Dieter Schleip

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Dieter Schleip (born February 6, 1962 in Aachen ) is a German musician and composer .

Life

Dieter Schleip completed his school days in Aachen until 1978 and began technical training. In order to do his community service , Schleip moved to Munich in 1987 , where he still lives today. In addition to music, Schleip is a passionate film lover. He is a founding member of the Aachener Filmhaus, where he also created film music for the first time .

Musical career

Dieter Schleip began to make music on his father's organ and his big sister's traveling guitar. As a teenager he was a guitarist and keyboard player in various punk bands, for example Catch 22 . With increasing age Schleip devoted himself more and more to film music. During his community service he tried to establish contacts with students at the HFF . During this time he met the then student Martin Enlen , for whose graduation film he wrote the music. As a result, Schleip composed the music for other television and cinema films with increasing success, especially for the directors Martin Enlen, Jobst Oetzmann , Vivian Naefe , Torsten C. Fischer , Thomas Berger and Dominik Graf . In 1996 and 1997 Schleip received a scholarship from the Filmwerkstatt Essen for the European Film Music Composition Workshop and has been teaching more and more since then. Schleip was a seminar leader at the 7th international summer academy for film, television and music in Munich in the summer of 2001, took on a teaching position for Enjott Schneider's film music class at the Munich University of Music in the winter semester of 2005 and held a seminar at the University of Film and Television " Konrad Wolf “Potsdam in Ulrich Reuter's class . Schleip is the director of the six-month film music course for IFFMA (International Film, Television and Music Academy), which was founded in 2006.

Prizes and awards

Schleip won the German Television Award in the Best Music category in 2000 and 2003 and the German Film Critics Award in the Best Cinema Music category in 2001, 2002 and 2007 . In 2009 he received the film music prize at the Max Ophüls film festival for I've never been so happy . In 2010 he was awarded the Adolf Grimme Prize for the music of Kommissar Süd and the air guitarist . In 2014 he won the German Film Music Prize in the category Best Music in Film for the music by Seegrund. A crime thriller from Kluftingen .

Filmography (selection)

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personal data
SURNAME Schleip, Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musician and composer
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Aachen