2024-011-14

»Lotteheart« – Live dates

2024-10-26

Lyric video for »Suspended Heart« launched

Releases > Neverheart

Music video directed by The Sorrows of Young Werther. 2024.

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2024-09-27

Remix of »The Whereabouts of Love« out now!

Releases > The Whereabouts of Love - Remix

Music video directed by Sonja + Leif. Edited by Olaf Vennebusch. Additional editing by The Sorrows of Young Werther. 2012/2024.

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2024-08-31

»›Tatort‹ trifft Literatur und Musik« – Feature about »Lotteheart« in Kurier

»Once upon a time at legendary Berlin restaurant White Trash Fast Food, actor Mark Waschke (»Tatort Berlin«, among others) and musician and writer Maximilian Hecker had crossed paths back in 2002. ›Surely, we became friends for nightlife‹, to make a little pun here, Hecker grins in our interview. Over the years, the two haven't lost sight of one another and are now collaborating on the show LOTTEHEART at Theater Akzent in Vienna.«

→ Kurier, August 31, 2024

2024-08-14

Music video for »Leave-taking Song« launched

Releases > Neverheart

Music video directed by The Sorrows of Young Werther. 2024.

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2024-04-09

»Die letzten 24 Stunden« – Interview with Cicero Magazine

»I am in a state of equipoise that in a way anticipates death. The dissolution in isolation is a romantic ideal for me. As I often do, I take a trip to the outskirts of town, escape the rigors of social life, the constant feeling of being under surveillance, take refuge in the protective solitude of an industrial area – my Venice of the outcasts.«

→ Cicero, issue #4, 2024

2024-02-19

Music video for »Two-toned Love (part II)« launched

Releases > Neverheart

Music video directed by The Sorrows of Young Werther. 2024.

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2024-01-25

Das Buch zur Woche – Maximilian talking about »Lottewelt« on Diffus Magazin podcast

→ Das Buch zur Woche, January 24, 2024

2024-01-23

Interview with Kaput Mag about »Lottewelt« and »Neverheart«

»The protagonist who appears to be accursed, to hang on the threads of fate like a marionette, therefore incapable of actively changing his fate, the protagonist whose path through life and love appears to be settled – for one thing by his past, but also by himself, since he's both first-person narrator as well as first-person experiencer of his own story.«

→ Kaput Mag, January 23, 2024

2024-01-21

»Das Herz ist eine miese Gegend« –
Feature about Maximilian's new work in Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung

»An album perfect for trudging through anonymous city streets after dusk in light snowfall, watching nature and civilisation scramble with one another. Sparkling piano notes, wafting soundscapes, delicately plucked electric guitar strings, percussion for which one actually should have found a less martial term, as the drums and the cymbals are only patted mostly. Yet, the instruments basically just prepare the bed on which Hecker's falsetto voice rests – Well, nonsense: over which it floats.«

→ Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, Lukas Heinser, January 21, 2024

2024-01-21

»Maximilian Heckers Arrangement-Gewitter« –
Review of »Neverheart« in Aachener Zeitung

»What was possible for the heroically glorified Nick Drake in England in the late 1960s is even more possible for Maximilian Hecker: to create songs that are in constant danger of bursting with charming ambivalences. The ten songs on NEVERHEART are powerful not because of their arrangements. On the contrary: Hecker relies on the disturbing nature of the quiet. Like countless musicians before him, he sings with an angel's voice about love as a great force capable of unifying people.«

→ Aachener Zeitung, Michael Loesl, January 21, 2024

2024-01-19

»Balsam für die gebeutelte Winterseele« –
Review of »Neverheart« in Frankfurter Rundschau

»Hecker, who has already been compared to one of the greatest songwriters, namely Nick Drake (probably due to a certain habitual similarity in Hecker's early years), is long since – and above all: still – one of the most important local voices in the only here and there truly virtuosically ploughed no-man's-land between Schlager and indie. In any case, a musician like Tristan Brusch (who masters the un-kitschy kitsch similarly well), and who recently has been celebrated by the music press and the feuilleton, wouldn't perhaps have a chance these days without the great art of a Maximilian Hecker.«

→ Frankfurter Rundschau, January 19, 2024

2024-01-19

Maximilian's new album »Neverheart« out now!

Releases > Neverheart

»The hearts of the protagonists on NEVERHEART are torn: Giving themselves away and yet staying alone. But however tragic their dissociated and unfulfilled existence should be – the accompanying bittersweet melody is just as comforting. An atmosphere so dense, a sentiment so immediate.« (Jörn Schlüter, Rolling Stone)

Music video for »Fall in Love, Fall Apart« directed by Til Obladen. 2024.

