Peter Maffay

Peter Maffay (2011)

Peter Maffay (born August 30, 1949 in Brașov , People's Republic of Romania , as Peter Alexander Makkay ) is a German musician , singer , composer , guitarist and music producer of Romanian-German origin.

At the beginning of his career he was known for Schlager ; from 1974 he played mainly country music and rock'n'roll with his band . In the further course he developed into one of the most successful German-speaking rock musicians . With 19 number one albums, he is by far the most successful artist in the German album charts . He is also a co-inventor of the fairy tale and cartoon character Tabaluga .

Live and act

Musical beginnings

Peter Maffay, son of a Transylvanian-Saxon mother and a Hungarian-German father, emigrated with his parents on August 23, 1963 from the Romanian city of Brașov to Waldkraiburg near Mühldorf am Inn in Bavaria . As a child he learned to play the violin . He switched from secondary school to the Ruperti grammar school in Mühldorf am Inn .

With vacation work on the construction site, he earned money for his first guitar. In 1964 Maffay joined the newly formed band The Beat Boys as a guitarist , later renamed The Dukes . The band played songs by Bob Dylan , The Pretty Things , Small Faces , Herman's Hermits , Cream , The Lovin 'Spoonful , The Kinks and Donovan in the “Weißer Hirsch” pub in Waldkraiburg, where they also had their first practice room . You performed in the region around Mühldorf and were a local celebrity within a radius of 50 kilometers.

After high school in 1968 after two non-promotion had to leave Maffay began an apprenticeship as process engraver in Munich, where he met his former classmate Margaret Kraus , daughter of Alfred Kraus . Together they founded the folk beat duo Peter & Margit , in which he sang for the first time. They played songs by Bob Dylan, Peter, Paul & Mary , Kinks, Rolling Stones , Pete Seeger , Tom Paxton and Paul Simon in the Munich club, Song Parnass . They sang the songs in German, English, French, Spanish, Hungarian, Romanian and Russian - all languages ​​that Maffay also speaks. At that time they received 10 DM per person per appearance. A single was also released by the two.

Career

Peter Maffay in Leipzig (2012)

In 1969 Michael Kunze became aware of Maffay when he was looking for up-and-coming artists for self-written songs. On January 15, 1970, Du, produced by Kunze, was released as the first single by Maffay, who was still underage. On March 21, 1970 Maffay had his first television appearance in the ZDF hit parade . The hit parade made Maffay known in Germany, and Du became the biggest German-language hit of 1970. At the same time, the song was also placed in the charts of the Netherlands (gold), Norway, Austria, Belgium (gold) and Switzerland. Over a million singles have been sold. The success of Du was unattainable with the follow-up singles, with his manager Michael Conradt in 1973 the style also changed, which was first shown on our street on Saturday evening . During the remainder of the 1970s, Maffay became a big name in the music business with conventional country and rock and roll numbers and ballads . He went on excursions into country rock together with the German singer-songwriter Johnny Tame as Tame & Maffay .

In the late 1970s and early 1980s Maffay made a stylistic change from country singer to " German rocker ". With the 1.6 million times sold album Steppenwolf, a sales record at the time, Maffay made it to the top of the album charts in 1979. His second number one hit was So bist du on the album . The following album Revanche in 1980 was even more successful, with the karat song You must go over seven bridges , composition: Ed Swillms / text: Helmut Richter . To date, over 2.1 million records have been sold.

Maffay experienced a low point in his career in 1982, when he appeared in several German cities in the opening act for the Rolling Stones , but was hardly accepted by the concert goers. Maffay was announced at the start of the tour in Hanover by Peter Wolf , the singer of the J. Geils Band , with the question of whether one liked "Schlager". During his subsequent performance, Maffay was pelted with tomatoes and eggs.

For the 40th anniversary of the stage, Maffay recorded the album Tattoos , which apart from a sangeless intro and the song We disappear, contains new recordings of his greatest hits. The new versions were created with the support of the Wroclaw Score Orchestra . With tattoos , Peter Maffay came to number 1 in the album charts for the 14th time, making him the record holder in Germany. It was his 41st album in the charts; the previous albums were in the German album charts for over 1000 weeks, including Tabaluga and the signs of the times . In 2011 he recorded a new edition of his hit Nessaja with Bushido and Sido for their album 23 with Growing up.

