Muscha

Muscha
Born
Jürgen Muschalek

(1951-11-28)28 November 1951
Meinerzhagen, Germany
DiedJuly 2003(2003-07-00) (aged 51)
Occupations
  • Film director
  • artist
  • musician
Notable workDecoder (1984)

Jürgen Muschalek (28 September 1951 – 29 July 2003), known as Muscha, was a German artist and film director. He is known for his cult classic film Decoder.

Biography

Muscha was born in Meinerzhagen, Germany on 28 September 1951. He was a childhood friend of Trini Trimpop, a German rock musician and film director, who directed many projects with him.[1]

He was one of guitarists of the band Charley's Girls and was heavily involved in the punk scene.[2]

He was nominated in 1981, alongside co-director Trini Trimpop, to the Max Ophüls prize for his avant-garde film Humanes Tötem (1980).[3][better source needed] It was his first feature film.

He eventually moved to Berlin and made his second feature film, Decoder (1984). Many counterculture personalities were involved, including Christiane F, Genesis P-Orridge, FM Einheit, William S. Borroughs, among others. The film was re-released in 2019 by Vinegar Syndrome[4] and it's available to watch in the streaming platform Tubi.[5]

Muscha ended his life on 29 July 2003.[6][7]

Filmography

Short films

  • Blitzkrieg-Bop (1977)[8]
  • Suicide (1978)[9]
  • Mirakel Wip (1979)[10]

Feature films

  • Humanes Töten (Humane killing) (1980)
  • Decoder (1984)

References

  1. ^ "Katalog | Stiftung imai". stiftung-imai.de. Retrieved 26 June 2022.
  2. ^ Teipel, Jürgen (2001). Verschwende Deine Jugend (in German). Suhrkamp Verlag. ISBN 3518397710. Retrieved 26 June 2022.
  3. ^ Humanes Töten - IMDb, retrieved 26 June 2022
  4. ^ "Decoder – Vinegar Syndrome". 10 August 2019. Archived from the original on 10 August 2019. Retrieved 26 June 2022.
  5. ^ "Watch Decoder (1984) – Free Movies | Tubi". 18 May 2021. Archived from the original on 18 May 2021. Retrieved 26 June 2022.
  6. ^ "Überall - Ciencia ficción y ciberpunk en el cine alemán". Goethe-Institut website (Spain).
  7. ^ Seibert, Marcus; Fürst, Christian (2022). Achtung, Achtung, Hier spricht das Filmbüro!. Strzelecki Books. ISBN 978-3-910298-01-9.
  8. ^ "Blitzkrieg-Bop | Stiftung imai". stiftung-imai.de. Retrieved 26 June 2022.
  9. ^ "Suicide | Stiftung imai". stiftung-imai.de. Retrieved 26 June 2022.
  10. ^ "Mirakel Wip | Stiftung imai". stiftung-imai.de. Retrieved 26 June 2022.

Further reading

  • Klaus Maeck, Walter Hartmann: DECODER-Handbuch – Muzak, Cut-Ups, Piraten, Frogs, Burger, Der Film. TRIKONT Verlag, Duisburg 1984, ISBN 9783770020676


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