Alexander Hacke - was born in the proletarian district of Berlin Neukölln. A musician from the start, he joined Einstürzende Neubauten in 1980 at the tender age of 14, besides playing in numerous influential underground-groups and writing, recording, releasing and performing music under the pseudonym Alexander von Borsig. Throughout the eighties and up until today he not only collaborates with countless artists of various genres but also continues to produce records and score music for theater, feature and documentary movies. In 1986 he teamed up with the Australian band Crime And The City Solution. Throughout the 1990s he then recorded and toured with Italian pop-icon Gianna Naninni, formed the alternative country-music outfit Jever Mountain Boys, improvised with Can-drummer Jaki Liebezeit for Japanese avantgarde-star Phew and produced records for the likes of Miranda Sex Garden, French anarchist songwriter Fred Alpi or Berlin post-punk characters Mutter. In 2005 he starred as the main protagonist in Fatih Akin's movie "Crossing the Bridge -the sound of Istanbul" and contributed music for the directors award-winning feature "Head On". Some of the many movie-productions which bear Hacke's unmistakable hand-writing are "8 Miles High" a bio-picture about Germany's premier femme fatale of the sixties and seventies Uschi Obermaier, the Finnish coming-of-age drama "Last Cowboy Standing" by Zaida Bergroth and "Fuori Dalle Corde / Out Of Bounds" the bare-knuckle fist-fighting drama by Italian director Fulvio Bernasconi, for which he received the award for best music at the 26th Festival International Du Premier Film in Annonay, France. He wrote a spectacular score for Fatih Akins latest movie "The Cut", an epic tale of a mans search for his daughters during the time of the Armenian genocide in 1915, which opened at 71. Venice Filmfestival in 2014. Subsequently Hacke was nominated in the category Best Music at the German Movie Awards 2015. Since 2001 Alexander has been collaborating with the American artist Danielle de Picciotto who was singer in the band "Space Cowboys", conceived the "Ocean Club" together with Gudrun Gut and was co-founder of the "Love Parade". Together they initiated performances such as "Mountains of Madness" based on HP Lovecraft stories (inviting the English trio "Tiger Lillies" to participate), "Bada Bing" a performance series presenting an eclectic selection of new Berlin bands, "The History of Electricity" an electronic performance, "The Ship Of Fools", based on the medieval text by Sebastian Brant, "Hitman's Heel" a collection of songs inspired by the event of the couples embarking on a nomadic excursion, which began in 2010 and continues on today and numerous international workshops and lectures on the innovative culture in Berlin. Further collaborations of Hacke & de Picciotto, who got married in 2006 include: "Not Junk Yet - The Art Of Lary 7", a documentary movie about the enigmatic artist from New York City, "Needle At Sea Bottom", an EP they recorded with him in his legendary Lower East Side studio and "The Glasshouse", a silent movie with a score they performed live, inviting numerous acclaimed musicians to join them on stages around the world. Alexander Hacke has released three solo-albums: "Filmarbeiten" a compilation of his early film-works, "Sanctuary", a so-called Road-Record, which he produced during a journey around the world and "Doomed", originally conceived for an inter-disciplinary exhibition. In 2015 he put out his autobiography "KRACH - Verzerrte Erinnerungen", published by Metrolit a division of the highly regarded German publishing house Aufbau-Verlag. Photo by Mote Sinobel In 2016 Danielle and Alexander released their acclaimed album Perseverantia , with which they toured internationally and also started to record a series of releases as soundtracks dedicated to the practice of meditation and Yoga: Unity and Joy came out in 2017 and 2018 respectively. With their 2018 release of Menetekel, the dark, brooding follow-up to Perseverantia, which was a double-album, the artist-couple started to fuse their names to hackedepicciotto, in order to create an iconic title for their ongoing multi-faceted collaboration. In January 2020 the duo released The Current and were signed to Mute Records to release The Silver Threshold in November 2021.
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Biography from IMDb.
- October 11, 1965 (61)
- Berlin, Germany
- Composer and actor
- 4 on MovieCove · 30 credits in all
What are Alexander Hacke's films like?
Across their 5 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Society and Self.
