Clemens Bittlinger
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Clemens Bittlinger (born 8 August 1959 in Mannheim, Germany) is a priest, author of books as well as a song writer of many new sacred songs (German:NGL or Neues Geistliches Lied) and children songs in German.
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[edit] Life
Clemens Bittlinger was born in 1959 in Mannheim, Germany. He was brought up with three sibilings in Germany and the USA, moving around to places where his father was a priest. Inspired by the guitarist John Pearse, he started to play the guitar when he was 14. He also started to write his own songs; and in 1978 he recorded four of them on his first EP.
While working on his first LP Mensch, bist Du´s wirklich, he met the Swiss pianist and producer of music, David Plüss - with whom Bittlinger is still performing together at some concerts. In the beginning of the 1980s Bittlinger studied theology in Mainz und Erlangen and was also a member of the choir Aufwind. Already in these days, Clemens Bittlinger gave around 100 to 120 concerts per year. In 1990 he finished his studies and was ordained a priest for the Evangelische Kirche in Hessen und Nassau, where he was given the special task to work on the musical-cultural mission of the church.
Clemens Bittlinger is married with Rosi and has two children.
[edit] Works
[edit] Famous Songs
- "Auf dem Weg der Gerechtigkeit" (DEKT 97)
- „Aufstehn, aufeinander zugehn“
- „Gott spannt leise feine Fäden“
- "So soll es sein"
- "Ihr seid das Salz" (DEKT 99)
- "Kostbare Momente"
- „Sanna sannanina“
- "Schritte wagen"
- „Sei behütet“
- „Suchen und Finden“
[edit] Recordings
- Mensch bist Du`s wirklich? (1981)
- Jeder Mensch braucht einen Menschen (1983)
- Schwer zu sagen (1987)
- Mensch sing mit (1988)
- Fenster in die Nacht (1990)
- Selten (1993)
- Mensch sing mit 2 (1994)
- Auf der Grenze (1996)
- Lieder vom Kirchentag (1997)
- Aus heiterem Himmel (1998)
- Ich bin...Worte Jesu (1999)
- Clemens Bittlinger & Freunde: LIVE (with David Plüss and Helmut Kandert) (2000)
- Hellhörig (2001)
- Kinder-Wunder-Welt (2001)
- Ihr sollt ein Segen sein (2002)
- Bilder der Weihnacht (2003)
- Liebe macht sehend (2003) (Single with Joy Fleming)
- Fingerspitzengefühle (2004)
- Wie im Himmel (Buch/2006)
- Mit den Augen eines Kindes (2006) (with Anselm Grün)
- Bilder der Passion (2006)
- Das wünsch ich mir – Clemens Bittlinger & Freunde (2006)
- Gott tut gut (2007) – book & CD
- Perlen des Glaubens (2007)
