Nero Brandenburg

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Nero Brandenburg (* 28. September 1941 in Berlin as Horst Peter Paul Brandenburg ) is a German moderator , journalist , singer and entertainer .

Life

After training as a postal worker, he worked as a commercial clerk on behalf of the Berlin Senate at the “Berliner Jugendclub e. V. ". He worked as a moderator, disc jockey, program designer and club manager in the youth clubs “dachluke”, “ Jazz-Saloon-Berlin ”, “Swing Point” and “Sloopy”. He was discovered and invited to audition at the Berlin radio station RIAS , where he has subsequently been a freelancer for RIAS youth radio since 1968 and in this role also moderated the program “RIAS-Treffpunkt”. From 1980 to 1993 he was a permanent editor at RIAS for the area of ​​"light music" and moderator of several programs, including the "RIAS hit parade" that he initiated. In addition, from 1985 to 1990 he hosted the “Harbor Concert” at Radio Bremen . From 1995 to 2005 he was the presenter of various programs on Berlin 88acht .

His greatest success as a singer was the cover version Dingeling of the song My Ding-A-Ling by Dave Bartholomew , which was sung by Chuck Berry among others . Despite being banned from playing on the radio, over 150,000 copies of Chuck Berry's single were sold. About 20 other recordings followed, including the Laubenpieper Polka about Berlin's allotment garden culture .

Since 1995 he has appeared in various musical revues with Bert Beel , Stefanie Simon and Herbert Götz.

Radio broadcasts

RIAS

  • Beat at 5 , beat with Nero , Nero for night owls
  • RIAS meeting point , RIAS coffee table , RIAS hit parade , with RIAS on vacation
  • Memories, Memories , Swing dance prohibited , radio market ,
  • RIAS-Schlagermarathon , Nightline , We accompany you through the night

SFB / rbb

  • Woke up at 88 , 1995–1999
  • The German Schlager Parade , 1997-2005

radio B2

  • Nero's Club (September 2011 - December 2011)
  • Nero at noon (since January 2012)
  • Evergreens à Go Go (from July 1, 2012)

Filmography

Feature films

actor

  • 1972: Today we're beating the drum
  • 1973: Lifeguard Report (also: Greetings from the bathing suit )

Television broadcasts

  • 1972: ZDF Hit Parade (guest star)
  • 1987–1989: Sunday concert on tour (presenter, ZDF )
  • 1991: Guten Morgen Berlin (presenter, RIAS-TV )
  • 2009: The 30 greatest Berlin songs (guest star)
  • Fun to play (presenter, German television broadcaster )
  • Everything sings (presenter, German TV radio)
  • Casino 107 - Die Talkshow (Moderator, German TV broadcaster)

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Image of the identity card on the back cover of his single "Die wilde Bauerntaschen"
  2. ↑ Manfred Rexin (Ed.): Radio Reminiscences. Memories of RIAS Berlin . Berlin 2002, p. 245
personal data
SURNAME Brandenburg, Nero
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brandenburg, Horst Peter Paul (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German presenter, singer, entertainer, actor and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin , Germany