ABOUT THE lene-marlin.info WEBSITE

Established September 2008 by Tef Johs

This Site is the Legacy of the Earlier Popular Website lene-marlin.no (2003 - 2006)

In September 2003, Lene Marlin released her second album, Another Day, after having been out of the limelight for over three whole years (March 2000 - July 2003). In connection with this huge event, Lene fan Martin Scherer in Norway created a website on the domain lene-marlin.no, and hired Tef Johs to be working on the content of the site. In the weeks and months following the website's creation, the lene-marlin.no fan site blossomed, even attracting the attention of Lene Marlin herself, and her management. However, after almost three years of fruitful and dedicated collaboration, the lene-marlin.no website closed down, in April 2006, after having followed Lene through the release of her third album, Lost In A Moment, in June 2005.

This site, lene-marlin.info, is aiming to be much of what the earlier lene-marlin.no was to Lene herself, hopefully, and what it was to her dedicated fans worldwide. A Norwegian based Lene fan site is important, for many reasons. First and foremost, the absolute latest news about Lene events in Norway comes first in Norwegian press, and thus must be translated to English if the fans in the rest of the world should stand a chance of following Lene's activities. No doubt, she is mainly working in and from her native country, and most of the new events are coming up in Norway. There are exceptions to this, but a Norwegian based Lene site is nonetheless very important for the continuing support of our favourite female songwriter and musician.

FRQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS (SITE FAQ)

Question: What is the main focus of this site, lene-marlin.info?

Answer: The main focus is article and news presentations, including current news, historic material, research articles, important cornerstone interviews, previous larger interviews from magazines, newspapers and the general press.

Question: How long must I wait from an article is published in Norwegian in a Norwegian newspaper until I can read it in English here on lene-marlin.info?

Answer: The aim is that international fans should wait no longer than 6 hours from  a freshly published, important, news article is published in the Norwegian press before it appears in English on lene-marlin.info.

Question: Is the former webmaster of lene-marlin.no, Martin, also a collaborator or in any way involved with lene-marlin.info?

Answer: No. Tef Johs is the sole Owner of the domain, the Webmaster, and the Super Administrator. His decisions and judgement is Law on lene-marlin.info.

Question: Why did lene-marlin.no close down in April 2006?

Answer: It closed down due to disagreement between the central members of the staff. No more needs to be said on that subject. That site is long gone, and everyone should rather focus their attention on lene-marlin.info instead.

Question: Why didn't you call the new site lene-marlin.no as well, keeping the legacy from the former site?

Answer: The lene-marlin.no domain is occupied by the former webmaster of that site, and cannot be registered again by a new webmaster (i.e. Tef Johs). Thus, a new domain and a new webaddress was necessary. The lene-marlin.info is a perfect name for a domain dedicated to keeping all the tons of historic and current information about Lene stored.

Question: There are many, many historic articles published on this site. Have all these articles been published in English previsously elsewhere, for instance on lene-marlin.no or on lene.it?

Answer: Many of the historic articles have previously been published in English, but there are also many that are freshly translated by Tef Johs, and published in English on lene-marlin.info for the very first time. See the Historic Lene section to view articles never before published in English anywhere on the internet, providing more early history background and deepens the Lene Marlin legacy further. New articles on Lene's history will continuously be added to this website. That is what the .info part of the website's domain name is all about - as much Lene historic material as is humanly possible. Lene Marlin's professional history is one of the most fascinating stories that can be told in the music industry today. It has been repeated many times over in the past, and it will continue to be repeated in the future, for the benefit of new fans discovering her music and lyrics.

Question: Will the lene-marlin.info website also disappear in a short time, just as the lene-marlin.no site did, even though it was alive for almost three years?

Answer: Absolutely not. The lene-marlin.info domain is owned and controlled solely by Tef Johs this time around. There is simply no chance at all that lene-marlin.info is going down in the foreseeable future. We are talking many, many years ahead. This website is going to stay alive as long as Tef Johs does the same. This is not a threat, this is a promise, to Lene and to all her highly devoted and loyal fans.

Enjoy the only premium Norwegian based Lene Marlin fan site in the World. This is just the beginning, there is an incredible amount of articles and media waiting to be published. If you follow lene-marlin.info, you won't miss a single thing about Lene and all her activities, in Norway and abroad. If you want to contact Tef Johs, for any reason - please be serious in your enquires - you may use the Contact page. This page is also available from the Top Menu, which is visible at all times during your visit on the website.

Best Regards,

Tef Johs

Owner and Webmaster of lene-marlin.info