Helmut Oehring

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Helmut Oehring (born July 16, 1961 in Berlin ) is a German composer , guitarist, author and director.

Life

Helmut Oehring was born in East Berlin in 1961 as a child of deaf parents. He is the son of the deaf goalkeeper Gottfried Weber , who became the number 2 German soccer champion and cup winner with Dresdner SC . Helmut Oehring's mother tongue is German sign language, the syntax and grammar of which also have a significant influence on the audiovisual compositional language of his scores and stage works. It was not until he was four and a half that Helmut Oehring learned the spoken German language in a foster family. In the GDR excluded because of repeated refusal of military service from the study and as a guitarist and composer self-taught, he was between 1990 and 1992 - after consultation with Andre Asriel , Helmut Zapf and Friedrich Goldmann - master student of Georg Katzer at the Berlin Academy of Arts , whose Member he was elected in 2005, and composed music for Ruth Berghaus' productions of works by Bertolt Brecht at the Thalia Theater. In 1994/95 he was a scholarship holder at the Villa Massimo in Rome and has since received numerous awards such as the Hindemith Prize (1997) and the Arnold Schönberg Prize (2008) for his oeuvre, which today includes around 400 works of almost all genres. Oehring's compositions and productions are performed in concert halls and on stages across Europe, Asia and North America. In September 2011 btb / Random House published his autobiography With Different Eyes. From the child of deaf parents to the composer, which was produced in 2015 as a radio play by SWR under his direction.

Helmut Oehring has been a member of the jury of the Karl Sczuka Prize for international radio drama of the SWR since 2007 as well as a member of the Berlin Academy of the Arts and the Saxon Academy of the Arts as well as the Academy of German Music Authors

He lives with his wife, the dramaturge, librettist, director and producer Stefanie Wördemann, and their two children in Märkische Schweiz .

The focus of Helmut Oehring's work in close cooperation with his artistic team, librettist / dramaturge / director Stefanie Wördemann and sound director and sound designer Torsten Ottersberg, lies in the composition and musical and scenic realization of works in the fields of opera, musical theater and scenic concerts in which He developed a vocal instrumental theater that takes up influences from old and older music, literature, visual arts and philosophy within the new composition and incorporates both electronic media and cross-border arts such as sign language, dance, drama, conceived / improvised music, radio drama, film and Fine arts, in close collaboration with instrumental and vocal soloists, created a multi-layered and constantly developing musical theater that combines poetic content and forms with documentary, current reality-oriented. In addition, Helmut Oehring writes literary texts that are an integral part of his musical theater work. The syntax and grammar of German sign language, Helmut Oehring's mother tongue, has a significant influence on the audiovisual compositional language of his scores and stage works.

In 1992 Helmut Oehring and Torsten Ottersberg founded the electronic studio GOGH surround music production ( the studio as an instrument ), which is still used today. a. Works by Helmut Oehring realized with pre-produced and live electronics. Another focus of the work of Helmut Oehring and his team is the integration of his compositions and productions in the education sector, the mediating and practical work of national and international cultural institutions and educational institutions with children, young people and students

Awards

Works (selection)

Books

  • SIEBEN (from: DER Spalt) , poems by Helmut Oehring and drawings by Hagen Klennert, Mariannenpresse, Berlin 1998
  • With different eyes. From the child of deaf parents to the composer . Autobiography, btb Verlag, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-442-75296-6 .