So far, 13 of his albums have sold over a million times, 19 of his albums reached number one in the album charts, both of which are the highest number of any artist in Germany. Maffay sold a total of almost 50 million records (as of 2012). Some of his tours had over 700,000 visitors per tour.

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As a result of the stylistic reorientation, a permanent line-up of the musical backing band emerged. The rhythm section consisted of Bertram Engel ( drums ) until 1988, and since 2017 also with Charly Klauser and Steffi Stephan ( bass ). Since Stephen's resignation from the band, this position has been occupied by Ken Taylor and , for a short time, Colin Hodgkinson .

The keyboards were mainly played by Jean-Jacques Kravetz , whose son Pascal Kravetz played live for the first time in 1988. Between 1980 and 1985 Thomas Glanz was also active as keyboard player for Maffay , from 1986 to 1988 the arranger and composer Tony Carey .

Numerous guitarists have played in the Peter Maffay Band so far, including Andreas Becker (1989–2004), Carl Carlton (since 1986), who with a short break (2005–2008) is also a songwriter and, in conjunction with Bertram Engel, the main producer , Alvin Lee (1991), and Peter Keller from 2004. The most important and most influential guitarist was Frank Diez , founding member of the Peter Maffay Band and from 1974 to 2004 a congenial collaborator and creative partner of Peter Maffay.

Occasionally wind instruments appeared in the Maffay arrangement, such as the saxophonist Eddie Taylor (until 1997). John Smith (saxophone) and Steve Howard (trumpet) have been with the band regularly since 2001. The saxophonist Everette Harp has been involved in recordings and live concerts since 2014.

Mayque and Peter Maffay during the “Loud & Leise” tour, Trier 2005

Peter Maffay often has guests, especially when performing live, and he gives them time and space for their own musical block. So far, they have included John Mayall , Julia Neigel , Chris Thompson , Johnny Tame and Meike Anlauff (Mayque). He works closely with Julia Neigel. She also wrote the lyrics for him for freedom that I mean , do you see the sun and as a co-author don't give up love .

German RockRadio Society

Maffay live

Bremen, handprint in the Lloyd-Passage

The musician colleagues Marius Müller-Westernhagen , Scorpions , Peter Maffay and Klaus Lage founded Deutsche RockRadio GmbH in the late 1990s . The declared aim is to promote rock music in the pop-oriented radio landscape. On August 1st, 1998 the musicians Rockland Radio started their first nationwide program in Rhineland-Palatinate.

Beyond rock music

In addition to rock music, Maffay created a fairy tale with the Tabaluga series that includes six albums. In the 1990s, the accompanying musical was performed as a touring theater and from 1999 to 2001 also in Oberhausen . In addition, 78 animated episodes were produced. In 2015 the last album Tabaluga - Long live friendship was released .

His album Encounters , released in 1998 , broke new ground: Maffay played here with artists from all continents ; among others with the Aboriginal band Yothu Yindi and musicians from Israel . The aim of this collaboration was to raise funds to support development aid projects under the title Encounters - An Alliance for Children together with World Vision Germany . World Vision contributed one million euros. He continued this in 2006 with the tour Encounters - An Alliance for Children , in which u. a. also Shantel participated.

Maffay starred in two films of Peter Patzak starring: 1986 The Joker and 1999 in Caught in Yemen . He also played a supporting role in the feature film The Polar Bear .

In August 2009 Peter Maffay published his first official biography Auf dem Weg zu mir , written by the freelance journalist Edmund Hartsch . In July 2010, ARD portrayed the musician in its series Deutschland, your artists.

In November 2011, Peter Maffay gave the laudation for the rapper Bushido , who was awarded the Bambi integration prize. He also took with him and Sido titled adult be a new version of its title Nessaja on. One month after the award ceremony, however, Maffay distanced himself from the rapper after heated discussions on the Markus Lanz talk show . Peter Maffay stated that Bushido had distanced himself from discriminatory content that glorified violence, but had so far failed to consistently take the songs and videos off the market. In addition, there was no promise to refrain from publications of this kind in the future. At the Echo Awards 2012 , Bushido continued the dispute with the remark addressed to Maffay: “We are politically incorrect”. Maffay made no further comment on the matter.

In August 2015, a bilingual plaque was unveiled in his presence in his honor at the General School No. 12 in Brașov, which he attended from 1955 to 1963. At the same time he was given honorary citizenship of the city and he was appointed cultural ambassador for Brașov.

Social Commitment

Awarding of the Courage Prize 2010 to Peter Maffay, on the right Gerd Schöwing

In addition to his artistic work, Peter Maffay is politically and socially engaged and sometimes expresses his views in songs; for example in the title Ice Age , which deals with wars and environmental problems . He is active in the peace movement and gave a concert with the German ISAF troops in Afghanistan in 2005 . In 2008 he sang the theme song for the Ein Herz für Kinder campaign with Rolf Zuckowski and Nena .

Since the 1980s he has been intensely committed to social projects, the environment, peace, against violence, dictatorship and racism. In 2000 he founded the Peter Maffay Foundation, which annually offers around 1,800 disadvantaged, sick and traumatized children in four holiday facilities in Germany, Spain and Romania a break in the midst of nature. For his social commitment he received u. a. The Federal Cross of Merit in 1996 and 2008 , the Golden Hen in 2001 , the Polish Cavalier of the Order of the Smile Award in 2003 , the German Canto Culture Prize in 2004 and the World Vision Charity Award in 2006 . The Peter Maffay Foundation also received the honorary award of the German Sustainability Award in 2011 and the Echo as a special award for social commitment.

Peter Maffay is the patron of the Tabaluga Children's Foundation and provided it with a picture of the Tabaluga dragon as the foundation logo. He is also the official ambassador for the German José Carreras Leukemia Foundation and supports World Vision Germany as a prominent child sponsor. He dedicated the song Children of the World to the German Children's Prize from World Vision. That is why he was awarded the Martin Buber plaque on November 15, 2011 .

Peter Maffay works against racism and for tolerance and is a supporter of the Amadeu Antonio Foundation . On December 2, 2011, he appeared together with Udo Lindenberg , Julia Neigel , Clueso and Silly at the Rock gegen Rechts protest festival because of the NSU series of murders in Jena in front of 60,000 people. In 2015, Peter Maffay was named Ambassador for Democracy and Tolerance by the Alliance for Democracy and Tolerance .

Maffay has been one of the German ambassadors for the UN Decade of Biological Diversity since 2012 . Maffay acted in the German version of the benefit song Do They Know It's Christmas by Band Aid , which was released on November 21, 2014.

In the course of the refugee crisis in Europe in 2015 , Maffay pleaded for an "honest" approach to the problems and difficulties that would arise in the integration of many immigrants from other cultures. In addition to language acquisition, respect for the values ​​of the new home is the most important requirement for integration.

Since July 26, 2016, Peter Maffay has been the godfather of the Nuremberg Wilhelm Löhe School at School without Racism - School with Courage .

Peter Maffay was a participant in the Federal Assembly on February 12, 2017 for the election of the German Federal President 2017. He was nominated by the Saarland Social Democrats.

Peter Maffay is a member of the Board of Trustees of the DFL Foundation .

Marriages and children

Peter Maffay married four times. He married his first wife - the teacher Petra Küfner - in 1975; the two separated in 1979. In 1981 he gave his friend, musician and then student teacher Chris Heinze, the yes. This marriage lasted until 1986. A year earlier, the couple , who lived in Tutzing on Lake Starnberg, had adopted a daughter. From 1990 to 2000 Maffay was married to the promotion agent Michaela Herzeg, who was 17 years his junior. They separated in 1999. Since that year Maffay was in a relationship with Tania Spengler, who was 26 years his junior and whom he married in 2003. In the same year a son was born. The family lived in Tutzing and on a finca on Mallorca. A small chapel also belonged to the finca. Maffay also operates a recording studio called Red Rooster / Tabaluga Enterprises in Tutzing .

At the beginning of December 2015 it was announced that Peter Maffay had separated from his fourth wife and that the 38 years younger high school teacher for biology and sport Hendrikje Balsmeyer from Halle (Saale) is his new partner. He had a daughter with her in November 2018.

