• Tastenarbeiter – Alexander von Schlippenbach

    Tastenarbeiter – Alexander von Schlippenbach



  • Tastenarbeiter – Alexander von Schlippenbach

    Tastenarbeiter – Alexander von Schlippenbach



  • Tastenarbeiter – Alexander von Schlippenbach

    Tastenarbeiter – Alexander von Schlippenbach



  • Tastenarbeiter – Alexander von Schlippenbach

    Tastenarbeiter – Alexander von Schlippenbach



Tastenarbeiter – Alexander von Schlippenbach

by Tilman Urbach

Tastenarbeiter – Alexander von Schlippenbach

Germany | 2023 | 106:00 min

Original Title:
TASTENARBEITER – ALEXANDER VON SCHLIPPENBACH

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Documentary Music film
Synopsis
Alexander von Schlippenbach is a free jazz hero from Berlin who experienced total freedom in music from the 1960s on. The film follows him to the present day and also considers the political background of European free jazz in the spirit of optimism of the '68 movement.
In the film v. Schlippenbach meets old companions. He travels to a studio in Cologne where he meets up with trumpeter Manfred Schoof. As they play together they reminisce about the 60s, when jazz was free of any entertainment attitude. Free Jazz was the expression of a radical social utopia. In Dresden, v. Schlippenbach meets the percussionist Günter 'Baby' Sommer and talks about the numerous concerts the two free jazzers played together in the GDR, where they used to be celebrated like pop stars. Here thousands of fans understood the FreeJazz as an expression of freedom. In Borken the label boss Jost Gebers shows his FMP archive and discovers photos and band recordings from Schlippenbach's early days. Also in the scene Gebers makes v. Schlippenbach more clear as a person. The camera observes Alexander v. Schlippenbach not only at home, where he lives in Moabit with his wife, jazz pianist Aki Takase, but also on tour in Munich. Nevertheless, the film TASTENARBEITER – ALEXANDER VON SCHLIPPENBACHis neither a pure music film nor a concert film, but rather concentrates on the biographical breaks and disappointments in life, but also on his spirit of optimism that happend to v. Schlippenbach.
Festivals/Awards
2023
Berliner Jazzfest – World Premiere
2024
5 LETsDOK
Cast and Crew
  • Director Tilman Urbach
  • Producer Tilman Urbach, Nele Urbach
  • Director of Photography Marcus Schwemin, Justin Urbach
  • Line producer Simon Janik (isar film Produktion GmbH)
  • Editor Gaspard Gillery
  • Sound Rainer Lux
  • Sound Design Rainer Lux
  • Score Alexander von Schlippenbach
Original Languages

German

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