Klaus Maeck
Illustration — Maeck in 2025 Klaus Maeck (born in Hamburg 28 July 1954) is a German film producer. He is perhaps best remembered for his West German cyberpunk cult classic Decoder. His films have often played at the Berlin Film Festival.
Klaus Maeck
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- Born
- 1954 · Hamburg.
- Nationality
- Germany
- Occupation
- film producer · music publisher · screenwriter · director · actor · musician · writer
- Fields
- film production · film screenwriting · film direction · acting
- Honours
- German Film Award
- Languages
- German
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Prior to creating Decoder, he was a music and culture journalist in Hamburg, covering the advent of the industrial music scene in the city. His film The Edge of Heaven won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Screenplay.
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Klaus Maeck, recorded as a film producer, musician and actor, was born in 1954 in Hamburg. The birth is recorded by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek.
The recorded working language is German. The field of work recorded is film production, film screenwriting and film direction. Work by Klaus Maeck is recorded in the collections of ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe. Distinctions recorded are German Film Award.
• Decoder, (1984) • Kastrierte Philosophen: Toilet Queen, (1989, short) • William S. Burroughs: Commissioner of Sewers, (1991) • Visions of Europe, (2004, segment: Die alten bösen Lieder) • Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul, (2005) • Takva: A Man's Fear of God, (2006) • Shaving Hacke, (2006, short) • The Edge of Heaven, (2007) • Chiko, (2008) • Soul Kitchen, (2009) • Before Your Eyes, (2009) • UFO in Her Eyes, (2011) • Blutzbrüdaz, (2011) • Polluting Paradise, (2012) • Fraktus, (2012) • Mamaroš, (2013) • B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin 1979-1989, (2015) • Anhedonia, (2016) • Eure Kinder, (2018, short) • Die Liebe frisst das Leben, Tobias Gruben, seine Lieder und die Erde, (2019) • Alles ist eins. Ausser der 0., (2020)
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According to the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, the recorded place of activity of Klaus Maeck is Hamburg.
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Klaus Maeck is recorded as film producer, music publisher, screenwriter, director and actor.
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1954
Klaus Maeck was born in 1954 at Hamburg.
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