Geldof's Make Poverty History initiative in Great Britain. Both are part of the global network Global Call to Action against Poverty (GCAP) .

On July 2, 2005, the so-called White Band Day , he performed in Berlin with German and international artists, together with well-known stars at the Live 8 concerts that were running simultaneously around the world.

On June 7, 2007, Grönemeyer performed at the Rostock music festival Music & Messages , which he initiated and which took place parallel to the 33rd G8 summit meeting in Heiligendamm .

On June 6th 2009 Herbert Grönemeyer played again at a benefit concert in the Ruhrstadion. The ticket prices were higher than normal and he waived his fee. The money collected in this way went to a foundation to enable the construction of a symphony in Bochum.

On January 26th, 2015 Herbert Grönemeyer played in Dresden in front of the Frauenkirche at the music festival Offen und bunt - Dresden for everyone! Artists and bands such as Wolfgang Niedecken , Jupiter Jones , Silly , Adel Tawil and others advertised here . a. against xenophobia and for a cosmopolitan Dresden.

Since September 2017, Grönemeyer has been the ambassador of the Afghan Women's Association. V. , an organization that has set itself the task of helping people to help themselves in Afghanistan since 1992 . B. the construction of wells and schools is financed and organized. He is the successor to the publicist and presenter Roger Willemsen, who died in 2016 .

On August 24, 2018, Grönemeyer performed at the Jamel rockt den Förster festival , an event against the law and for democracy and tolerance in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. He performed on October 13, 2018 as part of the #unteilbar demonstration for solidarity and against exclusion in Berlin, which had 240,000 participants .

In September 2019, the singer advocated at a concert in Vienna not to move "not a millimeter to the right". In a video he added: "When politicians falter, then it is up to us to dictate what a society should look like". On Twitter, Grönemeyer received support from Foreign Minister Maas , but also multiple criticism from both the right and left, which compared the style and tone of the call, which was sometimes shouted out, with National Socialist propaganda from Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels .

On March 26, 2020, Grönemeyer released the song Heroes of These Times . The song should be a musical greeting and thanks to the heroes of the Corona crisis.

Private

Grönemeyer has two children (* 1987 and 1989) from his first marriage to his wife Anna, who died in 1998 . He has been married to Josefine Cox for the second time since May 2016.

His older brother Dietrich is known as a doctor, scientist and author.

Awards

1 live crown 2000: life's work 2002: Best Album (Human) 2003: Best Artist Amadeus Austrian Music Award 2004: Music DVD of the year (Mensch Live) 2008: Music DVD of the Year (12 Live) 2008: Best Album International (12) Comet 2002: Best Album (Human) 2003: Artist National 2003: Best live act 2008: "Star of the Stars" Echo pop 1992: National Artist of the Year 1994: National Artist of the Year 2001: Music home video DVD production of the year national / international (state of affairs) 2002: Music Home Video DVD (state of affairs) 2003: Artist of the year national (human) 2003: National rock-pop single of the year (human) 2004: Music DVD production national / international (Mensch Live) 2008: Artist of the Year (national) (12) 2008: Album of the year (national or international) (12) 2012: Live act of the year 2015: Artist national rock / pop (permanent now)

Golden camera 1999: German rock music 2015: Best Music National Further awards 1979: Goldene Lemon for the worst album cover (Grönemeyer) 1988: Adolf Grimme Prize with gold for summer in Lesmona (together with Reinhard Baumgart , Peter Beauvais and Katja Riemann ) 2003: DIVA-Award - Artistic Achievement Award 2003: World Music Award - Best German Pop / Rock Artist 2005: European Hero ( Time ) - Commitment against poverty in the world 2005: Special Jubilee Award - Baloise Session Award 2007: 1st place in the vote for the best musician in the ZDF show Our Best on the subject of "Music Stars of All Time" 2011: German Radio Prize - Special Prize

Discography

→ Main article : Herbert Grönemeyer / Discography  and list of songs by Herbert Grönemeyer

