Torsten Riemann

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Torsten Riemann (born June 23, 1964 in Berlin ) is a German songwriter and musician .

Life

Torsten Riemann grew up as the oldest of three siblings in Berlin . The father Werner Riemann is an actor at the Berliner Ensemble , mother Ingeborg works as a nurse.

Riemann's artistic career began early. At the age of four he was already playing on the stage of the Berliner Ensemble as a child actor . In the 1970s, he became a sought-after voice actor for children's films. At the same time his musical training took place: Riemann received piano lessons from 1969 and guitar and singing lessons from 1973.

After completing his training as a nurse, he acquired the "professional license as a musician / songwriter" on a second educational path. Riemann has been a freelance musician since the mid-1980s. Since then he has been featured several times with his songs in the list of the best songs of the Verein für deutschsprachige Musik eV. He travels all over Germany with his changing programs. Occasionally he is accompanied by fellow musicians Sonny Thet (cello, percussion), Jörg Mischke (keyboards, piano, percussion) and Susanne Filep (violin).

In 2003 the first collaboration with the Goethe Institute came about. Since then, Riemann has been on tour several times a year for various Goethe-Instituts abroad. a. in Estonia , Latvia , Lithuania , Belarus , Kazakhstan , Kyrgyzstan , the Czech Republic , Hungary , Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina .

Since October 2007, Riemann has also been an honorary lecturer for music, song and chanson interpretation at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin .

Discography

  • 1986 LP Kleeblatt No. 18 (AMIGA)
  • 1995 CD And suddenly you can fly (Rockwerk Records)
  • 1997 CD (Rom) Stop it (Rockwerk Records)
  • 1998 CD ... and the sky tears open (compilation with Georgette Dee , Cora Frost , Pfister siblings , among others ; production of the title song)
  • 2001 CD Torsten Riemann - Live 2001 (Nebelhorn)
  • 2006 CD Endlos Leben (AMA-Verlag)
  • 2008 CD You are lucky (Genesius)
  • 2013 CD He wanted to be like that (AMA-Verlag)
  • 2019 CD But they still exist (MARA Records)

Awards / prizes

  • 1985 VEB German Record Award at the Chanson Days , Frankfurt / Oder
  • 1995 Award from the German Musicians' Association: Best Songwriter in the Federal Republic
  • 2001 2nd prize at the German Chanson Competition Zarah , Frankfurt / Main

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personal data
SURNAME Riemann, Torsten
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German songwriter and musician
DATE OF BIRTH June 23, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin