Jens-Markus Wegener Appointed Managing Director of Imagem Music GmbH

29 January 2013

Jens-Markus Wegener has been appointed Managing Director of Imagem Music GmbH as of 1 February 2013, based in Imagem's Berlin office.

"Bringing Jens into our Berlin office is an exciting step for us," says Imagem Music Group CEO André de Raaff. “Germany is one of the world’s leading music markets and Imagem Music had a very successful year there in 2012. We want to develop our German company rapidly, and see great possibilities to achieve this with the help of Jens, with regard to exploiting our own catalogues/writers, signing and developing German writers, and concluding admin/sub-publishing deals. Jens, whom I know and have followed for a long time already, is one of the best music publishing executives in the German market, so I’m excited to grow our German company with him and Winfried Jacobs.”

Winfried Jacobs (Chief Executive, Imagem Germany): “I am confident that the recruitment of such an experienced music publisher as Jens-Markus Wegener as Managing Director of Imagem Music GmbH will help tremendously to expand our German pop music publishing business. Following the great success of its first year, Imagem Music GmbH is poised to grow even more dramatically this year, with Jens joining a stellar team lead by Artists & Repertoire Manager Alex von Harsdorf that is both young and experienced.”

Jens-Markus Wegener: “The first time I met André de Raaff was when he was MD of Arcade. I always liked his straight-forward business attitude and his visions about the entire music market. Since André launched the Imagem Music Group a few years ago, I have observed how he combined caution with a big vision to build up one of the most interesting international publishing companies on the scene today. I am very honoured to become part of his team now as we continue to build on the successful growth of Imagem Music GmbH.”

About Jens-Markus Wegener

Jens-Markus Wegener began his career in the late '80s with publicity and marketing, including radio, print media and club promotion through his firm, Public Propaganda, with representation including MIDEM (France), Popkomm (Germany) and NewMusicSeminar and MusExpo in the USA. In 1990 he launched DDC-clubcharts, Europe's most influential tracking of the explosive dance scene. That year he also created AMV/Alster Musikverlag, imprints for both USS and LME labels. By the turn of the millenium he had created the German Dance Awards, and became a board member of DMV (the German Music Publishers association). By the late '00s, Wegener had established a JV between AMV and Talpa Music BV to form AMV Talpa GmbH, which, by 2009, had cuts on the #1 albums in the USA and France, as well as Germany and Japan. [Germany: AC/DC: Iron Man 2 / USA: Drake “Thank me later” / France: La Fouine / Japan: Kat-Tun: Going!] By 2011, he was among the top 10 most successful music publishers in Germany, and the following year acquired Talpa's share in AMV Talpa, while selling the AMV catalogue to Budde Musikverlage. Among the German chart hits which Wegener signed to AMV Talpa are: UNHEILIG; Glasperlenspiel “Weit weg”; Popidol-winner Thomas Godoj; “Mein Ding” von Udo Lindenberg; ”Aus meiner Haut” von Oomph!; Michael Schulte (Voiceof Germany);Frank Popp „Hip teens“.

For media inquiries, contact Jens-Markus Wegener at jens-markus.wegener@imagem.com.

About Imagem Music GmbH

Imagem Music GmbH, the latest addition to the roster of Imagem Music Group’s German companies that already includes Boosey & Hawkes, Bote & Bock, Anton J. Benjamin and R&H Theatricals Europe GmbH, was founded in 2011 and started its proactive pop publishing activities in the following year led by Artists & Repertoire Manager Alex von Harsdorf. Imagem Music GmbH is the German sub-publisher of all international Imagem pop music catalogues containing important artists and writers such as Linkin Park, The Script, Alanis Morissette, M.I.A., Bombay Bicycle Club, Daft Punk, Kavinsky, Phil Collins, Steve Robson, Jens Gad, Jarrad Rogers, John Shanks and Sammy Cahn. Since 2012 Imagem Music GmbH represents the catalogue of the Australian/ New Zealand publisher Native Tongue containing such successful artists as Gin Wigmore.