Peter Rieger (concert organizer)

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Peter Rieger (born April 12, 1953 in Frankfurt am Main ; † January 29, 2017 ) was a German concert and tour organizer .

Career

Together with his then wife Jutta Schremmer-Rieger, Peter Rieger founded the Peter Rieger Concert Agency (PRK) in Cologne in 1983 . Since 1975 he has organized concert tours, initially with German artists, including BAP . Among other things, Rieger worked for the then largest event agency Lippmann & Rau . Later he also cooperated with the concert promoter Marcel Avram . His first major international artist was Peter Gabriel , for whom he toured in 1983. He organized concerts for artists including U2 , Pink , Taylor Swift , Genesis , Joe Cocker , Phil Collins , Paul McCartney , Tina Turner , Elton John , Rolling Stones , Lionel Richie , Janet Jackson , David Bowie , Cher , Lou Reed , Prince , Mariah Carey , Meat Loaf , Whitney Houston , A-ha and Andreas Bourani . On the initiative of Rieger, the American artist Barbra Streisand , who, as a Jew, had always refused to play in Germany, performed on the Berlin Waldbühne . At the invitation of Egon Krenz , a member of the SED Central Committee responsible for youth at the time and later chairman of the GDR State Council , he organized the “Concert for Peace” in East Berlin in 1988 with James Brown and Joe Cocker.

In 1987 Rieger started the Bizarre Festival together with Ernst-Ludwig Hartz in Berlin and on the Loreley (St. Goarshausen) , which over the years developed into a two-day event.

On July 21, 1990, Rieger's agency made possible the rock opera “ The Wall ” with Roger Waters on the grounds of today's Potsdamer Platz , at that time still no man's land, which was first searched for mines before the 170 meter wide stage was set up. The concert took place in the West Berlin as well as in the East Berlin sector. In April 1995 Peter Rieger brought the musical Tommy by The Who to Germany. In July 2000, Rieger, Marek Lieberberg Konzertagentur and others, entered into a strategic cooperation with CTS Eventim AG, which took over 70 percent of PRK.

Rieger organized open-air concerts for classical music with the three tenors . He had the opera star Luciano Pavarotti perform for the first time in front of around 21,000 spectators on the Berlin Waldbühne . Rieger organized Europe-wide tours for Pavarotti, including performances on Red Square in Moscow and in front of the Eiffel Tower in Paris .

At the end of 2015, Rieger gave up his position as managing director of the Peter Rieger concert agency, but remained an advisory partner of the company.

Awards

  • 1992: Billboard Touring Award in the Top Boxscore category for three stadium concerts in Hanover, sold out in a row, from Genesis with over 200,000 tickets.
  • 2004: Presentation of the "Promoters Promotor Award" at the ILMC ( International Live Music Conference ) trade fair
  • 2006: Live Entertainment Award for the “Best Indoor / Arena Tour” with George Michael
  • 2008: Live Entertainment Award Jury Prize for Barbra Streisand's first concert in Germany
  • 2009: Live Entertainment Award for the “Best Indoor / Arena Tour” with Pink
  • 2009: Live Entertainment Award for promoting young talent for Philipp Poisel
  • 2011: Live Entertainment Award for promoting young talent for Tim Bendzko
  • 2015: Live Entertainment Award Lifetime Achievement

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Rieger passed away. In: mediabiz.de. January 31, 2017, accessed January 31, 2016 .
  2. ^ Peter Rieger Concert Agency GmbH & Co. KG. ( Memento of the original from February 16, 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. In: Koeln.Gewerbe-Meldung.de , accessed on January 31, 2017 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / koeln.gewerbe-meldung.de
  3. ↑ Thursday, May 5, 2011 - Offenbach, Capitol. In: bap.de , accessed on January 31, 2017
  4. ↑ Philip Faigle: In the competition for the biggest stars, German concert organizers pay exorbitantly high fees - at the expense of the fans. In: Berliner Zeitung , April 4, 2005
  5. ↑ Concert giants Deag and Avram join forces. In: Handelsblatt , December 6, 2000
  6. ↑ Tina Turner - Comeback in the mini skirt. In: DerWesten , January 13, 2009
  7. ↑ Christian Kandzorra: On the stage with pink. In: Rheinische Post , September 14, 2012
  8. ↑ Thomas Schulz: Beyond the shame line. In: Der Spiegel , September 18, 2006
  9. ↑ Michael Pilz: "At that time 'The Wall' was irresponsible". In: Die Welt , June 15, 2011
  10. ↑ Birgit Walter: The second shock brings redemption. In: Berliner Zeitung , November 3, 1994
  11. ↑ Hans-Jürgen Jakobs , Felix Kurz: Hard bandages. In: Der Spiegel , July 10, 2000
  12. ^ Sophia Willems: Luciano Pavarotti: The pop star of the opera. In: Westdeutsche Zeitung , September 6, 2007
  13. ↑ a b Martina Gabric: Peter Rieger gives up head post at the Peter Rieger concert agency. ( Memento of the original from January 31, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.musikmarkt.de 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. In: Music market .com , January 13, 2016
  14. ↑ Arthur's Hall of Fame. In: ilmc.com , accessed January 31, 2017
  15. ↑ PRG LEA 2015: The reasons for the winners. ( Memento of the original from February 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.musikmarkt.de 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. In: Music market .com , April 14, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Rieger, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German concert and tour organizer
DATE OF BIRTH April 12, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH 29th January 2017