Xaõ Seffcheque

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Xaõ Seffcheque (2006)

Xaõ Seffcheque , actually Alexander Sevschek (* 1956 in Graz ), is a musician and screenwriter .

Life

Xaõ Seffcheque was born in Graz / Austria. In November 1977 he moved to Düsseldorf , where he joined the music performance group padlt noidlt led by Mike Hentz , Michael Jansen and Frank Köllges . At the end of the 1970s, he appeared as an author for the music magazine Sounds and the book series Rock-Session published by Rowohlt Verlag , where he humorously reported on the burgeoning punk and new wave movement in Germany. Immediately after founding the music magazine Spex , he also began writing for it.

He made his record debut in 1980 with Deutschland . However, the 10-inch LP hardly attracted any attention due to its limited distribution. In the same year he had his first notable success with the album Very good comes very good , which was presented as an alleged sampler with titles from Kraftwerk , DAF and Der Plan , all of which he recorded himself. The record on the Schallmauer Records label satirically satirized the punk and new wave scene of the time. In December 1980 he recorded the pale record Lieben Sie Saxophon as bassist and drummer with Brigitte Bühler and Eva Gössling .

He formed his own band "Xao und die Pest" (also "Xao and the rest" or "Xao and the post"), with which he released the LP Yes - No - maybe in 1981 . Seffcheque sometimes called himself "Xao Scheckheft", while the music magazine Sounds had given him the title "Sektchef" as the headline for a critical letter to the editor.

Seffcheque had good contacts with Charley's Girls , from which later lunch break and the false colors emerged . In 1979 he took on a concert from lunch break, which was re-released in 1981 after the band split up under the title Punk Makes Big Ass . Also in 1981, together with Peter Glaser, he recorded half of a split LP on Alfred Hilsberg's ZickZack label under the concept name ORAVs (= Without Regarding Losses ) , on which he satirized Fehlfarben pieces. For example, the aggressive Fehlfarben title Apocalypse became a relaxed guitar piece, the line of text “Bomb Carpet, Submarine Hunt” became “Carpet, pillow fight”.

Together with Peter Hein , Seffcheque founded the formation Family 5 in 1981 , with which he has produced numerous albums and which is still active today. In this project too, satire and avant-garde are balanced.

From 1984 to 1985 he hosted the program Musik Convoy in the WDR evening program (“Quiz with Xao”) alongside Alan Bangs and Robert Treutel .

Seffcheque also worked as a journalist for, among others, Overview , Sounds , Musikexpress , Spex , Twen , Tempo , coolibri , Kölner and Tip . As an actor he can be seen in ORAV - The Film , Truck War , A Case for Two , A Bonner Affair , Parkhotel Stern , Kismet and in A Bed for Three .

Seffcheque is also one of the protagonists in Jürgen Teipel's book Verschwende Deine Jugend .

Seffcheque began writing screenplays and producing films as early as the 1980s. After the television film Truck War of 1982 and a few short films, he was instrumental in writing the script for the comedy Manta - The Film in 1991 . In 1993 the youth film Simply Just Love followed , in 1996 the experimental film With My Eyes , and in 2000 the spy thriller Trace of My Daughter . In 2003 the screenplay Helden was proposed for the German Film Prize for one day . In 2005, the youth play Heroes for a Day by Martin Ritzenhoff and Xaõ Seffcheque premiered in the Düsseldorf Schauspielhaus , in which the Düsseldorf punk scene of 1979 provides the setting for a fictional plot. This piece was also produced as a radio play by WDR under the title Back to Concrete 2012 and staged by Thomas Leutzbach .

In 2014, his screenplay Die Kleine und die Böse was directed by Markus Sehr with Christoph Maria Herbst in the lead role as a feature film.

At the beginning of March 2019, Xaõ Seffcheque and Edmund Labonté published the book History is Made - German Underground in the Eighties at the Heyne publishing house . The time and culture critical book contains around 250 photos by the Düsseldorf scene photographer Richie Gleim , essays by Seffcheque and other authors, as well as a CD with songs by musicians from the 1980s. The comprehensive documentation achieved a predominantly positive response, in the Süddeutsche Zeitung as well as in the Rheinische Post , on MDR and on Deutschlandfunk .

In June 2019, Xaõ Seffcheque made his debut as co-producer of the feature film Postings , which Lina Schmeink directed as a master’s graduation film and with which he also wrote the script together.

Xaõ Seffcheque has lived in Cologne since 2001, where he mainly works as a screenwriter, composer and university lecturer. From 1996 to 2002 he gave seminars at the Cologne Filmhaus . From 2003 to 2008 he was a lecturer at the School of Media Production and Media Design in Darmstadt / Dieburg, since the beginning of 2014 he teaches at the SAE Institute in Cologne and Bochum narration, dramaturgy, script technology and film and media ethics, as well as at the college Macromedia in Cologne.

Xaõ Seffcheque is a member of the German Film Academy , the Filmbüro NW , the Forum Stadtpark Graz and the ORAV artists' association , which he himself founded in 1980 and which is closely related to the Dadaist understanding of culture , to which Peter Glaser , Peter Hein and Thomas Schwebel also belong.

Discography

Solo or with Xao and the plague and pallor

  • 1980 Germany not about everything
  • 1980 Very good comes very well
  • 1980 yes - no - maybe
  • 1980 Love the saxophone
  • 1981 ORAV / punk supermarket (7 "single)
  • 1981 ORAVs / Germany trio (split LP)
  • 1981 Das Edelweiß (on the sampler Fix Planet , Ata Tak)
  • 1981 MASSA , Klar80!
  • 1982 Stars on 45 (Flexi-Disc)
  • 2003 Hey Hartz, I need more money! (on Love Cars Adventure - A Homage to Gunter Gabriel )
  • 2004 Hey Hartz, I need more money (on newnoises vol. 68 )
  • 2016 You and I / Kassabubu / One night in Germany (12 ", KessKill / Sweden)
  • 2017 Yes - No - Maybe COMES VERY GOOD - A selection of electronic beats 1980 - 82 (LP + CD / Bureau B)

With Family 5

  • 1982 Ball of Confusion (mini LP)
  • 1984 Per un pugno di Lire (mini-LP)
  • 1985 Resistance
  • 1986 Against the current
  • 1987 Mad Colonel’s latest terror idea - F * 5 play Great Ones
  • 1988 Our bodies are still alive
  • 1990 The blue of the sky
  • 1991 Top of the Flops (Arm! And another 19 failures)
  • 2002 The bread of the early days CD sampler 1982–85.
  • 2003 Our corpses are still alive (Live-CD)
  • 2003 The quick years CD sampler 1986–89.
  • 2003 A Kind of Zorn CD Sampler; 1989-97; PAUL!
  • 2004 Roads to Fame
  • 2012 dogs do you want to live forever? Double CD sampler; Syreena Records
  • 2016 What counts CD and LP, Wallpaper Records
  • 2017 50/50? Double 7 "; Formosapunk Recs.
  • 2017 We Remain 5-CD Box "; Wallpaper Records
  • 2018 Real Bottled Life Wallpaper Records

Scripts (selection)

Plays

  • Heroes for a day
  • A little jail music

Radio plays

  • Back to the concrete

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.discogs.com/release/661687
  2. ^ Sounds , February 1981 edition, page 4.
  3. ^ Dusseldorf music scene about heroes for a day

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Seffcheque, Xaõ
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sevschek, Alexander (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian musician and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz