Felix Falk

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Felix Falk at the St. Ingbert Jazz Festival

Felix Falk (born July 31, 1979 in Wismar ) is the managing director of the Game Association of the German Games Industry . He is also a German jazz musician ( saxophone , percussion ) and composer .

Life

Falk studied music and political science in Berlin and Liverpool . From 2004 on he headed the office of the chairman of the committee for culture and media in the German Bundestag . In 2002 he founded the jazz-funk band SahneFunk , which was renamed Mo 'Blow in 2005 . In 2008 the group released the CD Funkatristic on the Neuklang label ; Falk was responsible for the compositions and produced the album. In 2011 the CD For those about to Funk was released by ACT ; it was produced by Nils Landgren . The album Gimme the Boots followed in 2013 on the same label and in 2016 the album Live in Berlin . After a farewell concert on October 22, 2016, the group broke up.

As a guest musician, Falk took part in various productions by other bands. This includes u. a. the album The Drawn I by the artist of the same name . Falk is as part of the Ninja horn on the album waterway of Herbert Grönemeyer represented, recorded in addition to the composition of the brass sections responsible and performed at the subsequent tour. He is also represented on the live DVD.

Concert tours have taken the saxophonist to Germany, Belgium, England, Austria, Malaysia, China, the Czech Republic, Croatia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Denmark, Slovakia, Norway, Finland, Switzerland, Latvia, Luxembourg, South Korea, Ukraine and France. Falk received several awards with the band. He worked with musicians such as David Friedman , Blake Worell , Michael Schiefel , Ron Spielman , Nils Wülker and Gunter Hampel .

Falk was one of the initiators of the re-establishment of the Union of German Jazz Musicians in 2012 and is its deputy chairman. He is also one of the speakers for the Federal Jazz Conference . For this commitment he received the honorary award of the WDR in 2016. Since 2016 he has been on the board of the music fund initiated by the German Bundestag.

Since 2009, Falk has been the managing director of the entertainment software self-control (USK). In February 2017 he moved to the GAME Federation of the German Games Industry as Managing Director . The merger with the Federal Association of Interactive Entertainment Software (BIU) resulted in Game - Association of the German Games Industry, of which Falk has been Managing Director since March 1, 2018.

Awards

  • 1999: Winner of the Big Band orchestra competition (Land Berlin) as a member of the "Big Swinging Group"
  • 2008: Jazz & Blues Award Berlin (First Audience Award and Jury Award)
  • 2011: Future Sound Award (competition of the Leverkusener Jazztage )
  • 2011: Jazz am See Award
  • 2012: Miles Award (Jazzrock TV)
  • 2014: LARA of Honor 2014 as one of the directors of the USK for 20 years
  • 2016: WDR Jazz Prize (Honorary Prize)

Discography

Publications

  • Electrifying sound - the artificial mouthpiece of popular music. In: Wolfgang Kabus (ed.): Popular music and church. Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2008.
  • New Electric Ride - The influence of technical development on popular music in the context of live performance related to the era of electrification using the examples of loudspeakers, microphones and electric guitar. Grin, Munich 2008.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Felix Falk is a fighter for computer games. In: Jonas Jansen. FAZ, November 10, 2018, accessed on November 11, 2018 .
  2. ↑ USK boss Felix Falk becomes the new BIU managing director. In: www.gameswirtschaft.de. Games Wirtschaft, October 27, 2016, accessed December 28, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Office team. In: www.game.de. game, accessed November 11, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Falk, Felix
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Falk, Felix F.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH July 31, 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Wismar