Biography
Klaus Maeck is a German film producer born on 28 July 1954 in Hamburg. He began in the late 1970s punk scene, running Hamburg’s first punk record shop, Rip Off, and co-founding the independent music publisher Freibank. He also wrote and produced the cult cyberpunk film Decoder (1984).
In 2003 Maeck co-founded the production company Corazón International with Fatih Akin and Andreas Thiel. He has produced or co-produced Akin’s films including Head-On (2004), on which he also worked as music consultant, The Edge of Heaven (2007), Chiko (2008) and Soul Kitchen (2009), as well as Takva: A Man’s Fear of God (2006) and Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul (2005).
Maeck later established Interzone Pictures and co-directed, wrote and produced the documentary B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin 1979–1989 (2015).