Studio albums

"4630 Bochum"

"Ö"

year	Title music label	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, music label , placements, weeks, awards, notes)			Remarks
		DE	AT	CH
1979	Grönemeyer Intercord	-	-	-	First published: 1979
1980	Two intercord	-	-	-	First published: 1980
1982	Totally no matter Intercord	-	-	-	First published: 1982
1983	Mixed feelings Intercord	DE43 gold (12 weeks)DE	-	-	First published: 1983 Sales: + 250,000
1984	4630 Bochum Electrola	DE1 × 11 Eleven gold (140 weeks)DE	AT7th × 2 Double platinum (24 weeks)AT	CH12 platinum (13 weeks)CH	First published: August 14, 1984 Sales: + 2,900,000
1986	Jumps EMI	DE1 × 2 Double platinum (42 weeks)DE	AT1 gold (40 weeks)AT	CH1 gold (22 weeks)CH	First published: April 30, 1986 Sales: + 1,050,000
1988	Ö Electrola	DE1 × 7 Sevenfold gold (85 weeks)DE	AT1 × 2 Double platinum (78 weeks)AT	CH1 platinum (29 weeks)CH	First published: March 30, 1988 Sales: + 1,950,000
1990	Luxury Electrola	DE1 × 2 Double platinum (55 weeks)DE	AT1 platinum (20 weeks)AT	CH6th gold (18 weeks)CH	First published: September 17, 1990 Sales: + 1,075,000
1993	Chaos Electrola	DE1 × 3 Triple gold (49 weeks)DE	AT2 gold (17 weeks)AT	CH8 (10 weeks) CH	First published: May 24, 1993 Sales: + 775,000
1998	Everything stays different Grönland Records	DE1 × 3 Triple gold (55 weeks)DE	AT1 platinum (16 weeks)AT	CH3 platinum (20 weeks)CH	First published: April 17, 1998 Sales: + 850,000
2002	Human Greenland Records	DE1 × 21 21-fold gold (95 weeks)DE	AT1 × 8 Eight times platinum (83 weeks)AT	CH1 × 5 Quintuple platinum (76 weeks)CH	First published: August 30, 2002 Sales: + 3,620,000
2007	12 Greenland Records	DE1 × 4 Quadruple platinum (71 weeks)DE	AT1 × 3 Triple platinum (28 weeks)AT	CH1 × 3 Triple platinum (27 weeks)CH	First published: March 2nd, 2007 Sales: + 1,000,000
2011	Shipping Greenland Records	DE1 × 2 Double platinum (49 weeks)DE	AT1 platinum (20 weeks)AT	CH1 gold (23 weeks)CH	First published: March 18, 2011 Sales: + 435,000
2014	Always now Greenland Records	DE1 × 5 Quintuple gold (58 weeks)DE	AT1 × 2 Double platinum (30 weeks)AT	CH1 platinum (30 weeks)CH	First published: November 21, 2014 Sales: + 550,000
2018	Tumult Greenland Records	DE1 platinum (55 weeks)DE	AT1 platinum (28 weeks)AT	CH2 gold (27 weeks)CH	First published: November 9, 2018 Sales: + 225,000

gray hatching : no chart data available for this year

Filmography (selection)

Feature films

• 1977: Die Geisel - Director: Peter Zadek
• 1978: From day to day - Director: Ulrich Stein
• 1978: That's not enough for us - Director: Jürgen Flimm
• 1979: At home among strangers
• 1981: The boat
• 1982: Doctor Faustus - Director: Franz Seitz
• 1982: Spring Symphony
• 1984: The Eternal Feelings - Director: Peter Beauvais
• 1985: fathers and sons
• 2007: Control
• 2014: A Most Wanted Man

Documentaries

• 2007: Unterwegs - The Herbert Grönemeyer Tour 2007 , DVD (Director: Ulrich Stein)
• 2008: Germany, your artists : Herbert Grönemeyer , ARD (Director: Ulrich Stein)
• 2016: Germany, your artists : Herbert Grönemeyer , ARD

