1984-present: Successes as a producerĪfter Bohlen produced six unsuccessful singles in German for Schlager singer Thomas Anders from 1982 to 1984, they founded the pop duo Modern Talking.
In 1983, Bohlen wrote the song "Mit 17" for Bernd Clüver, which reached the third place of the German pre-selection for the Eurovision Song Contest. The song was covered by artists such as Ricky King. Soon after, he joined the band Sunday, with which he appeared on the ZDF-Hitparade in early 1982 with the song "Halé, hey Louise". None of them reached the top 100, which led to the abandonment of the project in 1981. It was followed in 1981 by two other singles under that name, "Love Takes Time" and "(You're A Devil With) Angel Blue Eyes". That same year, under the pseudonym Steve Benson, he released a solo single in English, "Don't Throw My Love Away". In 1980, he began working for the Berlin-based label Hansa. Monza released a second single, "Heiße Nacht in der City", a German-language cover of Nick Gilder's "Hot Child in the City", which also was unsuccessful. Their first single, "Hallo Taxi Nummer 10", written and produced by Tony Hendrik, was Bohlen's first record and was unsuccessful. In 1978, he founded the short-lived duo Monza with Holger Garbode.
In the late 1970s, he worked as a songwriter at the Hamburg-based label Intersong for numerous Schlager singers. īohlen was still in school when he started writing music. There, he studied business administration at his parents' request at the Georg-August-Universität, finishing his studies in 1978 with a degree. After getting his Abitur at the Wirtschaftsgymnasium der Berufsbildenden Schulen in Oldenburg-Haarentor, he moved to Göttingen. In his youth, Bohlen was a member of the Socialist German Workers Youth for a while and shortly of the German Communist Party, though he is not a member of any party nowadays.
The family later moved to Eversten ( Oldenburg). He was named Dieter Günter Bohlen but later expressed dissatisfaction with his middle name and had it officially struck. His maternal grandmother is originally from Königsberg. Bohlen (right) with the band Sunday in 1981īohlen is the eldest son of building contractor Hans Bohlen (born 1928) and his wife Edith (born 1936), and grew up in East Frisia.
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