Ted Gaier

Ted Gaier at the performance of the band Die Goldenen Zitronen at the Haldern Pop Festival 2013

Ted Gaier in the piece Not Punk, Pololo von Ginterdorfer / Klaßen (2015)

Ted Gaier (* 1964 in Stuttgart ) is a German musician , director and actor . He is co-founder of the music label Buback and the Hamburg band Die Goldenen Zitronen , whose lyricist, bassist, guitarist and keyboardist he is to this day.

biography

His mother is the filmmaker and artist Margit Czenki .

In addition to his main band, the Golden Lemons , Gaier regularly works with and on other band projects ( Die Stars , 3 Normal Beatles (with Julius Block ) , Les Robespierres , Schwabinggrad Ballett ) and is responsible as a producer of various sound carriers (including Schnipo Schranke , Robespierres , L 'Amerique and as co-producer of the last six “lemon” LPs).

Gaier has also directed numerous music video clips . The music video Die Goldenen Zitronen: The investor that he realized together with Timo Schierhorn and Katharina Duve received an award at the 2014 Oberhausen Short Film Festival.

For some time he has also been making theater music, for example for the play The Holy Johanna of the Schlachthöfe at the Hanover Theater . Gaier is also active as an actor. For example, he plays in the film Hölle Hamburg, written by him, Peter Ott and Peter Purtschert and staged together with Peter Ott .

Furthermore, Gaier founded the music label Buback in 1987 together with his bandmate Ale Dumbsky from Die Goldenen Zitronen at Buttstrasse 50 in Hamburg-Altona , where they lived in a shared apartment . In the following year, however, Gaier got out.

On February 20, 2020, his book Argumentepanzer was published , which was published by Verbrecher Verlag . The book contains articles for newspapers and magazines, essays, and lyrics by Gaier published over the past 20 years.

Filmography (selection)

• 1988: Ballhaus Barmbek ( feature film ), (actor) - Director: Christel Buschmann
• 1994: Swingpfennig / Deutschmark ( TV film ), (actor) - Director: Margit Czenki
• 1999: Park Fiction - Desires will leave the apartment and take to the streets ( documentary ), (film music) - Director: Margit Czenki
• 2002: Flicker (music video), (director)
• 2003: Golden Lemons ( documentary ), (participation) - Director: Jörg Siepmann
• 2007: Hell Hamburg (feature film), (director, screenplay, actor)
• 2007: Remaining mature attitudes (documentary), (participation) - Director: Peter Ott
• 2013: The Golden Lemons: The Investor (music video), (director)
• 2018: The Milan Protocol (feature film), (film music) - Director: Peter Ott

Literary works

• 2020: argument armor. Verbrecher Verlag, Berlin 2020, ISBN 978-3-957-32426-9

Awards

• 2014: MuVi Award for the music video Die Goldenen Zitronen: The investor in the Oberhausen Short Film Festival
• 2019: German Film Critics' Award in the Best Music category for the feature film Das Milan-Protokoll

Web links

Commons : Ted Gaier  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Ted Gaier at ARD.de with interview, accessed on November 11, 2010.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )
• Ted Gaier in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Ted Gaier at Discogs (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://taz.de/Kuenstlerin-ueber-Stadtplanung-von-unten/!5651955/
2. ↑ 22 years ago "Buback Tonträger" was founded - It started with the beginners. In: Hamburger Morgenpost . February 2, 2009, accessed March 8, 2019 . 
3. ↑ “I'm not a patron” - Interview When Buback was founded 30 years ago, Daniel Richter painted the first cover. He owns the record label today. In: Friday . June 3, 2018, accessed March 8, 2019 . 
4. ↑ “Of course I'm dissatisfied” - Ted Gaier's “Argumentepanzer”. In: Deutschlandfunk . February 15, 2020, accessed April 2, 2020 .