Music theater / opera / dance theater

  • 1993 DOCUMENTATION I
  • 1994 Documentary opera , premiere: Witten Days for New Chamber Music , Chamber Ensemble New Music Berlin , Witten 1995.
  • 1996 THE D'AMATO SYSTEM
  • 1998 8CHT (from: Der Riss)
  • 1998 7IEBEN (from: The gap)
  • 1999 Bernarda Alba's house
  • 2000 6ECHS (from: CRUISER / The victim)
  • 2000 As if a suite
  • 2000 ETIUS (joint work with Iris ter Schiphorst)
  • 2000 EFFI BRIEST (joint work with Iris ter Schiphorst), premiere: musikFabrik , Oper Bonn , Bonn 2001.
  • 2001 BlauWaldDorf - days that are far apart
  • 2002 WO-WER-EIT - the cat, the animal (from: I don't want to get free gifts)
  • 2003 WOZZECK returns (premiere June 2004 Theater Aachen ,)
  • 2004 In the thicket of CHARACTERS (The poetics and obstinacy of SPACE)
  • 2004 Commander Kobayashi an opera saga
  • 2005 UNSICHTBARLAND (or: Der Sturm) ( Premiere May 2006 Theater Basel, director: Claus Guth, set: Christian Schmidt)
  • 2007/08 QUIXOTE or Die Porzellanlanze (premiere November 2008 Festspielhaus Hellerau / Dresden with Matthias Bauer, Maria Lucchese, Jörg Wilkendorf, Daniel Göritz; director: Helmut Oehring / Stefanie Wördemann, film / graphics: Hagen Klennert, stage / sound: Torsten Ottersberg)
  • 2008 "GUNTEN". A diary music based on Robert Walser's novel “Jakob von Gunten” for octet, audio feed and 3 actors, libretto by Stefanie Wördemann (premiered August 16, 2008 Gare du Nord Basel with Ensemble Phoenix, musical director: Jürg Henneberger, director: Marcus Bothe , Sound: Torsten Ottersberg)
  • 2009 Die WUNDE Heine , Songspiel; Libretto: Stefanie Wördemann on texts by Heinrich Heine (Premiere March 2010 Kurt Weill Festival Dessau with Ensemble Modern , Salome Kammer and others, musical director Franck Ollu, director / set: Stefanie Wördemann / Helmut Oehring, film / graphics: Hagen Klennert)
  • 2012 KALKWERK , instrumental theater based on Thomas Bernhard's novel “Das Kalkwerk”, libretto: Albrecht Lang / Irene Rudolf (premier February 2013 Radialsystem Berlin with the ensemble mosaik and others, director / set-up: Albert Lang)
  • 2012 SehnSuchtMEER or Vom Fliegende Holländer , opera using music by Richard Wagner, libretto: Stefanie Wördemann with texts by Heinrich Heine, Richard Wagner, Mathilde Wesendonck, Hans Christian Andersen and Helmut Oehring (premiere March 2013 Deutsche Oper am Rhein Düsseldorf, musical .: Axel Kober, director: Claus Guth, set design: Christian Schmidt)
  • 2012/13 AscheMOND or The Fairy Queen , opera using music from Henry Purcell, libretto: Stefanie Wördemann with texts by William Shakespeare, Heinrich Heine, Adalbert Stifter and Helmut Oehring (premiere June 2013 State Opera in the Schillertheater Berlin, musical. Dir .: Michael Boder, Director: Claus Guth, Set Designer: Christian Schmidt)
  • 2013/14 Orfeo14. (vol. 1) , scenic concert based on Claudio Monteverdi's Orfeo and Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness , world premiere in June 2014 Opéra de Lille with: Matthias Bauer, Christina Schönfeld, Johna-Mark Ainsley, Roberto Ferreira, Laura Claycomb, Ictus Ensemble , Concert d 'Astrée, music. Emmanuelle Haim
  • 2014/15 JONA, JONAS and the WAL , a scenic concert adventure for the hearing and the non-hearing, children, adolescents and adults with live electronics and sound generation, sign poetry, singing, acting, dance and instrumental ensemble, libretto: Stefanie Wördemann Wördemann based on the book Jona and Hans-Christian Andersen's fairy tale "The Little Mermaid", audio and playback conception and production: Torsten Ottersberg (premier December 2014 Volkstheater Rostock, musical director: Manfred Hermann Lehner, director / set: Stefanie Wördemann and Helmut Oehring, sound director : Torsten Ottersberg)
  • 2014/15 Angelus Novus II. Collage vocal-instrumental mis-en-scène for vocal and instrumental soloists, jazz trio, ensemble, live electronics and live video, commissioned by the Bern University of the Arts HKB (premiere January 2015, Dampfzentrale Bern, musical director: Lennart Dohms, overall artistic direction: Helmut Oehring, with David Moss, Kai Wessel, Christian Hiltz, Matthias Bauer and others)
  • 2015 Die Brüder Löwenherz , music theater for children, adolescents and adults, libretto: Stefanie Wördemann based on Astrid Lindgren's novel of the same name, audio and playback conception and production: Torsten Ottersberg (premier March 2015 Semper 2 Dresden, Lucerne Festival, musical. Erik Ona, sound design: Torsten Ottersberg, direction: Walter Suttcliffe, set design: Timo Dentler / Okarina Peter)
  • 2015 AGOTA? The Illiterate (Gestern / Irgendwo) , vocal instrumental melodrama for a singer / speaker / actress, instrumental vocal trio, instrumental ensemble (also vocal / choral), pre-produced feeds and live electronics, libretto: Stefanie Wördemann on texts by Ágota Kristóf, audio and Stage conception and production: Torsten Ottersberg, GOGH smp (Premiere May 2016, Staatstheater Wiesbaden, musical director: Peter Rundel, director: Ingo Kerkhof, with Dagmar Manzel, Marena Whitcher, Lukas Rutzen, Nico van Wersch and the Ensemble Modern)
  • 2017 FinsterHERZ or Orfeo17 , music theater based on Claudio Monteverdi's opera L'Orfeo and the story Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad for soloists and orchestra, pre-produced tapes and live electronics as artistic encounters between orchestral musicians from Brandenburg, soloists with an escape / exile / asylum background, Deaf refugees and musicians who have fled, libretto: Stefanie Wördemann with texts by Alessandro Striggio and Joseph Conrad (German adaptations of the Conrad texts by the librettist), audio conception and production: Torsten Ottersberg / GOGH smp (premiere September 2017, ARENA Potsdam, mus. Direction: Antonello Manacorda, direction and equipment: Stefanie Wördemann and Helmut Oehring, sound direction: Torsten Ottersberg, with David Moss, Marena Whitcher, Aleksandr Gabrys, Christina Schönfeld, Mia Oehring, Kammerakademie Potsdam and others)
  • 2017 KUNST MUSS (go too far) or DER ENGEL SCHWIEG , docu-poetic instrumental theater for 16 instrumental vocal soloists, three singers, child soloists, pre-produced tapes and live electronics for the Wuppertal speech Die Freiheit der Kunst and other texts by Heinrich Böll, libretto: Stefanie Wördemann, audio conception and production: Torsten Ottersberg / GOGH smp (premiere December 2017, Cologne Opera, musical director: Bas Wiegers, direction and equipment: Stefanie Wördemann and Helmut Oehring, sound direction: Torsten Ottersberg, with Ensemble Musikfabrik Köln, René Böll, Emily Hindrichs , Adriana Bastidas-Gamboa, Dalia Schaechter, Mia Oehring and others)
  • 2019 EURYDIKE? vol.1 , audio video installation Performance / Dance, Composition / Direction / Choreography / Camera: Helmut Oehring, Photography / Coregie: Stefanie Woerdemann, audio + video concept and production: Torsten Ottersberg / GOGH smp (UA March 2019, European Center of the Arts HELLERAU / SPOR Festival + Kunsthalle Århus, with Kassandra Wedel, Emily Yabe, Mia Oehring and others)
  • 2020 BEETHOVEN? (The redeeming error) , TanzMusikDrama for a deaf dancer / sign soloist / vocalist, instrumental ensemble, video, 8.1-channel audio + live electronics with texts from Ludwig van Beethoven's letters and conversation books and using motifs from his music and texts by Helmut Oehring; Idea, composition, camera, direction, choreography, musical-artistic direction: Helmut Oehring; Textbook, dramaturgy, direction, photography: Stefanie Wördemann; Sound / video production, camera, editing, sound direction: Torsten Ottersberg / GOGH smp (premiere June 13, 2020 Bundeskunsthalle Bonn / BTHVN2020, with: Kassandra Wedel and Ensemble Musikfabrik)

