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Since 1991 Sabottka has been responsible for the worldwide coordination of the live performances of the German rock band Rammstein. From 1991 to 2018, Sabottka was responsible for the worldwide coordination of the live performances of the electronic pioneers Kraftwerk. In 1998, Sabottka bought back all Avram & Rau's shares and moved to Berlin again. During this time (from 1994-1999) Sabottka organized concerts for artists such as: R.E.M, Lenny Kravitz, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Cramps, Celine Dion, Tom Waits, Tanita Tikaram, Marilyn Manson, Melissa Etheridge, Sheryl Crow, Velvet Underground, Patti Smith, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Kraftwerk, Robbie Williams, Nick Cave and many more. and joined up with the famous concert organizers Marcel Avram and Fritz Rau, who took over the majority of the company shares. In 1994 Sabottka moved to Munich with MCT, split from Lewkowicz and Heinersdorff Jr. Īfter the departure of Eggert and Hülder, Sabottka took over the company MCT in 1988 with the Düsseldorf concert organizers Bernhard Lewkowicz and Rene Heinersdorff jr.

Parallel to this, Sabottka worked as an international tour manager for Violent Femmes and Johnathan Richman.

The company’s first tours were for the punk band Ramones from New York, the British punk combo King Kurt and the Welsh avantgarde musician John Cale. In August 1984, together with the head of the company ‘Rough Trade Booking’ Dietrich Eggert and the manager of the band Die Toten Hosen, Jochen Hülder, he founded the company ‘MCT, Music Consulting Team GmbH’, in Herne. Īlso in 1982, he organized his first concert at the SO 36 Club in Berlin with the Australian noise electric group, ‘SPK’. Later he became tour manager of the group Einstürzende Neubauten, and he accompanied them internationally until 1984. He got to know the musicians FM Einheit from the Hamburg group Abwärts and in 1982 he worked as the band’s driver. In his home town, he was already a guitarist for the Dortmund punk rock group 'Public Enemy'. At the age of 18, Sabottka moved to West Berlin and joined the punk scene there. Scumeck Sabottka is the eldest child (of three children) of the merchant Hans Georg Sabottka and his wife Adelheid (née Kuntze).
