Jacky Dreksler

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Jacky Dreksler (born March 1, 1946 in Paris ; actually Jacob Joseph Maria Dreksler ) is a German author , musician , songwriter , publisher and producer .

Jacky Dreksler, June 2013.

Training and teaching

Jacky Dreksler, son of Fela Dreksler , a concentration camp survivor who died in 1955 (Auschwitz, Ravensbrück), was born in a prison. He grew up as a half- orphan in France, Germany and the USA. After completing an apprenticeship as a chemistry laboratory assistant at Bayer , he studied pedagogy , philosophy and sociology from 1968 and graduated as a qualified pedagogue . From 1972 Dreksler taught these subjects at a high school in Cologne. In 1976 he left school and worked as a sailing instructor and lecturer for the above-mentioned disciplines a. a. at the Bundeswehr University of Applied Sciences and at the University of Bonn. From 1978 he worked as a freelance journalist for the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger and comic book author for the Bastei-Verlag (including Biggi ). With his wife Babs Ahland-Dreksler he founded the TV production company "Pacific Productions" in 1988.

music

Dreksler founded a private music school in 1975, which he ran for five years with his partner Mike Eulner. During this time he wrote textbooks for guitar and piano / keyboard and arranged numerous folk, pop and jazz songs for songbooks and music magazines.

As a songwriter, he wrote numerous songs and chansons, including a. for Charles Aznavour , Roland Kaiser , Heino , Costa Cordalis , Die Flippers and Hugo Egon Balder .

On the side he tried unsuccessfully as a singer under the pseudonym Adjah Lion and with the fifties retro group Milkshake - both produced by Jack White .

Radio and industry

The author and songwriter Thomas Woitkewitsch recognized Dreksler's comic talent and paved his way into the media. From 1982 Dreksler worked as a writer, actor and presenter for various radio stations. He wrote and played at SWF3. a. the constant radio comedy -Figur Matthias cereal and moderated broadcasts of Sunday morning show SWF3 flea market and wrote and produced the sketches for it; Dreksler also wrote, spoke, played and produced over 900 skits, gag songs and contributions for broadcasters such as Radio Luxembourg, WDR 2, Radio FFN, Radio 2000, NDR and RIAS.

Dreksler was also an author and consultant for industrial events and trade fair presentations, among others. a. for Agfa, Ford, Grundig and Mercedes and composed jingles for NDR, Radio 2000 and other radio stations.

Television writer

ZDF entertainment director Wolfgang Penk brought Dreksler to television in 1984, where he quickly became one of the busiest authors and presenter coaches in Germany. From 1984 to 1992 he wrote around 650 television programs / articles for over 50 television formats. Among others: Bananas (ARD), Carolin Reibers Volkstümliche Hitparade (ZDF), Dieter Thomas Hecks Your mission please (ZDF), Mike Krüger's four against Willy (ARD), Hugo Egon Balders All nothing right ?! (RTL), Tele-As with Peter Rapp and Carolin Reiber (ZDF) and the ARD request concert with Dagmar Berghoff and Max Schautzer (ARD). Dreksler wrote Sabine Sauer's show window as well as other programs, show series and contributions, etc. a. for Frank Elstner , Freddy Quinn , Harald Juhnke , Heino , Mike Krüger, Michael Schanze , Hans-Jürgen Bäumler , Carlo von Tiedemann , Tony Marshall and Patrick Lindner . He also developed the ZDF sitcom Bistro-Bistro and, together with Hugo Egon Balder, invented the show format Alles keine oder ?! (RTL), which he - with others - also supervised as an author.

Television producer

From 1991 Dreksler produced over 600 television programs with his company Atlantic Media (together with Roland Kaiser ) and from 1995 with Pacific Productions (together with his wife Babs). He invented and produced the Schreinemakers Live (SAT.1) program for two years and more than 150 episodes of RTL Saturday Night for five years together with Hugo Egon Balder . Dreksler discovered Esther Schweins and Markus Maria Profitlich for television and produced its first television show. He produced the series Karls Kneipe (RTL) with Karl Dall , the children's comedy series Alles Klar (Nickelodeon) and around 400 other comedy, game and late night shows for broadcasters such as RTL, SAT1, HR, ZDF and NDR. In 1995 Dreksler also founded the company Feedback (with RTL as a business partner) and with it produced the late-night format RTL Nachtshow , moderated by Thomas Koschwitz .

In 1997 Dreksler withdrew completely into private life, but since 2004 has been working again first as a TV consultant for Die Hit-Giganten (SAT.1), then as Executive Producer for the company Hurricane with the improvisation show Frei Schnauze (RTL), and off 2005 again as a television producer in his company Pacific Productions .

Dreksler tried to build on old successes in 2005 with the RTL Saturday Night remake RTL Comedy Night . However, due to low audience ratings , the show was canceled after nine episodes. In the same year he founded the TV production company Mint Media with Hugo Egon Balder and produced with him the political talk show Talk im Tudio (SAT.1), host Lou Richter , which was renamed The Hot Porridge after the first season ; Moderator Jochen Busse .

From 2003 to 2010 Dreksler was a consultant for 37 programs on the pop music ranking show Die Hit-Giganten (SAT.1), moderator: Hugo Egon Balder.

In 2008 and 2009 he co-produced the fun game shows Peng! With Hugo Egon Balder for SAT.1 . The western show , Holldriöh! The alpine show , Schlotter! The horror show and Aloha! The South Seas Show ; all moderated by Balder.

publisher

In 2007 Dreksler and his wife Babs converted Pacific Productions into an independent publisher . The first publication under the publisher's motto “Fun & Science” was the book against the esoteric law of attraction , written together with Hugo Egon Balder : “Wish bullshit in the universe. A criticism of the wish orders in the universe by Rhonda Byrne (The Secret), Pierre Franckh , Bärbel Mohr , Esther Hicks and Kurt Tepperwein - walking the fine line between no longer satire and not yet science ”.

Works

Books (selection)

  • Mike Eulner, Jacky Dreksler: Folk Complete, Vol. 1 a. 2 . Cologne 1979.
  • Jacob Dreksler: Pedagogy - specialist science, specialist didactics and teaching subject. In: Raimund H. Drommel (ed.): Contributions to didactics and educational science. Volume 2, Paderborn 1980.
  • Jacky Dreksler, Mike Eulner: A thousand tips for the guitar . Bonn 1981.
  • Jacky Dreksler, Mike Eulner: Hits & Songs. with illustrations by André Roche . Cologne 1982
  • Jacky Dreksler, Mike Eulner: Guitar hammer. Handles, rhythms, picks, harmonies, tunings, tricks. Bonn 1983.
  • Jacky Dreksler, Achim Grobusch: The wiser one tips over . Bergisch Gladbach 1983.
  • Wolfgang Hofer, Oliver Spieker, Jacky Dreksler, Hugo Egon Balder: Good morning Germany . Luxembourg 1983.
  • Barbara Ahland, Jacky Dreksler, Quirin Härle: Electronic Music ABC . Erftstadt 1986.
  • Jacky Dreksler: Unity and a lot of free time . Frankfurt 1986.
  • Jacky Dreksler, Quirin Härle: 1000 tips for keyboards . Bonn 1987.
  • Jacky Dreksler, Hugo Egon Balder: Kentucky screams fucking . Munich 1998.
  • Jacky Dreksler, Hugo Egon Balder (ed.): RTL Saturday night . Oldenburg 1995.
  • Jacky Dreksler, Hugo Egon Balder: wish bullshit in the universe. A criticism of the desired orders in the universe by Rhonda Byrne , Pierre Franckh , Bärbel Mohr , Esther Hicks and Kurt Tepperwein - walking the fine line between no-longer-satire and not-yet-science . Pacific Productions, Cologne 2007. ISBN 978-3-9812015-8-1
  • Jacky Dreksler: I wish you a happy life. My mother's suffering and her gift to me. DuMont Buchverlag, Cologne 2016, ISBN 978-3-8321-9822-0

Producer (selection)

  • Point-point-point . NDR / SAT.1 game show with Mike Krüger, 1991–1993.
  • Schreinemakers Live . SAT.1 Infotainment Show with Margarethe Schreinemakers, from 1992.
  • RTL Saturday night . RTL 1993-1998.
  • Cipher . ZDF entertainment magazine with Sabine Sauer, 1993.
  • Word for word . SWF game show with Sascha Zeus, 1993.
  • 30 years of Heino . RTL entertainment show 1995.
  • Bavarian television award . ARD Award Show, 1995.
  • RTL night show . RTL Late Night Show with Thomas Koschwitz, 1995.
  • Just for Laughs . RTL Candid-Camera-Show with Mirco Nontschew, 1995/96.
  • Just kidding . RTL Candid-Camera-Show with Mirco Nontschew, 1996.
  • Happiness . RTL sketch show with Dorkas Kiefer and Markus Maria Profitlich.
  • All right . Nickelodeon Kids Comedy, 1997.
  • The Markus Maria Profitlich Show . RTL Personality Show, 1997.
  • Karl's pub . RTL Fun Talk Show with Karl Dall, 1997.
  • Cologne Comedy Festival . RTL 1996-1999
  • RTL Comedy Night . 2005.
  • Talk in the studio / The hot porridge . SAT.1 parodists talk show with Lou Richter / Jochen Busse, 2005–2006.
  • The Hella von Sinnen Show . SAT.1, 2006.
  • "Bang! The Western Show". SAT.1, 2008.
  • "Holldriöh! The Alpine Show". SAT.1, 2008.
  • "Schlotter! The horror show". SAT.1, 2009.
  • "Aloha! The South Seas Show". SAT.1, 2009.

Executive Producer

  • Free your mouth . RTL impro-show with Mike Krüger (for Hurricane, producer Marc Schubert), 2004.
  • Taratata . SAT.1 Live Music Show (for Hurricane, producer Marc Schubert, co-executive producer Hugo Egon Balder), 2005.

TV author (selection)

  • All nothing or . RTL with Hugo Egon Balder and Hella von Sinnen.
  • ARD request concert . ARD, with Dagmar Berghoff and Max Schautzer.
  • Arena of sensations . ZDF.
  • Bananas . Music and Sketches, ARD.
  • The Michael Schanze Show . ARD.
  • The Mike Kruger Show . SAT 1.
  • The popular hit parade . ZDF, with Carolin Reiber.
  • Hello Heino . SAT.1, with Heino.
  • Happiness . RTL, with Markus Maria Profitlich, Dorkas Kiefer u. a.
  • Your commitment please . ZDF, with Dieter Thomas Heck.
  • Point point point . SAT.1, with Mike Krüger.
  • Show & Co with Carlo . ZDF, with Carlo von Tiedemann.
  • Show window . ZDF, with Sabine Sauer.
  • Tele-As . ZDF, with Peter Rapp and Carolin Reiber.
  • Four against Willy . ARD, with Mike Krüger.

Lyrics (selection)

  • 1983 Joachim Cadenbach: "My Dallas".
  • 1985 Costa Cordalis: On the beach in Greece .
  • 1985 Hugo Egon Balder: Toot Toot .
  • 1986 Hugo Egon Balder: Take it easy, be happy (cover of Don't Worry, Be Happy) .
  • 1989 The Flippers: I hold you .
  • 1989 The Flippers: At night on the banks of the Volga .
  • 1990 Roland Kaiser: Un amore grande .
  • 1990 Roland Kaiser: Viva l'amor .
  • 1990 Roland Kaiser: Wind on your skin and Lisa .
  • 1990 Xanadu: I have never regretted an hour .
  • 1990 Xanadu: If you want .
  • 1991 The Flippers: Moonlight Lady .
  • 1991 Roland Kaiser: You for life .
  • 1991 Roland Kaiser: Never say never .
  • 1992 The Flippers: Love is a rose .
  • 1992 Heino: Bells on the Rhine .
  • 1992 Roland Kaiser: South of me .
  • 1993 Heino: Aloha Oe .
  • 1993 Heino: Olé o Cangaceiro .
  • 1993 Heino: Just like on the first day .
  • 1993 Roland Kaiser: All or nothing .
  • 1993 Roland Kaiser: What if .
  • 1995 Charles Aznavour: The Memory of You .
  • 1995 Charles Aznavour: The Thoughts .
  • 1995 Charles Aznavour: The good time .
  • 1995 Charles Aznavour: You versus me .
  • 1995 Charles Aznavour: I cling to you .
  • 1995 Charles Aznavour: I now say goodbye to you .
  • 1995 Charles Aznavour: Sleep with me .
  • 1995 Charles Aznavour: That's how I love you .
  • 1995 Charles Aznavour: Hug me .
  • 1995 Charles Aznavour: When you sleep next to me .
  • 1999 Heino: Old Comrades .
  • 1999 Heino: Off to the torero fight .
  • 1999 Heino: The loyal hussar .
  • 2011 Hugo Egon Balder: "The early bird catches the worm".
  • 2011 Hugo Egon Balder: "Internet Junkie".
  • 2011 Hugo Egon Balder: "The last trip is always in a station wagon".
  • 2011 Hugo Egon Balder: "Nothing else. The legendary wanker blues".
  • 2011 Hugo Egon Balder: "Germany is looking for".
  • 2011 Hugo Egon Balder: "Hottest Girl in Town".
  • 2011 Hugo Egon Balder: "Cool".

Compositions (selection)

  • 1983 Joachim Cadenbach: "My Dallas".
  • 1984 Adjah Lion (pseudonym): Oh Grenada .
  • 1984 Adjah Lion (pseudonym): Love on Crystal Sand .
  • 1985 Milkshake: Shoobie-Doo-A .
  • 1985 Milkshake: Shoobie-Doo-B .
  • 2011 Hugo Egon Balder: "The early bird catches the worm" (M: Hugo Egon Balder, Jacky Dreksler, Uli Salm).
  • 2011 Hugo Egon Balder: "Internet Junkie". (M: Hugo Egon Balder, Jacky Dreksler, Uli Salm).
  • 2011 Hugo Egon Balder: "The last trip is always in a station wagon". (M: Hugo Egon Balder, Jacky Dreksler).
  • 2011 Hugo Egon Balder: "Germany is looking for". (M: Hugo Egon Balder, Jacky Dreksler, Uli Salm).
  • 2011 Hugo Egon Balder: "Hottest Girl in Town". (M: Hugo Egon Balder, Jacky Dreksler).
  • 2011 Hugo Egon Balder: "Cool". (M: Hugo Egon Balder, Jacky Dreksler).

Discography (selection)

  • 1984 Adjah Lion (pseudonym): Oh Grenada .
  • 1984 Adjah Lion (pseudonym): Love on Crystal Sand .
  • 1985 Milkshake: Shoobie-Doo-A .
  • 1985 Milkshake: Shoobie-Doo-B .

Publisher (selection)

literature

  • Hugo Egon Balder, Bernd Philipp: I warned myself. Autobiography . Verlag Rütten & Loening, Berlin 2004, pp. 139–152 et passim, ISBN 3-352-00650-4 .

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Dreksler, Jacky
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dreksler, Jacob Joseph Maria (full name); Lion, Adjah (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author, musician, songwriter and producer
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris