Marusha

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Marusha at the Berlin Summer Rave 2015

Marusha Aphrodite Gleiß (born November 18, 1966 in Nuremberg ), originally Marion Gleiß , is a German - Greek DJ . She is a presenter , music producer and actress and a representative of electronic music .

Life

Marusha on Sunshine Live - Die 90er Live on Stage (2014)
Marusha at the Berlin Summer Rave 2015
Marusha at Sunshine Live Retroactive 2017 in Mannheim

Although her mother gave her the first name Marusha , Marion was entered as the first name in the passport, as her real name was not listed in the German name book. It was only able to officially take on its real name when the relevant legal provision was abolished in the early 1990s. Until she started school, she grew up with her grandmother in Greece. In 1989 the trained industrial clerk founded the first techno club in her hometown of Nuremberg. Your mother is Greek. Marusha has converted from the Protestant to the Greek Orthodox faith.

She came into contact with the Low Spirit label through William Röttger , whom she had unsuccessfully asked WestBam to book for one of her raves . Röttger then brokered Marusha to the still existing GDR radio station DT64 . Marusha then moved to Berlin. For several years she was in a relationship with WestBams brother Fabian Lenz (DJ Dick).

In November 1990, Marusha - at first she still wrote herself Maruscha - went on air for the first time with Dancehall on DT64. Dancehall was one of the first techno music broadcasts on German radio. After DT64 was discontinued, Rockradio B was created in 1992 . In the same year, the show was renamed Rave Satellite . In 1993, Rockradio B from the ORB and the youth station from the SFB called Radio 4 U became the joint Radio Fritz . Furthermore, she moderated the TV youth magazine Feuerreiter , produced by her and Ulrike Licht , which was first broadcast on ORB and then on ARD .

In 1991 Marusha began producing his own pieces of music. Her big breakthrough came in 1994 with the title Somewhere over the Rainbow , a cover version of the title of the same name from the film soundtrack The Wizard of Oz from 1939. The single sold over 500,000 times and reached number 3 in Media Control - Charts and thus paved the way for further commercially successful techno pieces. The follow-up singles It Takes Me Away , Raveland and Marusha's debut album Raveland also hit the German charts.

In 1995, the also very successful follow-up album Wir was released , which contained the hit singles Deep , Unique and Secret . In the following years Marusha performed more and more nationally and internationally as a DJ. It wasn't until 1997 that a new single, Ur Life, was released, which was initially Marusha's last hit. The 1998 album No Hide No Run could no longer build on the success of earlier albums. The singles Free Love and My Best Friend could also not place as high in the charts as previous productions. One of the reasons for this was that techno music had changed a lot in the late 90s and real rave tracks were no longer in demand. Although the new album had adapted to the new structures of techno, it was not a great success.

In 1998, Marusha played the Asian Asaki in the movie Planet Alex . To do justice to the role, she dyed her hair black and also took off her trademark, the green colored eyebrows .

After a long break, during which Marusha also tried drum and bass (Maru) among other things , a mix album called Nonstop came out in 2002 , which comes from a series of compilations. That year her contract with Low Spirit expired and Marusha founded her own label called Ping Pong Productions , where she started to release her tracks from now on. In 2003 the single Snow even hit the charts again in July . In 2004 Marusha released a new album called Offbeat , which included classic rave tracks as well as breakbeat and downtempo pieces.

In 2005 she became the mother of a boy. For this reason, she interrupted the moderation of her previously weekly program Rave Satellite auf Fritz for six months  - during this time, the program was moderated by Fritz employee Gesine Kühne . On November 19, 2005, she resumed moderating her show.

In mid-August 2007, the Berlin-Brandenburg Broadcasting Corporation decided to dismiss many long-time presenters at the end of the year to rejuvenate the moderator base - including Marusha. In response to this decision, Marusha presented her show for the last time on August 25, 2007, which was then discontinued after almost 17 years. Rave Satellite always ran on Fritz on Saturdays from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. and was therefore the only program on the station that almost always had to be pre-recorded for many years (due to Marusha's many appearances abroad, especially on weekends).

In the summer of 2007 Marusha was a member of the jury for Popstars on Stage on ProSieben . Her album Heat was released on November 16, 2007 . On September 26, 2010, Marusha was on VOX in the program The Perfect Celebrity Dinner .

In 2011 she protested against Angela Merkel's reception from Pope Benedict XVI. and the church dogmas on homosexuality and family planning.

On April 30, 2011, Marusha was among the artists who celebrated the 20th anniversary of Mayday in front of 27,000 spectators in Dortmund's Westfalenhallen . She performed again on July 21, 2012 in front of a backdrop of the 20,000 visitor mark at the third A&P Berlin Summer Rave organized by a supermarket chain on Tempelhofer Feld . WestBam and Moguai were also guests . On September 5, 2012, on the opening day of the third Berlin Music Week , Marusha gave a lecture on the topic of "The Gentrification of Sub-Culture" in the Spreespeicher. The 30th Pioneer Alpha Rave was sold out with 6,000 visitors on November 1, 2014 in the Schwerin sports and congress hall . Marusha, WestBam, Mark 'Oh , DJ Quicksilver and Brooklyn Bounce came together under the motto “Retro Revival Rave” .

In the 16th episode of Neo Magazine , Marusha made a guest appearance in 2014 in the special issue of Prism is a Dancer .

Discography

Albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH
1994 Raveland DE4 (24 weeks)
DE 		AT31 (6 weeks)
AT 		CH15 (15 weeks)
CH
1995 We DE81 (8 weeks)
DE 		- -
1998 No Hide No Run DE94 (1 week)
DE 		- -

More albums

  • 2002: Nonstop (compilation, DJ mix)
  • 2004: Offbeat
  • 2007: Heat
  • 2012: Club arrest
  • 2018: Rave Satellite

Singles

year Title
album 		Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK
1994 Somewhere over the Rainbow
Raveland 		DE3
platinum
platinum

(30 weeks)DE 		AT13 (8 weeks)
AT 		CH2 (23 weeks)
CH 		-
Sales: + 500,000
It takes me away
Raveland 		DE3 (16 weeks)
DE 		AT21 (8 weeks)
AT 		CH18 (13 weeks)
CH 		UK96 (1 week)
UK
Trip to Raveland
 DE29 (15 weeks)
DE 		- CH34 (9 weeks)
CH 		-
1995 Deep
we 		DE11 (14 weeks)
DE 		AT26 (8 weeks)
AT 		CH20 (11 weeks)
CH 		-
Unique
we 		DE35 (10 weeks)
DE 		AT38 (2 weeks)
AT 		- -
1996 Secret
we 		DE92 (1 week)
DE 		- - -
1997 Ur Life
No Hide No Run 		DE34 (11 weeks)
DE 		- - -
My Best Friend
No Hide No Run 		DE73 (5 weeks)
DE 		- - -
1998 Free Love
No Hide No Run 		DE97 (1 week)
DE 		- - -
Ultimate sound
 DE70 (1 week)
DE 		- - -
2007 Kick it
heat 		DE70 (3 weeks)
DE 		- - -

More singles

  • 1992: The Mayday Anthem ( WestBam feat. Marusha)
  • 1992: Ravechannel
  • 1993: Whatever Turns You On
  • 1993: Go Ahead
  • 1996: Violet
  • 1996: Everybody (Promo)
  • 1997: My Best Friend
  • 1998: Ultimate Sound
  • 2000: Jumpstart
  • 2000: Jet (as Maru)
  • 2002: Chimes / Touch Base (as Maru)
  • 2002: Snow in July
  • 2003: Cha Cha Maharadsha
  • 2012: Summertime (with Tom Wax )

Remixes (selection)

Awards

  • 1994: Bravo Otto in Gold in the category "Rap & Techno"
  • 1995: Comet as "Best Techno Act"
  • 1995: Echo as "Best National Artist"

Web links

Commons : Marusha  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Elke Wittich: That is sewn art . In: Jungle World . No. 42 , October 9, 2002 ( jungle-world.com [accessed May 14, 2015] interview).
  2. ↑ a b c Michael Pilz: "Angela Merkel lets me sleep peacefully". In: welt.de. June 15, 2013, accessed May 14, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Tim Renner , Sarah Wächter: We had sex in the rubble and we were dreaming . Berlin Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-8270-1161-9
  4. ↑ Felix Denk, Sven von Thülen: The sound of the family: Berlin, Techno and the Fall of the Wall . BoD, 2014, ISBN 978-3-7386-0429-0 , page 80
  5. ↑ a b Chart sources: Singles / Albums UK
  6. ↑ Gold / platinum database
personal data
SURNAME Marusha
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gleiß, Marion (maiden name); Gleiß, Marusha Aphrodite; Marusha
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German DJ, presenter, producer and actress
DATE OF BIRTH November 18, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg