Markus Grimm (singer)

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Markus Grimm, 2012

Markus Grimm (born May 5, 1979 in Moers , North Rhine-Westphalia ) is a German singer , songwriter , presenter , music journalist and author .

Career

Markus Grimm live, 2004

Markus Grimm was already on stage with a choir at kindergarten age and made his first experiences with theater. Grimm has been writing his own songs since he was 17 and sang and played guitar in the formation Cabrit Sans Cor , with whom he released the 2003 demo Grid of Grief . Grimm completed a three-year drama and theater education course and wrote a musical piece.

In 2004, Grimm applied in ProSieben telecast pop stars - now or never! . On December 8, 2004, he became one of the winners of the competition, a member of the band Nu Pagadi, which was formed during the show . The first single Sweetest Poison reached the top of the charts in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The released debut album Your Dark Side was also number one on the sales charts in Germany for a week. Despite the initial success, the band split up nine months after their formation due to musical and personal differences in September 2005.

Since then, Grimm has been working on his solo career as a musician, presenter and writer. In April 2006, the self-written single Fight Back was released, which acted as the soundtrack for the PlayStation 2 game Metal Slug 5 . One version of the song also features his former bandmate Patrick "Pat" Boinet. Another song inspired by a PC game (namely Another World ) was released online as a free download in 2007. In addition to working and publishing various song texts for other artists (e.g. for Claus Eisenmann , formerly with Sons Mannheims ), Grimm was involved as a radio play speaker in episodes for the radio play series, code-named Sam and Tony Ballard .

On January 19, 2009, the book Cosmic Dancer was published, a collection of various poems, short stories and lyrics from the period between 1997 and 2007. On August 17, 2009, Grimms Märchen reloaded, his second book, in which the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm in the present time can be moved. The book Sex, Drugs & Castingshows followed in September 2009 . The truth about DSDS, pop stars & Co. The book offers a look behind the scenes of the casting shows and was written together with star search winner Martin Kesici .

On Grimm's reading tour Grimm reads in summer 2009 , Grimm read the fairy tales of his ancestors to children in old castles and tries to bring them closer to them interactively. The children's book Fleckie's Journey was published in February 2010 . As a sequel, Fleckie's dish was published in September 2010 with recipes by Brian May , Christian Rach , Nevio , Milka Loff Fernandes , Akay , Eckart Witzigmann and Alfons Schuhbeck , among others . Fleckie's circus was released in July 2011.

Grimm has been moderating the technology and lifestyle program Tekknissimo for the music channel iMusic1 since autumn 2008 . He also writes as a music and media editor for plugged magazine , as well as a column in EXIT magazine called Markus Grimm's Kabelsalat. In collaboration with the composer Richard Geppert , Grimm is writing together with other artists such as Moses Pelham on the music project Neue Winterreise , which is based on Franz Schubert's winter journey . In addition, Grimm writes dialogues and texts for Geppert's new musical production.

In March 2011 Richard Geppert started working on new songs with Markus Grimm. Grimm writes the lyrics for his songs himself.

For the 200th anniversary of the Brothers Grimm, Michael and Markus Grimm founded the project Grimm meets Grimm

In June 2011 Markus Grimm signed a contract with Universal Music Family Entertainment for his children's book series Fleckie . The first two "HörSpielBücher" Fleckies Reise and Fleckies Zirkus were published in early August 2011. Grimm spoke the books himself as a staged reading. KiCo Media was responsible for the production and dubbing, who have already implemented successful series such as Lauras Stern or Pettersson and Findus .

On August 10, 2012, the first single by today's Brothers Grimm, Der Geschichtensammler, was released . Grimm meets Grimm, a double CD, was released on September 28, 2012 by Universal. These are fairy tales and fairytale-like songs set to music for the 200th anniversary of the first volume, Children's and Household Tales by the Brothers Grimm, which are sung and read by Michael Grimm (Ex-Extrabreit - KICO Media) and Markus Grimm.

In 2013 Grimm realized the songs for the Heidelberg musical The Wedding with Richard Geppert . For 2016 the new piece of freedom with Richard Geppert and Zapo Schwalbe is in the works.

Markus Grimm is in great demand as a spokesman for radio plays and apps (Ravensburger Digital Das brave Schneiderlein ) and as a live moderator and moderates various events, such as the CSD in Nuremberg .

On May 30, 2014, more than 30 artists, including Markus Grimm, cabaret artist Holger Edmaier (initiator), Hella von Sinnen , Klaus Nierhoff , Steffi List and Käthe Köstlich published the song 100% Mensch for more equality for lesbians, gays and transgender. The entire proceeds of the Benefits Single go to the Hirschfeld Eddy Foundation . The song was performed by the various artists at many festivals in 2014.

From February 2014 Markus Grimm will be involved with Grimm meets Grimm in the production of the album The Little Prince for the well-known book of the same name, for which he contributed eight lyrics as a copywriter. He can also be heard on the CD as a singer with Michael Grimm and with various Universal artists. Production started in 2015 and the album is due to be released in fall 2015. Among others, Jini Meyer ( Luxuslärm ) Tim Wilhelm ( Münchener Freiheit ) Tobias Künzel ( Die Prinzen ) and Volker Rosin are represented on the album.

For the Education CD series from Universal Family Entertainment Familie Sonntag - Our most beautiful songs for learning English and Our most beautiful multiplication tables , Grimm contributed over twenty lyrics. (Publication July 31, 2015) Since 2015, he has presented the newcomer format Soundcouch, which he designed, every quarter . With a red designer inflatable sofa, he goes to places that are unusual for music and asks newcomers, bands and singer / songwriters for interviews and the acoustic performance of their songs.

In 2017 Grimm wrote the lyrics for the song album for the successful children's animation series Mascha und der Bär, which was again produced by KiCo Media and will be released by Sony / Europe in spring 2017.

In autumn, five years after the first CD with the project Grimm meets Grimm , the song album with ten songs and a new fairy tale follows. All lyrics come from the pen of Markus Grimm. The CD is published by Universal Musik / Karussell.

In March 2017, Grimm signed an author's contract with Munich-based Smart & Nett Verlag for the book Fairy Tales That Life wrote . A collection of autobiographical stories and modern fairy tales including an accompanying CD with sixteen songs that follow the stories or put them in the limelight. For the first time Grimm worked with the young songwriter Felix Beißert. The book was published in March 2018 and will be performed live on stage as a musical reading in a trio line-up with piano, guitar and vocals as a story singer evening.

Markus Grimm has been a columnist with a weekly column in the daily newspaper NRZ since March 2017 . The column, which appears on Tuesdays under the name of Grimm's Column , is similar to the book Fairy Tales That Life wrote with everyday stories that were experienced, conceived and missed.

As a freelance songwriter, he is at home in the KiCo Media team, where he is involved in various CD productions in the family entertainment sector. There he has had his own publishing edition with Viva la Lebkuchenhaus since 2018.

Markus Grimm has been married to Ben Grimm since October 2017.

Discography

With Nu Pagadi

see Nu Pagadi # discography (2004–2005)

solo

  • 2006: Fight Back (single)
  • 2007: Another World Last Drop of Pop
  • 2009: Gone (single)
  • 2012: The Story Collector (Single) - Grimm meets Grimm
  • 2013: The Story Collectors (Album) - Grimm meets Grimm
  • 2013: Living Stories: The brave little tailor from Ravensburger Digital GmbH
  • 2016: The Little Prince - Star Dreamer song album
  • 2017: Once upon a time ... - Our fairy tale songs (album) - Grimm meets Grimm
  • 2018: Cast Off (Single)
  • 2018: Boards (Single)
  • 2018: Fairy tales that life wrote ... (solo album)

As a guest musician

  • 2010: Control me - Jackleg feat. Markus Grimm (single)
  • 2014: 100% Mensch- Der Benefitzsong (single)

Publications

Television projects

  • Moderator of the technology and lifestyle program Tekknissimo for the music channel iMusic1 .
  • January 2009: taff weekly series The Perfect Celebrity Party
  • January 2010: taff weekly series Project Paradies - four celebrities fasting
  • December 16, 2010: WDR Studio Duisburg Lokalzeit reports on Markus and Fleckie who visit a kindergarten in Moers for a reading from “Fleckie's Journey” and to cook from “Fleckie's Food”
  • February 2, 2011: ZDF logged into a live discussion on the subject of “Generation Casting: Soul Striptease or Superchance?” With Markus Grimm, Dieter Falk, and others. a.
  • May 23, 2011: VOX pseudo-docu-soap " rent, buy, live "
  • September 10, 2011: ProSieben documentary "The happiness report"
  • September 12, 2011: VOX Docu-Soap "Die Einrichter"
  • May 5, 2012: VOX pet magazine "hundkatzemaus" with Labrador "Boog"
  • December 2012: "Grimm meets Grimm" in the "ZDF Advent Show" and on Sat1 "WeckUp"
  • December 4, 2013: WDR “NRW duel” with Bernd Stelter , topic: fairy tales

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. http://www.events-und-trends.de/data/interview_markus_grimm.html
  2. http://www.prosieben.de/music_cd/nupagadi/news/artikel/17102/
  3. http://www.evo-x.de/evox/webdoc/complete/news/news_suchergebniss.php?we_objectID=2452
  4. http://www.spieletester.com/news/1/2463/another-world-rocksong-von-markus-grimm/  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.spieletester.com  
  5. http://www.rivaverlag.de/shop/article/2207-sex-drugs-castingshows/
  6. http://www.openpr.de/news/234084/Popstar-schreiben-Kinderbuch.html
  7. Markus Grimm's MySpace page
  8. Facebook page on Freedom - The Oratorio
  9. https://itunes.apple.com/de/app/living-stories-das-tapfere/id596343563?mt=8/
  10. http://100mensch.de/
  11. Facebook page on Star Dreamer
  12. Most beautiful songs for learning English
  13. Homepage for Sound Couch
  14. IKZ.de: Markus and Ben Grimm are the first in the Moers registry office , October 2017
  15. Archived copy ( memento of the original dated February 6, 2011 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.login.zdf.de