Other Projects

• 1985: Confused Balance Sheets (film music) - Director: Peter Beauvais
• 1986: Summer in Lesmona (soundtrack) - directed by Peter Beauvais
• 1991: The Herbalist - Edgar Allan Poe's short story The Fall Of House Usher was set to music by Peter Hammill
• 1999: Platonic Love (film music) - Director: Philipp Kadelbach
• 2003: Leonce and Lena von Georg Büchner - incidental music for the production by Robert Wilson at the Berliner Ensemble
• 2010: The American - Soundtrack for a US-American film by director Anton Corbijn with George Clooney
• 2014: A Most Wanted Man - Soundtrack for a British espionage thriller by Anton Corbijn with Philip Seymour Hoffman
• 2015: Faust I and II by Goethe - incidental music for the production by Robert Wilson at the Berliner Ensemble

literature

• Verena Scheffel: The lost self (reflections on society in Herbert Grönemeyer's lyrics). Tectum Verlag, Marburg 2005, ISBN 3-8288-8840-2 .

Illustrated books

• Grönemeyer / Corbijn : Lyrics and pictures from 1980–2004 . Schirmer Mosel, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-8296-0123-9 .
• Grönemeyer / Corbijn : Grönemeyer - Photographs . Schirmer Mosel, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-88814-680-1 .

biography

• Ulrich Hoffmann: Grönemeyer. Biography . Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-455-09440-6 (not authorized) .
• Max Wellinghaus: Herbert Grönemeyer - The Biography . riva, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-86883-785-8 (also as an e-book).

Song lyrics

• Herbert Grönemeyer: Everything (song book with all songs; lyrics & chords). Bosworth Music 2008, ISBN 978-3-86543-335-0 .
• Grönemeyer: Twelve Songbooks . Voggenreiter Verlag, Bonn 2007, ISBN 978-3-8024-0608-9 .
• Grönemeyer: Mensch Songbook . Voggenreiter Verlag, Bonn 2003, ISBN 3-8024-0455-6 .
• Grönemeyer: Everything stays different. All songs on the CD. Arranged for piano, guitar and vocals . MDS, 1998, ISBN 3-7957-5448-8 .
• Grönemeyer: Songbook Herbert Grönemeyer, 4630 Bochum . Voggenreiter Verlag, Bonn 1985, ISBN 3-8024-0139-5 .

Web links

Commons : Herbert Grönemeyer  - Collection of Images

Wikiquote: Herbert Grönemeyer  - Quotes

• Official website of Herbert Grönemeyer
• Herbert Grönemeyer at laut.de
• Herbert Grönemeyer in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Herbert Grönemeyer on MusicBrainz (English)
• Literature by and about Herbert Grönemeyer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Herbert Grönemeyer's channel on YouTube

