Klaus Maeck
Klaus Maeck (born July 28, 1954 in Hamburg ) is a German film producer , music publisher and author.
From the end of the 1970s until 1983, Maeck ran the first punk record store, Rip Off, together with other shareholders, in his native Hamburg until its bankruptcy. Since the early 1980s he has also been involved in Super 8 films. The feature film Decoder (1984) by the film artist Muscha , which he co-produced, based on a story he co-authored, advanced to become a cult film in the punk scene . After this was Maeck co-founder and longtime CEO of the Independent - music publishing " Freibank Music Publishing " where he and as a manager and consultant. a. supervised the Einstürzende Neubauten and also staged music videos. Before co-founding the Hamburg film production company " Corazón International ", Maeck had increasingly worked as a consultant in matters of film music. Since 2013 he has been running his own film production and distribution company with Interzone Pictures. In the book for the documentary about the alternative music scene in Hamburg and Berlin, “We will always go on” by George Lindt, there is a long portrait and interview about the work of Klaus Maeck.
Maeck has been a member of the German Film Academy and the European Film Academy since 2007 .
Filmography
- 1991 William S. Burroughs: Commissioner of Sewers , Documentation, Germany. Direction & production: Klaus Maeck
- 1993 Einstürzende Neubauten: love songs , documentation, Germany. Direction: Klaus Maeck and Johanna Schenkel
- 2004 Gegen die Wand , feature film, Germany. Director: Fatih Akin Music advice: Klaus Maeck
- 2005 Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul , Documentation, Germany. Director: Fatih Akin Production: Fa tih Akın , Andreas Thiel († 2006) and Klaus Maeck
- 2007 On the other hand , feature film, Germany. Director: Fatih Akin Production: Fatih Akın , Andreas Thiel († 2006) and Klaus Maeck
- 2009 Soul Kitchen , feature film, Germany. Director: Fatih Akin Production: Fatih Akın , Andreas Thiel († 2006) and Klaus Maeck
- 2011 Ufo in her Eyes , feature film, Germany. Director: Xiaolu Guo Production: Klaus Maeck
- 2012 Fraktus , feature film, Germany. Director: Lars Jessen. Production: Klaus Maeck
- 2015 B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West Berlin 1979-1989 , documentary, Germany. With Mark Reeder Direction & Production: Jörg A. Hoppe , Klaus Maeck, Heiko Lange and Alexander von Sturmfeder.
- 2016 Anhedonia - Narcissism as anesthesia , feature film, Germany. Director: Patrick Siegfried Zimmer Production: Klaus Maeck, Patrick Siegfried Zimmer, Robert Stadlober
Works (print)
- Ed. Together with Walter Hartmann: Decoder manual. Muzak, cut-ups, pirates, frogs, burgers. The film. Trikont, Duisburg 1984 ISBN 3889741002 (the included text by Baudrillard The Scene and the Obscene. Also in: Critical Theory in the Province. Ibid. 2001 ISBN 3889741053 )
- (Ed.) Listen with pain / Listen with Pain, Einstürzende Neubauten. Trikont, Duisburg 1989 ISBN 3880300283
- (Ed.) Listen with Pain / Listen with Pain, Einstürzende Neubauten 1980-1996 . 2nd edition Die Gestalten Verlag, Berlin 1996 ISBN 3931126099
- 20 years of traveling to stories. Freibank 2003 ISBN 3931968138
Web links
- Homepage
- Klaus Maeck in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Literature by and about Klaus Maeck in the catalog of the German National Library
- Klaus Maeck at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Interzone Pictures
- ↑ Archive berlinale.de Article on berlinale.de 2003
- ↑ Anhedonia "Narcissism as anesthesia" article on filmfesthamburg.de from October 1, 2015
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Maeck, Klaus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German film producer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 28, 1954 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |