Filip Albrecht

Filip Albrecht
Filip Albrecht (2012)
Born	Hanns Philipp Albrecht November 28, 1977 Munich, Germany
Nationality	German
Occupation	lyricist, manager, producer, film distributor, TV host, writer
Years active	1999–present

Filip Albrecht (born November 28, 1977) is a Czech-German lyricist, manager, producer, film distributor, TV host and writer.

Life and career

Karel Gott, Filip Albrecht and Helena Vondráčková in the studio, 2004

Filip Albrecht, Karl Markovics, Peter Kovárčík and Gedeon Burkhard at the The Devil's Mistress press conference in Prague, 2015

Born in Munich, Albrecht grew up in Bavaria. In 1999 he decided to move to Prague and to found a media company to distribute Czech movies all over the world.^[1]

In 2001 he began to work as the German lyricist for the two international most successful Czech singers, Karel Gott and Helena Vondráčková, writing for them from 2001 to 2015 over 30 songs such as Jede Nacht,^[2] Das Lachen meiner Kinder or Schau nach vorn,^[3] which were released mainly in the German market (Universal Music Group Germany, Electrola).^[4] Since 2003 he is Vondráčkova's producer and manager for Germany, Austria and Switzerland.^[5]

In 2002 he started his cooperation with the Zlín Film Festival being named the Head of International Relations by Czech culture minister Vítěžslav Jandák, and afterwards also with the Febiofest.^[6] From 2002–2015 he brought to the Czech Republic dozens of film personalities like Peter Ustinov, Jürgen Prochnow, Helmut Berger, Maximilian Schell, Pierre Brice, Ottfried Fischer, Hanna Schygulla, Dani Levy, Gojko Mitić, Frank Beyer, Götz George or Armin Mueller-Stahl.^[7][8] As a librettist he wrote the German version of the fairy tale Tři bratři ("Three Brothers"), directed by Academy Award winner Jan Svěrák, and the ice show Aschenputtel on Ice.^[9]

Since 2013 Albrecht is the programme director and vice president of the popular Czech television channels Šlágr TV and Country Nr.1.^[10] He is the co-author and ghostwriter of Karel Gott's autobiography Zwischen zwei Welten ("Between Two Worlds"), which was released in Germany in May 2014.^[11][12][13]

Albrecht hosts the Czech-Slovak television show Se Šlágrem na cestách ("With Music on the Road")^[14] and appears on several celebrity talkshows.^[15] For his work as an "ambassador" of Czech music and television shows he was honoured in the Smago Award 2014 ceremony with the ADS Medienpreis by the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Deutscher Schlager & Volksmusik e.v. in Berlin in November 2014.^[16][17]

He is the coproducer of the biographical film movie The Devil's Mistress (director: Filip Renč) about the life of Czech actress Lída Baarová and her affair with Joseph Goebbels starring Karl Markovics, Gedeon Burkhard and Tatiana Pauhofova.^[18][19] World premiere was in January 2016 in Prague under the attendance of Czech president Miloš Zeman.

In April 2015 he made his Broadway theatre debut with the musical Doctor Zhivago (director: Des McAnuff, music: Lucy Simon) as the Head of International Affairs of the musical's coproducing Czech company Dark Style Agency.^[20][21]

He is a member of the Rotary Club Prague International (RCPI).^[22]

Filip Albrecht lives in Prague and in Nice.

References

Filip Albrecht at the Broadway premiere of Doctor Zhivago, 2015

1. "Karel Gott je muž dvou tváří". Mladá fronta DNES. April 7, 2004. Retrieved December 6, 2011.
2. "Swiss Music Charts (song: Jede Nacht)". hitparade.ch. 2003. Retrieved November 23, 2014.
3. "Press release from Universal Music Group Germany". universal-music.de. October 16, 2014. Retrieved November 20, 2014.
4. "Textů pro Karla Gotta jsem napsal asi dvacet říká německý textař Filip Albrecht". Právo. January 31, 2014. Retrieved March 26, 2014.
5. "Vondráčková uvedla německou show". Mladá fronta DNES. May 3, 2004. Retrieved July 17, 2008.
6. "Deutsch-tschechische Beziehungen im Bereich des Films". Český Rozhlas. August 17, 2003. Retrieved January 11, 2009.
7. "Vinnetou Brice chce točit v Česku". Aha! (czech daily newspaper). September 9, 2009. Retrieved March 14, 2014.
8. "Očekáváme zvučná jména – Stars of the Festival interviev". ZLINFEST.cz. April 24, 2004. Retrieved August 9, 2010.
9. "Svěřák junior a Svěrák senior jsou pro mě světová extratřída". Novinky.cz. February 1, 2014. Retrieved December 20, 2014.
10. "Pro české umělce píše německé texty – interviev about Šlágr TV and Country Nr.1". Deník. September 13, 2014. Retrieved September 16, 2014.
11. "Die Heiterkeit des Seins". Die Zeit. May 24, 2014. Retrieved June 11, 2014.
12. "Karel Gott letos napsal autobiografii, která se stala bestsellerem". Novinky.cz. November 23, 2014. Retrieved December 11, 2014.
13. "Karel Gott oslaví narozeniny, překvapení vás dostane". Aha! daily newspaper. April 11, 2014. Retrieved April 22, 2014.
14. "ADS-Medienpreis Fernsehen Ausland 2014 für Filip Albrecht!". Smago (Das Online-Magazin für deutsche Musik). November 26, 2014. Retrieved November 28, 2014.
15. "TV announcement by Austrian state television ORF of the VERA show with guests Karel Gott, Filip Albrecht and Ralph Siegel". ORF. June 7, 2014. Retrieved October 28, 2014.
16. "ADS-Medienpreis Fernsehen Ausland 2014 für Filip Albrecht!". Smago (Das Online-Magazin für deutsche Musik). November 26, 2014. Retrieved November 28, 2014.
17. "Die "smago! Award 2014" Preisträger(innen) in der Übersicht!". Smago (Das Online-Magazin für deutsche Musik). November 28, 2014. Retrieved April 23, 2015.
18. "Filip Renč začne film o Baarové točit v březnu". ČTK. February 3, 2015. Retrieved February 7, 2015.
19. "Karl Markovics spielt Joseph Goebbels". Die Presse. January 8, 2015. Retrieved February 8, 2015.
20. "Broadway Reviev: Doctor Zhivago". Variety. April 21, 2015. Retrieved April 23, 2015.
21. "Kovarčíkovi se posmrtně plní sen o Živagovi, na premiéru jde i Forman". Mladá fronta DNES. April 20, 2015. Retrieved April 25, 2015.
22. "Seznam členu RC Prague International". Rotary International. November 10, 2016. Retrieved November 11, 2016.

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