Patrick Lindner Fortune

Short introduction

Patrick Lindner has become known as an interpreter of popular music and hits as well as an actor and moderator.

Earlier life

He was born in Munich on September 27, 1960 with the name Friedrich Günther Raab and grew up as an only child in middle class circumstances. His late mother Hedwig was a housewife and his father Friedrich an insurance employee. Another source says that his parents ran three inns in Bavaria. His musical inclination and love of acting became apparent in childhood. His parents encouraged the talents to the best of their ability with guitar and piano lessons and acting lessons. After graduating from school, he completed an apprenticeship as a chef and worked in this profession for some time before following his real passion, music. Since his real name did not seem to promote his career, he chose the artist name “Patrick Lindner”.

Career

Lindner has delighted his audience with his charm and his gentle voice for over thirty years and is also active as an actor and television presenter. His path into the music industry began in 1988 with the release of the single “The Dream of Eternal Love”. The following year he was given the opportunity to participate in the “Grand Prix of Folk Music”. With the song “The Clean Door to Paradise” he took second place, which made the singer, who was largely unknown at the time, suddenly known. Numerous releases of albums and singles followed to this day. He often works with the lyricist Irma Holder and the composer Jean Frankfurter. Lindner achieved high positions in the charts with the albums “The Little Things in Life” (1991), “A Handful of Warmth” (1992) and “Love is the Salt of the Earth” (1994). He also became a television favorite in the 1990s and received his own TV shows on ARD and ZDF: “Patrick Lindner personally”, “Such a day with good friends” and the “Patrick Lindner Show”. He has appeared in guest roles in numerous TV series, including “The Dream Ship”, “White Blue Stories”, “Behind Bars”, Storm of Love “or” SoKo 5113 “.

The 1997 album “Himmelweit” marks the turning away from folk music towards the modern hit. Four more albums of this genre followed. In 1999 he took part in the German preliminary decision for the Eurovision Song Contest with the song “A Little Sun” and took sixth place. In 2005, he showed the fans another facet of his musical ability and, together with the “Thilo Wolf Bigband”, recorded a swing album called “Gigolo”, which contains cover versions of English-language swing hits. In 2006 he appeared on the RTL show in “Teufels Küche” and in 2012 took part in the dance show “Let’s dance”. He shone in 2015 and 2016 in the stage performances of the operettas “Im Weißen Rössl” and “Die Fledermaus”.

During this time he also founded the “Patrick Lindner Foundation”, which he is the patron. The non-profit organization aims to help young people grow up and help them find their personality. Among other things, it campaigns for more social acceptance of LGBT people. This social commitment is very important to Lindner due to his own life experiences as a homosexual. In his youth, he had experienced rejections in his family and wider social environment because of his inclination.

In 2005 he and his partner Michael Link adopted an orphan boy from Belarus. Five years after the relationship with Link was broken, Lindner entered into a relationship with Peter Schäfer in 2011. The couple married in 2018 and live together with Lindner’s adoptive son Daniel in Munich. Patrick Lindner’s total wealth is difficult to quantify using publicly available sources. It is only known that he owns a villa worth 2.5 million euros.

Career highlights

The list of his awards Lindner has received over the course of his career is remarkable: three platinum and six gold records and five “gold tuning forks”. He took first place in the ZDF hit parade four times and won the “Popular Hit Parade” eight times. As the first representative of his genre, he received a “Bambi” in 1991 in the category “Most Popular Artist Popular Music and Pop”. In the same year it also took first place in the “Super Hit Parade of Folk Music” with the title “The Little Things in Life”. He has received the “Edelweiß” four times and is the recipient of the “Hermann Löns Medal”. In 2018 he received the international folk music award.

Famous quote

At the award ceremony for the international folk music award, Lindner said about his motivation: “If you can pull people with music like this, you can get them excited,… that’s a great joy, which in turn drives me.” (desired)