René Tinner

René Lee Tinner (born February 18, 1953, in St. Gallen) is a Swiss recording engineer and producer who has produced over 200 studio records and numerous live performances.

Career Tinner began his career as the audio engineer of the noted German Krautrock band Can in 1973, with whom he recorded seven albums until 1989. In 1978, he took over the Can-Studio, the Cologne-based band’s the rehearsal and recording room. Tinner managed the studio until it was dismantled and integrated into the German rock'n pop museum in Gronau on November 9, 2007, where it was inaugurated in the presence of all the Can band members and René Tinner himself.

During this time, he also worked as a producer with a variety of artists and bands. During 1978-79, he worked with Lou Reed on Live: Take No Prisoners and The Bells. Other artists and bands Tinner worked with in his capacity as a producer include Maloo (on their single “The Captain of Her Heart”), KFC, Joachim Witt, Trio, Traffic, Holger Czukay, Die Krupps, Floyd George, Julian Dawson, Marius Müller-Westernhagen, Helen Schneider, Fury in the Slaughterhouse, Jule Neigel Band, and Kreisler. In addition, Tinner also produced Jim Capaldi's Living On the Outside (2001).

Tinner went on to work with other performers such as German actor and musician Marius Müller-Westernhagen, Russian band Mumiy Troll, German comedian Dieter Nuhr, Norwegian alternative rock band Serena-Maneesh, and others.

Tinner has also worked on a number of television and film soundtracks. In 2008, Tinner recorded the film music for the Wim Wenders production Palermo Shooting (which was presented at Cannes Film Festival in 2008). Other notable television and film soundtrack productions include Knife in the Head (Reinhard Hauff, 1978), Schneeland (Hans W. Geißendörfer, 2004) and (, 2012). Tinner is also active as a producer at the Minneapolis-based independent production company Megabien Entertainment.

Discography CAN: Soon over Babaluma, 1974 CAN: Landed, 1975 CAN: Flow Motion, 1976 CAN: Saw Delight, 1977 CAN: Out of reach, 1978 CAN: Can, 1979 Lou Reed: LIVE Take no prisoners, 1979 Lou Reed: The Bells, 1979 Joachim Witt: Silberblick, 1980 Mitch Ryder: Got change for a million, 1980 Duesenberg: Strangers, 1980 Irmin Schmidt: Filmmusik Vol. 1, 1980 Holger Czukay: On the way to the peak of normal, 1981 Jaki Liebezeit & Phantom Band: Phantom Band, 1981 Irmin Schmidt: Filmmusik Vol. 2, 1981 Joachim Witt: Edelweiß, 1982 Jaki Liebezeit & Phantom Band: Freedom of speech, 1983 Trio: Bye Bye, 1983 Joachim Witt: Märchenblau, 1983 Holger Czukay: Der Osten ist rot, 1984 Marius Müller-Westernhagen: Die Sonne so rot, 1984 Zeltinger Band: Der Chef, 1984 Joachim Witt: Mit Rucksack und Harpune, 1985 Holger Czukay & Jah Wobble Full Circle, 1985 Jaki Liebezeit & Phantom Band: Nowhere, 1985 Double: Blue (Captain of her heart), 1985 Marius Müller-Westernhagen: Lausige Zeiten, 1986 Romie Singh: Masters, 1986 Irmin Schmidt: Musk at Dusk, 1987 Julian Dawson: As real as Disneyland, 1987 Rams: Romantic Challenge, 1987 Julian Dawson: Luckiest Man in the Western World, 1988 Marius Müller-Westernhagen: Westernhagen, 1988 Holger Czukay & David Sylvian: Plight & Premonition, 1988 CAN: Rite Time, 1989 Marius Müller-Westernhagen: Halleluja, 1989 Haindling: Muh, 1989 Holger Czukay & David Sylvian Flux & Mutability, 1989 Marius Müller-Westernhagen: LIVE, 1990 Jule Neigel Band: Wilde Welt, 1990 Kreisler: So bizarre, 1990 Irmin Schmidt: Impossible Holidays, 1991 Hans Christian Müller: Zeit lassn, 1992 Jingo de Lunch: Déja Voodoo, 1994 Floyd George: Teenage Radio, 1994 Hubert von Goisern & die Alpinkatzen: Omunduntn, 1994 Michel van Dyke: Reincarnation, 1994 Doran, Studer, Minton, Bates, Ali: Play the music of Jimi Hendrix, 1994 Kurt Maloo: Soul & Echo, 1995 Fury in the Slaughterhouse: Brilliant Thieves, 1997 Pia Lund: Lundaland, 1999 Eric D. Clark: Fur Dancefloor, 1999 Element of Crime: Psycho Engineer 1999 Marius Müller-Westernhagen: So weit, 2000 Hans Nieswandt: Lazer Musik, 2000 Pia Lund: La folie Angélique, 2001 Element of Crime: Romantic, 2001 Jim Capaldi: Living on the outside, 2001 Justus Köhncke: Was ist Musik, 2002 Jim Capaldi: Poor boy blue, 2003 The New London Chorale: The young Mendelsohn, 2003 Justus Köhncke: Doppelleben, 2004 Andreas Dorau: Ich bin der eine von uns beiden, 2005 Helen Schneider: Like a woman, 2007 Marius Müller-Westernhagen: Wunschkonzert, 2008 Serena Maneesh: No 2: Abyss in B Minor, 2009 Safranski, Joeres, Schmeckenbecher: Schiller und die Romantik, 2009 Irmin Schmidt: Filmmusik Anthology Vol. 4 & 5, 2009 Zeltinger Band: Die Rückkehr des Retters, 2010 Dieter Nuhr: Nuhr unter uns (Comedy), 2011 Fortuna Ehrenfeld: Das Ende der Coolness Vol.2, 2015

Filmography Eurogang (TV-series), engineer (4 episodes), 1975 Messer im Kopf (film directed by Reinhard Hauff), engineer, 1978 Flächenbrand (directed by Alexander v. Eschwege), engineer, 1981 Die Heimsuchung des Assistenten Jung (film directed by Thomas Schamoni), engineer, 1981 Rote Erde I & II (TV-series directed by Klaus Emmerich), engineer (14 episodes), 1983/86 Westernhagen Live (video), music producer and mixing engineer, 1990 Lola da musica (TV-series), himself, 1997 CAN: Het zwarte gat (TV documentary), himself, 1997 Tausendschönchen (TV-series (Bloch) directed by Christoph Stark), engineer, 2003 Silbergraue Augen (TV-series (Bloch) directed by Markus O. Rosenmüller), engineer, 2003 Ich werde immer bei Euch sein (TV-series directed by Markus Fischer), engineer, 2003 Wenn Frauen Austern essen (TV film (Tatort) directed by Klaus Emmerich), engineer 2003 Fleck auf der Haut (TV-series (Bloch) directed by ), engineer, 2004 Schwestern (TV-series (Bloch) directed by Edward Berger), engineer, 2004 Der Stich des Skorpion (TV film directed by ), engineer, 2004 Schneeland (film directed by Hans W. Geißendörfer), engineer, 2004 Ein krankes Herz (TV-series (Bloch) directed by Michael Hammon), engineer, 2005 Palermo Shooting (movie directed by Wim Wenders), engineer, 2008 Da Da Da - Drei Mann im Doppelbett (TV movie documentary), himself, 2009 Spiegel TV - "Inside Nazi Germany" (documentary), engineer, 2011 (film directed by ), engineer, 2012 (TV film (Tatort) directed by ), engineer and mixing 2015