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Gerhard "Gerd" Augustin (* 1941 in Hagen ) is a German music producer . He was one of the first disc jockeys in Germany and at times manager and producer of Ike & Tina Turner .
Together with Michael "Mike" Leckebusch , who was in the entertainment department at Radio Bremen at the time, he developed the concept for the Beat Club from mid-1965 , a music program that was produced by Radio Bremen and broadcast until 1972. It was the first music program with English-speaking interpreters on German television that was specially designed for young people. Together with Uschi Nerke , he moderated the first eight episodes of the show.
Before that, Augustin had been able to gain experience as one of the first German DJs in the Bremen "Twen Club" since December 1963.
From 1978 he produced albums and soundtracks for the band Popol Vuh , a German Krautrock formation that existed from 1970 to 2001.
In 1989 he discovered the artist Amr Diab for the European music market. He is now considered one of the most successful singers in the Arab world.
Honors
- Mall of Fame in Bremen together with Uschi Nerke (* 1944) as a duo on one record (September 11, 2015)
Publications
- with Nikolaus Gatter: Tina Turner. Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1986, ISBN 3-404-61100-4
- The Beat Years. Music in Germany in the sixties. Goldmann, Munich [1988], ISBN 3-442-21017-8
- with Olaf Kübler : Plain text - completely wrong. Autobiography about Olaf Kübler. Humbach & Nemazal, Pfaffenhofen 1996, ISBN 3-9805521-2-8 .
- Second edition under the title: Sax or never! The Confessions of Johnny Controlletti . Panama Publ., Hannover 2007, ISBN 978-3-936732-03-0 .
- Pyramidon. Bremen 1999, ISBN 3-929542-16-1
- Gerhard Augustin, the godfather of Krautrock. A contemporary witness remembers ... autobiography. Bosworth-Ed., Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-86543-050-3
Web links
- Literature by and about Gerhard Augustin in the catalog of the German National Library
- Gerhard Augustin in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Face to face with Augustin on taz.de on September 22, 2011
- Gerd Augustin - The Beat Years - Music in Germany - the Sixties (1988) on allerleibuntesausdeutschland.wordpress.com
- Germany's first DJ. The man who brought the beat to spiegel.de on December 4th, 2007
Individual evidence
- ↑ Visit to Ike Turner 1972 Spiegel Online, December 13, 2007, accessed on February 13, 2016.
- ↑ Gerhard Augustin: The man who brought the beat . one day , December 4th 2007
- ↑ Gerhard Augustin: When television learned to rock . one day , January 23, 2008
- ↑ 5 years of Lloyd Passage - 50 years of the Beat Club ( memento from September 22, 2015 in the web archive archive.today ) on lloydpassage.de
- ^ Gerhard Augustin: The godfather of Krautrock; Dirty laundry in business on musikansich.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Augustin, Gerhard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Augustin, Gerd (nickname) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German music producer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1941 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hagen |