Jacky Dreksler

In 2007, Dreksler started the publishing branch of his company Pacific Productions with a book he co-wrote with Hugo Egon Balder Wunsch-Bullshit im Universum, a critique of self-help books based on the Law of Attraction like Rhonda Byrne’s The Secret or Esther Hicks’s Ask and it is Given, (co-written with her husband Jerry Hicks).

In 1991, Dreksler switched to the TV producers' camp and produced the German version of an American and British panel game show (Match Game, Blankety Blank. He produced music videos, created and produced some 400 comedy shows, late night shows, variety shows, and game shows, including Schreinemakers Live for SAT.1 and, in collaboration with Hugo Egon Balder, over 150 episodes of RTL Samstag Nacht, the German version of Saturday Night Live. In conjunction with the Canadian company of Gilbert Rozon, he co-produced the German version of Just Kidding and Just For Laughs for RTL Television.

Beginning in 1984, Dreksler became show author and hosting coach for German show celebrities like Dieter Thomas Heck, Hugo Egon Balder, Hella von Sinnen, Frank Elstner, Max Schautzer, Dagmar Berghoff, Michael Schanze, Carlo von Tiedemann, and Carolin Reiber (around 650 TV shows, with a total of over 70 different titles).

In 1982, Dreksler began working almost exclusively for radio as actor, author, host, and producer of various radio formats. Dreksler wrote, spoke, played and produced some 1500 sketches, gag songs and features for various radio stations.

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.

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.

Dreksler is married to Dr. Babs Ahland-Dreksler (born 1958). They have two children, Noemi (born 1990) and Noelani (born 1994). Dreksler and his wife live and work in Cologne, Germany.

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.

Jacky Dreksler (born Jacob Joseph Dreksler; 1 March 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.