Marcus Sternberg is a German

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 music video

Music video

A music video or song video is a short film integrating a song and imagery, produced for promotional or artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings...

 director

Music video director

A music video director is driven by a given music track. These are called music videos and are then used as promotional tools for popular music singles...

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Biography

Sternberg studied at the International Film School in London

London

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 and is currently living in Berlin

Berlin

Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...

 and Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires

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. Besides music video

Music video

A music video or song video is a short film integrating a song and imagery, produced for promotional or artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings...

s he also directs commercials. He recceived an ECHO Award in the category Best National Video for his work on the No Angels video for "Something about Us

Something about Us

"Something About Us" is a song by all-female German pop band No Angels. It was written by Thorsten Brötzmann, Alexander Geringas and band member Vanessa Petruo for the group's second studio album Now.....

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Slant Magazine voted his Run DMC vs. Jason Nevins "It's Like That" one of the 100 Greatest Music Videos. "Killer choreography and silky camera moves are director Marcus Sternberg's visual weapons of choice."

His work includes story-videos featuring German film actors Anna-Maria Mühe, Esther Schweins and Franz Dinda.

Sternberg is currently operating out of his co-owned production company Free The Dragon with offices in Berlin and Buenos Aires.

Music Videos

• Melanie C - Rock Me
  Rock Me (Melanie C song)
  "Rock Me" is a song by English singer-songwriter Melanie C from her fifth solo album, The Sea. It was released as the album's first single on 24 June 2011 in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Written by Melanie C, Dave Roth and David Jost, it serves as official theme song for German TV channel...
  
  
• Aura Dione
  Aura Dione
  Mariah Dione , professionally known as Aura Dione, is a Danish singer-songwriter of Faroese, Spanish, French and Danish origin. In 2008 she released her debut album, Columbine which as of 2011 has sold 100,000 copies worldwide...
  
   - Something From Nothing
• Ich + Ich
  Ich + Ich
  Ich + Ich , also pronounced "Ich und Ich", is the name of a musical project by the German musicians Annette Humpe and Adel Tawil. They met in a Berlin recording studio in 2002 when Tawil sang on a production that Humpe had written...
  
   - Hilf Mir
• Nena
  Nena
  Gabriele Susanne Kerner , better known by her stage name Nena, is a German singer and actress. She rose to international fame in 1983 with the New German Wave song "99 Luftballons". In 1984, she re-recorded this song in English as "99 Red Balloons". Nena was also the name of the band with whom she...
  
   & Heppner
  Peter Heppner
  Peter Heppner was the lead singer of the German electronica/synth pop band Wolfsheim, and has collaborated with many other electronic music acts, such as Paul van Dyk, Schiller, and Goethes Erben.- Career :...
  
   - Haus Der Drei Sonnen
• Ashley Hicklin
  Ashley Hicklin
  Ashley Hicklin is an English singer, songwriter, classical composer and producer. He is best known as an acoustic pop singer-songwriter with a distinctive voice...
  
   - All The Time In The World
• Ich + Ich
  Ich + Ich
  Ich + Ich , also pronounced "Ich und Ich", is the name of a musical project by the German musicians Annette Humpe and Adel Tawil. They met in a Berlin recording studio in 2002 when Tawil sang on a production that Humpe had written...
  
   - So soll es bleiben
• Herbstrock - Die Bessere Hälfte (with Ellenie Salvo Gonzalez, Timo Jacobs)
• Nevio Passaro
  Nevio Passaro
  Nevio Passaro is an Italo-German singer, musician and songwriter. He rose to fame after placing fourth in the third season of Deutschland sucht den Superstar, the German version of Pop Idol....
  
   feat. Gabriella Cilmi
  Gabriella Cilmi
  Gabriella Lucia Cilmi is an Australian singer-songwriter. In 2008, Cilmi was awarded six ARIA awards including Single of the Year and Best Female Artist....
  
   - Non Ti Aspettavo (Libertá)
• Klee - Berge Versetzen (with Franz Dinda)
• Klee – Zwei Herzen
• Schiller feat. Xavier Naidoo
  Xavier Naidoo
  Xavier Kurt Naidoo is a German singer-songwriter, record producer and occasional actor. Born and raised in Mannheim, Naidoo worked in several jobs in the gastronomy and the musical industry before relocating to the United States in the early 1990s, where he released his first full-length English...
  
