Photos: M. Summen (by G. Summen), D. Brüggemann (by A. Röhner), C. Rösinger (by D. Tuch)
From MTV to the music-video DVD; from Web2.0 to your own YouTube channel; from »Does Streaming Kill the Video Star?« to a stand-alone work of art—in the past 15 years, Staatsakt has produced as many music videos as they have records. Together with director Dietrich Brüggemann and musician Christiane Rösinger, Staatsakt label founder Maurice Summen will flip through through the label’s music-video history. Together, they’ll discuss music videos and the ways in which their meaning and purpose are changing over time. Budgets are shrinking, as are attention spans. The Instagram story makes for more compact advertising, and in the end, fans only want to stream the hits anyway. Despite all this, tomorrow’s music videos are still being planned, and they’ll be shot using technology that’s ever-cheaper and easier to use…
»Quinceañera Staatsakt«The most inspired German indie label to emerge since the mid-noughties is called Staatsakt. Founded in 2003 by Gunther Osburg and Maurice Summen, two members of the group Die Türen, hardly any time passed before they released their own first independent, i.e. ›indie‹ album, »Das Herz war Nihilismus«. Meanwhile, Summen runs the label alone, supported by Henrietta Bauer, who is also manager of the group Isolation Berlin; Markus Göres, who takes care of press work; and Sebastian Pobot, who is responsible for sales. For the label’s 15th anniversary, we’ve revived Die Türen, and they’ll play us all-new material (»Exoterik«). We’ll also converse with CEO Summen and flip through the Staatsakt music video clip collection (»Does Streaming Kill the Video Star?«) with various illustrious guests. In addition, we’ll present two new groups from the Staatsakt establishment that are off-the-cuff among the most interesting German-language rock and pop we’ve heard in recent years. Both of these bands, International Music and Swutscher, will release their debut albums this year.
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