Peter Schwenkow

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Peter Ludolf Herbert Schwenkow (born March 23, 1954 in Hamburg ) is a German concert organizer, cultural manager, politician ( CDU ) and university professor.

Career as an entrepreneur

After graduating from Albert-Schweitzer-Gymnasium in Hamburg in 1975, Schwenkow worked as a tour director for Mike Krüger , The Dubliners and Hanns Dieter Hüsch . While studying advertising and communication at the Berlin University of the Arts , he worked for the Jänicke concert agency . For the concert concept , which he and Jochen Zanke († 2013) founded in 1978 , they acquired the exclusive rights of use for the Berlin Waldbühne , which they also leased in 1981. There they organized open-air concerts by the Berlin Philharmonic . On March 23, 1994, on his 40th birthday, Schwenkow started the Berlin soft pop radio station JFK 98.2 in the presence of Eberhard Diepgen . DEAG Deutsche Entertainment , which he founded in 1995, went public in 1998. In 2000 he took over the musical organizer Stella , which however turned out to be an unfortunate move and plunged DEAG into a crisis. After successfully implementing restructuring measures, DEAG has been on solid feet again since 2004 and has significantly expanded its field of business by founding its own label DEAG Music and joint ventures with the Anschutz Entertainment Group and the ticket sales system Ticketmaster, as well as through further acquisitions. In 2007, Schwenkow organized the first and only concert with Barbra Streisand in Germany in the Berlin Waldbühne. DEAG is also active in Switzerland and England.

politics

In the elections for the Berlin House of Representatives in September 2006, Schwenkow stood for the CDU against the Governing Mayor of Berlin, Klaus Wowereit , in the same constituency of Grunewald-Halensee , located in Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf , and narrowly lost. However, he was elected as the top candidate on the district list in the House of Representatives and became deputy chairman of the culture committee. At the end of the electoral term in 2011, Schwenkow left the House of Representatives.

In 2006/2007, Schwenkow was a member of the CDU German CDU's policy committee.

Teaching + memberships

In 1993, Schwenkow was appointed to be a lecturer in the “Cultural Management” course at the “Hanns Eisler” University of Music in Berlin .

Since 2006 he has been a member of the advisory board of the Research Center for Popular Music at the Humboldt University in Berlin.

On November 25, 2009 he was appointed professor for event management and multimedia marketing at the Institute for Culture and Media Management at the Hamburg University of Music and Theater .

Since January 1st, 2016, Schwenkow has been a member of the Board of Trustees of Übersee-Club eV

Private

He is married to the journalist Inga Griese and has five children.

Honors

  • 1993 Awarded the Berlin Bear (BZ Culture Prize) for the Wintergarten Varieté Berlin.
  • 1996 Voted “Most Outstanding Entrepreneur of 1996” by the Working Group of Independent Entrepreneurs.
  • 2000 Award of the Federal Cross of Merit (on ribbon) by Federal President Johannes Rau .
  • 2007 Live Entertainment Award for the best single event in 2006 and ECHO Klassik in the music DVD production category (The Waldbühne concert - Anna Netrebko, Plácido Domingo & Rolando Villazón in the Berlin Waldbühne).
  • 2008 Live Entertainment Award (Jury Prize) for the concert with Barbra Streisand in Berlin's Waldbühne on June 30, 2007.
  • 2010 Live Entertainment Award in the category Artist Agent of the Year 2009 (David Garrett).
  • 2012 Live Entertainment Award in the category of best indoor / arena tour of 2011.
  • 2013 Live Entertainment Award in the category Show of the Year 2012, Peter Maffay and "Tabaluga and the signs of the times", DEAG Concerts GmbH.
  • 2015 Live Entertainment Award in the 2014 Concert of the Year category.
  • 2015 Live Entertainment Award in the Club Tour of the Year category 2014.
  • 2018 Live Entertainment Award in the category Stadium Tour of the Year 2017, Rolling Stones "Stones-No Filter Tour 2017", FKP Scorpio Konzertproduktionen GmbH (in cooperation with DEAG, Berlin).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Concert Concept co-founder Jochen Zanke has died. ( Memento from August 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) In: musikmarkt.de, August 22, 2013, accessed on May 24, 2019
  2. ↑ About Us - Advisory Board »Research Center for Popular Music - HU Berlin. Retrieved May 31, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Hamburg University of Music and Theater: Lecturers at the Institute for Culture and Media Management

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personal data
SURNAME Schwenkow, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schwenkow, Peter Ludolf Herbert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German concert promoter, cultural manager, politician (CDU), MdA and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg