Philip Ginthör

Philip Ginthör (2012)

Philip Ginthör (* 1975 in Vienna ) is an Austrian lawyer and music manager . He was General Manager of Sony Music Entertainment in Austria and from 2009 to 2017 he was also Chief Executive Officer of the company's branches in Germany and Switzerland . Ginthör previously worked for Bertelsmann and Condé Nast , among others . He is a member of the board of the Federal Association of the Music Industry and was Vice President of IFPI Austria .

Life

Ginthör studied law at the University of Vienna and Harvard University . He graduated with honors, and then began his professional career in 1997 at Condé Nast Verlag . He later moved to Bertelsmann , where he initially worked as Director for Corporate Development in New York . Then he went to the music division of the group: Ginthör became executive assistant in 2002 and then worked in the editorial department of J Records . At Sony BMG in New York , he was initially responsible for developing new artists in the Progressive department before he was appointed head of the so-called Domestic Repertoire Division in 2006 . In the same year, under the aegis of Ginthör, the company launched the Columbia Germany label , under whose roof artists and repertoire , marketing and promotion were bundled. During his work, for example, Moneybrother , Radiopilot or Wir sind Helden signed a record deal with Columbia.

In mid-2007 Philip Ginthör took over the management of the Berlin label Four Music alongside Columbia . In 2009 he was appointed General Manager of Sony Music Entertainment Austria , according to the company, he should take care of artistic development in particular. At the same time he was significantly involved in the strategy for the repertoire in the entire German-speaking region. In 2011 Ginthör finally moved from Vienna to Munich , where he succeeded Edgar Berger and is Chief Executive Officer for Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Ginthör last achieved greater awareness in 2014 in the course of the dispute between GEMA and YouTube , which prevented the label's music videos from being distributed on the video portal . He called for Google to pay for the videos. Artists must continue to be able to live from their music, everything else is "out of the question". Ginthör repeatedly emphasized the importance of streaming services in the digital age. Among other things, "Apple and Spotify are a blessing for the music industry". According to his statement, the compact disc is “not yet extinct” either. Ginthör rejects the radio quota  for German-language titles.

Web links

• MusikWoche : biography of Philip Ginthör
• The Huffington Post : Interview with Peter Maffay

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Renzo Wellinger: [1] In: Musikmarkt , August 9, 2011, accessed on August 5, 2014.
2. ↑ Board of the Bundesverband Musikindustrie e. V. , accessed on August 5, 2014.
3. ↑ Austrian music market continues to shrink . ( Memento from August 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) In: WirtschaftsBlatt , April 2, 2012, accessed on August 5, 2014.
4. ↑ ^{a b} Sony boss Ginthör moves to Munich . In: Kurier , December 5, 2011, accessed August 5, 2014.
5. ↑ ^{a b} Sebastian Loudon: Hug the problem! ( Memento of the original from August 12, 2014 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: Horizont , 2010, accessed on August 5, 2014 (PDF, 141 kB). 
6. ↑ Andrea Hlinka: Success is always hard work . In: Kurier , July 17, 2010, p. 15.
7. ^ Philip Ginthör, Sony Music Entertainment . In: Die Presse , August 13, 2011, p. 2.
8. ↑ ^{a b c} Julia Köhler: Philip Ginthör is the new General Manager Sony Music Entertainment Austria . ( Memento of the original from August 12, 2014 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: Musikmarkt , August 14, 2009, accessed August 5, 2014. 
9. ^ Jürgen Ruopp: Sony BMG: Restructuring of the Music Division, optimization of the sales organization . ( Memento of the original from August 12, 2014 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: Musikmarkt , October 26, 2006, accessed on August 5, 2014. 
10. ^ Renzo Wellinger: Moneybrother signs with Columbia Germany . ( Memento of the original from August 12, 2014 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: Musikmarkt , April 14, 2007, accessed on August 5, 2014. 
11. ↑ Thorsten Steer: Archived copy ( Memento of the original from August 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Musikmarkt , September 6, 2007, accessed on August 5, 2014. 
12. ↑ Renzo Wellinger: We are Heroes move to Columbia Berlin . ( Memento of the original from August 12, 2014 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: Musikmarkt , November 19, 2008, accessed on August 5, 2014. 
13. ↑ Jürgen Ruopp: New direction for Four Music - Fitz Braum goes . ( Memento of the original from December 20, 2013 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: Musikmarkt , August 7, 2007, accessed on August 5, 2014. 
14. ↑ Philip Ginthör appointed General Manager Sony Music Entertainment Austria . ( Memento from August 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) In: 96kHz , August 21, 2009, accessed on August 5, 2014
15. ↑ Georg Meck: How do you make superstars? In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung , March 23, 2014, p. 19.
16. ↑ Sven Hansen: Sony Music on the YouTube dispute: Not with us! . In: heise online , March 23, 2014, accessed on August 5, 2014.
17. ↑ Sony boss Ginthör demands willingness to pay for YouTube videos . In: mediabiz , March 24, 2014, accessed on August 5, 2014.
18. ↑ Sony is boycotting YouTube . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung , March 23, 2014, p. 1.
19. ↑ True Holger: Sony Music boss: No videos on YouTube without money from Google . In: Hamburger Abendblatt , March 24, 2014, p. 16.
20. ↑ No videos on Youtube without money from Google. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . March 22, 2014, accessed August 5, 2014.
21. ↑ Ulrich Goll: 30 million songs are available digitally . In: Der Tagesspiegel . June 22, 2013, accessed June 16, 2014.
22. ↑ Melanie Manner: Music giant with confidence in the digital age . In: WirtschaftsBlatt , April 8, 2013, p. 22.
23. ↑ Sandra Baierl: Sony Music Boss: We woke up. In: Courier . April 8, 2013, accessed August 5, 2014.
24. ↑ Karsten Lemm, Bernd Skischally: "Spotify and Apple Music are a blessing": The head of Sony Music in a Wired interview. In: Wired. Retrieved June 29, 2016 . 
25. ↑ Anna-Maria Wallner: The CD has not yet died out in Austria . In: Die Presse , August 2, 2014, accessed August 5, 2014.
26. ↑ Philip Ginthör explains: That is the reason why we do not need a quota for German-language music. In: The Huffington Post. Retrieved June 29, 2016 (with Peter Maffay).