Awards

• 1975: German Record Award
• 1979: Bravo Otto in silver (category singer)
• 1980: German Record Award
• 1980: Bravo Otto in silver (category singer)
• 1980: Bambi
• 1981: German Record Award
• 1982: Bravo Otto in bronze (category singer)
• 1982: German Record Award
• 1984: German Record Award
• 1985: German Record Award
• 1985: German Music Prize
• 1988: German Record Award
• 1989: German Record Award
• 1993: RSH Gold
• 1995: Golden Camera
• 1995: Echo (best live production)
• 1995: Paul-Lincke-Ring
• 1996: Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany
• 1997: RSH Gold (Tour of the Year)
• 1997: Echo (National Artist of the Year)
• 1999: RSH Gold
• 2001: DVD Champion (Music Category)
• 2001: Golden Acoustics
• 2001: Golden Hen
• 2001: World Music Award (best-selling records)
• 2001: Konrad Adenauer Prize from the Germany Foundation
• 2002: Echo (National Artist of the Year)
• 2003: Bambi
• 2003: Mall of Fame
• 2003: Order of the Smile
• 2003: Munich Olympic Walk of Stars
• 2003: Handprint on the Mall of Fame in Bremen
• 2004: German Canto Culture Prize
• 2005: Golden tuning fork
• 2005: Fred Jay Prize
• 2006: World Vision Charity Award
• 2006: Steiger Award
• 2006: DIVA - German Entertainment Prize (Artist of the Year)
• 2006: LEA Live Entertainment Award (most successful tour category)
• 2007: Bavarian Order of Merit
• 2007: Erich Kästner Prize of the Press Club Dresden e. V.
• 2007: Fleurop Emotion Award
• 2007: Golden Pea
• 2007: Culture Prize of the Otmar Alt Foundation
• 2008: Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany
• 2008: OnlineStar for maffay.de
• 2009: Honorary award from the Hans Rosenthal Foundation for his great social and humanitarian commitment
• 2009: Humanitarian Prize of the German Freemasons
• 2009: Honorary citizen of the municipality of Tutzing
• 2010: National Order of Merit of Romania Pentru Merit în grad de Comandor
• 2010: Courage Prize
• 2010: Echo (Lifetime Achievement Category)
• 2010: Bavarian Constitutional Medal in Silver
• 2011: Golden Flower from Rheydt
• 2011: German Sustainability Award 2011
• 2011: Martin Buber plaque from the Euriade Foundation
• 2012: Tolerance Prize of the Evangelical Academy Tutzing
• 2013: Echo (Best National Live Act category)
• 2013: LEA Live Entertainment Award (Category Show of the Year)
• 2013: Golden Rascal
• 2013: Radio Prize SEVEN (Live Act National)
• 2014: Echo (social engagement)
• 2014: Bavarian State Medal for Social Merit
• 2015: Leibniz-Ring-Hannover
• 2016: Karl Kübel Prize
• 2017: Order of St. George (Dresden)
• 2018: Buber Rosenzweig Medal
• 2018: European Culture Prize Taurus

Discography

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Studio albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)			Remarks
		DE	AT	CH
1970	For the girl that I love	-	-	-	First published: 1970
1971	You are like a song	DE42 (5 weeks) DE	-	-	First published: 1971
1973	omen	-	-	-	First published: 1973
1974	Saturday evening in our street	-	-	-	First published: 1974
1975	My freedom	DE24 (6 weeks) DE	-	-	First published: 1975
1976	And it was summer	DE4th gold (10 weeks)DE	-	-	First published: 1976 Sales: + 250,000
1977	Tame & Maffay	DE24 (7 weeks) DE	-	-	First published: 1977
	Your face	DE38 (3 weeks) DE	-	-	First published: 1977
1979	Steppenwolf	DE1 platinum (63 weeks)DE	-	-	First published: 1979 Sales: + 500,000
	Tame & Maffay 2	DE16 (22 weeks) DE	-	-	First published: 1979
1980	revenge	DE1 × 2 Double platinum (59 weeks)DE	-	-	First published: 1980 Sales: + 1,000,000
1982	I want to live	DE1 platinum (37 weeks)DE	-	-	First published: 1982 Sales: + 500,000
1984	Carom	DE1 platinum (38 weeks)DE	-	CH6 (13 weeks) CH	First published: 1984 Sales: + 500,000
1985	Sun in the night	DE1 platinum (34 weeks)DE	-	CH1 (17 weeks) CH	First published: 1985 Sales: + 500,000
1988	Long shadows	DE1 platinum (24 weeks)DE	-	CH5 (10 weeks) CH	First published: 1988 Sales: + 500,000
1989	No way too far	DE1 platinum (38 weeks)DE	-	CH9 gold (10 weeks)CH	First published: 1989 Sales: + 525,000
1991	38317 (love)	DE3 platinum (37 weeks)DE	-	CH31 (4 weeks) CH	First published: 1991 Sales: + 500,000
1992	Friends + prophets	DE8th gold (16 weeks)DE	-	CH35 (2 weeks) CH	First published: October 10, 1992 Sales: + 250,000
1996	Ninety six	DE1 platinum (30 weeks)DE	AT30 (5 weeks) AT	CH6 (12 weeks) CH	First published: March 4, 1996 Sales: + 500,000
1998	Encounters	DE5 platinum (44 weeks)DE	AT37 (3 weeks) AT	CH8th gold (16 weeks)CH	First published: March 2, 1998 Sales: + 525,000
2000	X	DE2 × 3 Triple gold (34 weeks)DE	-	CH17 (9 weeks) CH	First published: March 27, 2000 Sales: + 450,000
2005	Loud and quiet	DE1 × 2 Double platinum (42 weeks)DE	AT47 (4 weeks) AT	CH12 (8 weeks) CH	First published: Jan 31, 2005 Sales: + 400,000
2006	Encounters - an alliance for children	DE9 platinum (21 weeks)DE	-	-	First published: September 29, 2006 Sales: + 200,000
2008	Forever	DE1 × 3 Triple gold (30 weeks)DE	AT55 (2 weeks) AT	CH10 (8 weeks) CH	First published: August 29, 2008 Sales: + 300,000
2014	If so	DE1 × 2 Double platinum (68 weeks)DE	AT8th gold (9 weeks)AT	CH4 (19 weeks) CH	First published: Jan 17, 2014 Sales: + 407,500
2019	Now!	DE1 (29 weeks) DE	AT23 (2 weeks) AT	CH6 (7 weeks) CH	First published: August 30, 2019

gray hatching : no chart data available for this year

Filmography (selection)

• 1971: That knocks out the strongest twin (movie)
• 1987: The Joker (movie)
• 1989: Adventure Travel Iceland (TV travel documentary)
• 1991: The Gorilla ( Le Gorille. TV series, episode The Gorilla and Operation Poker )
• 1995: Frankie (TV miniseries)
• 1998: The polar bear (movie)
• 1999: Trapped in Yemen
• 2017: Bullyparade - The Movie (Cameo)

Fonts

• With Edmund Hartsch : On the way to me. C. Bertelsmann, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-570-01029-7 .
• The 9th tone. Thoughts of a driven person. Kösel, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-466-37059-7 (with the collaboration of Sascha Hellen ).

Song books

• 30 years ago today (the best songs 1971–2001, arranged for piano, vocals & guitar). Bosworth Music, Frechen 2001, ISBN 3-920127-63-3 .

literature

• Michael Rieth , Franz Schlechter: Peter Maffay's encounters. A travel report. Goldmann, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-442-30800-3 .
• “You also have to be a masochist”. Peter Maffay in an interview with Dominik Schütte. In: DB Mobil . August 2019, pp. 22–30 (Photos: Markus Burke); mobil.deutschebahn.com [PDF; 52.3 MB; accessed on August 28, 2019].

Web links

Commons : Peter Maffay  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Peter Maffay's website
• Website of the Peter Maffay Foundation
• Peter Maffay in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Literature by and about Peter Maffay in the catalog of the German National Library
• Chart placements in Germany
• Hannes Rossacher (Director): Peter Maffay. On the way to me. A road movie through 2013. (No longer available online.) In: ardmediathek.de. February 21, 2014, archived from the original on March 1, 2014 (60-minute TV documentary; link “More about the film” ( memento of March 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive )). 
• Over seven bridges - a GDR hit goes around the world. Radio feature for the creation of "You must go over seven bridges". MDR culture . January 5, 2019 (MP3; 29 min.)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Charts Germany week 5: Peter Maffay builds chart record. (No longer available online.) In: musikmarkt.de. January 28, 2014, archived from the original on January 31, 2014 ; accessed on December 2, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Peter Maffay, Edmund Hartsch : On the way to me. C. Bertelsmann, Munich 2009.
3. ↑ Heinz Seutter: Interview with Peter Maffay: The beginnings in Waldkraiburg. In: innsalzach24.de, August 24, 2019.
4. ^ ^{A b} The Peter Maffay Story, ZDF documentary by Nils Willbrandt .
5. ↑ Peter Maffay, Edmund Hartsch: On the way to me. C. Bertelsmann, Munich 2009, pp. 39–45.
6. ↑ Michael Kunze extended biography. Status 2009 (PDF; 317 kB) In: storyarchitekt.com, accessed on March 4, 2020.
7. ↑ Fritz Rau: 50 Years Backstage. Memories of a concert promoter. Preface by Udo Lindenberg . Palmyra, Heidelberg 2005, ISBN 3-930378-65-5 .
8. ↑ Sony Music congratulates Peter Maffay on the chart record ( Memento from February 11, 2010 in the Internet Archive ). In: mediabiz.de, February 8, 2010, accessed on March 4, 2020.
9. ↑ HDT: Star rocker Peter Maffay has rediscovered Halle Münsterland. (No longer available online.) In: echo-muenster.de. May 1, 2008, archived from the original on May 2, 2008 ; accessed on December 2, 2018 . 
10. ^ Peter Lanz: Encounters - An alliance for children. (PDF; 3.1 MB) In: Tabaluga sheet. Peter Maffay Foundation, 2006, pp. 1, 5 , archived from the original on August 18, 2010 ; Retrieved August 18, 2010 . 
11. ↑ Peter Maffay presents biography "On the way to me". In: Hamburger Abendblatt. August 20, 2009, accessed December 29, 2015.
12. ↑ Germany, your artists: Peter Maffay. In: programm.ard.de, accessed on December 1, 2018.
13. ↑ Maffay breaks with rapper Bushido. In: Stern, accessed December 2, 2011.
14. ↑ Politically incorrect: Sido and Bushido cause scandals. In: Hamburger Abendblatt ; Retrieved March 24, 2012.
15. ↑ Hans Butmaloiu: Honor and gala concert. In: adz.ro. August 13, 2015, accessed April 9, 2018.
16. ↑ ^{a b} About Il canto del mondo e. V. Canto Culture Prize. (No longer available online.) In: il-canto-del-mondo.de. Il canto del mondo e. V., January 5, 2015, archived from the original on January 5, 2015 ; accessed on December 2, 2018 . 
17. ↑ Honorary Prize Winner 2015. (No longer available online.) In: Sustainability Prize.de. 2014, archived from the original on April 6, 2014 ; Retrieved on March 22, 2018 ( Mementos from 2014 are not relevant). 
18. ↑ From jungle child to World Vision ambassador. Retrieved July 8, 2010 . 
19. ^ Wayne Carpendale ( July 27, 2011 memento on the Internet Archive ). In: wayne-carpendale.de, December 22, 2007, accessed on August 3, 2020.
20. ↑ concert. Rock'n'Roll Arena in Jena for a Colorful Republic ( Memento from November 27, 2011 in the Internet Archive ). Udo Lindenberg website, accessed on February 21, 2012.
21. ↑ Award for Ambassador for Democracy and Tolerance for Peter Maffay. In: buendnis-toleranz.de. Federal Agency for Political Education . Office of the Alliance for Democracy and Tolerance, May 19, 2015, accessed on December 2, 2018 . 
22. ↑ Prominent ambassadors (lbs) ( Memento of 16 January 2014 Internet Archive ) on the sides of the UN Decade of Biodiversity.
23. ↑ kna / wos: Peter Maffay sends a clear warning to refugees. In: The world. October 25, 2015.
24. ↑ Peter Maffay: Godfather of the project "School without Racism - School with Courage" at the Wilhelm Löhe School in Nuremberg. In: wls-nbg.de. Wilhelm Löhe School Nuremberg, accessed on December 2, 2018.
