played six concerts at Chinese concert halls as well as at »Seoul Jazz Festival«, followed in May 2013. From December 2012 to April 2013, Hecker played an extensive European tour, for the most part together with Polarkreis 18 singer Felix Räuber, before returning to China to play concerts in Shenzhen, Chengdu and Shanghai in September 2014. Spellbound Scenes of My Cure In January 2015, Maximilian Hecker released his eight studio album Spellbound Scenes of My Cure in Europe (Eat The Beat Music), Mainland China (Beijing Dragon Flying Culture Media), Taiwan (Avant Garden Records) and South Korea (Leeway). Spellbound Scenes of My Cure, which was produced by Johannes Feige and Hecker himself and was mixed by Tommi Eckart, could be regarded as a concept album, since it deals exclusively with places on earth that Hecker has traveled to. The release was accompanied by impressionist, self- filmed video films that Hecker had shot in the context of these travels. The Best of Maximilian Hecker Following a solo German concert tour in January 2015 and an East Asian one (China, Taiwan and South Korea) in spring of the same year, this time as a duo, with Johannes Feige contributing electric guitar and harmony vocals, Hecker, who had been active for 15 years at this point, released a retrospective of 30 songs, The Best of Maximilian Hecker, in Europe (Eat The Beat Music), Mainland China (Want U Music), Taiwan (Hinote) and South Korea (Leeway) in spring 2016. Between April and July of the same year, his Best of Maximilian Hecker-tour took him and his live musicians Johannes Feige and Nicolai Ziel again to China, Taiwan and South Korea, followed by another Mainland Chinese tour, titled Fancy April in April 2017. Between September 2017 and July 2018, Hecker took part as a live musician in the stage play Wie kann ich dich finden, zu mir ziehen und überreden zu bleiben (written by Anja Hilling and directed by Friederike Heller) at Mannheim National Theatre, for which he had also composed the songs and the score music. Wretched Love Songs In April and May 2018, Hecker released his ninth studio album Wretched Love Songs in Europe (Eat The Beat Music), Mainland China (Want U Music), Taiwan (Hinote) and South Korea (Leeway). The album was recorded and produced in the same fashion as his predecessor, Spellbound Scenes of My Cure, together with Johannes Feige (arrangement and production) und