Career
He was born in Stommeln, Germany, son of a Jewish mother and Catholic father. He started out as an actor, but later became a sound engineer and record producer. Dierks started his musical career in the bands: Hush, Ash Ra Tempel, Nektar (part of the Cosmic Jokers project) and Tangerine Dream, soon becoming one of the figureheads of the Krautrock music genre.
He found his passion for heavy metal, when he and his ex-wife, Corina Fortmann, discovered the then-unknown band Scorpions. In 1975 he produced their third album together called: In Trance, then Virgin Killer (1976), Taken by Force (1978), Tokyo Tapes (1978), Lovedrive (1979), Animal Magnetism (1980), Blackout (1982), Love at First Sting (1984), World Wide Live (1985), and Savage Amusement (1988). Scorpions became one of Germany's biggest bands of all time, having world wide success and going several times Gold and Platinum.
Dierks also produced hard rock/glam metal band Black 'n Blue's 1984 self-titled debut album, one album by Twisted Sister, and several albums by Accept and Nino de Angelo. In 2005, he returned to music production when former Michael Jackson manager, Dieter Wiesner, approached him to produce singer Nisha Kataria. The production of her first album was completed in November 2005.
In 1990 he split with the Scorpions going on to invent a new technology, called the DVDplus, which faced some controversy due to the development of a similarly functioning format, the DualDisc, by the U.S. recording industry.
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