Tim Renner

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Tim Renner, 2016

Tim Renner (born December 1, 1964 in Berlin ) is a German music producer , journalist and author ; from 2014 to 2016 he was Berlin State Secretary for Culture.

Life

Renner's mother worked as a social worker in the penal system, his biological father Hans Christof Stenzel was a film director, and his stepfather Herbert Renner was a Bible publisher. When he was seven years old, his family moved from Berlin to Hamburg. In the early 1980s he published his own cassette fanzine called the Festival of Good Deeds , after which he moderated programs on NDR (e.g. the experimental radio show Zur Lage der Nation ), wrote pop columns for Scritti and for Tempo and that Hamburg city ​​magazine Tango . Renner broke off studying German at the University of Hamburg , which he started in 1983 . In 1984 he was involved in the directing and scripting of the film project For a Handful of D-Marks (a Hamburg music magazine with Abwärts , Markus Oehlen and Ti-Tho ).

In 1986 Renner switched from his job as a journalist to the music industry. He began his work as an Artists & Repertoire Manager at Polydor , where from 1989 he headed the newly founded department “Polydor Progressive Music”. He ran the Polygram sub-label Motor Music Ltd. , founded in 1994 . When the parent company Polygram merged with Universal in 1998 to form “Universal Music Germany”, Renner became managing director in early 2001. In 2003 he was named “Global Leader for Tomorrow” by the World Economic Forum .

In 2004 Tim Renner left Universal Music and then wrote a book with children, Death Is Not So Bad, about his personal assessment of the future of the media industry. Renner built up the Motor Entertainment group of companies, which includes a music publisher with a bookable label ( Motor Music ) and a booking agency for the tour business (Motor Tours, in a joint venture with Four Artist) and management (e.g. for Arctic Circle 18 ). Until August 2011, Renner was also a partner in the radio station Motor FM. Since it was renamed FluxFM as a result of a shareholder dispute , Renner is no longer involved in the station.

Tim Renner has been a long-time lecturer in the music business course at the Baden-Württemberg Pop Academy and was appointed professor there in 2009. The university justified the appointment with the fact that Renner was one of the "most renowned personalities in the music industry" and "innovative thought leader in the music industry".

In 2011 the book Digital ist better was published , which he wrote with his two years older brother, the media journalist Kai-Hinrich Renner. Since 2011, Renner and Motor Entertainment have also appeared as co-producers of the monthly TV program Berlin Live on ZDFkultur . From 2012 to 2013 he hosted his own radio show called Radio Renner at Bremen Vier . In 2013 his book We Had Sex in the Ruins and Dreamed: The Truth About the Pop Industry About Success Factors in the Music Industry.

Renner is married and has two daughters.

politics

Tim Renner is a member of the SPD and is an assessor on the board of the “Cultural Forum of Social Democracy”. In 2009 he advised Chancellor candidate Frank-Walter Steinmeier and took up his idea of ​​a “creative pact” between business, politics and artists. In the following years, Renner developed concepts for network policy, copyright law, education policy, artists' social insurance and cultural policy together with artists, entrepreneurs and SPD politicians as part of the creative pact. Parts of the concepts of the creative pact flowed into the SPD government program 2013.

Renner supported the election campaign of the SPD and its candidate for chancellor Peer Steinbrück in 2013 and together with him called u. a. to “broadband for everyone”, freedom from digital learning materials and social security for the solo self-employed. He was also responsible for the SPD campaign song (We are) at home . On January 15, 2020 he was elected regional chairman of the self-employed working group in the SPD Berlin. Renner is also a member of the district executive committee of the SPD Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf .

Berlin State Secretary for Culture (2014-2016)

Under the Governing Mayor of Berlin , Klaus Wowereit, Renner became State Secretary for Culture of the State of Berlin on April 28, 2014, succeeding André Schmitz . Renner campaigned, among other things, for better promotion of the independent artist scene and an increase in the cultural budget.

In March 2015 it was announced that Tim Renner would make the director of the Tate Gallery of Modern Art , Chris Dercon , director of the Volksbühne Berlin and successor to Frank Castorf in 2017 , which led to public criticism, among others, by the director of the Berliner Ensemble, Claus Peymann led. The actor Alexander Scheer asked him not to enter the theater after the decision. When he met him there in 2018 after a film screening, he poured a glass of beer over Renner's head.

With the new red-red-green coalition , the cultural department fell to the party Die Linke . Renner was released from office on December 8, 2016.

Bundestag candidacy

In 2016, Renner announced that he would run for the SPD as a member of the Bundestag in the Bundestag constituency Berlin-Charlottenburg - Wilmersdorf for the 2017 Bundestag election. In a member survey of the SPD Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf on February 26, 2017, five candidates competed for the nomination as direct candidate of the SPD Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf for the 2017 federal election. Renner received 223 votes and Ülker Radziwill received 211 votes. On March 17, 2017, Renner finally prevailed against Radziwill in a runoff election as the SPD direct candidate for the federal electoral district of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf for the 2017 federal election.

In the federal election, he was unable to prevail against his CDU competitor, Klaus-Dieter Gröhler , and the 6th place on the SPD's state list was not enough for entry into the German Bundestag.

In August 2020 it became known that Renner, at the request of the Berlin SPD top candidate Franziska Giffey , wants to run again for a Bundestag mandate in 2021, this time in a constituency in Neukölln .

Books

  • Children, death isn't that bad. About the future of the music and media industry. Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-593-37636-9 ; Revised new edition: Rogner & Bernhard, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-8077-1045-7 .
  • Digital is better. Why the West will not go under even with the Internet. Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-593-39208-0 (with Kai-Hinrich Renner).
  • We had sex in the rubble and dreamed: The truth about the pop industry. Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-8270-1161-9 (with Sarah Wächter).

Web links

Commons : Tim Renner  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Unternehmerakzente.de ( Memento of the original from October 29, 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.unternehmerakzente.de
  2. ^ Rüdiger Braun: University of Potsdam bids farewell to graduates. (No longer available online.) Märkische Allgemeine , July 14, 2016, archived from the original on August 24, 2017 ; accessed on August 24, 2017 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.maz-online.de
  3. ↑ a b c Tim Renner's dirty imagination . Berlin Republic 1/2014. Retrieved February 10, 2017
  4. ↑ Kurt Sagatz: New name, new luck? Everything rustles. Der Tagesspiegel , accessed on June 12, 2014
  5. ↑ Tim Renner becomes a professor . Popakademie Baden-Württemberg. Retrieved February 10, 2017
  6. ↑ hna.de Tim Renner on the future of pop: "As parents we are the plague" . Hessische / Niedersächsische Allgemeine, October 15, 2013
  7. ↑ Board Cultural Forum of Social Democracy spd.de, accessed on February 10 2016th
  8. ↑ We need a creative pact . World on Sunday, June 14, 2009.
  9. ↑ Reboot work, update copyright, form social networks! Brochure of the SPD parliamentary group, accessed on February 10, 2017 (PDF file, 1.2 MB).
  10. ↑ Cultural policy is not a festival policy . SPD parliamentary group, May 22, 2013.
  11. ↑ Broadband for everyone! by Tim Renner and Peer Steinbrück. Die Welt, June 9, 2013.
  12. ^ Working group of the self-employed in the SPD (AGS). August 13, 2019, accessed on January 17, 2020 (German).
  13. ^ District executive committee of the SPD Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf. Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) SPD-Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf, accessed on May 31, 2020 .
  14. ↑ Tim Renner Berlin's culture needs well-made regulatory policy. Berliner Zeitung , September 15, 2016
  15. ↑ Claus Peymann in an interview with Peter Kümmel: “The racer has to go!” Die Zeit , No. 15/2015, April 12, 2015, accessed on April 20, 2015.
  16. ↑ "I want to ride the beast". Retrieved December 14, 2019 .
  17. ↑ Michael Müller re-elected as Governing Mayor of Berlin - Senators appointed. The Governing Mayor of the Senate Chancellery, December 8, 2016, accessed on July 20, 2017 .
  18. ↑ Constituent meeting of the Senate with personnel decisions. The Governing Mayor of the Senate Chancellery, December 8, 2016, accessed on July 20, 2017 .
  19. ↑ RBB: Renner wants to go to the Bundestag
  20. ↑ Tim Renner decides SPD member survey for himself. Berliner Morgenpost, February 26, 2017, accessed on July 20, 2017 .
  21. ^ Ex-State Secretary for Culture Tim Renner is running for the Bundestag. Berliner Zeitung, March 17, 2017, accessed on July 20, 2017 .
  22. ↑ Ex-State Secretary for Culture Renner wants to go to the Bundestag , cultural news on deutschlandfunkkultur.de from August 16, 2020, accessed August 17, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Renner, Tim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German music producer, journalist and author
DATE OF BIRTH December 1, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin