Klaus Maeck

German film producer

Klaus Maeck (born in Hamburg 28 July 1954) is a German film producer.^[1] He is perhaps best remembered for his West German cyberpunk cult classic Decoder.^[2] His films have often played at the Berlin Film Festival.^[3] Prior to creating Decoder, he was a music and culture journalist in Hamburg, covering the advent of the industrial music scene in the city.^[4] His film "The Edge of Heaven" won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Screenplay.

Filmography

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 [it], (2011)
Blutzbrüdaz, (2011)
Polluting Paradise, (2012)
Fraktus [de], (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)

References

^ "Klaus Maeck". IMDb.
^ "Decoder Cyber-Krieger: Klaus Maeck". Lethal Amounts.
^ Barraclough, Leo (December 16, 2014). "James Franco, Hal Hartley Films Feature in Berlin's Panorama Lineup".
^ Reddell, T. (2018). The Sound of Things to Come: An Audible History of the Science Fiction Film. University of Minnesota Press. p. 554. ISBN 978-1-4529-5736-4. Retrieved 2020-12-27.