25. ^ Wilhelm Löhe School in Nuremberg. (No longer available online.) In: schule-ohne-rassismus.org. Formerly in the original ; accessed on December 2, 2018 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  
26. ↑ Franz Rohleder: These celebrities are electing the Federal President today . In: Mercury . February 12, 2017 ( merkur.de [accessed April 9, 2018]).
27. ↑ Peter Maffay. DFL Foundation, accessed on January 24, 2020 . 
28. ^ Sophie Eriksson: Peter Maffay - Four marriages. (No longer available online.) In: ten.de. CHIP Communications GmbH, October 15, 2011, archived from the original on March 17, 2013 ; accessed on December 2, 2018 . 
29. ^ Biography of Peter Maffay. Stations in a musician career spanning more than 30 years. (No longer available online.) In: maffay-fanclub-x-berlin.de. Fanclub X Berlin 2001, p. 1 , archived from the original on February 1, 2014 ; Retrieved on August 28, 2019 (1949–1981; links to pp. 2 and 3 for further years up to 2004). 
30. ↑ No title. Short report. In: Berliner Zeitung . April 10, 1996.
31. ↑ Peter Maffay. Divorce, the third. In: focus.de, March 4, 2000.
32. ↑ Maffay under the hood: I was 53 and she was 29. In: Spiegel Online . May 26, 2003.
33. ↑ Kati Degenhardt, Ramon Haindl: Peter Maffay in a BamS interview. I'll give my next concert on the train. That is why Tabaluga is returning and that is why he is happy about the Romania election. In: bild.de. November 23, 2014, accessed June 16, 2018.
34. ↑ re: After twelve years of marriage: Because he has a new one: Peter Maffay separates from his wife Tania. In: focus.de, December 10, 2015, accessed on August 28, 2019.
35. ↑ Peter Maffay has a new one. In: nnz-online.de, December 10, 2015, accessed on August 28, 2019.
36. ↑ kurier.at, agencies, jp: Peter Maffay has become a father again. The musician's partner gave birth to a child earlier this month. In: kurier.at . Kurier Zeitungsverlag und Druckerei, November 7, 2018, p. 2 , accessed on November 7, 2018 : “It's already the third child for the musician. He also has an adopted daughter. " 
37. ↑ RSH Gold Award 1993 ( Memento from July 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive ). In: rsh-history.de, February 13, 1993, accessed on March 4, 2020.
38. ↑ RSH Gold Award 1997 ( Memento from October 9, 2011 in the Internet Archive ). In: rsh-history.de, February 1, 1997, accessed on March 4, 2020.
39. ↑ RSH Gold Award 1999 ( Memento from October 9, 2011 in the Internet Archive ). In: rsh-history.de, February 6, 1997, accessed on March 4, 2020.
40. ^ Hans Rosenthal Prize 2009 goes to Peter Maffay ( Memento from July 26, 2011 in the Internet Archive ). Report on the Landau city portal. In: landau.city-tiger.de, October 16, 2009, accessed on March 4, 2020.
41. ↑ The Hans Rosenthal Prize of Honor. In: hans-rosenthal-stiftung.de, accessed on December 1, 2018.
42. ^ Josef Balazs: Peter Maffay receives the Freemasons Humanitarian Prize. In: Transylvanian newspaper. November 22, 2009; Retrieved April 25, 2012.
43. ↑ Lavinia Pitu: Peter Maffay - rocker and philanthropist. In: DW-World.de . July 29, 2010, accessed August 28, 2019.
44. ^ Lavinia Pitu: Ordinul "Pentru Merit" pentru merite adevărate. In: Deutsche Welle . May 19, 2010, accessed August 28, 2019 (Romanian).
45. ↑ Preşedintele României: DECRET no. 392 din 24 March 2010. Privind conferirea Ordinului Naţional Pentru Merit în grad de Comandor. (No longer available online.) In: legislatie.just.ro. March 24, 2010, archived from the original on November 5, 2016 ; Retrieved December 1, 2018 (Romanian). 
46. ↑ Jan Schnettler: Goldene Blume von Rheydt for Peter Maffay. In: rp-online.de , May 17, 2011; accessed on December 1, 2018.
47. ↑ Ralf Grimminger: Radio 7 CharityNight reaches new donation record - over 100,000 euros for the "Dragon Children". In: ulm-news.de, October 20, 2013, accessed on August 28, 2019.
48. ↑ Leibniz-Ring-Hannover 2015. (No longer available online.) In: presseclubhannover.de. Press Club Hannover , 2016, archived from the original on January 4, 2016 ; accessed on December 2, 2018 . 
49. ↑ St. George's Order for President Klaus Johannis and Peter Maffay. In: Transylvanian newspaper. January 26, 2017, accessed July 18, 2018 . 

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