Uwe Fahrenkrog-Petersen

Jörn Uwe Fahrenkrog-Petersen (born March 10, 1960 in West Berlin ) is a German music producer and composer .

Life

Fahrenkrog-Petersen was the keyboardist and composer of the Neue Deutsche Welle band Nena . He composed a. a. the music for the pieces Just dreamed , Somehow, Somewhere, Sometime and 99 balloons , which reached number one and number two on the US Billboard charts in 52 countries . When the group broke up in 1987, Fahrenkrog-Petersen went to New York as a composer and producer. He founded the heavy metal band Voodoo X together with singer Jean Beauvoir , whose debut album The Awakening was chosen by the English metal hammer as the rock album of the decade.

Back in Germany, he worked for four years from 1992 on a rock musical Nostradamus , which was never performed. At the same time, he continued to write music for German game shows and the Golden Camera television award . He composed the music for the opening ceremony of the Sony Center in Berlin and performed there with the Japanese drum band Kodo . Fahrenkrog-Petersen wrote and produced a song for the American boy band * NSYNC in 1997 for their debut album.

In January 2002 Fahrenkrog-Petersen renewed its collaboration with Nena . The result was the album 20 Years - Nena feat. Nena , an album with new recordings of great Nena hits, which stayed in the German album charts for 55 weeks .

From May 2003 he worked as a composer and juror in the TV casting show Popstars and at the same time continued his collaboration with Nena, which brought them another number one hit in 2005 with the single Liebe ist . The associated, produced by him and-platinum double album Want to go with me again reached number two in the charts.

In 2006 he produced the pop duo Milk & Honey and in the same year, the comeback album of Kim Wilde , Never Say Never . In 2007 he produced the English-language CD of Nena's double album Cover Me .

Fahrenkrog-Petersen has also worked as a composer for international films, including the two Golden Globes nominated film Igby goes down with Susan Sarandon and Jeff Goldblum . For its soundtrack, he relied on a mixture of Japanese taiko drums and the sounds of the Prague Symphony Orchestra. He also produced and composed their album of the same name for the German girl band Fräulein Wunder .

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Albums

Two (as Anders | Fahrenkrog)   DE 11 06/24/2011 (5 weeks)   AT 71 06/24/2011 (1 week)   CH 85 06/24/2011 (1 week)

Singles

Gigolo (as Anders | Fahrenkrog)   DE 40 06/10/2011 (4 weeks)

From 2011 to 2013 Fahrenkrog-Petersen worked with the former modern-talking singer Thomas Anders as a songwriter, producer and as a member of the duo Anders | Fahrenkrog together. The single Gigolo only entered at number 40, the album Two made it to number 11.

In 2012, he took part in the fifth season of Let's Dance at the side of the dancer Helena Kaschurow and retired with her in the first round.

Since 2012 he has mainly worked on the development of three musicals, the first of which (Desert Flower) will premiere in February 2020 at the St. Gallen Theater.

Private

Uwe Fahrenkrog-Petersen has lived in Berlin with his partner Christin Dechant and their daughter since 2015.

His brother Lutz Fahrenkrog-Petersen , who was two years younger than him, studied political science at the Humboldt University , sociology of technology at the Technical University of Berlin and musicology with Carl Dahlhaus and Helga de la Motte-Haber . He also works as a producer - for example for the bands Juli , Peaches , Ute Lemper and David Hasselhoff . He teaches at the Research Center for Popular Music at Humboldt University.

literature

• Lutz Fahrenkrog-Petersen, The End of Pop: Music in the Dead End . Telos Verlag, 2017. ISBN 978-3-9330-6047-1 .

Web links

• http://www.bz-berlin.de/folk/zwei-brueder-mit-musik-und-benzin-im-blut
• Uwe Fahrenkrog-Petersen in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• https://uwefahrenkrogpetersen.com/

Individual evidence

1. ↑ DE single charts
2. ↑ Thomas Anders - New Band, Old Influences ( Memento from May 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ Website of the innovation forum for 3D cinema and stereoscopic media productions. ( Memento of the original from July 22, 2015 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. Retrieved July 21, 2015. 
4. ^ Humboldt University website. ( Memento of the original from June 10, 2015 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. Retrieved July 21, 2015.