Audio piece

  • 2013 EM Cioran : The disadvantage of being born - Director: Kai Grehn , Composition: Helmut Oehring (radio play - SWR )
  • 2015 With different eyes - composition and direction: Helmut Oehring, text version and dramaturgy: Stefanie Wördemann, sound realization and sound direction: Torsten Ottersberg / GOGH smp (radio play - SWR )
  • 2018 With these hands. A piece full of poetry and dirt on the Wuppertal speech and other texts by Heinrich Böll - composition and direction: Helmut Oehring, text version and dramaturgy: Stefanie Wördemann, sound realization and sound direction: Torsten Ottersberg / GOGH smp (radio play - SWR )
  • 2018 STOCKTAUB or Eurydike and the uncontrollable longing to touch the sky - composition and direction: Helmut Oehring, text version and dramaturgy: Stefanie Wördemann, sound realization and sound direction: Torsten Ottersberg / GOGH smp (radio play - Deutschlandradio)
  • 2019/20 what god! (Son of a dog) on the "Heilgenstädter Testament" and other letters from Ludwig van Beethoven - composition and direction: Helmut Oehring, text version and dramaturgy: Stefanie Wördemann, sound realization and sound direction: Torsten Ottersberg / GOGH smp (radio play - SWR)

Film music

  • 1990 Video (from: Koma)
  • 2001 Berlin: Symphony of a Big City Orchestral music for the film of the same name by Thomas Schadt (collaboration with Iris ter Schiphorst)
  • 2013 SEVEN SONGS for Sunrise Live film music for a vocalist and chamber ensemble for FW Murnau's silent film Sunrise , world premiere in October 2013 Le Capitole Lausanne with David Moss and Quatuor Sine Nomine

Orchestra with soloist (s)

  • 1999 CRUISEN - Study of portrait I for orchestra and live electronics
  • 2000 VERLORENWASSER (from: Der Ort / Musikalisches Opfer) for voice, electric guitar, double bass, nine sign soloists and a large orchestra based on texts by Helmut Oehring
  • 2003 Das BLAUMEER '(from: Einkehrtag) for a male soprano, solo electric guitar, solo trumpet, large orchestra and live electronics on Franz Schubert's "Der Wanderer", premier: Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks , Munich Residence , Munich 2003 .
  • 2007 Goya II. Yo lo vi , memoratorium for speaker / solo double bass, solo electric guitar, Spanish guitar, children's voice, male sign soloists, choir, orchestra and live electronics based on drawings by Francisco Goya and texts by Hermann Kesten and Fédérico Garcia Lorca using Musics Manuel de Fallas, Hans Werner Henzes a. a. (Premiere October 11, 2008 Philharmonie Berlin, DSO / Rundfunkchor Berlin, musical. Conductor Ingo Metzmacher)
  • 2009 love, home, death. Cantata for boy soprano, solo concert guitar, mixed choir, children's choir, large orchestra, live electronics and projections (premiere June 2009 Frankfurt / Oder, Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester and others, conductor: Howard Griffith)
  • 2010 POEndulum , psychodrama on Edgar Allen Poe's short story Pit and Pendulum for speaker and orchestra,
    premiered May 7th 2011 Glasgow, David Moss, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, cond. Ilan Volkov
  • 2010 MEERE concert for bass clarinet solo (alternatively cello solo) and orchestra on Johannes Brahms' song “Die Meere” (premiered September 10, 2010 Ultima Festival / Oslo Opera, Norwegian Radio Orchestra)
  • 2010/11 Die Vier Jahreszeiten (based on Antonio Vivaldi) for solo violin and string orchestra (WP November 20, 2011 Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, cond. Konstantin Lifschiz)
  • 2011 not YOU? . Rhapsody for solo voice, school groups, youth choir and orchestra (premiere March 2012 Konzerthaus Berlin, with David Moss and others, Konzerthausorchester Berlin, cond. Titus Engel)
  • 2012 seemed like waves that in long eye (Saf Haki / words in the air) for soloists, choir and orchestra (premiere October 2012 Donaueschinger Musiktage with David Moss, Christina Schönfeld, Daniel Göritz and others and the SWR Sinfonieorchester and SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart, Dir. Rupert Huber)
  • 2015 massacre. You hear, MASSACRE! (to Racep Tayyip Erdogan) Melodrama for solo guitar / voice, 12-part female choir and string orchestra based on a poem by the Armenian poet Rupen Sevag, verses from the Ya Sin Sure and a poem from Helmut Oehring (World premiere November 2015 Radialsystem Berlin with Marc Sinan and the Dresdner Sinfoniker, 2016 guest performances in Dresden, Istanbul, Yerewan and others)
  • 2015/16 Vocalise of a Inconsolable Angel for solo soprano, solo electric guitar and orchestra (premiere April 2016 Tonhalle Düsseldorf, musical direction: Keri-Lynn Wilson, with Marisol Montalvo, Daniel Göritz, the Düsseldorfer Symphoniker)
  • 2016 Angelus Novus III for ensemble and orchestra based on pictures by Paul Klee and texts by Walter Benjamin (premiere June 2016 with Ensemble Aventure and Philharmonic Orchestra Freiburg, musical direction: Daniel Carter)

