Bernd Wefelmeyer

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Bernd Wefelmeyer (born March 16, 1940 in Berlin ) is a German composer and conductor .

Life

From 1960 to 1966, Wefelmeyer initially completed an academic training as a sound engineer at the Hanns Eisler University of Music in Berlin . Building on this, he studied composition from 1964 to 1968 with Ruth Zechlin , Wolfram Heicking and Rudolf Wagner-Régeny . During his studies he worked as a pianist for the Jazz Optimists Berlin ; Between 1966 and 1972 he was employed as a sound director in the music production of the Berliner Rundfunk . He also worked as a guest conductor and arranger, among other things, on recordings with the Berlin Radio Dance Orchestra, the Radio Dance String Orchestra and the Great Radio Orchestra.

From 1973 he worked as a freelance, mainly as an arranger and composer. He wrote songs for Sonja Kehler and accompanied her (1978 portrait of Brecht). Wefelmeyer composed more than 300 theater, television and film music - for example for companies Geigenkasten , Die Sprungdeckeluhr , The Uninvited Guest , Kiezgeschichten , each of several episodes of Polizeiruf 110 , Verkehrskompaß , Donna Leon or The Little Polar Bear . For the production of The Blue Planet of the Karat group , he led the string group involved.

In 1980 he became musical director of the theater orchestra at the Volksbühne Berlin , and in 1993 chief conductor of the German Film Orchestra Babelsberg . Together with the Puhdys , Karat, Silly & Anna Loos , Ute Freudenberg , Veronika Fischer and the Babelsberg Film Orchestra, he presented the production Ostrock in Klassik (CD, DVD and concerts). In 1986 he received the GDR Art Prize .

Since 1991 he has held an honorary professorship for media music at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music, and in 1995 he was appointed professor at the Potsdam University of Film and Television . He is also active in the works and admissions committee of GEMA .

On June 12, 2009, Bernd Wefelmeyer was awarded the Order of Merit of the State of Brandenburg for setting up the film music course at the Potsdam Film and Television University . In addition, his contribution to the preservation of the Babelsberg Film Orchestra was recognized.

Wefelmeyer lives in Berlin-Köpenick.

Film music (selection)

Radio play music

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ The art award winners 1986 , In: Neues Deutschland , May 23, 1986, p. 6
personal data
SURNAME Wefelmeyer, Bernd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German conductor and composer
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin