Dirk Raulf

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Dirk Raulf on bass saxophone with Deep Schrott at the TFF Rudolstadt 2014

Dirk Raulf (born October 14, 1960 in Lippstadt ) is a German musician ( saxophone , clarinet ) and composer who first became known in the jazz field . Since the mid-1990s he has been working primarily as a stage composer and musician.

Live and act

Dirk Raulf studied theater , film and television studies , German literature and philosophy in Cologne from 1981 to 1986 . The autodidactic musician founded the quartet Tome XX (with Thomas Heberer , Fritz Wittek and Tim Wells or Dieter Manderscheid ) in 1987 , which performed at important international festivals, toured various countries, made several records and lasted until 1998. From 1988 to 1994 Raulf was also a member of the Cologne Saxophone Mafia ; In 1993/94 he worked as a stage composer at the Schauspielhaus Bochum . Since then, around 100 commissioned music for theater and film has been created. In 1996 he pursued the music of Friedrich Hollaender in a project with Dagmar Krause .

Together with Frank Schulte he founded the duo sonargemeinschaft . Raulf and Schulte were the initiators and organizers of the Sunday salon Teatime , which was also documented on their own label Poise . He has also played with Stefan Bauer , Vinny Golia , Frank Köllges , Butch Morris , Ulla Oster , Keith Tippett , Andreas Willers and Fred Frith .

From 2003 to 2009 he worked with Gerd Köster on the NOX project. Raulf has also been responsible for the light promenade in Lippstadt since 2003 , a light art sculpture path. In 2005 he conceived the Festival Islandbilder together with Matthias Wagner K and Christiane Stahl and was responsible for the areas of music and film. In 2008 he initiated and founded the bass saxophone quartet Deep Schrott with Klaas Hekman ( Netherlands ), Wollie Kaiser and Andreas Kaling , which has now released four albums; instead of Hekman, Jan Klare has been part of the current line-up since 2009 .

In 2018 Raulf's first play "Margarethe or The Bleeding Forest" premiered at the Freie Werkstatt Theater in Cologne.

Dirk Raulf lives in Cologne, has two sons and has been married to the singer and pianist Oona Kastner since 2019 ; the joint album door: Songs from a Darkness received an award in the 3rd quarter of 2019 and was placed on the list of the best of the German Record Critics ' Award in the "Grenzgang" category .

Radio plays

  • 1995: Dirk Raulf: The world is always beautiful - script, direction & music (live radio play - DKultur)
  • 1996: Dirk Raulf: Illusions or The Laughter of Loneliness - book, direction & music (live radio play - DKultur)
  • 1996: Dirk Raulf: Mortgage or Just a dead 68er is a good 68er - book, direction & music (live radio play - WDR)
  • 2009: Hildburg Schmidt (author): Blaumaus - direction & music (radio play for children - WDR)
  • 2009: Frank-Patrick Steckel : Purely Statistical - Music; Director: Steckel (radio play - DKultur)
  • 2011: Katharina Schmidt : SAM - Music; Director: Martin Schulze (radio play - DKultur)
  • 2011: Lynn Britney: Nathan Fox - music; Director: Klaus Prangenberg (radio play - DKultur)
  • 2013: Dirk Raulf: Burlesque by Don Quixote - with music by Telemann; (Live radio play - WDR / KiRaKa)
  • 2013: Dirk Raulf: Flussabwärts - script, direction & music (radio play - WDR)
  • 2014: Dirk Raulf: Stranger Beauty or The Other Place - script, direction & music (radio play - DKultur)
  • 2015: Sebastian Lybeck: Latte Igel travels to Lofoten - script, direction & music (radio play for children - WDR / KiRaKa)
  • 2017: Swan Lake - Libretto (audio book - Audio-Verlag / WDR)
  • 2018: Dirk Raulf: Apollo goes - script, direction & music (radio play - DKultur)

literature

Web links

Commons : Dirk Raulf  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Best list 3-2019. August 14, 2019, accessed August 17, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Raulf, Dirk
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musician (saxophone, clarinet) and composer
DATE OF BIRTH October 14, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Lippstadt