Dietrich Kessler

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Dietrich Kessler (* 1946 ) is a German musician, composer, author and publisher.

Life

Kessler comes from a family of musicians. After graduating from high school, he studied music and German in what was then the GDR . He later became the band leader and composer of the rock band Klosterbrüder ( renamed Magdeburg in 1975 at state pressure ), with whom he produced several recordings as well as television appearances and international tours.

Several of his compositions took top positions in the rating programs of the GDR radio. The 1980 debut album by Magdeburg was also released in the Federal Republic of Germany in 1981. Shortly afterwards, political reprisals led to a break with the GDR regime and the entire band submitted an application to leave the country as a novelty in GDR history . The result was a professional ban. Constant surveillance, denunciations, slander and interrogation led to the arrest of Kessler in June 1983 by the State Security . In September 1984, he was out of prison Cottbus ransomed and came to the West. In his autobiographical book Stasi-Knast , Kessler describes his experiences from this time.

In 1986 Dietrich Kessler founded KDM-Verlag in West Berlin , a music publisher that was sold to the American publisher Alfred Publishing in 2000 . Then he founded the 3D publishing house.

Dietrich Kessler is also active as a musician for the monastery brothers and works as a composer and producer on various CD productions.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Portrait of the monastery brothers at deutsche-mugge.de , accessed on October 28, 2014
  2. ↑ Götz Hintze: Rock Lexicon of the GDR. 2nd Edition. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-303-9 , p. 320ff.
  3. ^ Portrait of Magdeburg at deutsche-mugge.de , accessed on October 28, 2014
  4. ^ Entry of the book at the DNB , accessed on October 28, 2014
  5. ↑ Alfred Publishing takes over the music publishing house KDM. ( Memento from October 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) presseportal.de, accessed on October 28, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Kessler, Dietrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musician, author and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH 1946