Norbert Busè
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Norbert Busè grew up in Erbach in the Odenwald forest. He studied philosophy, education, German literature and theology and graduated with a diploma in religious education. He has been working on film projects since 1991. In 1993, he moved to Berlin, where he made documentaries and a number of experimental short films. His work to date has focused on topics related to culture, especially music. He produced the Arte Lounge in over thirty episodes, which was the first television show in Europe to feature classical musicians in a Berlin club.[1] In 2010, he organized a choir festival in South Africa for the ARTE television channel. The highlight was the first-ever performance of the freedom song Ukuthula by all choirs together.[2] Busè also produced films about musicians such as Karlheinz Stockhausen, John Cage, Elvis Presley, Sergiu Celibidache and Richard Strauss, which attracted international attention.[3] In addition, he was one of the few artist to visualize traditional stage dances from Russia, Bolivia, India, Malaysia and Cuba in their living context for film, in order to awaken a new understanding of dance.[4][5][6][7] Since 2017, he has been working increasingly on film biographies of famous personalities again. In his works, he often succeeds in particularly bringing out the essence of a personality and empathically bringing it closer to the viewer.[8][9][10][11][12]
Busè lives in Berlin, is married and has three children.
Work
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[13] [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.
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 [Filmbüro Bremen] with his first short film, Incubus. In 2004 he was awarded the Media Prize of the German Diabetes Foundation [Deutsche Diabetes-Stiftung] for his documentary on the epidemic of prosperity.[14] In 2011, his production of Arte Lounge was nominated for the Grimme Prize in the entertainment category.[15] 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].[16][17] In 2015 his production Richard Strauss and his Heroines won the ECHO Classical award for best DVD-production of the year,[18] and at the International Classical Music Awards. Vogue magazine wrote about the film he produced 2024 about the history of the female punk movement in England in the seventies: ‘Punk Girls - The Female History of British Punk, a rousing documentary film’.[19]
