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FM Einheit (aka Mufti ) is the artist name of Frank-Martin Strauss (born December 18, 1958 in Dortmund ), known as a member of the Einstürzende Neubauten music group and as a music producer .

Career

Frank-Martin Strauss is the younger brother of the actor Ralf Richter .

Since 1979, the year he dropped out of school, he has worked as a musician in various groups and solo projects. 1983–84 he lived in London, then in Berlin and Bavaria. At first he was a member of the bands Abwärts and Palais Schaumburg as well as drummer in the band around the singer Mona Mur . Since the early 1980s he has also been a percussionist (metal drums) and a long-term member of the Einstürzende Neubauten. FM Einheit has contributed a lot to the sound of Einstürzende Neubauten and was, alongside Blixa Bargeld , one of the dominant personalities in this group. He was also involved in the Geniale Dilletanten festival in Berlin in 1981 . FM Einheit was also part of Vladimir Estragon with Alfred Harth , Ulrike Haage and Phil Minton and producer u. a. from KMFDM and Goethe's heirs .

In 1984 Strauss played the lead role alongside Christiane Vera Felscherinow ("Christiane F.") in the feature film " Decoder " (directed by Muscha ).

From the end of the 1980s onwards he increasingly emerged as a composer of incidental music. a. for productions by Peter Zadek , Wolf Seesemann , Werner Schwab and Hasko Weber

In 1990 the CD Stein was released under his name , recorded with Ulrike Haage and Katharina Franck from the Rainbirds .

When FM Einheit left the Einstürzende Neubauten, partly because of a dispute with frontman Blixa Bargeld (mid-1990s), he worked with the Danish singer Gry Bagøien . They released two albums: The Touch Of E! (1999) and Public Recording (2001).

For his radio play work with Andreas Ammer , a. a. Radio Inferno (1993), Apocalypse live (1994), Deutsche Krieger - Tonträgeroper (1996) and Crashing Airplanes (2002), he has received several awards, most recently in 2019 with the Günter Eich Prize for their collective oeuvre.

Discography


See also: Discography of FM Einheit with Einstürzende Neubauten (1982 to 1995)
See also: Discography of FM Einheit with Gry
See also: Discography of FM Einheit with Mona Mur

Filmography

Radio plays

  • 1993: Andreas Ammer , FM unit: Radio Inferno based on the Comedia Divina by Dante Alighieri , director: the authors (BR / HR) awarded the Prix ​​Futura
  • 1994: Andreas Ammer, FM Einheit, Ulrike Haage : Apocalypse Live after the Revelation of John , Director: Ammer / Einheit (BR / Bayerisches Staatsschauspiel, Marstall / Bayerische Staatsoper, Labor) awarded the War Blind Radio Play Prize and the Prix ​​Italia
  • 1995: Andreas Ammer, FM unit: German warriors. Recorded opera , directed by the authors, (BR)
  • 1997: Andreas Ammer, FM Einheit, Ulrike Haage: Odysseus 7 - Radio Space Opera , director: the authors (BR / HR / WDR / Marstall)
  • 1998: Andreas Ammer, FM unit: Frost - Robert F. Scotts Tod im Eis , director: the authors (WDR)
  • 2000: Kerstin Specht : Der Flieger , director: the authors (BR)
  • 2001: Andreas Ammer, FM Einheit, Sebastian Hess : Marx Engels Werke , director: Ammer / Einheit (BR)
  • 2001: Andreas Ammer, FM unit: Crashing Airplanes , director: the authors (WDR / Deutschlandradio Kultur) awarded the war blind radio play award
  • 2002: Andreas Ammer, FM unit: Alzheimer 2000 / Toter Trakt , director: the authors and Stefan Maurer (WDR / RB)
  • 2004: Andreas Ammer, FM unit: Lost & Found: Das Paradies nach Paradise Lost by John Milton , director: the authors and Dorothea Schroeder (BR)
  • 2004: Andreas Ammer, FM unit: Friedrich Miles von Schiller Davis , director: the authors (SWR)
  • 2004: David Link , FM unit, Jamie Lidell : Echohce , directed by the authors (WDR)
  • 2007: FM Einheit, Barbara Neureiter : Voices , Director: the authors (WDR)
  • 2008: Andreas Ammer, FM unit: On the road to Mendocino , director: the authors (WDR)
  • 2010: FM Unit: Zuuuuu-lagging behind! Stay behind! Stay behind! A city cantata , directed by the author (WDR)
  • 2012: Andreas Ammer, FM Unit: LiMo on Tape - Modernism to take away , Director: the authors (SWR / Literaturmuseum der Moderne, Marbach)
  • 2014: Andreas Ammer, FM unit: Everest , director: the authors (WDR)
  • 2015: FM unit, Siegfried Zielinski ; You eat with your eyes - you cook with your ear (WDR)
  • 2017: Andreas Ammer, FM unit: You speak to the Stasi , director: the authors (WDR) radio play of the month April 2017

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