Matthias Reim
Matthias Reim (born November 26, 1957 in Korbach ) is a German pop , rock and pop singer . Reim had his first - and by far the biggest - hit in 1990 with Damn, I love you . The single was sold 2.5 million times worldwide and was number 1 on the German music charts for a total of 16 weeks - from May 18 to September 6 . Since 1971 no single has been at number 1 without a break.
biography
1957–1980: origin and education
Reim grew up in the district town of Homberg (Efze) . His father was the director of the grammar school in Homberg. After graduating from high school , Reim began studying German and English at the University of Göttingen , which he neglected in favor of music and did not graduate.
1980–1990: early years
He played in the bands Airway from Bad Wildungen and Aqua from Kassel , among others . First own recordings with the bands Fallen Dice and Fair Fax did not bring any commercial success. In 1984 he released his first solo single Von ferne Sternen on the Hansa label . In the second half of the 1980s he worked as a pop composer for Bernhard Brink , Jürgen Drews , Roy Black and Tina York .
1990–2000: Breakthrough with Damn, I Love You - the Polydor years
In 1990 came musical success. Reim sent a cassette with the title Damn, I love you to the ZDF presenter Wim Thoelke , who then invited Reim to his show and thus helped him achieve a breakthrough. The first album Reim was released in June 1990. By 1999, nine more albums were released by Polydor . Reim's third album Zauberland was also released in 1995 as an English version in Canada under the name Wonderland . The commercial success of his publications steadily decreased in the course of the 1990s. His first two albums, Reim (1990) and Reim 2 (1991), still reached the top 10 of the German album charts, while other albums missed a position entirely, so Alles Klar (1995), or did not get past 50th, so Sensationell (1998, Rank 51).
2000–2015: Debt and comeback at Electrola and Capitol
Reim could not repeat the success, but according to its own information, finally had liabilities of 13 million euros. Reim accused his former manager Alfred Reimann of having driven him into a financial crisis through mismanagement. Reimann, to whom Reim had given general power of attorney for his business in 1990, speculated about the purchase of real estate and companies. In the summer of 2007 he parodied his single Damn I Love You in a Sixt commercial. In it he sings, alluding to his debts, Damn, I have nothing, I rent from Sixt .
After a shortened bankruptcy process , Reim has been debt-free again since April 2010.
Commercially he made a comeback by switching from Polydor to the record company EMI and their labels Electrola and Capitol Records . In 2000, Wolkenreiter was the first album of this work phase. Since 2003 ( Reim (2003) ) he has entered the top 10 of the German album charts with each of his studio albums. In 2013 Reim released the album Infinite . After his debut in 1990, he reached number 1 in the German album charts for the first time.
2015 should be Reims' anniversary year - 25 years after his success with Damn I Love You . A collector's box was also produced for this purpose, which was also controversially discussed and was satirically treated by Jan Böhmermann, among others . Due to illness, however, many concerts as well as an album release and DVD recording had to be canceled and postponed until 2016.
From 2016: Further music career with RCA Records
For his album Phoenix , released in April 2016 , Matthias Reim switched from Capitol Records to RCA Records . Since then, the two studio albums Meteor (March 2018) and MR20 (October 2019) have been released.
Other artistic activities
In May 2019, Reim worked as an actor in the movie Shadows over Lake Constance .
plant
The singer composes, writes, mixes and plays his songs mostly himself. Musical partners with whom he wrote and produced his songs for several years were Bernd Dietrich (1989/1990 and 2001/2002), Christoph Brüx (1995–1997), Thorsten Brötzmann (2000–2016), Joachim Horn-Bernges (2000–2016) and André Franke (2003–2015).
With his former partner and pop singer Michelle , he released two successful singles: Idiot (2002) and Not earned (2018), both of which hit the German single charts.
family
Reim has six children from five women. He is married for the third time. From his second marriage with Margot "Mago" Scheuermeyer comes his son Julian Reim , who is also a pop singer. The musician Michelle was Reims' partner from the late 1990s to 2001, with whom he gave birth to daughter and pop singer Marie Reim . From April 2012 he lived on the Mettnau peninsula , which belongs to Radolfzell . In August 2013, Reim and his wife Sarah separated after nine years of marriage. He has been dating the pop singer Christin Stark since the end of 2015 .
Since January 2017 he has been living with his son Julian and his partner Christin in his house in Stockach .
