Michael Leckebusch

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Michael "Mike" Leckebusch (born April 8, 1937 in Leipzig ; † March 3, 2000 in Osterholz-Scharmbeck ) was a German television editor, director and producer. His best-known show was the Beat Club , with which he implemented the first music program for the youth of the time.

Life

After studying theater and newspaper sciences, Leckebusch began working as an assistant director at Norddeutscher Rundfunk and in 1962 switched to Radio Bremen . There he was involved as an editor on the first shows of Rudi Carrell . On the basis of a British radio program by the anthropologist Ernest Borneman , Leckebusch designed the Beat Club format , the first music program for young people on German television. Between 1965 and 1972, Leckebusch directed 83 programs of the Beat Club and brought almost all the stars of beat and rock music in front of the camera. The show also gained cult character thanks to the presenter Uschi Nerke . The Beat Club became the best export hit on German television and was at times seen in more than 50 countries. Leckebusch was also responsible as editor and director for the follow-up show Musikladen .

According to an idea from his program director Dieter Ertel, the talk show 3 nach 9 was created , to which he, as its first director, gave a special touch with a directing concept that was unconventional until then. In 1976 he was awarded the bronze Adolf Grimme Prize (together with Alfred Mensack ) .

For Rudi Carrell he prepared parts of the program Amlauf Band . In 1984, Leckebusch went into business for himself and founded his production company LAV , but remained loyal to his home station and other ARD stations. In his own studios he mainly produced video clips and advertising trailers, but also the documentary series 50 Years of Rock Music on the Franco-German broadcaster ARTE . Leckebusch also shot music videos for Modern Talking ( You're My Heart, You're My Soul , 1984) , Jennifer Rush ( The Power of Love , 1985) , Sandra ( (I'll Never Be) Maria Magdalena , 1985) , Sailor (La Cumbia, 1991) and Die Fantastischen Vier (microphone professor, 1991) .

Michael Leckebusch died of complications from a heart condition.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Siegfried Schmidt-Joos : With Beat in the holy halls. In: Michael Rauhut, Reinhard Lorenz (Ed.): I've had the blues a little longer. Traces of a music in Germany. Christoph Links, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-86153-495-2 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  2. ↑ Deutschrock ( Memento of the original from June 8, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at chartslist.de @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.chartslist.de

literature

  • Thorsten Schmidt: Beat Club: all programs, all stars, all hits. Kultur Buch, Bremen 2005, ISBN 3-933851-09-2 (published in cooperation with Radio Bremen on the 40th anniversary).

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personal data
SURNAME Leckebusch, Michael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Leckebusch, Mike
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German director and producer
DATE OF BIRTH April 8, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH March 3, 2000
Place of death Bremen