Wolfgang Mürmann

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Wolfgang Mürmann (born September 15, 1944 in Hützel , Lüneburger Heide ; † July 1, 2018 ) was a German songwriter , composer , author and music producer .

Professional background

At the age of fifteen, Wolfgang Mürmann broke off the classical piano and violin lessons that had been prescribed for him in order to follow his stronger inclination towards rock and pop music . He began to write music and lyrics and in 1963 he became lead singer and guitarist of the Hamburg rock band The Rangers , with whom he a. a. also appeared in the legendary Hamburg Star Club . When the group disbanded in 1966, he was already in contact with the Philips record company, which signed him as a German-speaking interpreter. Between 1967 and 1975 he published eleven singles under the pseudonyms Mano , Wolfgang Jade and Peter & Wolf . The most successful title was Visits me on my tree , which it featured in the ZDF hit parade in 1974 and in Ilja Richter's ZDF television show disco .

Mürmann's career as a songwriter began in 1971 with a German text for the folk song Stop! I Don't Wanna Hear It Anymore by the US singer and songwriter Melanie Safka , which he wrote unsolicited and sent to the singer's German music publisher. A little later, the Hamburg record company Philips actually published his text Oh, Stop! Let's become friends with the Romanian singer Pompilia.

A year later, the Hamburg composer and arranger Hans-Georg Moslener became the producer of the Wolfgang Jade project. He composed the music, Mürmann wrote almost all of the lyrics. From this close cooperation, a sought-after team of authors developed over the course of time, which soon also worked for many other performers. It delivered u. a. for the German Grand Prix preliminary decision in 1976 the contribution You make a career with Lena Valaitis and in 1978 the jurors with the titles Louisiana , ( Jonny Hill ) and Men like you , ( Helena ), made two contributions to the circle of fifteen Grand Prix - Applicants selected. Mürmann also contributed as the third text contribution Come and stay with me (Albatros) for the night . However, with the rankings 8, 10 and 12, the success was rather moderate. For this, the Moslener / Mürmann team was awarded a gold record in 1980 for the song Seven Black Roses , which it had written for Nana Mouskouri , for 250,000 sold records from the Greek's album of the same name.

Mürmann was already able to celebrate a Grand Prix success at the 20th Eurovision Song Contest in 1975, when the Dutch band "Teach-In" won in Stockholm with the song Ding-A-Dong , for which he had supplied the German text version.

In 1977 he began working with music producer and author Jimmy Bowien, for whose artist Daliah Lavi he worked as a copywriter on various albums and singles. a. You are my problem wrote. Mürmann also regularly contributed texts for the Bowien productions with Karel Gott , Wencke Myhre and Margot Werner in the following years. Leo Leandros brought Mürmann on as a copywriter for the Freddy Quinn album You have my word and for daughter Vicky Leandros he wrote and wrote the lyrics . a. Children of the sun , have a good trip Mon Amour and I am here for you . Mürmann wrote a dozen titles for Roger Whittaker with the composer and producer Klaus Munro . Including Charlie Mahon , The Lie Called Freedom and From Dover to Calais . Over the years Mürmann has written more than six hundred texts for national and international artists such as Mireille Mathieu , Julio Iglesias , Ivan Rebroff and Demis Roussos . His works include Blue Bayou ( Paola ), Nur Sieger stand'n im Licht ( Marianne Rosenberg ) or Keep Smiling (Wencke Myhre).

Between 1980 and 1996 Mürmann also composed and produced under the pseudonym Mike Moore Company and under his own name, seventeen LP / CDs of instrumental music for Selected Sound Musikverlag / EMI, which were published internationally.

From 1995, eleven book projects with pointed short stories and cartoons followed in collaboration with the illustrator Lutz Nosofsky. The book series with the titles … went stupid and consolation plasters have been published by Tomus Verlag, Munich.

Wolfgang Mürmann was married to the music publisher Barbara Mürmann since 1974 and lived in Hamburg.

Discography (composer)

Albums

  • 1980 Sundrops
  • 1981 Stop Talking
  • 1982 Midnight Roller
  • 1983 Rainbow Session
  • 1984 Livin 'In Action
  • 1985 Sound Fighters
  • 1986 Sounds Of Live
  • 1987 Movies
  • 1988 story boards
  • 1989 Hot Vision
  • 1990 No Words
  • 1991 Heartbeat
  • 1992 Ballads
  • 1993 Rock Ballads
  • 1994 Mother Earth
  • 1995 On Air
  • 1996 Book Of Fantasy
  • 2002 Timeless (compilation)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Mürmann - biography. Retrieved January 9, 2020 .
  2. ↑ http://www.discogs.com/artist/Mano
  3. ↑ http://www.discogs.com/artist/Wolfgang+Jade
  4. ↑ http://www.discogs.com/artist/Peter+%26+Wolf
  5. ↑ [https://online.gema.de/werke/searchArea.do archive link] (link not available)
  6. ↑ http://www.diggiloo.net/?1975nl12
personal data
SURNAME Mürmann, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German songwriter, composer, author and music producer
DATE OF BIRTH September 15, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Hützel , Lüneburg Heath
DATE OF DEATH 1st July 2018