Christoph Busse

Christoph Busse (born January 22, 1947 in Berlin ) is a German director , composer and music producer .

Christoph Busse (2015)

Life

Christoph Busse studied from 1968 to 1971 at the German Film and Television Academy in West Berlin , the trade director and was in 1970 a founding member of the jazz-rock group Os Mundi in which he acted as drummer. Other members of the group included a. Udo Arndt (music producer), Mikro Rilling , Wolfgang “Buddy” Mandler, Ludolf Kuchenbuch , Andreas Villain and Erik Spiekermann . The group disbanded in 1980.

From 1971 Busse produced short films for the German Sesame Street for NDR . Between 1976 and 1983 he wrote and produced numerous songs that were broadcast as filmed contributions in Sesame Street, some of which achieved a high level of awareness, including among adults (e.g. the sun song 1977). If not by him, they were mostly sung by Peter Bauer . Until August 1994, these songs and their videos were broadcast on television across Germany. With well over 100,000 copies sold, the series Funny Songs from Sesame Street (1993–1995) was one of the best-known publications in this field.

In 1977 he was director and co-author (with Olaf Leitner ) of the NDR television film Saitenwechsel , which in a semi-documentary narrated the life of the musician Klaus Renft , who was expelled from the GDR . Renft from the group of the same name played himself in it and the film showed the problematic "strings / side changes" from East to West Germany. Peter Bauer also played an important role in this film.

Between 1982 and 1987 Busse produced a total of five albums with the singer Hans Hartz , for which he composed and wrote most of the songs. He wrote and produced songs for Dan McCafferty (front man from Nazareth ), Herman van Veen , Novalis , Nana Mouskouri , Veronika Fischer , Bernd Kaczmarek , Hardy Rudolz , Speelwark and many more.

In 1993 he produced under the pseudonym Robert Rocco with well-known Irish and Scottish musicians (Dan McCafferty, Martin O'Connor, Davy Spillane , John McCoy, Ian Cussick , Sean Keane from the Chieftains , Scott Williams, Susanna Reed, Herbert Bartmann (a German bagpiper ), Drue Williams and Detlef Wiedeke alias Dennis Kramer) the album Seasons - Going home.

In 1995 he set and produced texts by Janosch : Rebellenlieder (Emil Grünbär).

In 1999, together with Winfried Debertin (the inventor of Hallo Spencer ) , Busse created Die Obercoole Südpolgang, a cartoon series about five penguins, which was broadcast for many years in Our Sandman and in KIKA and regularly reached over a million viewers. The songs of the Obercoolen Südpolgang have been sold over 250,000 times.

Busse is also the author of a large number of scripts for the ARD cartoon series Little Amadeus (2006).

Discography (selection)

Albums with Os Mundi

• 1970: Latin Mass
• 1973: 43 minutes

Albums with Hans Hartz

• 1982: Sturm (hit single: The white doves are tired )
• 1983: Merciless (Only stones live long)
• 1984: Dawn (what remains are the politicians)
• 1985: Neuland Suite (music from afar ... Dacapos in the wind)
• 1987: crazy about you

Songs for the German Sesame Street

• Right and left and straight ahead
• The long Lulatsch

• Song from the lighthouse man
• Daydream song
• Tenor-Soprano-Bass-Alto Song
• No matter song (filmed in two versions)
• Mouth noise song
• Sun song
• Monthly song
• Lullaby
• Orchestral song ("want to be a musician")
• There are seven days a week
• Friday the 13th.
• Meatball blues
• Only when you think about how to do it
• Sneeze song

• bits and pieces
• Rowboat song
• Time to be happy
• Hiccup tango
• Song of getting around
• Names, names, nothing but names
• Song of the search
• Song of opening
• Song from the sleepwalker
• Children's bike song / bike song

• Song of oblivion

• Neighborhood song
• Bell song
• Parrot song
• Song of closing
• The dance song
• There are people like that
• Song of stumbling and falling
• Rain song (counterpart to the sun song)
• The glasses song
• The string quartet
• The Cheat Charleston
• The sad clown
• You do that with the left
• Song of the mooring
• Globe travel
• Windsong
• Many, many years ago
• I never go without a hat
• The journey of the ten-mark note
• We're going to Spain
• Cha-cha-cha tropical fruit
• I like sausage (sung by Samson)
• Klapper Ratter Bum Bäng (sung by Rumpel)
• I dream of rubber boots (sung by Samson)
• Vacation on the Tree (sung by Samson)
• Schadenfreude (sung by Rumpel)
• A thousand colorful balloons (sung by Blümchen alias Jasmin Wagner )
• The Alex Scare Machine (sung by Rumpel)
• Buns Tango (sung by Boo)
• Lid closed lid (sung by Rumpel)
• I love to help (sung by Samson)
• I'm not sleeping (sung by boo)
• I invite guests (sung by Samson)
• Song of Forgiveness (sung by Samson)
• When I'm tired (sung by Samson)

Web links

• Christoph Busse in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Chart surfer production information regarding Hans Hartz
• Interview on sprachplanet.de (MP3 file, approx. 75 minutes), the only interview with Christoph Busse that is so far freely available on the Internet.