Christoph Dreher

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Christoph Dreher (* 1952 in Nuremberg ) is a German author , filmmaker and musician . Since 2000 he has been teaching audiovisual media .

Live and act

After studying political science and philosophy at the Free University in Berlin ( diploma 1978), he attended the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (DFFB) between 1978 and 1983 .

Christoph Dreher has been producing audiovisual works as a director since 1979. When he was still a film student, these were some music videos for his band Die Haut ( Der Karibische Western ) and Nick Cave ( Tupelo , The Singer and Mercy Seat ), the film OK OK - Der Moderne Tanz (together with Heiner Mühlenbrock), the Found -Footage-Study Commercial - 40 One-Minute-Adventures in the World of TV (with Gusztav Hamos) and the feature film treatment Die Legionäre (with Ellen El Malki).

Dreher has dealt with topics of pop culture with a special focus on music in numerous documentary films and series . He conceived the series Lost in Music , which in the 1990s covered the entire spectrum of contemporary pop music and its cultures and lifestyles in a total of 18 one-hour episodes. He co-produced the series with Rolf S. Wolkenstein and directed about half of the episodes.

In 1980, together with Martin Peter, he founded the post-punk / post-rock band Die Haut , whose first line-up also included Thomas Wydler and Remo Park . The name was inspired by the book of the same name by the German-Italian author Curzio Malaparte . Apart from Dreher with changing members (the most permanent line-up was that with Dreher, Thomas Wydler, Rainer Lingk and Jochen Arbeit ) the band existed until 2000 and produced numerous recordings during this time. Actually an instrumental band whose influences ranged from bands of the 60s like Quicksilver Messenger Service , Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band or The Stooges to late 70s bands like the New Yorker DNA , they cooperated with numerous international singers such as Lydia Lunch , Nick Cave , Jeffrey Lee Pierce or Debbie Harry .

Dreher has been professor for audiovisual media at the Merz Academy for Design in Stuttgart since 2000 .

Publications (selection)

2010 Author Series - The Reinvention of Television. merz & solitude, Stuttgart (Ed., 324 pp.) Contributions by: David Lavery, Tom Fontana , Ted Mann , Karen Thorson , Diedrich Diederichsen , Thomas Morsch, Kim Akass / Janet McCabe and Bert Rebhandl

2013 Breaking Down Breaking Bad - Dramaturgy and aesthetics of a television series (co-author, with Christine Lang, 160 pages) Merz Akademie series published by Fink Verlag

Filmography and videos (selection)

  • 1980 OK OK - The modern dance (DFFB, script / direction with Heiner Mühlenbrock , 90 min.)
  • 1981 Commercial - 40 One-Minute-Adventures in the World of TV (DFFB, script / direction with Gusztáv Hámos , 41 min.)
  • 1982 Who's That Fat Bitch on the Corner? The Making of Tupelo , with Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds (script / director, 45 min.)
  • 1985 Die Legionäre (ZDF, script / direction with Ellen El Malki , 30 min.)
  • 1992 Die Haut Live: Sweat (co-author / director, with Rolf S. Wolkenstein and Rotraut Pape)
  • 1993–1998 series Lost in Music ( ZDF / 3sat / arte , 18 episodes of 60 minutes each), u. a .: 1993 Techno Trance (co-author / director, among others with Rolf S. Wolkenstein); 1994 Metal Mania (co-writer / director with Rolf S. Wolkenstein); 1995 Reggae Revolution ; 1995 high above Hamburg ; 1995 Hiphop Hooray ; 1996 Deep Into Dub ; 1996 Electronic Jam ; 1996 Chicago Connections
  • 1995–1998 Freestyle series ( VIVA , 105 episodes of 60 min., Studio production, co-author / director)
  • 1996 Street fashion (theme evening arte, 190 min, co-author / director)
  • 1997 Digital Spirit (theme evening arte, 190 min., Co-author / director)
  • 1997 Pop Odyssey - The Beach Boys and Satan (script / director, 60 min.)
  • 1998 Pop Odyssey - House of the Rising Punk (script / director, 60 min.)
  • 2000 Silver Rockets / Kool Things - 20 Years of Sonic Youth (script / director, 60 min.)
  • 2000 Fantastic Voyages series , 7 episodes of 60 min. (Script / director): Introduction - Kosmologie d. Music Videos , Nightmares , Body Rock , Short Stories , Liberated Pictures , Wonderful Worlds
  • 2002 Beck - Permanent Mutations (script / director, 60 min.)
  • 2003 Superhuman (book / director, 58 min.)
  • 2004 Voodoo Transformations (script / direction (with Rotraut Pape ), ZDF / Theaterkanal, 27 min.)
  • 2004 Tanz den Voodoo - Der Kosmos des Koffi Koko (written / directed (with Rotraut Pape ), 45 min.)
  • 2005 Youthquake '65 - The London Pop Explosion (script / director, 60 min.)
  • 2007 Psychedelic Revolution '67 (script / director, 77 min.)
  • 2009 No Wave - Underground '80 Berlin-New York (script / direction (with Ellen El Malki), 52 min.)
  • 2012 It's more than TV - The new US series and their makers (script / director, 58 min.)

Music clips

Interactive artistic television and radio projects

  • 1980–1995 Participation in various interactive TV and radio projects by Van Gogh TV , Universcity TV , Ponton Lab ( Ars Electronica , European Media Art Festival, Documenta etc., broadcast on 3sat, local TV stations, own broadcasters etc.)

Prizes and awards (selection)

  • 1985 sponsorship award from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia
  • 1985 Best TV-Production (2nd International Biennale Video Ljubljana) for Die Legionäre
  • 1985 Certificate de Merite (Video Culture Ontario) for The Legionaries
  • 1986 North Rhine-Westphalia Art Prize
  • 1993 Silver Cable - Innovation Prize for Cable and Satellite Programs, for Lost In Music: Tekkno - Trance
  • 1994 Special Prize from the Minister of Culture of North Rhine-Westphalia at the Adolf Grimme Prize for Lost In Music - Hip Hop Hooray (together with Christian Cloos )

Sound carrier with Die Haut (1981 to 2000, author / musician) (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ www.merz-akademie.de/projects/breaking-down-breaking-bad
  2. ↑ Fantastic Voyages: Emancipation from desolate - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - Culture
  3. ↑ DER SPIEGEL 52/2000 - How the pictures learned to dance
  4. ↑ Nick Cave Fixes: No Wave: Underground 80
  5. ↑ Berlin Portraits: Christoph Dreher - Robert Carrithers
personal data
SURNAME Dreher, Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author, filmmaker and musician
DATE OF BIRTH 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg