Corporate News Founding Managing Director André Selleneit returns to DEAG Music André Selleneit and Björn Teske will manage the label jointly Berlin, September 03, 2013 - André Selleneit has returned to the success label DEAG Music on September 01 and takes over, together with Björn Teske, the executive management. André Selleneit and DEAG Deutsche Entertainment AG (ISIN DE000A0Z23G6) founded DEAG Music in 2005. The label offers its artists a perfect 360-degree model. Within the integrated DEAG Group, all areas, which are decisive for the professional career of an artist, from the label through publishing, merchandizing and PR to one of the most successful tour organizers, are available under a single roof. Professional careers such as those of David Garrett – with top chart positions as well as fully booked arenas and open airs – or of Cäthe are convincing examples to demonstrate how this close network of professional expertise and creativity makes a contribution towards the success of DEAG Music’s artists. André Selleneit, one of the most successful and prominent makers on the music market of the past 20 years, will give a fresh impetus to DEAG Music. A first joint signing by André Selleneit and Björn Teske is the artist BE IGNACIO from Sao Paulo/Brazil. The single “Sununga” will be digitally published by DEAG Music on September 06, 2013. “Sununga” has positioned itself successfully in all relevant media and has already climbed to number 79 of the German Single Media Control Charts through radio broadcasts alone. The debut album “India Urbana” will be published in September. Since the early 1980’s Selleneit was in charge of areas such as A&R, Marketing and Promotion and from 1992 onwards he was Managing Director of BMG Berlin. He was one of the key drivers of the No. 1 successes with Modern Talking, Yvonne Catterfeld and Die Prinzen. Together with his team, he achieved many international and world successes with artists such as Right Said Fred and Lou Bega’s Mambo No. 5. During the past three years Selleneit was in charge of the executive management of SONY Music label Ariola, where he was co-responsible for the extraordinarily successful co-operation between Andrea Berg and Dieter Bohlen. Andy Selleneit comments: “It is something special for me to return to DEAG Music and I am looking forward to co-operation with Björn and our super team. The approach to the positioning of a label is unique, and with the 360 degree model we will discover new artist personalities and bring them to the fore.” Björn Teske, who has been managing DEAG Music since 2010 and signed artists such as Cäthe, Alexander Klaws, Makeshift Innocence or Perpetuum Jazzile worked previously for BMG, SONY BMG and SONY Music/Columbia for 13 years, including nine years as Director A&R. DEAG Deutsche Entertainment AG | Potsdamer Straße 58 D-10785 Berlin fon +49-30-810 75 0 | fax +49-30-810 75 519 | [email protected] | www.deag.de Sitz Berlin | Amtsgericht Charlottenburg | HRB Nr. 69474 | Vorstand: Prof. Peter L. H. Schwenkow (Vorsitzender), Christian Diekmann Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: Wolf-D. Gramatke | Bankverbindung: Commerzbank AG, BLZ 100 400 00 KTO 20 95 800 00 page 2 of 2 Björn Teske is looking forward to the renewed co-operation with Andy Selleneit: “I have had many years of very successful co-operation with Andy at BMG Berlin during which we jointly built professional careers of artists such as Alexander Klaws and Yvonne Catterfeld. Andy recruited me at DEAG Music in 2010. Not least because of the many years of trustful relationships, I am very much looking forward to a renewal of this partnership. Now comes together what belongs together”. Prof. Peter L. H. Schwenkow, CEO of DEAG, about the return of Andy Selleneit: “I am very pleased that with Andy Selleneit we have been able to secure one of the few leading specialists for the development of top artists for us. I am intimately convinced that with him we will become even more effective and will work together with great artists.” DEAG Deutsche Entertainment AG The Executive Board Contact for further information: Axel Mühlhaus edicto GmbH Tel: +49-69-90 550 552 E-Mail: [email protected] DEAG Deutsche Entertainment AG | Potsdamer Straße 58 D-10785 Berlin fon +49-30-810 75 0 | fax +49-30-810 75 519 | [email protected] | www.deag.de Sitz Berlin | Amtsgericht Charlottenburg | HRB Nr. 69474 | Vorstand: Prof. Peter L. H. Schwenkow (Vorsitzender), Christian Diekmann Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: Wolf-D. Gramatke | Bankverbindung: Commerzbank AG, BLZ 100 400 00 KTO 20 95 800 00 .