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2024-01-18

»Wiegenlieder für Erwachsene« –
Maximilian at Deutschlandfunk Kultur

→ Tonart, January 18, 2024

2024-01-18

Interview with Mucke und Mehr Magazine

»The lyrics of NEVERHEART say: I'm leaving home for good. The music says: I'll return home eventually. The lyrics say: Every time you try to love, you fall. The music says: You're loved.«

→ Mucke und Mehr, January 18, 2024

2024-01-17

Maximilian at »Der Soundtrack meines Lebens« by Visions Magazine

→ Der Soundtrack meines Lebens, January 17, 2024

2024-01-05

The finest books in January 2024:
»Lottewelt« recommended by Kulturnews

»The eternal electric Korean life: Unfortunately, there's not enough space here to quote one of Maximilian Hecker's many run-on sentences sometimes comprising several pages of his debut novel LOTTEWELT – in which the singer-songwriter tells an autofictional story of unrequited love in the maze of Seoul, using a language that is sensitive at times as well as mawkish, nostalgic as well as creative, exuberant as well as solidified. Kulturnews editor Carsten Schrader raves: ›Unattainable love and the sorrow of beauty: Maximilian Hecker transfers the yearnings of his musical art into literature. Contrasted with early childhood traumas, the ubiquitous feeling of being lost and all the insecurities, he invents a fractured and romantic language for LOTTEWELT. In a remix with the masked worlds of K-Pop, this ultimately results in a picture puzzle – at the end of which lies self-discovery.‹«

→ Kulturnews: Die besten Bücher 2024 – Empfehlungen für den Januar

2024-01-05

»Lottewelt«: Musical reading by Maximilian

Films > Musical reading by Maximilian

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2023-12-15

Remix of »Two-toned Love (part I)« out now!

Releases > Two-toned Love (part I) Remix

Music video directed by The Sorrows of Young Werther. 2023.

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2023-11-10

»Long-lost Crazy Love« out now!

Releases > Long-lost Crazy Love

Music video directed by Til Obladen. 2023.

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2023-11-01

Chinese tour 2023

2023-10-26

Maximilian's debut novel »Lottewelt«
out now!

Releases > Lottewelt

Films > Musical reading by Maximilian

»Unattainable love and the sorrow of beauty: Maximilian Hecker transfers the yearnings of his musical art into literature. Contrasted with early childhood traumas, the ubiquitous feeling of being lost and all the insecurities, he invents a fractured and romantic language for LOTTEWELT. In a remix with the masked worlds of K-Pop, this ultimately results in a picture puzzle – at the end of which lies self-discovery.« (The finest books in January 2024, Carsten Schrader, Kulturnews)

»With LOTTEWELT, Maximilian Hecker allows his readers an in-depth insight into his insides that not many other writers dare to give. We shouldn't take advantage of his trustfulness.« (Thomas Venker, Kaput Mag)

»In his debut novel LOTTEWELT, Maximilian Hecker manages to translate his very special, personal view of Korea into a captivating language. Fascinated on the one hand by life in Korea, but also put off by it at times, caught between two stools, so to speak, the Berlin musician is able to offer his readers an ambiguous yet very unique view of The Land of Morning Calm. LOTTEWELT is challenging not only because of its precise observations, but also because of its often delusionally romantic, sometimes mercilessly honest prose poetry language.« (Daniel Koch, Diffus)

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2023-10-10

»Neverheart« (single) out now!

Releases > Neverheart

Music video directed by Til Obladen. 2023.

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2023-09-12

»Falling Star« out now!

Releases > Falling Star

Music video directed by The Sorrows of Young Werther. 2023.

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2023-08-15

»Two-toned Love (part I)« out now!

Releases > Two-toned Love (part I)

Music video directed by The Sorrows of Young Werther. 2023.

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2022-02-19

Maximilian on Simply K-Pop Con-Tour

2019-05-29

Chinese tour 2019

»And how could I not be mislead and reckon that this town used to be a paradise on earth«

2019-06-04

Duet with Korean singer LEO (VIXX) out now!

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2019-04-19

Duet with Rachael Yamagata + music video »Headstone« out now!

Releases > Headstone · Untouchable

Music video directed by The Sorrows of Young Werther. 2019.

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2018-12-13

New music video »Into the Ocean« out now!

Releases > Wretched Love Songs

Directed by The Sorrows of Young Werther, 2018.

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2018-05-18

»Wretched Love Songs« out now worldwide!

Releases > Wretched Love Songs

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2018-05-21

Maximilian in Seoul in May

2018-04-27

»Wretched Love Songs« out now
in South Korea, China, Taiwan and Hong Kong!

»I lose my faith in our downfall and the size of our hearts · And I’ll seek for heavy rainfalls to whitewash our souls«

→ HIGHNOTE [Taiwan & Hong Kong] (2CD bonus tracks album)
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2018-03-30

New single + music video »My Wretched Love« out now!

Releases > Wretched Love Songs

Music video directed by Julija Goyd. Camera: Jens Rosendahl. Featuring Heamin Jung, 2018.

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→ Kuwo Music

2017-10-21

Maximilian Hecker & Band - Chinese tour 2018

»Oh tell me where the river flows into the sea of silence«

Apart from Hefei, Kunming, Wuhan and Changsha, all shows are played with full band: Johannes Feige on electric guitar, Björn Werra on bass and Lars Puder on drums.

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