Oliver Spiecker

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Oliver Spiecker (born May 20, 1951 in Duisburg ), actually Markus Spiecker, is a German author, journalist, songwriter and program developer.

Career

He began his broadcasting career at the age of 18 during the semester break on RTL's German radio program , as the youngest presenter and editor at the time. His programs for young people were particularly popular: “Detention with Oliver” and “Superclub”. A Cologne television producer discovered him as a young writer for the satirical ZDF series "Express". For Jürgen von Manger he rewrote “Greek Wine” by Udo Jürgens in “Bottrop Beer”. One of his first lyrics was a million-dollar success: “Steppenwolf”, the title song from Peter Maffay's comeback album 1979. Spiecker also translated texts by Michel Sardou , Salvatore Adamo and Lucio Battisti and wrote the symphonic song “Wort” for Udo Jürgens, recorded with the Berlin Philharmonic .

Hanns Joachim Friedrichs , then ZDF sports director, motivated him to develop a “sports studio for young viewers”. This is how the youth program “Pfiff” came about, which Spiecker moderated himself for a while. Together with the then "Pope of Culture" Reinhart Hoffmeister, he talked live from the Frankfurt Book Fair in the ZDF "litera tour".

Spiecker wrote his first international script in 1984 for the "Eurovision Song Contest" from Luxembourg. In the same year Helmut Thoma brought him to the newly founded TV broadcaster RTL plus as a program developer and source of ideas . Its interactive television formats “What does the world cost” and “3-letter channels” achieved market shares of over 50 percent.

In 1989 Spiecker wrote the script for “Köszönöm”, the first East-West European co-production after the fall of the Berlin Wall, live from Budapest . From 1989 to 1996 he designed the concept, script and award-winning clips for “The Golden Camera”. He developed TV projects for UNICEF , Greenpeace and Menschen für Menschen . Spiecker wrote for Hans-Joachim Kulenkampff (“Kulis Buchclub”, RTL), Harald Juhnke (“How about today with Revue?”, ZDF), Désirée Nosbusch , Roger Moore and Thomas Gottschalk . He developed "Guinness - the Show of Records" for ARD and wrote several episodes of "Stars in the Manege". He designed the TV shows for the 75th birthday of Hans-Dietrich Genscher , Karlheinz Böhm and Peter Ustinov and for the 100th of Johannes Heesters . In 1997 Spiecker was the author and namesake of the first “German Future Prize” - an initiative of the then Federal President Roman Herzog . Since 2010 Spiecker has been the artistic consultant and screenwriter for the Dresden “Semper Opera Ball”.

He also wrote travel reports, portraits and interviews for various magazines, among others with Maximilian Schell and André Heller .

In 2007 Spiecker published his first major book project "Der MegaBass Kurt Rydl", the biography of the Viennese opera world star.
In 2013 “MALEN HEISST WHREN - Gottfried Helnwein in conversation with Oliver Spiecker” appeared, a biography in dialogue form, with a foreword by Iris Berben .

Oliver Spiecker lives in Berlin , Beeskow, Puhu and Lluc Alcari.

Productions (selection)

  • 1999 “World Sports Awards”, Vienna State Opera
  • 2000 World Sports Awards, Royal Albert Hall London
  • 2001 to 2007 “Corine - International Book Prize”, 3sat, Cuvilliés-Theater and Prinzregententheater Munich
  • 2002 "Thank you, Karlheinz Böhm - 20 years Menschen für Menschen", ZDF, Autostadt Wolfsburg
  • 2002 “Summer Night Music”, ZDF, Leipzig Market Place
  • 2002 “Bavarian Film Prize”, Prinzregententheater Munich
  • 2003 “Graz flies”, opening event of the European Capital of Culture, ORF and 3sat
  • 2003 “An Evening for Peace”, ZDF
  • 2003 "Johannes Heesters - a legend turns 100", ARD
  • 2004 and 2007 “Cinema for Peace”, Konzerthaus Berlin
  • 2004 "Die Zwillingsshow", RTL
  • 2004 to 2007 "Stars in the Manege", ARD
  • 2004 to 2008 “Festival International de Monte Carlo”, ARD
  • 2005 “Unicef ​​Gala”, 3sat, Philharmonie Essen
  • 2007 and 2008 “Energy Globe World Award” European Parliament Brussels, Belgium
  • 2009 “Energy Globe World Award”, Exhibition Palace Prague, Czech Republic
  • 2010 "Energy Globe World Award", Kigali, Rwanda
  • 2010 “José Carreras Gala”, ARD
  • 2011, 2012 “Goldene Henne”, MDR and RBB, Theater am Potsdamer Platz, Berlin
  • 2011 “Energy Globe World Award”, Exhibition Center Wels, Austria
  • 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 "SemperOpernball", MDR and 3sat, Dresden
  • 2012 "Twenty-twelve - New Year's Concert for the 20th birthday of the MDR", Gewandhaus in Leipzig
  • 2013 “Everyone celebrates Richard”, Leipzig Opera, on the 200th birthday of Richard Wagner, MDR
  • 2013 “Bruckner lives!” - Visualized Klangwolke Linz
  • 2013 “Painting means defending yourself - Gottfried Helnwein in conversation with Oliver Spiecker”, foreword by Iris Berben, Edition Braus, Berlin
  • 2014 “SemperOpernball”: “Dresden glitzert”, MDR and 3sat, Dresden
  • 2014 "Mitten im Leben", lyrics for the 53rd album by Udo Jürgens: "Die riesengroße Gier", "Der Gläserne Mensch", "Mein Ziel", "Mitten im Leben"
  • 2015 “SemperOpernball”: “Dresden celebrates - and welcomes the world”, MDR and 3sat
  • 2015 “The festival in the Frauenkirche”, awarding of the European Culture Prize 2015, Dresden, MDR
  • 2017 "Boundless - Emperor in the Palace", Dresden Philharmonic, Philharmonic Choir, reopening of the Kulturpalast Dresden, MDR & Sony Music
  • 2017 "Everything flows ...", Elbphilharmonie Hamburg

Books

  • "Good morning Germany". with Hugo-Egon Balder, Wolfgang Hofer, Jacky Dreksler, Wenzel Kofron, RTL-Edition, Luxembourg 1983, ISBN 2-87951-040-6 .
  • "Oh! LYMPIA. ”With Gisela Reinke-Dieker, Justus Nording, Ewald Lienen and others, Elefanten Press, Berlin 1983, ISBN 3-88520-109-7 .
  • “The MegaBass Kurt Rydl.” With Mathias Bothor (photos), Christian Brandstätter Verlag, Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-85033-087-9 .
  • “Just don't let them down!” Random House, 2009, ISBN 978-3-453-60123-9 .
  • “PAINTING IS TO RESIST” Gottfried Helnwein in conversation with Oliver Spiecker, Edition Braus, 2013, ISBN 978-3-86228-070-4 .

Web links

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  1. ↑ "Schöner Wohnen" 08/2002, printed edition
personal data
SURNAME Spiecker, Oliver
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Spiecker, Markus (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author, journalist, songwriter and program developer
DATE OF BIRTH May 20, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Duisburg