Reinhold Bilgeri

Reinhold Bilgeri (2009)

Reinhold Bilgeri (2010)

Reinhold Bilgeri with Beatrix Bilgeri-Kopf (left) and daughter Laura Bilgeri (2012)

Reinhold Bilgeri (born March 26, 1950 in Hohenems , Vorarlberg ) is an Austrian musician , writer , screenwriter and filmmaker .

biography

Reinhold Bilgeri was born in Hohenems , Vorarlberg . He is a trained AHS teacher for German , geography , philosophy and psychology and taught at the Bundesgymnasium Feldkirch until 1981. Bilgeri is married to Miss Vorarlberg of 1981, model and actress Beatrix Bilgeri-Kopf (* 1960). Their daughter Laura was born in 1995. The couple lives in Lochau .

Music career

In the 1970s he founded the duo Bilgeri & Köhlmeier together with the writer Michael Köhlmeier . With the song “Oho Vorarlberg” in 1973 the duo achieved a remarkable success in Austria. Bilgeri also gained regional fame as the singer of the West Coast rock band Clockwork , with whom he performed until the beginning of his solo career in 1981.

In 1981 Bilgeri landed a chart hit with the song Video Life . With pieces like Love Is Free or Some Girls are Ladies he later celebrated over twenty successes in the Austrian pop charts in the 1980s and 1990s. With the album "* Oho" in 2001 Bilgeri returned to his music cabaret roots in Vorarlberg.

In December 2002 the video clip "Silver Bell" caused a stir, a Christmas song produced with Don Ron , which portrays the USA as warmongers and the epitome of hypocrisy. The music video was played on the major German music TV channels.

In 2005 “Best of Bilgeri - The Greatest Hits from 4 Decades!” Was released. In 2006 Bilgeri recorded a jazz album “Jazzz it - Songs from Gershwin to Deep Purple” with top-class musicians such as Joe Meixner , Harry Sokal , Willi Langer , Christian Lettner or the Rounder Girls .

Career beyond music

Reinhold Bilgeri is also active as a screenwriter and cabaret artist ("Nothing new in the West") and produced radio plays. In 2005 Bilgeri's novel “The Breath of Heaven” was published by Molden-Verlag, in which he processed the avalanche disaster of 1954 in the Grosses Walsertal . Since the end of 2006, Bilgeri has combined readings from the novel with jazz pieces in his new program. His bestseller “The Breath of Heaven” was published as a paperback in autumn 2007 by Piper Verlag in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

In 2009/2010 the novel The Breath of Heaven was made into a film by himself for the cinema and premiered in 2010.

In 2017 he made the feature film Erik & Erika about ski racer Erik Schinegger .

Discography

Albums

• Owie laughs (with Michael Köhlmeier) (1973)
• Wake me (Bilgeri & Clockwork) (1978)
• Bilgeri (1981)
• Alaska (1984)
• Portrait (1988)
• Portrait 2 (1990)
• Heaven on earth (1994)
• Bilgeri / Köhlmeier live (1996)
• oho (2001)
• Best Of Bilgeri (2005)
• Jazzz it (songs from Gershwin to Deep Purple) (2006)

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)		Remarks
		AT	CH
1987	Songs Of Love	AT10 (10 weeks) AT	-
1990	Forever In Love	AT24 (5 weeks) AT	-
1991	Lonely Fighter	AT4th gold (13 weeks)AT	-
1993	A man and a woman	AT8th gold (12 weeks)AT	-

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)		Remarks
		AT	CH
1973	Oho Vorarlberg	-	-
1981	Video Life	AT2 (12 weeks) AT	CH8 (5 weeks) CH
	In the night	AT6 (12 weeks) AT	-
1982	Nothing but a heartache	-	-
	No respect	-	-
1983	Late again	-	-
1984	She's a breakdancer	-	-
	Desperado	-	-
1987	Some Girls are Ladies Songs of Love	AT1 (18 weeks) AT	-
	Missing You Songs of Love	AT4 (14 weeks) AT	-
	Sayonara Boy Songs of Love	AT6 (14 weeks) AT	-
1989	When a Girl Cries Forever in Love	AT21 (6 weeks) AT	-
	Love is Free Forever in Love	AT3 (12 weeks) AT	-
1990	Do You Want me Tonite Forever in Love	AT11 (7 weeks) AT	-
1991	In Love With Two Ladies Lonely Fighter	AT20 (3 weeks) AT	-
	Keep Your Love Alive Lonely Fighter	AT5 (15 weeks) AT	-
1992	I'm Gonna Take You Home A Man and a Woman	AT7 (12 weeks) AT	-
1993	Breaking Free A Man and a Woman	AT25 (4 weeks) AT	-
2002	Silver Bell	AT32 (2 weeks) AT	-
2003	Still in love	AT22 (3 weeks) AT	-
2004	Video Life 04	AT23 (7 weeks) AT	-

Filmography

• 2010: The Breath of Heaven (script, direction, production)
• 2014: Country Crime - All Meat is Grass (Director)
• 2018: Erik & Erika (director)

prose

• The breath of heaven. Story of a love , novel, 2005, Molden Verlag
• The breath of heaven. Story of a love , paperback edition, 2007, Piper Verlag

Awards

• ORF Film Screenplay Award for Gaudeamus igitur (1974)
• Pop Champion (1988)
• Orpheus Award for Best Selling Record of the Year (1988)
• Amadeus nomination for Desperado (Best Video Producer, Writer, Director) (1989)
• CCA Award for the best radio advertisement of the year on Ö1 (1990)
• Winner of the Euro Video Grand Prix 2006 with Silver Bell
• Vorarlberg Literature Prize (2008)

Web links

Commons : Reinhold Bilgeri  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Media from and about Reinhold Bilgeri in the catalog of the German National Library
• ORF article: Bilgeri as a writer
• Bilgeri's website
• Film website for the feature film
• Bilgeri in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "This look lasts a lifetime". Retrieved November 12, 2019 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b} Chart sources: AT CH
3. ↑ Awards for music sales: AT