Uwe Nettelbeck (1940 – 2007) was a journalist, author and music producer. He worked, among other things, as a court reporter and film critic for DIE ZEIT before he became the deputy editor-in-chief of the magazine konkret in 1969. Between 1970 and 1975, he produced the Krautrock-band Faust. From 1976 until his death in 2007, he published the magazine Die Republik together with his wife Petra Nettelbeck.