Orchestral works without soloists

  • 1991 COMA I , WP : WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne , Gewandhaus , Leipzig 1992.
  • 2006/07 Goya I for orchestra using the music of Ludwig van Beethoven (premiere 19 October 2007 opening piece of the Donaueschinger Musiktage, SWR Sinfonieorchester, cond. Rupert Huber)
  • 2009 muCity. Faces of a City , suite for orchestra (premiere 2010 KlangZeitMünster, Symphony Orchestra Münster, cond. Fabrizio Ventura)

Ensemble with voices and / or sign soloist (s)

  • 1987 ... and all nice / marriage advertisements for soprano, alto, tenor, bass and percussion
  • 1988 foreplay and singing
  • 1993 Wrong. SCHAUKELN - ESSEN - JAUKELN - ESSEN - JUICE (from: Madness offensive for a spoken language and sign soloist , instrumental ensemble and live electronics)
  • 1994 SELF-LIBERATOR (from: Irrenoffensive) for two sign soloists (gestures + voc), solo trumpet, ensemble and live electronics
  • 1996 POLAROIDS for a sign soloist , countertenor, 12 instruments and live electronics (joint work with Iris ter Schiphorst)
  • 1997 LIVE (from: Androgyn) 18 songs for voice solo, ensemble and live electronics based on texts by Anne Sexton (joint work with Iris ter Schiphorst)
  • 1997 Silence Moves II for voice solo, violin, cello, electric bass, prep. Keyboard / sampler and tape (joint work with Iris ter Schiphorst)
  • 1998 7IEBEN (from: Der Spalt) for a speaker, a male soprano, three sign soloists , trombone, electric guitar and live electronics
  • 1998 MIXED BEING for a sign soloist and ensemble (joint work with Iris ter Schiphorst)
  • 1998 AN (evita-che guevara-madonna) (joint work with Iris ter Schiphorst )
  • 1998 REQUIEM for three countertenors, 12 instruments and live electronics (joint work with Iris ter Schiphorst)
  • 2000 The place is not the place Musical theater action for three soloists, ensemble and live electronics (joint work with Iris ter Schiphorst)
  • 2001 rumgammeln + wait for voice, sign soloist , ensemble and live electronics (joint work with Iris ter Schiphorst)
  • 2002 Furcht und Erbede Drama in music for sign soloist, soprano (also bass flute), electric guitar, ensemble and live electronics based on texts by Ottavio Renuccini
  • 2002 ER.eine She (from: 5ÜNF / Hair-Sacrifice) semi-staged music based on the drawing I'm so glad by Hagen Klennert for three sign soloists, soprano (also bass flute), violoncello and live electronics
  • 2005 BENN semi - staged music based on two poems by Gottfried Benn
  • 2007 surPOING for double bass, saxophone, accordion, scene, film and live electronics
  • 2007 Pushkin's Stone Guest for a speaker and 15 instrumentalists on texts by Alexander Pushkin
  • 2008 "How fragile we are" (UA Ultrasound Festival Berlin, Radialsystem, ensemble mosaik Berlin and Ensemble Nikel Tel Aviv, musical director Titus Engel)
  • 2008 MühsamsMusike for a speaker and instrumental ensemble

2009 How fragile we are for six instrumentalists / vocalists (Premiere January 2009 Ultraschall Festival Berlin with Ensemble Nikel Tel Aviv and ensemble mosaik Berlin)

  • 2011 IBSEN / Et vers (Tvertimod) for 15 speaking instrumentalists on texts by Henrik Ibsen and Helmut Oehring (WP March 18, 2012, Borealis FestivalBergen, BIT20 Ensemble)
  • 2013/14 GOYA III. Veía la mano, pero como alelado for 18 string instruments on Beethoven's op.131 , world premiere in September 2014 at the Beethovenfest Bonn with the Ensemble Resonanz
  • 2013 From the disadvantage of being born for mixed choir on texts by Emil Cioran (6/6/6/6) (WP 2013 SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart)
  • 2013 Angelus novus. Study on a picture by Paul Klee for soprano and alto (6/6) and string quartet (Premiere August 2013 Pannonhalma Festival Hungary with Klangforum Wien)
  • 2014 KALKwerk for solo double bass + voice and string quintet on Thomas Bernhard's novel “Das Kalkwerk” (commissioned by the Klangwerkstatt festival, premiere 6 November 2014 Sophiensaele Berlin with Matthias Bauer and the ensemble mosaik)
  • 2014 Angelus Novus I, ensemble study for eleven instrumental soloists (also vocal) based on a series of pictures by Paul Klee with texts by Walter Benjamin (WP January 2014 Collegium Novum Zürich, Tonhalle Zürich)
  • 2016 MARTEAU [buˈlɛz] Miniatures for alto voice and instrumental ensemble on 'Le marteau sains maitre' by Pierre Boulez (Premiere June 2017 Konzerthaus Wien, Ensemble PHACE)
  • 2016 Angelus Novus III version for septet based on pictures by Paul Klee and texts by Walter Benjamin (premiere June 2016 with Ensemble Aventure)
  • 2017 KRUNK (KRIEG /innen) "When we put him in the coffin, he was light as a bird" for a solo guitarist / speaker, a vocalist / percussionist, string trio (violin, viola, violoncello - all also vocal and gestures) , pre-produced feeds and live electronics, libretto: Stefanie Wördemann with poems by Helmut Oehring and texts from the Book of Whispers by Varujan Vosganian, audio conception and production: Torsten Ottersberg / GOGH smp (premiere May 2017, Radialsystem V Berlin, artistic director: Helmut Oehring, sound design: Torsten Ottersberg, with Marc Sinan, David Moss, Emily Yabe, Karen Lorenz, Iida Hirvola)

Ensemble without voices

  • 1990 No. 1 '(from: Koma) for 15 instruments
  • 1990 No. 3 (from: Koma) for 15 instruments
  • 1992 No. 2 (from: Koma) - Rapid Eye Movement for 15 instruments
  • 1992 ASCHE for octet
  • 1995 Simple Things / IRIS for 15 instruments, tape and CDs
  • 2000 ETIUS (ensemble version As if: Suite) for ensemble and live electronics
  • 2011 The Lake for septet based on a poem by Helmut Oehring (premiered May 14, 2011 Music Gallery Toronto, Ensemble CONTACT)

Chamber music

  • 1987 String Quartet No. 1
  • 1987 Trio I for violin, guitar and double bass
  • 1987 Trio II for violin, guitar and double bass
  • 1988 Do you wanna blow job for saxophone quartet
  • 1989 as always ...
  • 1988 No. 1 (from: Koma) for two guitars
  • 1989 No. 3 (from: Koma) for septet
  • 1990 No. 2 (from: Koma) - Rapid eye movement "for clarinet, double bass and percussion
  • 1991 compressed WINKEL for wind quintet
  • 1992 LOSHEIT for double bass duo
  • 1992 locked-in for guitar, violin, viola and violoncello
  • 1992 ASHES
  • 1993 (1994/1996/2001/2002/2003) CAYABYAB for various trio line- ups
  • 1993 STRYCHNIN for trumpet, trombone, piano, viola and double bass
  • 1994 LETHAL INJECTION for English horn, bassoon, viola and tape
  • 1994 SUCK THE BRAIN OUT OF THE HEAD for six percussionists and tape
  • 1994 LEUCHTER (from: briefly poked in the garbage) for oboe, violoncello and prepared piano (tape ad. Lib.)
  • 1996 DIENEL (from: briefly poked in the garbage) for bassoon, double bass and harpsichord (tape ad. Lib.)
  • 1996 ZUENDEL (from: briefly poked in the garbage) for flute, oboe, horn, violin, violoncello and prepared piano (tape ad. Lib.)
  • 1997 Silence Moves II for voice solo, violin, violoncello, electric bass, prepared keybporad / sampler and tape (joint work with Iris ter Schiphorst)
  • 1997 PRAE-SENZ (Ballet blanc II) "for violin, violoncello and prepared piano / sampler keyboard (joint work with Iris ter Schiphorst)
  • 1998 IN THE PREVIOUS MONTH for octet (joint work with Iris ter Schiphorst)
  • 1998 Plath, S for accordion and double bass
  • 1998/99 Marie B. (Seven Chambers) String Quartet No. 2
  • 1999 SILENCE.POWER. (from: Cruisen) for saxophone quartet and CD
  • 2000 ME SILENCE. (from: Cruising / Opfer) "for four guitars and CD
  • 2002 I SILENT. (from: Rehnebel / Opfer / Puderfinger) for bass flute, guitar and drums
  • 2002 Sex / Looser (from: GIFTS) for drums sextet and playback CD
  • 2003 Gottfried W. - the greatest goalkeeper of all time for tuba and bass clarinet
  • 2005 Bluemusic for percussion ensemble and playback CD
  • 2006 LOVE IN (double quartet with Henry) for string quartet and saxophone quartet
  • 2007 SACKS music for piano trio, bass clarinet and percussion ad. lib. (as well as playback CD and live electronics)
  • 2007 Phoenix Music for bass flute, bass clarinet, piano, violin, viola and violoncello
  • 2007 WINDESSER (from: Ornament & Vorhalt) for various trios
  • 2009 FRAGILEWATER for electric guitar, bass clarinet, violoncello, drums and piano
  • 2009 El fauno 1944 for accordion, guitar and double bass
  • 2010 Reflexes for Piano Trio
  • 2010 Melencolia I sonata on the engraving of the same name by Albrecht Dürer and poems by Heinrich Heine, various versions a. a. for oboe and prepared piano, bass flute and prepared piano
  • 2009 Papelera / Kolportage for four saxophones and four percussion
  • 2010 Stille.Wind for three trombones and tuba
  • 2010 For Friedrich (In memory of) for electric guitar and organ
  • 2011 FATIGUE for bass clarinet (or bass flute) and drums
  • 2013 Two songs for flute (s) and trumpet
  • 2013 SUNRISE. Song for 4 for baritone, trumpet, bass clarinet and trombone
  • 2015 RAND / inside for percussion solo and string trio
  • 2015 EDGEmusic II for six voices
  • 2015 EDGEmusic I for soprano, tenor, violone, theorbo, harpsichord and percussion
  • 2015 There's something wrong duet for soprano and tenor
  • 2015 Come not near for clarinet / voice and accordion / voice
  • 2015/16 Songs of Comfort and Despair ('I hate!') For soprano, alto saxophone, piano and drums

