Herbert Grönemeyer – Wikipedia

Herbert Arthur Wiglev Clamor Grönemeyer (Born April 12, 1956 in Göttingen) is a German musician, music producer, singer, composer, copywriter and actor. He became a wide audience primarily through his appearance in the movie The boat known. Since 1984, all of his German -language studio albums have placed in first place on the German album charts. His album Person (2002) sold 3.6 million times, 3.15 million times in Germany, and is therefore the second best -selling musical album in Germany. With over 18 million recordings sold in Germany, Grönemeyer is the most commercially successful contemporary musician in Germany.

Childhood and youth (1956–1973) [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

When Herbert Grönemeyer was born, his parents lived in Clausthal-Zellerfeld. Grönemeyer’s mother was the nurse Hella Carin, born from a German -Baltic family of doctor, a descendant of the doctor Carl Abraham Hunnius, his father, the mining engineer Wilhelm Grönemeyer from Westphalia (1916–2003). ^{[first] [2] [3]} Since his mother had to consult specialists for the birth, he was not born in Clausthal-Zellerfeld, but in Göttingen.

He was the youngest child in the family, one of his brothers is the doctor Dietrich Grönemeyer. When he was about a year old, his parents moved with him from Clausthal-Zellerfeld to Bochum, where he grew up. Thanks to his maternal family, he came into contact with music and, like his brothers, received piano lessons at eight years. In retrospect, he describes his upbringing as follows: “I think I grew up between love, musical affection and a lot of strict.” He was confirmed at the age of 14. ^[4]

In Bochum he attended the humanistic high school on Ostring and was involved in the school choir. At the school he also met the later actor Claude-Oliver Rudolph. Together with Rudolph, Grönemeyer earned his first money at the Schauspielhaus Bochum as a pianist, where he also acted as a musical director, while his friend worked as an actor.

Artistic beginnings (1974–1983) [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

As a singer of the bo-band at the Bochum Schauspielhaus, Grönemeyer first came into contact with theater life as an actor. Later he worked as a cork repetitioner and made the first compositions in 1974. He owes his discovery as an actor to Joachim Preen, who was for the piece John, George, Paul, Ringo and Bert by William Martin Russell for the first time.

After graduating from high school in 1975, he started studying music and law at the Ruhr University in Bochum, but broke off after five semesters. ^[5]

In 1976 Grönemeyer became musical director at the Schauspielhaus Bochum and played other theater roles there, such as the Till Eulenspiegel, the prince Orlofsky in Johann Strauss ’ The bat and the Melchior in Frank Wedekinds Spring awakening . Here he also worked with Peter Zadek and the choreographer Pina Bausch. ^[6]

Although Grönemeyer never attended acting school, he played in some television films. The acting career became a role in the film in 1977 The hostage promoted. When filming Jürgen Flimm’s television film That is not enough for us In 1978 Herbert Grönemeyer met the actress Anna Henkel, who later became his wife. Next year his first record with Dieter Flimms Jazzrock group “Ocean Orchestra” (partly the music for this film) with Grönemeyer was published as a lead singer.

In 1979 he worked as an actor in the television film At home under strangers for the ARD. ^[7] In the same year he worked under acting director Claus Peymann for a few months as a musical director at the Württemberg State Theater in Stuttgart. At the Schauspielhaus Cologne he gave the Lorenzo in The Venice merchant . His solo debut album Grönemeyer received the “golden lemon” for the ugliest cover of the year. Also his second album Two From 1981 there was no commercial success.

In Wolfgang Petersen’s film The boat (according to the novel by Lothar-Günther Buchheim) Grönemeyer appeared alongside actors such as Jürgen Prochnow, Klaus Wennemann, Martin Semmelrogge, Jan Fedder, Heinz Hoenig, Claude-Oliver Rudolph, Sky Du Mont and Uwe Ochsenknecht as Lieutenant Werner.

For the German-German co-production of the Peter Schamoni film Spring Symphony, In which he embodied Robert Schumann – alongside Nastassja Kinski as Clara Wieck and Rolf Hoppe as Friedrich Wieck – Grönemeyer lived in Leipzig for half a year in 1983. ^[8] This film was the first West German production that could be made in the GDR at original locations.

He increasingly focused on his music. He wrote the songs for the next albums Anna and Music only when it is loud . His classic Currywurst also emerged during this time (see also Bratwursthaus ), however, comes from Diether Krebs, Jürgen Triebel and Horst-Herbert Krause. Numerous concerts were canceled on a tour due to a lack of interest. The albums, which were created in cooperation with Otto Draeger and Edo Zanki, were so successful that Intercord Ton GmbH after the album released in 1983 Mixed feelings the contract terminated.

The breakthrough with Bochum and further successes (1984–1991) [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

After moving to EMI, on May 11, 1984 ^[9] Published as a vinyl-LP album 4630 Bochum , especially after a concert recording for the WDR series Rockpalast on November 16, 1984, ^[9] The great success in the music business. The album (Picture) , the title of which refers to the city’s postcode at the time, stayed in the top 100 of the hit parade for 79 weeks and was the most successful album of the year in Germany in 1984. Men made the artist known throughout Germany. In addition, the title song was Bochum On the unofficial hymn of the city, which – in addition to the club anthem – can now be heard shortly before every game of VfL Bochum in the home stadium. And also the ballad Airplanes in the stomach developed into a classic German-speaking rock and pop music. In 1985 Grönemeyer played fathers and sons of the director Bernhard Sinkel alongside Julie Christie, Burt Lancaster and Bruno.

With the album Jumps he moved politically in 1986. The titles Dance and Smile are comments on the nation’s situation. They attack the CDU FDP government coalition and the then Chancellor Helmut Kohl. This was two years later with the Album Ö and the title contained on it With God particularly emphasized.

At the anti-Waahnsinn Festival in the Upper Palatinate Burglengenfeld, Grönemeyer first played over 100,000 spectators.

In 1987 he participated in a solo appearance at the Aufru(h)r of the Ruhr area in the Rheinhausen Stahlwerk with many well -known artists to the demo for the preservation of the steelworks and for the financial support of the workers, which gave him a lot of recognition and popularity with the population.

In the television film Summer in Lesmona , after Marga Berck’s novella, which was filmed with Katja Riemann, Benedict Freitag and Richard Münch, under the direction of Peter Beauvais, he appeared acting and headed for the Soundtrack, which was awarded the Adolf Grimme Prize in 1988 with the Adolf Grimme Prize at. ^{[ten] [11]} Above all, the titles were carried out for the commercial success of the album Ö Hold me, full moon and What shoud that at. At the same time, Grönemeyer’s biggest hits were opened What’s All This published in English. The title song of the album came to the single charts in Canada. A tour through Canada followed.

The album Bochum was also published by the GDR record label Amiga in 1989. Negotiations on the title were preceded Now or never And another title that the state leadership did not want to publish. ^[twelfth]

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, he published the record luxury . Around 100,000 people visited the concert on May 18, 1991 on a meadow in Ahrensfelde near Berlin as part of the tour. Grönemeyer is still holding the audience record for a German musician today. ^[13]

The English -language version of the album luxury appeared in Canada in 1991; It also includes a French version of Marie .

New ways with Chaos , Everything stays different and Person (1993–2005) [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

On January 20, 1993, Grönemeyer married his partner Anna Henkel, the mother of his two children.

The album appeared in the same year Chaos . It came to first place in the German hit parade. The associated tour visited well over 600,000 people in the following months.

The music broadcaster MTV Lud Grönemeyer as the first non-English-language artist on the television program MTV Unplugged a. The concert took place on May 15, 1994 in the Babelsberg studio. ^[14]

At the beginning of 1998 he moved to London with his family, where he spent most of the year until 2007. His long -term collaboration with producer Alex Silva began. Grönemeyer entertained his own studio in the Mayfair Studios, where he continued to produce German -speaking.

On April 21, 1998, Grönemeyer released Everything stays different . In addition to the classic rock band line-up at Grönemeyer, Sounds moved into his studio work in addition to the classic rock band cast at Grönemeyer. The album reached platinum in Germany after less than four weeks. Around 350,000 visitors experienced the first part of the tour.

With the death of his brother Wilhelm on November 1, 1998 and his wife Anna on November 5, 1998, Grönemeyer met two severe blows of fate. Grönemeyer needed over a year to be artistically active again. He later dedicated the song to his wife The way On the album Person (2002).

After the continuation of the Everything stays different -Tour 1999 played Grönemeyer on the Expo 2000 In Hanover with the NDR Pops Orchestra under the direction of Nick Ingman two concerts, from which the double DVD later state of things originated. With the same arrangement, he also played in Berlin in front of the Brandenburg Gate in the same year and in the Saxony-Anhalt landscape park Goitzsche.

The album was released in August 2002 Person . It was awarded platinum before the publication due to the pre -orders. Ultimately, it received 21 times gold and took number 1 on the German album charts for eleven weeks. The single Person was Grönemeyer’s most successful song so far, with which he first came to first place on the German single charts.

From 2002 Herbert Grönemeyer toured as part of his All-Gute-von-Gestern-to-Mensch -Tour through Germany. Also in the city of his youth, the city of Bochum, he performed and performed again and again, with the album Person Finally in the Ruhr Stadium. Actually, the end of the tour was to take place on July 8, 2003 in Montreux. Until then, 1.5 million viewers saw the appearances. Due to the great success, the tour continued in June 2004 with a further eight dates and on January 8, 2005 at the opening ceremony of the Düsseldorf Arena came to its end with a three and a half hour concert after more than two years.

The live DVD, which was released in 2003, was the first DVD to make it to first place on the German album charts.

Football World Cup anthem and album twelfth (2006–2007) [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

On May 19, 2006, Grönemeyers Single was released Time to get things moving , The official World Cup anthem for the 2006 World Cup, which he sang together with the Mali duo Amadou & Mariam. The English title is Celebrate the Day, The French version is called Celebrate this day . As part of the opening of the World Cup in the Allianz Arena Munich on June 9, 2006, Grönemeyer presented the song live. A few days later, the single reached the top of the hit parade and became the second number one hit of his career.

On October 14, 2006, Grönemeyer signed an application for admission to VfL Bochum and received membership number 4630 as an allusion to his successful album 4630 Bochum .

The single published on February 20, 2007 Song 1 – piece from heaven was the first decoupling from the album twelfth . On February 13, she reached first place in the single charts and is Grönemeyer’s third number one hit. The album released on March 2, 2007 reached number 1 on the World Charts and kept for 71 weeks in the German album charts, 5 weeks in first place. twelfth So was the second most successful album in 2007 in Germany and was only able to go from Nelly Furtados Loose be beaten. ^{[15] [16]}

In summer, Grönemeyer went on open-air tour and played 23 stadium concerts in Germany, Austria, Italy, Liechtenstein and Switzerland. The tour ended on June 27, 2007 in the sold -out Stade de Suisse in Bern. In autumn, concerts in front of a small audience followed in exclusive houses. To this end, Grönemeyer – mostly “Unplugged” – played in the Dresden Semperoper, in the Royal Albert Hall in London and in the Heineken Music Hall in Amsterdam.

Grönemeyer has been living in Berlin again since 2007, where he had already lived until 1998. ^[17]

Best-of-Album What must and new projects (2008–2010) [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

Grönemeyer also led the successful one in 2008 twelfth -Tour away. Twelve more dates were on the program. At the end of the tour, Grönemeyer gave a three and a half hour concert for the new opening in Berliner O on September 13, 2008 ₂ World.

