UMG Germany Names Ulf Zick Managing Director

Ulf Zick

UNIVERSAL MUSIC GERMANY has appointed ULF ZICK Managing Director as of MARCH 1st. 

ZICK will oversee strategic development and marketing for UMG’s international talent roster within GERMANY, based in BERLIN and reporting to UNIVERSAL MUSIC President/CEO CENTRAL EUROPE and DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON FRANK BRIEGMANN. He takes over the role from DIRK BAUR, who started a new role as President, Marketing Labs division within UNIVERSAL MUSIC GERMANY on JANUARY 1st.. 

ZICK joins UMG from SPOTIFY, where he served as Director, Artist and Management within their Artist & Label services division. Prior to SPOTIFY, he worked for GIBSON GUITAR CORP as Director, Entertainment Relations and served as an Executive Consultant for APOGEEN ELECTRONICS in SANTA MONICA. In addition, ZICK is a musician and experienced artist manager, with prior music industry experience running his own record label, PR and booking agencies. 

Said BRIEGMANN, “I am delighted to welcome ULF to the team. He has great experience within the global music business, and understands the digital transformation towards streaming that the GERMAN music market is now experiencing, both from a business, artist and partner perspective. He has the credibility, know-how, passion and vision to optimally position our incredible roster of UMG international artists to GERMAN music fans and I wish him and his team all the best and lots of future success!”

Added ZICK, “I would like to thank FRANK BRIEGMANN for putting his trust in me. UNIVERSAL MUSIC has an incredible roster of fantastic artists from all over the world, and I am looking forward to ensuring that they reach their maximum impact across all communication and distribution channels. I'm a massive music fan, and this is exactly the spirit that I want to bring across!”

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