Themes
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 1 · Wry 0 · Earnest 4
A split, not a type: Light 2 · Serious 1 · Dark 2
A split, not a type: Grounded 4 · Stylized 0 · Heightened 1
A split, not a type: Gentle 2 · Charged 1 · Intense 2
A split, not a type: Steady 2 · Shifting 3 · Whiplash 0
Straight-faced 4 · Some laughs 1 · Funny 0
Slow burn 4 · Even-paced 1 · Relentless 0
A split, not a type: Casual 3 · Engaged 0 · Full focus 2
A split, not a type: Easy watch 3 · Affecting 0 · Heavy 2
Resolved 3 · Open-ended 0 · Ambiguous 2
Moods and endings
- Bittersweet3
- Ambiguous2
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch Alexander Hacke's films?
As of October 24, 2026, 3 of their 4 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service.
Subscription and free streaming for Alexander Hacke's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
30 credits, 4 with a MovieCove page; 11 appearances as themselves are hidden until asked for.
Was haben wir gelacht (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2026)
I Want It All (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2025)
Empire V (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2023)
Takeaway (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2022)
All Is One. Except 0 (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2020)
Zerbrochen - Ein Fall für Dr. Abel (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2019)
Zerschunden - Ein Fall für Dr. Abel (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2019)
Zersetzt - Ein Fall für Dr. Abel (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2018)
High & Outside: A Baseball Noir (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2018)
Summer Solstice (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2015)
Einstürzende Neubauten: Live at Primavera Sound 2015 (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2015)
The Cut(2014)
Midcredits score: 50th percentile of all films
Polluting Paradise (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2012)
Generation P(2011)
Midcredits score: 72nd percentile of all films
Last Cowboy Standing (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2009)
Fuori dalle corde (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2007)
Mountains of Madness (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2006)
Seele Brennt (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2005)
Sehnsucht (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2004)
Head-On(2004)
Midcredits score: 97th percentile of all films
Listen with Pain: 20 Years of Einstürzende Neubauten (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2001)
Planet Alex (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2001)
Killer Condom(1996)
Midcredits score: 36th percentile of all films
Das Loch (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1995)
Kandidaten (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1994)
The Eye of the Typhoon (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1993)
Fatherland (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1992)
Nihil, or All the Time in the World (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1987)
Kings of Independence (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1987)
Decoder (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1984)
Career shape
A full career of 30 titles from 1984 to 2026.
Film career
- 1984Screen debut· Decoder
How do Alexander Hacke's films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 61st percentile, the median of all 4; across a limited sample of 4 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 81st percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up1
- 50th to 74th2
- 25th to 49th1
Shape of the crowd
1 of their 4 titles is Universally Loved.
- Universally Loved1
- Divisive1
- Crowd Pleaser1
- Mixed1
Reviewers score the sound and music 71/100 in their films, across 4 reviewed titles; fans 74, detractors 35. The element that speaks to their work as a composer.
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.
Who does Alexander Hacke work with?
People who share at least 2 of Alexander Hacke's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Fatih Akin shares the most, 4.
Directors
- Fatih AkinShared titles: Mona Mur in Conversation (2024), The Cut (2014), Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul (2005), Head-On (2004)See all 4 shared titles with Fatih Akin
Cinematographers and editors
- Andrew BirdShared titles: The Cut (2014), Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul (2005), Head-On (2004)See all 3 shared titles with Andrew Bird
- Rainer KlausmannShared titles: The Cut (2014), Head-On (2004)See all 2 shared titles with Rainer Klausmann
Producers
- Ali AkdenizShared titles: The Cut (2014), Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul (2005), Head-On (2004)See all 3 shared titles with Ali Akdeniz
- Nurhan Sekerci-PorstShared titles: The Cut (2014), Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul (2005)See all 2 shared titles with Nurhan Sekerci-Porst
- Andreas ThielShared titles: Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul (2005), Head-On (2004)See all 2 shared titles with Andreas Thiel
Mixed roles
- Klaus MaeckShared titles: Mona Mur in Conversation (2024), Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul (2005)See all 2 shared titles with Klaus Maeck