Christian Conrad (composer)
Christian Nikolaus Conrad (born August 7, 1971 in Ulm ; † March 5, 2019 in Berlin-Buch ) was a German sound designer and composer .
Life
As a child he received piano and later drum lessons. After graduating from high school in 1990 at the Theodeor-Heuss-Gymnasium Göttingen and doing community service, he first studied musicology and journalism at the LMU Munich . From 1996 he studied clay at the HFF Konrad Wolf in Potsdam. Christian Conrad has been a member of various bands since the mid-1990s, and with the formation Rechenzentrum he has released several recordings. Since 1999 he has worked as a sound designer and composer for cinema films alongside regular teaching activities .
Christian Conrad died on March 5, 2019 in a hospice in Berlin-Buch as a result of his ALS disease .
Films (selection)
- Sound design
- Family circles (2003)
- Fateless (2004)
- Last King Of Scotland (2006)
- WΔZ (2007)
- Outlaw (2008)
- March Melody (2008)
- Anonymous (2008)
- Bronson (2008)
- Same Same But Different (2009)
- Jerry Cotton (2010)
- Rubbeldiekatz (2011)
- The House of the Crocodiles (2012)
- Gold - You can do more than you think (2013)
- OMAR (2013)
- Bibi and Tina (2013)
- The Voices (2014)
- Monsters: Dark Continent (2014)
- composer
- Strong Shit (1997)
- We (2003)
- Passenger (2004)
- Street number one (2006)
- Valerie (2006)
- West Wind (2011)
- Tadao Ando - From Void to Infinity (2013)
- Urmila - for freedom (2016)
Nominations
- 2006: Nomination for the Golden Reel of the American Motion Picture Sound Editors (MPSE) for 'Last King of Scotland'
- 2009: Nomination for the German Film Award in the Best Sound Design category for Anonyma
- 2011: Nomination for the German Film Prize in the category Best Sound Design for Jerry Cotton
Web links
- Christian Conrad in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Christian Conrad at filmportal.de
- Matthias Hassenpflug: Idi Amin's flatulence - How Prof. Martin Steyer and HFF graduates helped the Uganda blockbuster “The Last King of Scotland” to be in a good mood. In: Potsdam's latest news . June 29, 2007. Retrieved June 17, 2013 .
- Interview with Christian Conrad and Martin Steyer
- Interview with Manfred Banach, Christian Conrad and Tschangis Chahrokh
Individual evidence
- ↑ Alexis Waltz: Christian Conrad from Rechenzentrum is dead. In: Groove. March 7, 2019, accessed on March 9, 2019 (German).
- ↑ data center. In: Discogs. Retrieved March 9, 2019 .
- ↑ Information: Hollywood's 3-D experts at "Insight Out". In: digitalfernsehen.de. March 15, 2010, accessed March 9, 2019 .
- ↑ Alexis Waltz: Christian Conrad from Rechenzentrum is dead. In: Groove. March 7, 2019, accessed on March 8, 2019 (German).
- ↑ [1] ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.mpse.org/goldenreels/2007awards/2007featurewinners.html
- ↑ a b see article: German Film Award - Best Sound Design
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Conrad, Christian |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Conrad, Christian Nikolaus |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sound designer and composer |
DATE OF BIRTH | 7th August 1971 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Ulm |
DATE OF DEATH | 5th March 2019 |
Place of death | Berlin book |