Arne Kopfermann Explained

Arne Kopfermann (born August 1, 1967 in Erlangen) is a German Christian songwriter, musician, music producer and non-fiction author.

Life

Kopfermann grew up in Hamburg as the son of the pastor Wolfram Kopfermann. He studied sociology with a focus on media in Hamburg and Frankfurt as well as theology at the University of the Nations in Kona/Hawaii and at the Anskar-Kolleg in Hamburg. He also studied popular music at the University of Music and Theater in Hamburg.

For many years Kopfermann was the musical director of the community music work at the Anskar Church in Hamburg. He composed more than 600 songs, wrote them with and for Daniel Kallauch, Ijakka, Sharona, Albert Frey, Daniel Harter, Sammy Jersak, Sefora Nelson, Anja Lehmann, Samuel Harfst, Winnie Schweitzer and Wayne Morris and published various national project CDs.

From 1999 to 2002 he was head of the Christian music label Projektion J Music House in Aßlar, and from 2002 to 2010 he was responsible for the Pop and Praise & Worship departments at the Gerth Medien publishing house in Aßlar as A&R Director and Head of Distribution. Since 2008 he has worked primarily as a freelancer and travels to seminars, concert readings and concerts in German-speaking countries.

As a singer, guitarist, lyricist, composer, book author, speaker, and producer, he frequently performs, sharing the stage with Gregor Meyle, Michael W. Smith, Newsboys, Casting Crowns, Matt Redman, Martin Smith, Paul Colman, Larry Norman, Claas P. Jambor, Someday Jacob, Sara Lorenz, Sefora Nelson, Noel Richards, Brian Doerksen, Graham Kendrick, the Outbreakband, and many others. He has released numerous CDs under his own name in the field of "modern church music" as well as with concert music.

Kopfermann was the initiator of the Ichthys Worship Night in Frankfurt, which took place six times a year from 2002 to 2010. Since 2005, he has been a music ambassador for the aid organization World Vision Germany alongside Judy Bailey,[1] and since 1999, he has been a lecturer at the Worship Academy in Altensteig.

In the summer of 2006, he performed as a musician at the large event Calling All Nations in Berlin, initiated by Noel Richards.[2]

Arne Kopfermann is married and has a son. He processed the tragic death of his ten-year-old daughter in a car accident, for which he was partly responsible in 2014, through a double CD and the book Mitten aus dem Leben in 2017.[3] He described the impact of this event on his relationship with God in his 2020 book Auf zu neuen Ufern.[4]

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Notes and References

  1. https://web.archive.org/web/20160121212353/http://www.ead.de/nachrichten/nachrichten/einzelansicht/article/judy-bailey-und-arne-kopfermann-gemeinsam-fuer-world-vision-auf-tournee.html Einzelansicht
  2. http://www.christen-in-berlin.de/cgi-bin/cib_pub_webseite.pl?Newsdetail=3106 Am 15. Juli 2006 fand im Berliner Olympiastadion die von etwa 24.000 Christen besuchte Großveranstaltung Calling All Nations statt
  3. https://www.pro-medienmagazin.de/kultur/buecher/2017/11/03/geschrieben-mit-traenen/ Geschrieben mit Tränen.
  4. https://www.livenet.ch/themen/leben/kultur_musik/buecher/379418-arne_kopfermann_auf_zu_neuen_ufern.html/ Buchtipp: Arne Kopfermann: Auf zu neuen Ufern.