Peter Schilling

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Biography

Deutscher Wehrmachtsdeserteur, späterer Dolmetscher und Autobiograf

  • Aliases
  • Peter Shilling·Pierre Michael Schilling
  • Primary profession
  • Music_artist·soundtrack·actor
  • Country
  • Germany
  • Nationality
  • German
  • Gender
  • Male
  • Birth date
  • 28 January 1956
  • Place of birth
  • Stuttgart
  • Death date
  • 2009-01-20
  • Death age
  • 86
  • Place of death
  • Almere
  • Residence
  • Munich
  • Knows language
  • German language·English language

Music

Lyrics

Movies

Books

Trivia

As a teenager, he had a hard time trying to decide on a career as a musician or a career as a soccer player. He eventually chose music.

He has made over 200 TV appearances

After his hit single "Major Tom" had been #1 in Germany, he recorded an English version, which topped the single charts in several countries and went to #14 in the US Top 100.

Released the comeback album "Zeitsprung", which was a commercial disappointment.

His 1983 English language album "Error In The System" went to no. 1 for 2 months in Canada, generating his only hit single "Major Tom", a retelling of David Bowie s classic 1969 song "Space Oddity".

Has a daughter, Janina.

Resides in Munich, Germany.

Published "Lust Faktor Wellness", a wellness book for men, in 2005.

(September 2005) Released his 1st book "Lust Faktor Wellness"

(November 2004) Released comeback album "Zeitsprung"

(May 2006) Releasing new album "Das Prinzip Mensch

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