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Herbert Grönemeyer in an interview with Doris Akrap: Herbert Grönemeyer on Germany: "Resistance can also be fun". Herbert Grönemeyer describes his new album “Tumult” as highly political. A conversation about Merkel's failures and the fight against the right. www.taz.de, November 11, 2018, accessed on November 11, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Entry Grönemeyer, Dietrich in Munzinger - Internationales Biographisches Archiv.
3. ^ Dietrich Grönemeyer: Doctor with heart and soul. A personal reading book. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt 2012, ISBN 978-3-596-19408-7 , p. 19 f. ( Reading sample )
4. ↑ SZ Magazin , No. 18, April 30, 2015, p. 13.
5. ↑ msn.com
6. ↑ You can't sing about Schröder . In: Die Zeit , No. 37/2002
7. ↑ At home among strangers in the Internet Movie Database (English)
8. ↑ Mitteldeutsche Zeitung. November 13, 2012.
9. ↑ ^{a b} Why Herbert Grönemeyer still loves his Bochum dearly. on: derwesten.de , August 14, 2014, accessed on August 20, 2014.
10. ↑ Summer in Lesmona in the Internet Movie Database (English)
11. ↑ Biography of 1988. Archived from the original on March 12, 2016 ; accessed on March 12, 2016 . 
12. ^ Herbert Grönemeyer on November 11, 2012.
13. ↑ Portrait: Herbert Grönemeyer. In: laut.de . Retrieved July 28, 2011 . 
14. ↑ Bio at MTV. Retrieved March 12, 2016 . 
15. ^ Herbert Grönemeyer: 12. In: officialcharts.de. Retrieved September 25, 2019 . 
16. ↑ Annual album charts 2007. In: mtv.de. Archived from the original on March 5, 2009 ; Retrieved November 13, 2012 . 
17. ^ Barbara Jänichen: Herbert Grönemeyer moves to Berlin. In: Berliner Morgenpost. February 28, 2007, accessed September 18, 2019 . 
18. ↑ Grönemeyer: Airplanes “in my head” instead of “in my stomach”. Retrieved November 18, 2012 . 
19. ↑ HERBERT GRÖNEMEYER - I WALK October 2012. Accessed on September 8, 2013 . 
20. ^ Herbert Grönemeyer: de la visite rare. Retrieved September 20, 2013 . 
21. ↑ Andreas Montag: Grönemeyer presents new album - from the bottom of my heart . In: Berliner Zeitung , November 18, 2014
22. ^ Herbert Grönemeyer: Bochum with the fifth stanza. Retrieved November 25, 2016 . 
23. ↑ 1 A German Hits : Luck of the Second: Finally a new single by Herbert Grönemeyer , accessed on September 27, 2018.
24. ↑ Groenemeyer: Take That - double heart / İki Gönlüm (with BRKN). October 11, 2018, accessed October 12, 2018 . 
25. ↑ Groenemeyer: Herbert Grönemeyer - Why (official music video). November 2, 2018, accessed November 2, 2018 . 
26. ↑ http://beta.musikwoche.de/details/444031
27. ↑ https://www.baloisesession.ch/de/programm
28. ↑ Various - Pop 2000 - 50 Years of Pop Music and Youth Culture In Germany. In: discogs.com. Retrieved December 7, 2012 . 
29. ↑ About us. In: groenland.com. Grönland Deutschland GmbH, accessed December 7, 2012 . 
30. ↑ 09.02.2009 - Grönland Records: Mareike Hettler takes over label management. Archived from the original on August 11, 2014 ; Retrieved February 22, 2009 . 
31. ↑ 25 years of the Afghan Women's Association - Herbert Grönemeyer becomes ambassador . Retrieved June 22, 2018
32. ↑ Spiegel.de: Maas defends Grönemeyer against attacks from the right , September 15, 2019
33. ^ Concert in Vienna: Maas supports Grönemeyer after speaking against the right . September 15, 2019, ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed September 18, 2019]).
34. ↑ https://www.n-tv.de/folk/Herbert-Groenemeyer-singt-fuer-Helfer-article21674618.html
35. ↑ European Gold & Platinum Awards 1986 - IFPI Austria - Gold Albums. Music & Media Magazine, December 27, 1986, accessed October 6, 2019 (English, page 34). 
36. ↑ European Gold & Platinum Awards 1986 - EMI, PolyGram, CBS, Phonag, Musikvertrieb, BMG Ariola - Gold Albums. Music & Media Magazine, December 26, 1987, accessed October 6, 2019 (page 46). 
37. ↑ Tobias Wullert: Universal Music awards Herbert Grönemeyer Swiss platinum. beta.musikwoche.de, February 17, 2015, accessed on September 26, 2019 . 
38. ^ Jonas Kiß: Grönemeyer awarded Swiss precious metal. beta.musikwoche.de, March 21, 2019, accessed on September 24, 2019 . 
39. ↑ Confused balance sheets, hidden corruption. In: Hamburger Abendblatt. December 6, 1990, accessed February 21, 2009 . 
40. ^ Platonic love. In: filmportal.de . German Film Institute , accessed September 25, 2019 .