Bert Wrede

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Bert Wrede (* 1961 in Potsdam ) is a German guitarist and composer who mainly works for the stage and film .

Life's work

Bert Wrede studied from 1982 to 1986 at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin and, after completing his studies, received a teaching post there, which he held until 1994. During this time he gave many concerts with his band Frigg all over Europe, Asia and North America. He appeared at a number of festivals, for example at the Jazzfest Berlin and at Jazz Across The Border in the House of World Cultures in Berlin, at jazz festivals in Leningrad and Novosibirsk . He also worked in the quartet BakaMutz (with Theo Nabicht , Thierry Madiot and Mauro Gnecchi) and with Albert Ostermaier at Plugged Poetry . In 1997 he received a scholarship for composition from the Akademie der Künste Berlin , where he was a master student of Friedrich Schenker , and completed a scholarship with Elliott Sharp in New York .

Then he worked as a composer for incidental music in spoken theater. For example, he worked with the directors Martin Kušej , Dimiter Gotscheff and Andrea Breth . For Michael Thalheimer he wrote the incidental music for Liliom von Molnar, Emilia Galotti von Lessing, Faust von Goethe and for Die Ratten and Die Weber von Hauptmann. He quickly received commissions from large companies such as the Deutsches Theater Berlin , Thalia Theater Hamburg , Residenztheater Munich , and abroad: at the Burgtheater in Vienna, at the Dramaten in Stockholm, at the Het Nationale Theater Den Haag and at the Théâtre national de la Colline in Paris.

Wrede has been working together with the Salzburg Festival since 2000 . This began with Kušej's production of Hamlet , continued in 2002 with Thalheimer's Woyzeck interpretation and in 2005 and 2006 with two further directorial works by Martin Kušej : Grillparzer's King Ottokars Glück und Ende and Nestroy Höllenangst . Two productions by Andrea Breth followed in 2008 and 2012 : Dostojeksijs Verbrechen und Strafe and Kleist's Prince Friedrich von Homburg or the Battle of Fehrbellin , and finally Thalheimer's idiosyncratic interpretation of Schiller's Maiden of Orleans in 2013 .

Bert Wrede published numerous albums as a composer and guitarist, he wrote many film scores, also for television films and series, also for short films. Examples are the films Banale Tage , Knallhart , Mondkalb and the film trilogy Dreileben . He received important awards.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1992: banal days
  • 1993: The little one and the old man
  • 1993: Still waters
  • 1994: above - below
  • 1997: Have fun with my wife
  • 2002: Nina's story
  • 2004: Fiesta of Passion
  • 2005: Don Carlos, Infant of Spain
  • 2006: tough
  • 2006: King Ottokar's luck and end
  • 2007 fear of hell
  • 2007: moon calf
  • 2008 what you want
  • 2009: The female devil
  • 2009: my stupid ex
  • 2009: Same Same But Different
  • 2011: Dreileben (three-part series, 2 episodes)
  • 2012: The weavers
  • 2015: Herbert
  • 2016: two lost sheep
  • 2016: The NSU complex
  • 2016: a man under suspicion
  • 2019: crime scene: attack on guard 08

Discographic notes

  • Frigg: Doenerfressing Woman (99 Records, 1995, with Jürgen Kupke , Sebastian Hilken, Horst Nonnenmacher , Boris Bell)
  • Frigg: Dust Diary (99 Records, 1997, with Jürgen Kupke, Sebastian Hilken, Horst Nonnenmacher, Boris Bell, and David Tronzo , Elliott Sharp)
  • Frigg: Brecht ( Knitting Factory Records, 1999, with Jürgen Kupke, Sebastian Hilken, Horst Nonnenmacher, Boris Bell, as well as Phil Minton , Meira Asher , Theo Nabicht, Michael Groß, Elliott Sharp)
  • Actronic Hamlet ( ACT 2002, with Werner Dafeldecker , Denis Jabusch, Louise Schumacher, Sebastian Hilken)

Awards

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personal data
SURNAME Wrede, Bert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer, stage and film musician
DATE OF BIRTH 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Potsdam