[MXD Networking @ SPOT 2025] Meet Amélie Ostara Freund

Name: Amélie Ostara Freund

Company: Pigalle Artists / a.s.s. concerts & promotion gmbh

Title: Head of Pigalle Artists / Booking Agent

Based in: Mannheim, Germany

Can you tell us a bit about the company’s history and its roster?

a.s.s. concerts & promotion gmbh, based in Hamburg, has been an established and successful tour organizer in Germany for over 40 years. The company was founded in 1979 by Dieter Schubert. It has been run as a joint limited company with Michael Bisping since 1986 and now has a third managing director, Dirk Gehrmann. Since its foundation, the company has steadily grown and developed in terms of the number of employees, turnover and areas of work. In addition to its core business as a booking agency and tour organizer for rock, pop, folk, jazz and world music artists, a.s.s. concerts also includes the gala and event department K-Musix under the management of Ina Keilitz and the department for local events under the management of Andreas Hatzegan.
Pigalle Artists has been a young division of a.s.s. concerts for 1.5 years now. Under the direction of Amélie Freund and Luca Selbmann, Pigalle has been able to build up an already diverse roster of newcomers that grows from year to year. The young agency has been involved with most of the artists since the beginning. Pigalle Artists is also focusing more on international acts, where they are already working as local promoters with the Danish duo PRISMA.

And can you tell us a bit about the acts you personally work with at this moment?

I am currently working with the German post-punk/wave band GAST, for whom I booked their first own tour through Germany, Austria and the Czech Republic last year, did pre-production and tour management.
I have also been working with the Danish duo PRISMA since September 2024 and have been booking them in Germany so far.
Together with my colleague Luca, I support the booking of the larger newcomer acts Traumatin and Leuchtstoff.

What was the moment you decided you wanted to work with music?

After school, I did a voluntary year at an association for the promotion of pop culture and pop music, where I had contact with many artists and attended showcase festivals. That’s when I realized that I wanted to stay in this industry and decided to study music business, through which I met a lot of great people from the industry and also ended up in artist booking!

Which acts are you looking forward to seeing this year at SPOT?

I’m really into Indie/Alternative and Sad Pop, so I find Girl Scout, Dork, Inspector Spacetime, Caroline de Place, Mekdes, Rhys, ORA, Thea Dora and School of X very interesting!

Best show you’ve ever seen hands down? 

Holly Humberstone in Berlin in February 2024! It just felt like I was 16 again and felt the rush of a good concert by your idol!