Anselm Kluge

Anselm Kluge (born November 26, 1950 in Almena ) is a German composer , music producer , arranger and lecturer .

Live and act

Anselm Kluge is the son of Manfred Kluge and was born in 1950 on his grandfather's couch. He learned to play guitar and electric bass himself. From 1959 to 1963 he took cello lessons at the Lübeck Music Academy. He began studying architecture in Stuttgart, then studied German in Hamburg. From 1973 he was bass player in various Hamburg bands, including the formation KÄNGURU - together with Peter Weihe , Herb Geller , Udo Dahmen , Frank Hieber and Claus-Robert Kruse . This instrumental band played numerous thriller music under the direction of Rolf Kühn . During this time, Kluge was already composing and producing for sound carriers, advertising, film and TV. In 1981 and 1982 he accompanied Mario Hené as a tour musician. Anselm Kluge has been a lecturer at the Hamburg Pop Course since 1982 for the subjects of rhythm and groove, bass and band coaching. He has been a professor there since 1994.

Anselm Kluge lives in Hamburg.

Activity as composer and arranger (selection)

• 1985 bass and string arrangements for Ulla Meinecke The pride of Italian women
• 1986 Arrangement commission for Konstantin Wecker -Special ORF, producer and arranger for Gitte Haenning , film music Familienbande for NDR
• 1987 various compositions for Sesame Street
• 1989 founding and since then leading the brass band TÄTÄRÄ - more than 1000 engagements (status 2012) including numerous foreign appearances, among others for the Goethe-Institut (Riga, Tallinn, Warsaw, Glasgow, Hong Kong, Bombay, Colombo, Istanbul, Lisbon, Guangzhou, Nanjing, Chongqing / China, Abu Dhabi, Dubai), at the world exhibition in Seville and Genoa, at the Cairo Book Fair or at the Lord Majors Parade in London. Three records have been released so far.
• 1989 LP production Kapitale Burschen for Wigald Boning , arrangements and co-production for Julia Neigel , arrangements for Bläck Fööss ( EMI )
• 1991 Arrangements and recordings for Die Prinzen with Annette Humpe - z. B. for the title Gabi and Klaus
• 1995 Founding of the label nullviernull with Joja Wendt
• 1996 String arrangements for the Pe Werner album etepetete , producer of the Nils Landgren album Paint it blue
• 2002 Arrangements for Heinz Rudolf Kunze Tailwind - released by WEA Records
• 2006 Brass arrangements for Mousse T. , Ich + Ich ( Vom Same Stern ), composition of the TV music for Pilawa makes school

Web links

• Cool stuff from the drum and brass band , Die Welt , June 19, 1999
• Entry at the Hamburg Pop Course