On July 3, 2008, Ulrich Stein turned the ARD documentary series Germany, your artists A portrait of Grönemeyers after accompanying him on his tour.

On November 21, 2008, the first “Best-of” double album was released What must . It contains 33 songs from 11 albums and also the titles Luck and Time to get things moving as well as Will I Ever Learn . Will I Ever Learn is a duet with Antony Hegarty by Antony and the Johnsons and was published in advance as With For the Georg-Büchner Lust game Leonce and Lena . In addition, a 72-page Earbook appeared, which also contains a DVD with music videos, a 10-inch remix vinyl and a USB card with remixes, remixes and a video interview on all titles. The DVD also includes the originally rejected, English -language video Full Moon .

On January 9, 2010, Grönemeyer wore his Ruhr area anthem written for this event for the first time at the opening ceremony of the Ruhr 2010 – Capital of Culture in Essen at the Zeche Zollverein Come to the Ruhr before.

Grönemeyer composed the soundtrack to Anton Corbijns movie The American , a Hollywood production with George Clooney in the leading role. The film came to cinemas on September 9th. A day later, the CD appeared with the soundtrack.

On September 29, 2010, Herbert Grönemeyer presented his plans for his open-air tour in 2011, which will lead him mainly through stadiums in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. On the 7th/8th December 2010 Grönemeyer gave three other press conferences in Hamburg, Düsseldorf and Munich. He explained more about the new album and the upcoming stadium tour.

Album and tour Shipping traffic (2011–2012) [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

The single was released on February 4, 2011 Shipping traffic , Title song of the studio album published on March 18, 2011. The single reached the top 10 German charts in the first week.

The album created in London, Stockholm, Berlin and New York Shipping traffic Herbert Grönemeyer has again produced with Alex Silva. Michael Ilbert and New York Michael H. Brauer were responsible for the mix. Immediately after publication, it gained gold status and reached first place on the album charts in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The album contains eleven songs and also after the last title Like me and an eleven -minute break the “Hidden Track” November . According to Grönemeyer, this album is “more powerful and guitar -heavy” than the last album.

On May 6th was published with Fernweh The second single release. On May 31, the Shipping traffic -Open-air tour 2011 with a concert in the IGA Park in Rostock. This was followed by concerts in Hamburg, Hanover, Berlin, Gelsenkirchen, Düsseldorf, Kassel, Frankfurt am Main, Cologne, Stuttgart, Leipzig, Vienna, Klagenfurt, Munich and Bern. The end of the concert in the Lake Constance Stadium Constance on June 24th. Grönemeyer’s stage was like a sailing ship with five masts on which screens hung and was developed by Anton Corbijn. The concert on June 16 in the Leipzig stadium was recorded and was released on November 18, 2011 as a double DVD and Blu-ray disc. The tour was visited by more than 550,000 people and counted a total of 16 concerts. Grönemeyer played up to three and a half hours. According to the industry magazine Pollstar Grönemeyer’s tour is currently taking 11th place in the world rankings and is currently the most successful German production. The magazine evaluates the tours of artists and bands for ticket sales and income every six months. In 2012 Herbert Grönemeyer received the echo as Bester Live-Act national For his tour. He continued the tour with 22 concerts in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Belgium, Holland and Luxembourg. On July 14, 2012, the final concert took place as part of the Montreux Jazz Festival. Until then, over 750,000 spectators had the Shipping tour seen.
The appearance at the Jazz Festival was on November 16, 2012 as a DVD and Blu-ray edition under the title Live at Montreux 2012 published.

In 2011 Grönemeyer was seen on Sesame Straße at Ernie & Bert Songs.

I Walk and anniversary club tour (2012–2013) [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

The English -language album I Walk appeared in Great Britain and in the Benelux countries in October 2012. It was created in collaboration with international artists such as Anthony Hegarty, the Welsh front man and guitarist of the Manic Street Preacher James Dean Bradfield. The work comprises twelve titles and the bonus track Person , a duet with the U2 front man Bono. The majority of the pieces were transferred to English, other pieces such as Will I Ever Learn or Same Old Boys have not yet been produced in German. ^[18] The album cover comes from Anton Corbijn, who shot the photo in Portugal in 2010. ^[19]

A concert in the legendary Londoner Roundhouse took place at the end of October. A few days later, Herbert Grönemeyer started his anniversary club tour View back – 30 years half through Germany, Austria and Switzerland, which led him through smaller halls and clubs. Grönemeyer only played songs here that could no longer be heard live. For fans there was a vote on the setlist on his homepage. On February 19, 2013 was I Walk also published in the USA. Concerts in New York and Chicago followed at the end of February, and an extensive tour was announced for autumn. The I Walk Tour was ended in autumn 2013.

His North America tour started on September 11, 2013, where Grönemeyer presented his English album to the US audience. Starting in Atlanta, she led him through twelve cities (ten in the USA, two in Canada). On September 19, after 24 years, he played again in Montreal, where he had already performed in 1989, at the time in the preliminary program of the Canadian singer Tom Cochrane. ^[20]

A Most Wanted Man and album Constant (2014–2015) [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

Herbert Grönemeyer composed the soundtrack to Anton Corbijn’s movie A Most Wanted Man , an agent thriller that was shot in Hamburg and Berlin. Grönemeyer can be seen in a supporting role. Film and soundtrack appeared in 2014.

Around three and a half years after the publication of Shipping traffic was Grönemeyer’s 14th studio album in November 2014 Constant presented. ^[21] The album immediately came to number 1 on the charts in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. After a week, it gained the platinum status in Germany after a month. Grönemeyer received the golden camera in February 2015 Best musician national . He also became for Constant when Best artist National Rock/Pop honored with the echo. In 2015 and 2016, Grönemeyer presented the album live on concert tours.

On April 22, 2016, he published the song with Felix Jaehn Everyone for everyone To the European Football Championship 2016.

Germany, your artists and album Live in Bochum (2016) [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

On April 10, 2016, Ulrich Stein turned the ARD documentary series Germany, your artists Another current portrait about Grönemeyer.

A double live album was released on November 25, 2016. This includes recordings from the concerts that Grönemeyer gave on June 19 and 20, 2015 in the Bochum Ruhr Stadium. The double CD also includes a new version of the classic Bochum that was expanded to include a new stanza. The WAZ and Radio Bochum were called for the composition. ^[22]

Album Tumult and Tumult -Tour (2018–2019) [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

The album Tumult was released on November 9, 2018; The singles appeared in advance Second am 28. September 2018, Doppelherz / my two hearts (with BRKN) on October 11, 2018 and Why am 2. November 2018. ^{[23] [24] [25]} In 2019 Grönemeyer put the album on his Tumult-Tour 500,000 visitors in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the Netherlands presented in 34 concerts. ^[26] Tour graduation was on October 12th and 13th in Basel. ^[27]

Album That’s going on (2022–2023) [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

In November 2022 it was announced that Herbert Grönemeyer on March 24, 2023 was his 16th studio album entitled That’s going on want to publish. ^[28] The title Your hand was released on November 18, 2022 as the first single of the album, ^[29] On December 16, 2022, followed Cavity . ^[30] With Fearless Another harbinger appeared on February 10, 2023 That’s going on . ^{[thirty first]}

Sometimes before the breakthrough in 1984, the band today consists of bass players Norbert Hamm, drummer Armin Rühl, guitarist Jakob Hansonis and Stephan Zobeley, the jazz saxophonist Frank Kirchner and the keyboarder Alfred Kritzer, who also for numerous string arrangements responsible for. Mark Essien appears as a percussionist. In addition, Rainer Scheithauer has accompanied since the tour Shipping traffic 2011 the band on the keyboards.

The label Greenland Was in connection with the 8-CD box set in 1999 Pop 2000 founded, ^[32] that was created in a project by Grönemeyer together with the television series of the same name. ^[33] Grönemeyer headed the label together with René Renner by the end of 2008. The label has been located in Berlin since 2009 and is looked after by label manager Mareike Hettler. ^[34]

The current and former Greenland artists include AK4711, Boy, Dextro, Gloria, Kira, William Fitzsimmons, Lockdown Project, Merz, Neu!, Petra Jean Phillipson, Psapp, Philipp Poisel, Philipp Dittberner, Roedelius, Sol Seppy and The Earlies.

In 1985 Grönemeyer initiated the project Band for Africa . Similar to Band Aid, it was a joint project by various artists, with the aim of collecting donations for projects in Africa. The single Naked in the wind 3rd place in the German hit parade in 1985.

In 1985 Grönemeyer performed at the first large AIDS Benefiz organized by Rosa von Praunheim.

Grönemeyer has been your voice against poverty together with the umbrella organization of the developmental non -governmental organizations (Venro). The Federal Government reminds the campaign that, like all other United Nations Member States, committed to implementing the millennium goals, including the halving of extreme poverty, by 2015. The project is the German variant of Bob Geldof’s Initiative Make Poverty History in Great Britain. Both are part of the global network Global Call to Action against Poverty (GCAP) .

On July 2, 2005, the so -called White Band Day, he appeared in Berlin with German and international artists, together with well -known stars on the current running Live-8 Concerts around the world.

On June 7, 2007, Grönemeyer competed on the Rostock Musikfestival he initiated Music & Messages on, the parallel to the 33rd G8 summit meeting took place in Heiligendamm.

On June 6, 2009, Grönemeyer and his band and the Bochum Symphonics, led by General Music Director Steven Sloane, gave an almost three-hour benefit concert in the Ruhr Stadium. It brought more than 600,000 euros to the Bochum music center opened in 2016.

On January 26, 2015, Grönemeyer played in front of the Frauenkirche (Dresden) at the music festival Open and colorful – Dresden for everyone! Here artists and bands like Wolfgang Niedecken, Jupiter Jones, Silly, Adel Tawil and others against xenophobia and for a cosmopolitan Dresden.

Grönemeyer, together with Greenpeace, has been committed to protecting the Arctic and the world’s oceans since 2015. Since then, Greenpeace activists have been accompanying the concerts of his tours taking place in Germany to inform concert goers about these topics and to collect supporters. ^[35]

Grönemeyer has been an ambassador for the Afghan women’s association e. V. An organization that has set itself the task since 1992 to provide help for self -help in Afghanistan. B. the construction of wells and schools is financed and organized. He is the successor to the publicist and moderator Roger Willemsen, who died in 2016. ^[36]

On August 24, 2018, Grönemeyer joined the festival Jamel rocks the forester , an event against right and for democracy and tolerance in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. As part of the 240,000 participants #indivisible demonstration for solidarity and against exclusion in Berlin, he appeared on October 13, 2018.

In September 2019, the singer campaigned at a concert in Vienna not to move “a millimeter to the right”. In a video he added: “If politicians weaken, it is up to us to dictate how a society should look”. Grönemeyer received support from Foreign Minister Maas, ^[37] But also multiple criticism of the right and also links, which compared the style and tone of the partially outdated call with National Socialist propaganda by Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels. ^[38]

On March 26, 2020, Grönemeyer released the song Heroes of these times . The song should be a musical greeting and thanks to the heroes of the Corona crisis. ^[39] In view of the second wave of pandemic in autumn 2020 and the associated new closure of concert sites, theaters, museums and exhibition rooms with livelihood -threatening consequences for artists of all divisions as well as the workers to them (“Technician, stage builder, lighting, trucker, bus driver, caterer, Roadies, advanced assistants, sound engineers, club owners, organizers, securities and many others, without whom all artists are helpful and lackluster ”), Grönemeyer pleaded on November 5, 2020 for a“ solidarity payment of the wealthiest ”. There are around 1.8 million millionaires in Germany. “If the wealthiest were ready to make a two -time special payment of 50,000 to 150,000 euros, each in this as well as in the next year, ad hoc would be around 200 billion euros per year to secure livelihoods, to catch bankruptcy and fear to alleviate. ” ^[40]

Grönemeyer has two children (*1987 and 1989) from first marriage with his wife Anna, who died in 1998. He has been married to Josefine Cox in second marriage since May 2016. In 2019 he became a father again. ^[41]

His older brother Dietrich is known as a doctor, scientist and author.

Grönemeyer has had a house in Berlin-Zehlendorf since 1993. ^[42] He also has an estate in Port de Sóller in Mallorca. ^[43]

1 Live Krone 2000: life’s work 2002: Best album (Person) 2003: Best artist Amadeus Austrian Music Award 2004: Music DVD of the year (Mensch Live) 2008: Music DVD of the year (12 Live) 2008: Best album International (twelfth) Comet 2002: Best album (Person) 2003: Artist National 2003: Bester LiveAct 2008: “Star of the Stars” Echo pop 1992: Artists of the Year National 1994: Artists of the Year National 2001: Music Home video DVD production of the year National/International (State of things) 2002: Music Home video DVD (State of things) 2003: Artists of the Year National (Person) 2003: Rock-Pop single of the year National (Person) 2004: Music DVD production National/International (Mensch Live) 2008: Artists of the Year (National) (twelfth) 2008: album of the year (national or international) (twelfth) 2012: live act of the year 2015: Artist National Rock/Pop (Constantly now)

Golden camera 1999: German rock music 2015: Best music national Further awards 1979: Golden lemon For the worst album cover (Grönemeyer) 1988: Adolf Grimme price with gold for Summer in Lesmona (together with Reinhard Baumgart, Peter Beauvais and Katja Riemann) 2003: DIVA-Award – Artistic Achievement Award 2003: World Music Award – Best German Pop/Rock Artist 2005: European Hero ( Time ) – Commitment to poverty in the world 2005: Special Jubilee Award – Baloise Session Award 2007: 1st place in the election as the best musician in the ZDF program Our best On the subject of “music stars of all time” 2011: German Radio Prize – Special Prize

Studio albums

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Feature films

Documentaries

• 2007: On the way – Herbert Grönemeyer Tour 2007 , DVD (director: Ulrich Stein)
• 2008/2016: Germany, your artists: Herbert Grönemeyer , ARD (directed by Ulrich Stein)

• AREZU Side wood and Katrin Funcke: To person. Sketches and looks back on Herbert Grönemeyer’s album »Mensch«. Illustrations by Katrin Funcke . Antje Kunstmann, Munich 2022, ISBN 978-3-95614-529-2.
• Verena Scheffel: I lost that (Social reflections in the song texts Herbert Grönemeyers). Tectum Verlag, Marburg 2005, ISBN 3-8288-8840-2.

Illustrated books

Biography

Lyrics

• Herbert Grönemeyer: Everything (Song book with all songs; texts & chords). Bosworth Music 2008, ISBN 978-3-86543-335-0.
• Grönemeyer: Twelve songbook . Voggenreiter Verlag, Bonn 2007, ISBN 978-3-8024-0608-9.
• Grönemeyer: Mensch Songbook . Voggenreiter Verlag, Bonn 2003, ISBN 3-8024-0455-6.
• Grönemeyer: Everything stays different. All songs of the CD. Arranged for piano, guitar and vocals . MDS, 1998, ISBN 3-7957-5448-8.
• Grönemeyer: Song book Herbert Grönemeyer, 4630 Bochum . Voggenreiter Verlag, Bonn 1985, ISBN 3-8024-0139-5.