Uwe Nettelbeck
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Uwe Nettelbeck (7 August 1940 – 17 January 2007) was a German record producer, journalist and film critic. He was best known as the creator and producer of the German krautrock band, Faust, and changed the face of German rock music in the early 1970s. He was also one of Germany's leading film critics in the 1960s.
Nettelbeck was married to author, film producer and actress Petra Nettelbeck, and was the father of film director and screenwriter Sandra Nettelbeck.
Biography
Uwe Nettelbeck grew up in a middle class family at Lake Constance in south-west Germany. He attended lectures in German literature at the Georg-August University of Göttingen but did not sit for a degree. At the age of 20, Nettelbeck began submitting reviews to Filmkritik, a monthly film magazine, and their quality led to him becoming chief film critic for Die Zeit. In 1962 he met author, film producer and actress, Petra Krause at the Oberhausen film festival; they later married and moved to Lüneburg Heath near Hamburg.
Controversy, however, soon began to dog Nettelbeck's career. In 1968, while on the Oberhausen festival jury, he praised a film his wife had produced, Of Particular Merit which starred a talking penis. The film was subsequently banned. Nettelbeck's left-wing inclination emerged a year later when he published an article in Die Zeit about the trial of Red Army Faction leader Andreas Baader, which earned him a stern warning from the magazine's editor. Nettelbeck left Die Zeit and became a left-wing journalist with connections to several left-wing factions in Germany. He became editor of the underground magazine, konkret, which became the "revolutionary mouthpiece for the likes of Ulrike Meinhof".
Later years
Between 1976 and 2006, Nettelbeck and his wife wrote and edited 124 editions of the review magazine, Die Republik. In 1992, "dismayed by the triumphalism and racism of post-unification Germany", they relocated to France and moved into an isolated farmhouse in the Gironde.
Uwe Nettelbeck died of cancer in Bordeaux on 17 January 2007.
Record production credits
This is a selection of albums Uwe Nettelbeck produced, the dates referring to the year they were produced.
- Faust: Faust (1971)
- Anthony Moore: Pieces From the Cloudland Ballroom (1971)
- Anthony Moore: Secrets of the Blue Bag (1972)
- Slapp Happy: Sort Of (1972)
- Faust: Faust So Far (1972)
- Slapp Happy: Acnalbasac Noom (1973)
- Faust: The Faust Tapes (1973)
- Faust: Faust IV (1973)
- Faust with Tony Conrad: Outside the Dream Syndicate (1973)
- Faust: Munich and Elsewhere (1986)
- Tony Conrad: Outside the Dream Syndicate (30th Anniversary Edition) (2002)
- Faust: Faust IV (UK Bonus CD) (2006)
