Filip Albrecht

Filip Albrecht
Filip Albrecht (2012)
Born
Hanns Philipp Albrecht

(1977-11-28) 28 November 1977 (age 47)
Munich, West Germany
Occupation(s)lyricist, manager, producer, film distributor, TV host, writer
Years active1999–present

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

Early life

Filip Albrecht, Karl Markovics, Peter Kovárčík and Gedeon Burkhard at 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 found a media company to distribute Czech movies all over the world.[1] Albrecht is a member of the Rotary Club Prague International.[2]

Career

2000s

In 2001, Albrecht 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 2017 over 30 songs such as Jede Nacht,[3] Das Lachen meiner Kinder or Schau nach vorn,[4] which were released mainly in the German market (Universal Music Group Germany, Electrola).[5] Since 2003 he is Vondráčkova's producer and manager for Germany, Austria and Switzerland.[6] Albrecht is also the manager of legendary Czech actor and entertainer Pavel Trávníček (Three Wishes for Cinderella).

In 2002, Albrecht started his cooperation with the Zlín Film Festival being named the Head of International Relations by Czech culture minister Vítěžslav Jandák as well as the Febiofest.[7] From 2002 until 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.[8][9] 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.[10]

2010s

Filip Albrecht at the Broadway premiere of Doctor Zhivago, 2015

Since 2013, Albrecht has been the programme director and vice-president of the popular Czech television channels Šlágr TV and Country Nr.1.[11] 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.[12][13][14]

Albrecht hosts the Czech-Slovak television show Se Šlágrem na cestách (lit. 'With Music on the Road')[15] and appears on several celebrity talk shows.[16] 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.[17][18]

Albrecht 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.[19][20]

Albrecht presenting the Closing Gala of the Fabulix Film Festival, 2017

In October 2016, Albrecht was named the Festival Director of the first European Fairy Tale Film Festival Internationales Märchenfilmfestival Fabulix in Annaberg-Buchholz (Saxony). Albrecht is a founding member of the festival.[21][22][23] The first edition of the festival (2017) took place from 23 August to the 27th, and was visited by over 20.000 guests.[24]

References

  1. ^ "Karel Gott je muž dvou tváří". Mladá fronta Dnes (in Czech). Mafra. 7 April 2004. Retrieved 6 December 2011.
  2. ^ "Seznam členu RC Prague International". Rotary International. 10 November 2016. Archived from the original on 13 November 2016. Retrieved 11 November 2016.
  3. ^ "Swiss Music Charts (song: Jede Nacht)". hitparade.ch. Retrieved 23 November 2014.
  4. ^ "Press release from Universal Music Group Germany". Universal Music Germany (Press release). Universal Music. 16 October 2014. Retrieved 20 November 2014.
  5. ^ "Textů pro Karla Gotta jsem napsal asi dvacet říká německý textař Filip Albrecht". Právo. 31 January 2014. Retrieved 26 March 2014.
  6. ^ "Vondráčková uvedla německou show". Mladá fronta Dnes (in Czech). Mafra. 3 May 2004. Retrieved 17 July 2008.
  7. ^ "Deutsch-tschechische Beziehungen im Bereich des Films". Czech Radio (in German). 17 August 2003. Retrieved 11 January 2009.
  8. ^ "Vinnetou Brice chce točit v Česku". Aha! (in Czech). Czech News Center. 9 September 2009. Retrieved 14 March 2014.
  9. ^ "Očekáváme zvučná jména – Stars of the Festival interviev". Zlín Film Festival (in Czech). 24 April 2004. Archived from the original on 29 April 2013. Retrieved 9 August 2010.
  10. ^ "Svěřák junior a Svěrák senior jsou pro mě světová extratřída". Novinky.cz (in Czech). Borgis. 1 February 2014. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
  11. ^ "Pro české umělce píše německé texty" [Interview about Šlágr TV and Country Nr.1]. Deník. České Budějovice: Vltava Labe Media. 13 September 2014. Retrieved 16 September 2014.
  12. ^ "Die Heiterkeit des Seins". Die Zeit (in German). Zeitverlag Gerd Bucerius GmbH & Co. KG. 24 May 2014. Retrieved 11 June 2014.
  13. ^ "Karel Gott letos napsal autobiografii, která se stala bestsellerem". Novinky.cz (in Czech). Borgis. 23 November 2014. Retrieved 11 December 2014.
  14. ^ "Karel Gott oslaví narozeniny, překvapení vás dostane". Aha! (in Czech). Czech News Center. 11 April 2014. Retrieved 22 April 2014.
  15. ^ "ADS-Medienpreis Fernsehen Ausland 2014 für Filip Albrecht!". Smago (in German). 26 November 2014. Archived from the original on 27 December 2014. Retrieved 28 November 2014.
  16. ^ "TV announcement by Austrian state television ORF of the VERA show with guests Karel Gott, Filip Albrecht and Ralph Siegel". ORF. 7 June 2014. Retrieved 28 October 2014.
  17. ^ "ADS-Medienpreis Fernsehen Ausland 2014 für Filip Albrecht!". Smago (in German). 26 November 2014. Archived from the original on 27 December 2014. Retrieved 28 November 2014.
  18. ^ "Die "smago! Award 2014" Preisträger(innen) in der Übersicht!". Smago (in German). 28 November 2014. Archived from the original on 1 December 2014. Retrieved 23 April 2015.
  19. ^ "Filip Renč začne film o Baarové točit v březnu". České Noviny (in Czech). 3 February 2015. Retrieved 7 February 2015.
  20. ^ "Karl Markovics spielt Joseph Goebbels". Die Presse (in German). Die Presse Verlags-Gesellschaft m.b.H. & Co KG. 8 January 2015. Retrieved 8 February 2015.
  21. ^ "Ries-Stadt feiert mit vielen Stars märchenhaftes Filmfest". Berliner Morgenpost (in German). Funke Mediengruppe. 18 March 2017. Archived from the original on 17 August 2017. Retrieved 2 June 2017.
  22. ^ "Fabulix zaubert Sommermärchen nach Annaberg-Buchholz". Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk (in German). 17 March 2017. Archived from the original on 28 March 2017. Retrieved 3 June 2017.
  23. ^ "Echtes Prinzenpaar kommt zu Fabulix". Freie Presse (in German). Saxony: Chemnitzer Verlag. 18 March 2017. Retrieved 4 June 2017.
  24. ^ "Rund 20.000 Besucher bei Märchenfilm-Festival "fabulix"". Die Welt (in German). Axel Springer SE. 27 August 2017. Retrieved 15 October 2017.