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)

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