Andreas Dorau

Andreas Dorau (born January 19, 1964 in Hamburg) is a German musician. The artist celebrated his greatest successes at the beginning of the 1980s as an interpreter of Neue Deutsche Welle. Andreas Dorau wrote his biggest hit "Fred vom Jupiter" at the age of 15 as part of a school club. He sent a remix of the song to the Ata Tak label. In 1982, the single "Fred vom Jupiter" is released under the band name Die Doraus & die Marinas. The song climbed to number 21 in Germany and stayed in the charts for 18 weeks. A year earlier, the band project had already released the album Blumen und Narzissen. Thanks to the success of the single, the longplayer also sells extremely well. After that, however, things quickly quietened down again for Andreas Dorau. At the beginning of the 1990s, he teamed up with Tommi Eckart, who would later celebrate great success with the duo 2raumwohung. Together with the musician, Andreas Dorau released the albums Ärger mit der Unsterblichkeit (1992), Neu! (1994) and 70 Minuten Musik ungeklärter Herkunft (1997). The remix of the single "Girls in Love" made it into the French Top 10 at number 9 in 1997. After that, things became quieter again for Andreas Dorau. In 2014, the best-of album Aus der Bibliothèque was released to mark his 50th birthday. With his tenth album Die Liebe und der Ärger der Anderen (2017), Andreas Dorau enters the German album charts for the first time at number 56. Two years later, the artist reached number 34 in Germany with Das Wesentliche. The album Im Gebüsch followed at the beginning of 2024, reaching number 51 in Germany. Another studio album, Wien, followed just one year later. The album reaches number 78 in Germany.