Discography
Studio albums
| year | Title music label |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, music label , placements, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 DE
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 AT
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 CH
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| 1981 | Pasch 1 Bunker Records 26 1157 |
- | - | - |
First release: 1981
with Pete Goldenberg and Norbert Preis as Fallen Dice |
| 1990 | Rhyme Polydor 843 622 |
DE1  × 3
(53 weeks)DE |
AT2 (29 weeks)AT |
CH1 × 3
(32 weeks)CH |
First published: June 15, 1990
Sales: + 1,700,000 |
| 1991 | Rhyme 2 polydor 511 337 |
DE5 (31 weeks)DE |
AT6th  (10 weeks)AT |
CH8th (12 weeks)CH |
First published: September 23, 1991
Sales: + 575,000 |
| 1993 | Sabotage Polydor 519 059 |
DE11 (16 weeks) DE |
- |
CH15 (6 weeks) CH |
First published: May 10, 1993
|
| 1994 | Zauberland (Internationally known as: Wonderland ) Polydor 523 445/527 041 |
DE26 (10 weeks) DE |
- |
CH47 (3 weeks) CH |
First published: September 19, 1994
|
| 1995 | All right Polydor 529 171 |
- | - | - |
First published: October 2, 1995
|
| 1997 | Rhyme 3 Polydor 537 203 |
DE40 (6 weeks) DE |
- | - |
First published: March 17, 1997
|
| 1998 | Sensational Polydor 557 435 |
DE51 (3 weeks) DE |
- | - |
First published: April 20, 1998
|
| 2000 | Wolkenreiter Electrola 7243 5 26981 2 7 |
DE33 (11 weeks) DE |
- | - |
First published: May 26, 2000
|
| 2002 | Morgenrot Electrola 5370652 |
DE16 (11 weeks) DE |
AT52 (4 weeks) AT |
CH74 (3 weeks) CH |
First published: February 22, 2002
|
| 2003 | Reim (2003) Capitol Records / Electrola 5845262 |
DE4th (10 weeks)DE |
AT19 (5 weeks) AT |
CH44 (4 weeks) CH |
First published: August 18, 2003
Sales: + 100,000 |
| 2005 | Invulnerable Capitol Records / Electrola 0946 3 36604 2 7 |
DE7th (11 weeks)DE |
AT32 (4 weeks) AT |
- |
First published: September 16, 2005
Sales: + 100,000 |
| 2007 | Men are Warriors Capitol Records / Electrola 3940132 |
DE10 (9 weeks) DE |
AT38 (2 weeks) AT |
- |
First published: May 11, 2007
|
| 2010 | Seven Lives Electrola 50999 919546 2 6 |
DE5 (34 weeks)DE |
AT17 (7 weeks) AT |
CH56 (2 weeks) CH |
First published: October 29, 2010
Sales: + 100,000 |
| 2013 |
Infinite Electrola 50999 433817 2 2 |
DE1 (30 weeks)DE |
AT9 (8 weeks) AT |
CH28 (5 weeks) CH |
First published: Jan 25, 2013
Sales: + 200,000 |
| 2014 | The ease of being Electrola 06025 37750603 |
DE2 (18 weeks)DE |
AT11 (7 weeks) AT |
CH34 (2 weeks) CH |
First published: May 2nd, 2014
Sales: + 100,000 |
| 2016 | Phoenix RCA Records 88875050322 |
DE2 (17 weeks)DE |
AT10 (3 weeks) AT |
CH16 (3 weeks) CH |
First published: April 15, 2016
Sales: + 100,000 |
| 2018 | Meteor RCA Records 88985394922 |
DE3 (20 weeks) DE |
AT12 (4 weeks) AT |
CH19 (3 weeks) CH |
First published: March 23, 2018
|
| 2019 | MR20 RCA Records 19075925162 |
DE3 (... weeks) DE |
AT15 (6 weeks) AT |
CH22 (10 weeks) CH |
First published: October 25, 2019
|
gray hatching : no chart data available for this year
Awards
- Ballermann Award , 2011 in the Lifetime Achievement category
- Bravo Otto , 1990: "Gold" in the singer category and 1991: "Gold" in the singer category
- Golden tuning fork , 1990, 1991, 1992, 2004
- Lion from Radio Luxemburg , 1990: "Gold" (Damn, I love you)
- RSH Gold , 1991 in the National Artist category
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b “I had 13 million euros in debt” , interview with Reim in Jetzt from January 27, 2011
- ↑ Matthias Reim: Damn it, I'm making a fool of myself! in Spiegel Online from August 23, 2007
- ↑ insolvenz-news.de
- ^ Announcement of the Matthias Reim Box. Retrieved January 13, 2020 .
- ↑ The anniversary box caricatured by Jan Böhmermann. Retrieved April 30, 2016 .
- ↑ After heart muscle inflammation: Matthias Reim is feeling better again. dpa / Hannoversche Allgemeine, September 28, 2015, accessed on February 28, 2016 .
- ^ Matthias Reim biography. In: schlager.de. June 5, 2020, accessed June 5, 2020 .
- ↑ Complete discography on Hitparade.ch
- ↑ On the heels of the famous father: Julian and Marie Reim , mdr.de accessed on August 2, 2020
- ↑ Vivienne Paetz: Matthias Reim: A pop star without any airs . In: Südkurier of May 25, 2012.
- ↑ See Karen Markwardt in the SWR series Expedition to Home , Season 3, Episode 13, Constance and Lake Constance (90 min.). German first broadcast: Friday, July 19, 2013, SWR television.
- ↑ Matthias Reim: "My marriage is at the end" , tz.de , accessed on March 25, 2014
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated February 22, 2016 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.
- ↑ http://www.bild.de/unterhaltung/haben/matthias-reim/seine-alte-neue-sieh-jetzt-so-aus-43213158.bild.html
- ↑ http://www.suedkurier.de/unterhaltung/promis/Matthias-Reim-nach-seiner-schweren-Erkrankung-8222-Ich-bin-wieder-topfit-8220;art1015351,8665317
Web links
- Matthias Reim's website
- Matthias Reim in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Matthias Reim discography on hitparade.ch
- The latest information and hits from Matthias Reim
- Latest news and biography about Matthias Reim
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rhyme, Matthias |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 26, 1957 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Korbach , Hesse |