Résumé: Tim Renner

• From 1980

  Tour organizer and radio show host on NDR

• 1983

  Journalist and student of German Studies at the University of Hamburg. Renner founded a press agency for city magazines and wrote for magazines and books.

• 1986

  Junior Product/A&R Manager for Polydor, the rock and pop music label of Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft, Hamburg

• 1989

  Head of Polydor Progressive Music

• 1994

  Managing Director of PolyGram spin-off Motor Music GmbH (Bands developed by this label include Rammstein, Sportfreunde Stiller, Tocotronic, Muse, and Absolute Beginner)

• 1999-2004

  President/CEO of Universal Music Deutschland GmbH (incl. relocation of head office from Hamburg to Berlin in 2002)

• Since 2004

  Managing Director of Motor Entertainment GmbH (establishment and development of Motor Entertainment GmbH in Berlin)

• 2009

  Appointed Professor at the Pop-Akademie Baden-Württemberg

• 2014

  Appointment as Permanent Secretary for Cultural Affairs in Berlin

Advisory boards:

Tim Renner is an honorary member of the Presidium of the Berlin Chamber of Industry and Commerce (IHK Berlin) and a member of the board of medianet Berlin/Brandenburg and the advisory board of Musicboard Berlin.

Publications:

Tim Renner is the author of several books (Kinder, der Tod ist gar nicht so schlimm/2004, Digital ist besser/2011, Wir hatten Sex in den Trümmern und träumten: Die Wahrheit über die Popindustrie/2013).