Works for solo instrument or solo voice

  • 1986 visions
  • 1991 stuffed EMPTY
  • 1993 FOXFIRE ONE
  • 1993 FOXFIRE TWO
  • 1993 FOXFIRE THREE
  • 1996 4REAL
  • 1996 SEXTON A.
  • 1997 PHILIP
  • 2000 2WEI (from: SCHANDE / The Sacrifice)
  • 2011 Melencolia II sonata based on the engraving of the same name by Albrecht Dürer and poems by Heinrich Heine for prepared piano / voice
  • 2017 KALT for solo guitar / voice on poems by Helmut Oehrings

Electronic music

  • 2003 All hearing must die
  • 2003 perjury

Publications about Helmut Oehring (selection)

Movies

  • Lullabies , documentary, director and screenplay: Tamara Trampe + Johann Feindt, camera: Johann Feindt and Kule Cramer, editor: Stephan Krumbiegel, music: Helmut Oehring; with Helmut Oehring u. a., Germany / Russia 2009
  • Music, mon amour , documentary, director and screenplay: Daniela Schmidt-Langels and Guenter Huesmann, camera: Isabelle Casez, music: Helmut Oehring u. a .; with: Midori, Yasmin Levy and Helmut Oehring; Germany 2009/10
  • Helmut Oehring - Days far apart, director: Peider A. Defilla, musica viva - forum der gegenwartsmusik, Munich 2014

Broadcasts / portraits

  • Margarete Zander: Helmut Oehring's current musical theater work , contemporary music , May 8, 2017
  • Stefan Amzoll: I get involved! Helmut Oehring's work for and with the media . Deutschlandfunk, July 13, 2019

Articles / portraits

  • Notes on the music by Helmut Oehring . In: Corinna Dahlgrün (Ed.): New Music in the Church III. A god who kills? Documentation and evaluation. Interdisciplinary days for new music and theology, June 20-23, 2002. Lang, Frankfurt am Main [u. a.] 2003, ISBN 3-631-51128-0 , pp. 194-197.
  • Christine Lemke-Matwey: Helmut Oehring: This crazy longing DIE ZEIT No. 53/2017

Anthologies

  • Oehring, Helmut. In: Brockhaus-Riemann Musiklexikon. CD-Rom, Directmedia Publishing, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-89853-438-3 , p. 13791.
  • Oehring, Helmut. In: Wilfried W. Bruchhäuser: Contemporary composers in the German Association of Composers. A manual. 4th edition, German Association of Composers, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-555-61410-X , p. 944.
  • Anthony Burton, Alison Latham: Oehring, Helmut. In: Alison Latham (Ed.): The Oxford Companion to Music . Oxford University Press, Oxford 2002, ISBN 0-19-866212-2 .
  • Oehring, Helmut . In: Europa Publications (Ed.): International Who's Who in Classical Music 2012 . 28th edition, Routledge, London 2012, ISBN 978-1-85743-644-0 , p. 638.
  • Gisela Nauck: Oehring, Helmut. In: Stanley Sadie (Ed.): The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians . Volume 18, Macmillan, London [u. a.] 2001, ISBN 0-333-60800-3 , p. 343.
  • Gisela Nauck: Helmut Oehring . In: Contemporary Composers (KDG). Edition Text & Criticism, Munich 1996, ISBN 978-3-86916-164-8 .
  • Oehring, Helmut. In: Axel Schniederjürgen (Ed.): Kürschner's Musicians Handbook. 5th edition, Saur Verlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-598-24212-3 , p. 337.
  • Annette Thein: Oehring, Helmut . In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): Music in past and present (MGG). Volume 12, Bärenreiter, Kassel [u. a.] 2004, pp. 1309-1310.

Essays

  • Stefan Amzoll: Docu-Drama versus Art. Helmut Oehring's world of composition . In: MusikTexte 89 (2001), pp. 5–11.
  • Herbert Glossner: The portrait. Music goes to the heart. The composer Helmut Oehring . In: Musik & Kirche 73 (2003) 3, pp. 186–187.
  • Daniel Kötter: Singing in the dark. Some remarks on audiovisuality in the works of Helmut Oehring . In: Dissonanz 74 (2002), pp. 14-21.
  • Ulrich Mosch : Town music from image and sound. (Not) a remake. Thomas Schadt's film “Berlin. Symphony of a Big City ”(2001/02) with music by Helmut Oehring and Iris ter Schiphorst . In: Dissonanz 94 (2006), pp. 4–9.
  • Gisela Nauck: "I'm not that interested in composing ..." On the music of Helmut Oehring . In: Neue Zeitschrift für Musik 159 (1998) 1, pp. 38–41.
  • Gisela Nauck: Hidden Stories. On the basics of Helmut Oehring's music . In: Positions 32 (1998), pp. 12-15.
  • Gisela Nauck: Signs and movement as language in space. To Helmut Oehring's music theater . In: Positions 72 (2007), pp. 40–44.
  • Gisela Nauck: Being a stranger, love, failure utopia. Images of man in the music of Dieter Schnebel and Helmut Oehring . In: Positions 80 (2009) 8, pp. 15-17.
  • Carlos Maria Solare: Helmut Oehring in profile . In: Tempo 213 (2000), pp. 2-4.
  • Gisela Nauck: Observing, witnessing, governing - transformations of the political: Isabel Mundry, Helmut Oehring, Christoph Ogiermann . In: Positions (2019)
  • Stefan Amzoll: Music out of joint. Helmut Oehring's work for and with the media . In: MusikTexte 164 (2020), pp. 39–46

conversations

  • Conversation with Helmut Oehring . In: Karl-Heinz Blomann (Ed.): Hearing - a neglected art? Wolke, Hofheim 1997, ISBN 3-923997-73-6 , pp. 145–157.
  • Christoph Metzger: Melody in New Music. Christoph Metzger and Ralf Hoyer in conversation with Peter Ablinger , Erhard Grosskopf and Helmut Oehring . In: Music in Dialog. Yearbook of the Berlin Society for New Music . Pfau, Saarbrücken 1999, pp. 42-48.
  • Jürgen Otten: I always have a guilty conscience when composing. Vinko Globokar and Helmut Oehring in conversation . In: Neue Zeitschrift für Musik 169 (2008) 4, pp. 38–41.
  • Christian Pauli: "Music is fuel" Helmut Oehring and Lennart Dohms in conversation about the world premiere of Angelus Novus II and the composing of the present, In: HKB-Zeitung, February 2015 Bern
  • Christine Lemke-Matwey: "We're all shot at!" Turkey intervenes with the EU against the Dresden concert project Aghet, Interview with Helmut Oehring, DIE ZEIT No. 19/2016

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Advance notice - www.helmutoehring.de. Retrieved June 15, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Oehring, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer
DATE OF BIRTH July 16, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin