Olaf Satzer

Olaf Satzer (born February 5, 1970 in Otterndorf ) is a German drummer, music teacher and novelist.

drummer

At the age of 14, Satzer, who grew up in Bremerhaven and Otterndorf , bought his first own drum kit . After graduating from high school, completing business training and doing community service, he became a professional musician. A commitment to the production of the musical Der kleine Horrorladen in 1992 at the Bremerhaven City Theater offered the start of a professional career . Satzer worked a. a. with Dirk Böhling , Hans Neblung and Emo Philips (Emanuel Obedekah), singer of the successful band Soulful Dynamics in the 1970s .

Bands (selection)

• CIA
• Cool million
• Dean Collins Band
• The Deutschleerer
• The nematodes
• Harlem Showdown
• Rosanna
• Gerths Bagaasch

Theater and musical productions (selection)

• The little horror shop
• The Rocky Horror Show
• Hair
• Count Dracula
• Petticoat and mini skirt
• Fame
• The Who's Tommy
• La Cage aux Folles - A cage full of fools
• line 1
• Jesus Christ superstar
• Soulkitchen
• Peer Gynt
• Blues Brothers
• Cabaret

Music pedagogue

Since 1995, Satzer has been teaching drums in a private music school in Bremerhaven . In 2003 he started at the German branch of the music publisher Alfred Publishing in Cologne under Kräsch! Boom! Bang! a dedicated range of textbooks for children who want to learn the drums or cajón . The band Kräsch! Boom! Bang! intensive was created in collaboration with the internationally known drummer Claus Heßler . So far six titles in the series have been published in Germany, Cajὁn for children also in Norway.

Novelist

In 2009, Satzer wrote his first novel Lenin and the Chickens , which the VFX supervisor and Oscar winner Volker Engel praised: “I [...] read the novel [...] through in one day. The stories about […] pulled me so under the spell that I was downright withdrawn the next day. ”The strongly autobiographical novel describes a trip of several weeks to the Russian city of Perm and its rural surroundings, which Satzer undertook in 2000 . According to his own statement, Satzer had initially started to write down some experiences merely as private travel memories. On the advice of a friend, he finally began to bring the story into a novel and offer it to these publishers.

In 2013 Satzer's second novel Kupferbrot was published . This novel also shows considerable autobiographical features and, according to Satzer, deals with his own family history during the Second World War. The plot, which is an integral part of Satzer's intense relationship with his grandmother, takes readers alternately back to the 1980s and 1945, the year of the war.

Books

Row: Krasch! Boom! Bang!

• Drum School for Children 1 , Cologne 2003, ISBN 978-3-933136-21-3 .
• Drum School for Children 2 , Cologne 2005, ISBN 978-3-933136-28-2 .
• Drum Play-alongs for Kids , Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-933136-36-7 .
• Intensive! Intensive course for small and large drummers , Cologne 2013, with information from Claus Heßler , ISBN 978-3-933136-97-8 .
• Cajὁn for children , Cologne 2014, ISBN 978-3-943638-67-7 .
• Today we hit the box! Children's songs for Cajὁn , Cologne 2019, ISBN 978-3-943638-38-7 .

Other textbooks

• Rockkidz Play-alongs , Cologne 2011, together with Armin Weisshaar, ISBN 978-3-933136-79-4 .
• Guaranteed to learn drums , Cologne 2013, ISBN 978-3-933136-38-1 .

Novels

• Lenin and the Chickens , Oldenburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-89841-466-1 .
• Kupferbrot , Oldenburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-89841-712-9 .

Audio books

• Copper bread, Bremerhaven 2015, EAN 4250928311429.

Web links

• Literature by and about Olaf Satzer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Olaf Satzer's homepage
• Alfred Music publisher's homepage
• Schardt Verlag publishing house homepage
• Cool Million Band homepage
• German blank band homepage
• Nematode band homepage
• Rosanna band homepage
• Gerths Bagaasch band homepage