   - Sehnsucht
• Cinema Bizarre
  Cinema Bizarre
  Cinema Bizarre is a band from Berlin. They released their debut album in 2007. Their manager is Lacrimosa singer and songwriter Tilo Wolff. In January 2010, the band announced that they were taking a break and have since said that they will not reform....
  
   - Escape to the Stars
• Lexington Bridge
  Lexington Bridge (band)
  Lexington Bridge were a British - Dutch - American boyband considered a successful European boyband act from 2006-2009. The group is currently composed of Rob Uncles from the USA, Nye Oakley, Dax O'Callaghan and Jerome Simeon from the UK and Ephraim Beks from the Netherlands.Lexington Bridge are...
  
   feat. Snoop Dogg
  Snoop Dogg
  Calvin Cordozar Broadus, Jr. , better known by his stage name Snoop Dogg, is an American rapper, record producer, and actor. Snoop is best known as a rapper in the West Coast hip hop scene, and for being one of Dr. Dre's most notable protégés. Snoop Dogg was a Crip gang member while in high school...
  
   - Real Man
• Cinema Bizarre - Lovesongs (They Kill Me)
• No Angels
  No Angels
  The No Angels are an all-female pop trio from Germany, consisting of band members Lucy Diakovska, Sandy Mölling, and Jessica Wahls. Critically acclaimed, the band has won dozen of awards and prizes since their establishment in the early 2000s, including three ECHOs, a World Music Awards, a NRJ...
  
   - Maybe
• Kim Frank - Zwei Sommer
• No Angels - Goodbye to Yesterday
• Kosheen
  Kosheen
  Kosheen are a British trip hop, breakbeat and rock group based in Bristol, England. The trio consists of producers Markee Substance and Darren Decoder , with singer and song writer Sian Evans...
  
   - Guilty
• Kim Frank - Lara
• Kain - Kaffee zum Mitnehmen
• Nena
  Nena
  Gabriele Susanne Kerner , better known by her stage name Nena, is a German singer and actress. She rose to international fame in 1983 with the New German Wave song "99 Luftballons". In 1984, she re-recorded this song in English as "99 Red Balloons". Nena was also the name of the band with whom she...
  
   feat. Duncan Townsend - Caravan of Love
• Christina Stürmer
  Christina Stürmer
  Christina Stürmer is an Austrian pop/rock singer. After working at a bookshop in Linz and singing in several bands, she reached #2 in Starmania, an Austrian music casting TV show...
  
   - Ohne dich
• Christina Stürmer - Nie genug
• Jenna + Ron - Mittendrin
• Yvonne Catterfeld
  Yvonne Catterfeld
  Yvonne Catterfeld is a German singer, actress and TV host.-Biography:Catterfeld was born in Erfurt, Thuringia, then in East Germany, in 1979. At the age of 15 she started playing the piano and the flute, simultaneously taking first dance and vocal lessons...
  
   + Eric Benét
  Eric Benét
  Eric Benét, is an American singer. His duet with Tamia, "Spend My Life With You" was a number one song for three weeks on the US Billboard R&B chart and was nominated for a Grammy Award in 2000....
  
   - Where does the love goes
• Schiller & Jette von Roth - Der Tag
• Schiller & Thomas D.
  Thomas D
  Thomas D. is a rapper in the German hip hop group Die Fantastischen Vier. He frequently works on solo projects.- Life :...
  
   - Die Nacht
• Valentine - Ocean Full of Tears
• Nena - Lass Mich
• Christina Stürmer - Engel Fliegen Einsam
• Sugarplum Fairy
  Sugarplum Fairy
  Sugarplum Fairy is a pop-rock band from Borlänge, Sweden. The members took the name from a version of the Beatles' song "A Day in the Life" where John Lennon counts the song in by saying "sugar-plum-fairy, sugar-plum-fairy"...
  
   - Sail Beyond Doubt
• Extreme Fundametalists - Bet You Got a Gun
• Nena - Nur geträumt 2003
• Nena & Kim Wilde
  Kim Wilde
  Kim Wilde is an English pop singer, author and television presenter who burst onto the music scene in 1981 with the number 2 UK Singles Chart new wave classic "Kids in America". In 1987 she had a major hit in the United States when her version of The Supremes' classic "You Keep Me Hangin' On"...
  
