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In 2017, the documentary “Der Konzertdealer” by filmmaker Sobo Swobodnik about Scumeck Sabottka, which depicted the harsh, globalized business behind the tours in the backstage area of the concert industry, was released in German cinemas. The film music is by British experimentalist and artist Dinos Chapman.

In 2005, Sabottka founded the internet concert ticket sales portal 'Tickets.de' (which he sold in 2010). For the first time in 2010, 150,000 personalized concert tickets were sold worldwide for the band Take That’s stadium tour. This was followed by the heated battle against the secondary sale of concert tickets at inflated prices.

In 1998, Sabottka bought back all Avram & Rau's shares and moved to Berlin again. From 1991 to 2018, Sabottka was responsible for the worldwide coordination of the live performances of the electronic pioneers Kraftwerk. Since 1991 Sabottka has been responsible for the worldwide coordination of the live performances of the German rock band Rammstein. This was followed by stadium tours with Robbie Williams, which sold about 1.2 million tickets in 2006.

In 1994 Sabottka moved to Munich with MCT, split from Lewkowicz and Heinersdorff Jr. and joined up with the famous concert organizers Marcel Avram and Fritz Rau, who took over the majority of the company shares. 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.

After 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.

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

In his home town, he was already a guitarist for the Dortmund punk rock group 'Public Enemy'. He got to know the musicians FM Einheit from the Hamburg group Abwärts and in 1982 he worked as the band’s driver. Later he became tour manager of the group Einstürzende Neubauten, and he accompanied them internationally until 1984.

Also in 1982, he organized his first concert at the SO 36 Club in Berlin with the Australian noise electric group, ‘SPK’.

Scumeck (Stefan) Sabottka (born 18 January 1962 in Oberhausen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany) is a German concert and tour organizer and founder of the online ticketing portal tickets.de.