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Makob

|’makob| (o. pl.)

Self-chosen first name and stage name

Origin of New High German, children's language: contraction from the official given names

"Max Jakob," influenced by his

two-year-old cousin who wasn't entirely proficient in the language.

PROFILE

  • Born and raised in Munich, with 11 years of classical piano training, self-taught in blues and jazz.
  • As a teenager, gained band and tour experience, including a record deal and CD production with BMG Ariola. 
  • From 1992 to 2005, worked as a freelance creative, arranger, composer, and sound engineer 'against his will' for the renowned TV composer Michael Hofmann de Boer ("Die Rosenheim Cops"; "Das Traumhotel"): arrangement and co-composition for more than 30 TV movies, a few hundred TV series episodes, around 20 product films, and CD productions.

Since 2005, independent music production with a wide-ranging spectrum:

  • Composition of film music
  • Arrangements for CD productions
  • Arrangements/Production for advertising (including several years for Lindt chocolate) 
  • Musical (Arrangement and production of music for the musicals “Heidi”, “Scrooge,” and “Bambi” by and with Michael Schanze)
  • Development of sound logos (Falken Tyres, Sparkasse)

Industry Film 

Productions:

  • Since 2013, freelance associate at Leslie Mandocki's RedRock-Productions as a composer and later as a company representative at around 20 international auto show events (Frankfurt, Geneva, Paris, Amsterdam, Beijing, Shanghai, Detroit).
  • Since 2018, intermittent collaboration with film composer Gert Wilden, working on various TV productions and two films for cinema, "Kroos" (2019) and "Last Contact" (2023).

In addition to craftsmanship and artistic versatility, colleagues, producers, and directors appreciate speed, friendliness, and reliability

(see "What Others Say”).

FEATURE FILMS

Arrangements and co-compositions for more than 30 feature films (comedy, action, crime, drama, horror) and over 200 episodes of various TV series.

Feature films:

  • “Das Traumhotel” – romance, ca 19 episodes
  • “Vorübergehend verstorben” – crime fiction
  • “Ein Fall für den Fuchs”, 4 episodes – crime comedy
  • “Ein Vater zum Verlieben” – Comedy
  • “Geregelte Verhältnisse” –Comedy
  • “Sein letzter Wille” – Bavarian comedy
  • “Der Ehrabschneider” – Bavarian comedy
  • “Der Blaue Diamant” (1993) – Action
  • “Das wilde Mädchen” (1995) – Drama
  • “Ein einsames Haus am See” (2004) – Horror
  • “The Unquiet” – Horror (USA)
  • “Shadows in Paradise” – Action (USA)

TV-Series

  • 5 episodes “Der Alte”
  • 3 epidsodes “Die Männer vom K3”
  • 12 episodes “Liebe ist Privatsache”
  • 13 episodes “Sophie – schlauer als die Polizei” (SAT1)
  • 20 episodes “Florida Lady” (ZDF)
  • 90 episodes “Samt und Seide” (ZDF)
  • 200 episodes “Rosenheim Cops” (ZDF)
  • 60 episodes “Da kommt Kalle” (ZDF)
  • 40 episodes “Woozle-Goozle” Kinder-Wissensserie (Super-RTL)

Cinema:

  • “Fascinating Nature” – Documentary
  • “Kroos” – Dokumentary
  • “Last Contact” – Science Fiction