   - Anyplace, Anywhere, Anytime
• No Angels - Feel Good Lies
• No Angels - No Angel
• SONO - Blame
• Readymade - The Graduate
• No Angels - Something About Us
• No Angels - Let’s go to the bed
• Nena - Leuchtturm 2002
• Nena - 99 Red Balloons 2002
• Schiller & Heppner
  Peter Heppner
  Peter Heppner was the lead singer of the German electronica/synth pop band Wolfsheim, and has collaborated with many other electronic music acts, such as Paul van Dyk, Schiller, and Goethes Erben.- Career :...
  
   - Dream of you
• Söhne Mannheims
  Söhne Mannheims
  Söhne Mannheims is a German musical band founded 1995 in Mannheim by Xavier Naidoo and others.-Albums:*Zion *Noiz *Power of the Sound *Söhne, Mond und Sterne...
  
   - Dein Glück liegt mir am Herzen
• Xavier Naidoo
  Xavier Naidoo
  Xavier Kurt Naidoo is a German singer-songwriter, record producer and occasional actor. Born and raised in Mannheim, Naidoo worked in several jobs in the gastronomy and the musical industry before relocating to the United States in the early 1990s, where he released his first full-length English...
  
   - Wo willst du hin (with Esther Schweins, Steffen Wink)
• Schiller & Kim Sanders
  Kim Sanders
  Kim Sanders is an African American singer and songwriter based in Germany. Sanders began to release singles as a solo artist in 1994 and wrote songs for other musicians. In 1993 and '94 she released three of her singles: "Show Me", "Tell Me That You Want Me" and "Ride". In 1998, Sanders was the...
  
   - Dancing with Loneliness
• Paul van Dyk
  Paul van Dyk
  Matthias Paul, better known by his stage name Paul van Dyk is a German Grammy Award-winning Electronic Dance Music DJ, musician and record producer...
  
   & Saint Etienne - Tell Me Why (The Riddle)
• Superherorockstar - Zu viel
• Superherorockstar - Good Enough
• Echt
  Echt (band)
  Echt was a German pop band from Flensburg active from 1997 to 2002. In 2000 the band was awarded with the Bambi. Kim Frank played the role of Henrik Heidler in the German film NVA. In the summer of 2000 the band covered the song Junimond by Rio Reiser for the film Crazy...
  
   - Wir haben’s getan
• Echt - Wo bist du jetzt?
• De Phazz
  De Phazz
  De Phazz is a downtempo jazz ensemble integrating modern turntablism and elements of soul, Latin, trip hop and drum and bass into a lounge music sound. De Phazz is led by Pit Baumgartner, a German producer who has varied the lineup of artists for every new album. Some regular members are Barbara...
  
   - The Mambo Craze
• Selig - Sie zieht aus
• Readymade - Supernatural
• Storm - Storm
• Jam & Spoon
  Jam & Spoon
  Jam & Spoon was an electronic dance duo from Frankfurt, Germany, that consisted of composers and producers Rolf Ellmer and Markus Löffel . They also worked under the pseudonyms Tokyo Ghetto Pussy, Storm and Big Room...
  
   - Thief
• Camouflage - Thief
• Run DMC vs. Jason Nevins
  Jason Nevins
  Jason Nevins is an American DJ, producer and remixer, who is most widely known for his pop dance productions.-Career:In the early 1990s, Nevins began releasing singles under various monikers through various dance labels, but achieved global recognition in 1998 with his production of Run-DMC's...
  
   - It’s Like That
• Run DMC vs. Jason Nevins - It’s Tricky
• Fettes Brot
  Fettes Brot
  Fettes Brot is a German hip hop group founded in 1992.Fettes Brot is German for fat bread. "Fett" is a German slang term for "excellent" and brot is slang for "hash". The band took the name from a fan who called them "Fettes Brot" after an early gig, which was probably meant as a compliment, but...
  
  - Nordish by Nature
• Celvin Rotane - I Believe

Commercials

• Adidas Brand Summit Film 2008
• 11899
• Bärenmarke
• LEGO World City
• Fewa
• Reno
• Weisser Riese
• Der General
• LEGO Clikits

External links

• marcus-sternberg.com official homepage
• Marcus Sternberg at clipland.com
• www.slantmagazine.com/music/features/greatestmusicvideosi.asp