Our Roots
Our company founders, Gigi Hintermeier and Carl Hecker, poured their energy, passion, hearts, and souls into making LIMELIGHT what it is today. One a technician who, when a budding engineer in the seventies, developed, soldered, and assembled mixing consoles in his basement; the other a music lover who used his personal charisma to steer LIMELIGHT in the right direction.
What began in the 1980s with concert tours featuring Mother's Finest, Johnny “Guitar” Watson, Hildegard Knef, and Joe Cocker has now grown into a major player in the international live communication industry. And yes, LIMELIGHT is still peopled with music-lovers today.
Invented by an engineer
The LIMELIGHT story started at a time when people still built their own speakers, and whole university dissertations waxed lyrical about mixing consoles.
Music was their first love
Music was their passion. Instead of starting a band, they became a technology service provider for bands.
Two for the music
... one for the show. Gigi and Carl were both passionate about music, Gigi as a tech head and Carl as the creative mind, the customer-centric salesman.
Open Air Olympiapark
A different festival every week. We slept in the flight cases and mainly worked with sound and slide projectors.
Rock 'n' Roll Roots
The first major jobs were concert tours with Mother's Finest, Johnny Guitar Watson, Hildegard Knef, Steve Morse, Gitte Haenning, and Joe Cocker.
Our first fleet
Gigi's green Bulli was the first vehicle in our transport fleet. He was always overloaded. And if no trusses were transported on the roof, then it were Gigi's canoes. So a 12-ton truck soon followed - much to the delight of "trucker Gigi".
Turn the lights on
Our first computer plus plotter for drawing light plans. We had innovative technologies from the very beginning.
Spreading down the street
Our growth happened very naturally: The shared apartment was the operations center and more and more storage rooms were rented. Then we moved to the Kirschgelände in Munich/Allach and slowly expanded from street number 18 to 20.
Lost - an found - in music
With Apple, Citroën, Toyota, and Siemens, our focus shifted more towards industrial customers and we no longer slept in cases. A new era was beginning.