Norbert Buse

Norbert Busè was raised in Erbach im Odenwald, Germany. Until 1993 he worked as an editor at the German public-service broadcaster ZDF and also appeared on air as the presenter of the consumer-advice program. Since 1991 he has been working on film projects and questions of media education. In 1993, he moved to Berlin and directed documentary films alongside his own experimental short films. Work Focus points for his work so far have been cultural, with a particular emphasis on music. The first of his films shot for ZDF, Auf Teufel komm raus "Come Hell or High Water", considers the meaning of music in adolescent development, by example of the New Wave scene. In 2003 Busè began, in co-operation with UNESCO, ZDF and 3SAT, the production of the 12-piece film project Meisterwerke der Menschheit "Mankind's Masterpieces". The films showed the humanity's intangible cultural heritage and the threat under which even music finds itself. AVA - Die Stimme meiner Mutter, "AVA- The Voice of my Mother", a 90-minute music documentary film, was Busè's first feature-length film about the legacy and potential loss of Russian folk songs. He produced over 30 episodes of the Arte Lounge programme, which at first broadcast classical music from a Berlin club. In 2010 he organised a choral festival in South Africa for the European cultural broadcaster ARTE, the culmination of which was a joint performance from all the choirs involved of the freedom song 'Ukuthula'. Films he produced about musicians such as Karlheinz Stockhausen, John Cage, Elvis Presley, Sergiu Celibidache and Richard Strauss have also attracted international recognition. Additionally, he has been one of few in the industry to bring to television the traditional stage dance of Russia, Bolivia, India, Malaysia and Cuba, preserving their native environment and thereby awakening a deeper understanding of dance. In 2009 he took over as Head of Factual Programming at Studio TV Film in Berlin. Recognition Norbert Busè has been officially recognised for his work , including internationally. In 1999 he won the audience-choice award in the youth category from the Film Council of Bremen with his first short film, Incubus. In 2004 he was awarded the Media Prize of the German Diabetes Foundation for his documentary on the epidemic of prosperity. In 2011, his production of Arte Lounge was nominated for the Grimme Prize in the entertainment category. In 2011 the four-part series Auf den Spuren von Easy Rider "Tracking Down Easy Rider" was awarded the gold medal for best production in the cultural category at the world's biggest television trade-show, NAB in Las Vegas. In 2014 he was nominated at the International Classical Music Awards for his directing of the film Sergiu Celibidache - Feuerkopf und Philosophy "Sergiu Celibidache: firebrand and philosopher". In 2015 his production Richard Strauss and his Heroines won the ECHO Classical award for best DVD-production of the year,[8] and at the International Classical Music Awards.