Dirk Zöllner

Dirk Zöllner is a singer, songwriter, composer, musical performer and author and was born in Berlin in 1962. He began his professional musical career in 1985 with his band Chicorée. The ballad "Käfer auf'm Blatt" became the band's hit song. In 1987, he founded the band DIE ZÖLLNER, which played in front of 70,000 people during an open-air festival at the Weißensee racecourse in 1988 as the support act for James Brown and with which he is still on the road today. After the turn of the millennium, he made forays into the theatre and took on the leading roles in "Jesus Christ Superstar" and "Fame" in Dresden, Munich, Pforzheim and Halle. On his 50th birthday, the versatile artist publishes his autobiography "Die fernen Inseln des Glücks" (The Faraway Islands of Happiness) with Eulenspiegel Verlag. This is followed shortly afterwards by "Affenzahn" and "Herzkasper", collections of columns and autobiographical short stories. Dirk Zöllner is also a columnist for the "Freie Presse". Seventeen studio albums have been released under Zöllner's name to date - the last in September 2023 with the title "Portugal".