Max Koffler is a German musician

Musician

A musician is an artist who plays a musical instrument. It may or may not be the person's profession. Musicians can be classified by their roles in performing music and writing music.Also....* A person who makes music a profession....

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He has written music for some German movies and released his debut album taboo in May 2008.

Life and career

Koffler was born in August 1978 in Berlin

Berlin

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, Germany

Germany

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. He is a great-grandson of the filmmaker Leo Koffler

Leo Koffler

Leo Koffler was a screenwriter, actor and singer. Living and working in Berlin in the beginning of the 20th century, he was one of the pioneers of cinema.- Life :...

 and a descendant of the composer Domenico Mazzocchi

Domenico Mazzocchi

Domenico Mazzocchi was an Italian baroque composer of the generation after Claudio Monteverdi. He was a composer of only vocal music, motets, oratorios and madrigals which have continuo, similar to the late Monteverdi's ones....

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Already in his early childhood Max did music and also played main parts in musicals.

After the Fall of the Wall his family moved from Berlin to Stendal in Saxony-Anhalt where he founded his first band Kerosin together with his brother Hanno Koffler

Hanno Koffler

Hanno Koffler is a German actor. He appears both in TV and cinema movies and plays at the theater.-Life and career:Hanno Koffler was born in Berlin. As a child he already played roles in theatre plays....

 in 1994. In 1997 he moved back to Berlin.
Kerosin won second prize in the World's biggest Band Live contest Emergenza in 2001 and recorded songs for several German cinema movies.
Max Koffler also wrote and performed the German title song for the movie "ganz und gar" (2003).

After taking part in a singing competition for Korean traditional songs in 2004 Koffler was invited to Korea and there he had concerts at the Seoul Opera and Seoul's largest Entertainment park. Videos of his performances became No 1 in Korean video charts and Koffler travelled there again in 2008 for several interviews and playing concerts with his new band Seoulmates.

In 2005 Max Koffler recorded his first studio album "taboo" together with different musicians which was released in 2008 on trigger music, a sublabel of 313JWP (distributed by Sony BMG).

Discography

Albums:

• taboo (2008)

Singles:

• one way highway (2007)

Scores:

• ganz und gar (2003)

Soundtracks:

• Paule und Julia (2002)
• Hattrick (TV, Pro7, 2002)
• ganz und gar (2003)
• Sommersturm (2004)

External links

• Max Koffler: Official website of Max Koffler
• Video of the song taboo