Jacky Dreksler

Jacky Dreksler
Dreksler in June 2013
Born	Jacob Joseph Dreksler (1946-03-01) March 1, 1946 (age 71) Paris, France
Nationality	German
Occupation	Author, television producer, songwriter, journalist, consultant, publisher
Years active	1972–present
Spouse(s)	Dr. Babs Ahland-Dreksler

Jacky Dreksler (born Jacob Joseph Dreksler; March 1, 1946) is a German television producer, writer, songwriter and publisher. Dreksler has created many popular and successful German television shows including Schreinemakers Live and RTL Samstag Nacht. He co-owns his TV production and publishing company Pacific Productions with his wife Dr. Babs Ahland-Dreksler.

Dreksler was born in Paris, France to a single Jewish mother. After she died in 1955, when he was nine, he grew up as an orphan in Germany and, for a short while, in the USA where he attended a public school in Kenmore, New York, near Buffalo. He began his career at the chemical and health care corporation Bayer as a young unskilled worker, and then did an apprenticeship as a chemistry lab assistant while at the same time going to night school to complete his high school diploma. Starting in 1968, he studied education, philosophy and sociology in Cologne and completed a master's degree in education. With his wife Babs, he founded the production and publishing company Pacific Productions in 1988.

From 1972, Dreksler taught education theory, history and sociology at a German high school. He taught sociology as a university lecturer at the University of Bonn, Germany and philosophy at various institutions. At thirty, he left the teaching track to accept a doctoral fellowship and worked part-time as a journalist, comic writer, and sailing instructor.

In 1975 Dreksler founded a music school, which he directed for five years. He has also written various textbooks on pop and classical guitar and piano/keyboard and an electronics encyclopedia. He has written arrangements for folk, pop and jazz songs and he published songbooks and books on guitar and keyboards. As of 1983 Dreksler also wrote the music or lyrics for songs performed by artists including Charles Aznavour, Heino, Tony Marshall, Roland Kaiser, Mike Krüger, Die Flippers, Costa Cordalis, and Milva. He composed and produced radio jingles. For a short while, he unsuccessfully pursued a singing career for producer Jack White.