Marek Lieberberg

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Marek Lieberberg (2016)

Marek Lieberberg (born May 7, 1946 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German concert organizer and managing director of an artist management company.

Career

Lieberberg belongs to the Jewish Holocaust successor generation , he was born in a " DP camp ".

Lieberberg (right) with his son André

From 1964 to 1967 he played in the Frankfurt beat group The Rangers (consisting of: Ludwig Ickert , Robert Wolf, Marek Lieberberg, Jürgen Kessner & Axel Schürmann), which released several singles (also under the names The Trembles and The Sad Sack Set). In 1970 he founded the Mama Concerts concert agency with Marcel Avram , with whom he organized the agency's first concert on September 7th of the same year - The Who in the Münsterland Hall in Münster . In 1986 the two separated.

From 1990 to the end of 1999 the concert organizer Ossy Hoppe worked for Lieberberg. During this time the Marek Lieberberg Konzertagentur (MLK) organized the tours of Aerosmith , Bon Jovi , Depeche Mode , Guns N 'Roses , Metallica , Bruce Springsteen , Bryan Adams , Dire Straits , Sting , Celine Dion and others. a., but also newcomers like Alanis Morissette , Héroes del Silencio , Stone Temple Pilots and Lighthouse Family . The first tours of Sting, Aerosmith, Guns N 'Roses and Metallica in Israel , organized by MLK in cooperation with local agencies, also took place during this period. In December 1992 he organized the concert Today the! Morning you! in response to the right-wing extremist riots in Rostock-Lichtenhagen and the Mölln assassinations , a year later he published the book of the same name for the concert. Lieberberg's agency is also responsible for Rock am Ring and Rock im Park .

Until 2000 Lieberberg was the sole owner of MLK and brought stars such as Madonna , Shakira , Patricia Kaas and Christina Aguilera to Germany. On July 1, 2000, CTS Eventim AG from Munich took over 51 percent of the shares in MLK. On June 13th, 2009 MLK organized the first “ Ultimate Fighting Championship ” fighting event in Germany in the Lanxess Arena in Cologne . From 2013 to 2015 Lieberberg hosted the Rock'n'Heim festival .

In 2014, Lieberberg founded Wasted Talent Entertainment GmbH in Berlin together with his son André Lieberberg, for which he is also the managing director.

On August 3, 2015 it was announced that Lieberberg and his son André will be moving to Live Nation Concerts Germany at the beginning of 2016 . He will be one of the managing directors in Germany . The MLK concert agency will, however, continue to exist and be managed by a new management.

Awards

In February 2007, Lieberberg received the LEA Award for best organizer, but rejected it on the grounds that the jury made arbitrary decisions when selecting the winners.

In March 2008 Marek Lieberberg received two LEA awards - on the one hand as the organizer of the Smashing Pumpkins concert in Berlin's Columbiahalle in 2007 - and on the other hand as organizer of the year. Both prizes were accepted by his son André Lieberberg.

At the LEA Award 2010 Lieberberg was again personally recognized as tour operator of the year, but in 2011 he rejected the LEA Award for his life's work.

Controversy

When the Rock am Ring event, led by Lieberberg, was interrupted by the police on June 2, 2017 because of a terror warning that was later lifted, Lieberberg expressed a lack of understanding of the actions of the authorities and politicians in a spontaneous press conference. In particular, his statement made in this speech regarding Islamist-motivated endangering or terrorist actions that he had not yet seen any Muslims "who have taken to the streets by the tens of thousands and said what are you doing there?" Was particularly controversial.

Private

Lieberberg was born as the child of Jewish Holocaust survivors in the Zeilsheim DP camp . He lives in Frankfurt am Main and has three sons, two of whom are also active in the music industry. André Lieberberg worked in the concert agency MLK and is the managing director of the artist management company Wasted Talent Entertainment GmbH and Live Nation GmbH. Daniel Lieberberg is responsible for the European and African business at Sony Music .

Discography

  • Lovers Of The World Unite (1966)
  • The Trembles - Here Comes My Baby / Baby Stop That Playin 'Around (7 "single, 1967)
  • The Rangers - Black Is Black (7 "Single 1966)
  • The Rangers - I Found a Love (7 "single, 1967)
  • Sad Sack Set - Number One / The World For Us (7 "SIngle, 1967)
  • The Rangers - The Rangers (LP)
  • The Rangers - These Boots Are Made For Walking (1967)
  • The Rangers - Very Last Day (1967)
  • The Rangers - Look Through Any Window (1967)
  • The Rangers - Long Valley Road (1993)

Web links

Commons : Marek Lieberberg  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Wikiquote: Marek Lieberberg  - Quotes

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Rock am Ring" organizer Who is Marek Lieberberg? In: Berliner Zeitung June 5, 2017, accessed on November 29, 2017
  2. ↑ Andreas Potzel: Marek & André Lieberberg get out of MLK and join Live Nation Concerts Germany . ( Memento of the original from August 6, 2015 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. Music market , August 3, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.musikmarkt.de
  3. ↑ "The decision is wrong"
  4. ↑ The breakout of the "Rock am Ring" boss
  5. ↑ André Lieberberg took on a leadership role at MLK . Marek Lieberberg Konzertagentur GmbH & Co.KG, summer 2002, accessed on August 4, 2015.
  6. ↑ Two Frankfurters at the top of the European music scene. Retrieved January 15, 2015 .
  7. ↑ Ludwig Ickert on DISMARC
personal data
SURNAME Lieberberg, Marek
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German concert promoter
DATE OF BIRTH May 7, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main