Henning Lohner

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Henning Lohner

Henning Lohner (born July 17, 1961 in Bremen ) is a German-American composer , media artist and filmmaker . He became known through his many years of work at Remote Control Productions by Hans Zimmer and through the Active Images media art project that began in 1988 .

Lohner is considered one of the most renowned German film composers. He wrote the music for numerous German and international films, including Lauras Stern , Incident at Loch Ness and The Ring 2 , and has received several awards for his work. In addition, Lohner's work includes internationally exhibited media art projects as well as works as a director, screenwriter and producer of various documentary films.

Origin and education

Lohner grew up as the son of German emigrants in California, where his father Edgar Lohner taught comparative literature and his mother Marlene Lohner taught German at Stanford University . In the early 1980s, Lohner began studying at Berklee College of Music in Boston. He graduated in 1987 from the University of Frankfurt am Main with a master's degree in musicology, art history and Romance studies.

Parallel to his studies, Lohner took composition lessons from 1985 from the Greek composer Iannis Xenakis , who became his mentor. In addition, Lohner was assistant to the German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen from 1984 to 1989 and in 1988 he was responsible for the stage production of Stockhausen's opera Montag aus Licht at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan . For the film Eine Komödie in May (1990) he worked as a musical advisor and trainee director to Louis Malle .

Lohner worked for Frank Zappa from 1989 and was significantly involved in his productions The Yellow Shark (1992) and Civilization Phaze III (1993). These composition cycles, recorded together with the Ensemble Modern , were Zappa's last publications before his death. Lohner portrayed Zappa with the biographical art film Peefeeyatko (1991), for which Zappa wrote the music himself. Lohner was also involved in theater projects such as Giorgio Strehler's Faust I & II (1991/1992) and Steve Reich's multimedia oratorio The Cave (1990).

Film composition

Hollywood career

Lohner began his career as a film composer in Hollywood in 1996 in the Media Venture Studios (now Remote Control Productions ) of Oscar winner Hans Zimmer , where he worked on the soundtracks to Der schmale Grat (1998) and Gladiator (2000), for example . Together, Zimmer and Lohner set the horror film Ring (2002) to music.

Lohner's film composition work encompasses a wide variety of genres, including comedies such as Werner Herzog's Incident at Loch Ness (2004), children's films such as Laura's Star (2004), horror films such as Hellraiser: Deader (2005) and the fantasy adventure Swords of the King - Dungeon Siege (2007) . Often referred to in the German media as a “Hollywood composer”, Lohner also wrote the soundtrack for German films such as Til Schweiger's Der Eisbär (1998) and Bernd Eichinger's Der große Bagarozy (1999). During the Ghent Film Festival in 2001, Lohner's new setting of Robert Wiene's silent film classic Orlac's hands was premiered at the Ghent Opera House.

For his music for The Ring 2 , Lohner received the BMI Film Music Award in 2006 and was nominated for the International Film Music Critics' Prize. The Hollywood Reporter magazine described Lohner's soundtrack as "atmospheric, haunting music" that supported the film's ominous atmosphere.

Compositions for news and topics of the day

In 2012, the news that the news program Tagesschau received a new sound image attracted attention in the German media . Lohner was commissioned to rework the title melody and to compose new compositions for all other programs produced by ARD-aktuell , including the topics of the day . In the wake of the great media coverage, Die Tageszeitung wrote that “probably” Lohner was “the right man to modernize the most famous eleven seconds of German television and yet retain its character.” The reactions to the new arrangement were positive. Lohner himself described the task as "an honor"; he was not going “against” a sanctuary, but was trying to bring the melody “into a listening form that corresponds to the zeitgeist.” For him, the particular attraction of the task was to write something that “sounds exactly like the previous one, but sounds completely new. "

Media art

Under the stage name Lohner Carlson , Lohner's collaboration with the award-winning cameraman Van Carlson began in 1989 . Since Carlson's death in 2012, Lohner has continued the joint work. The work with the composer and artist John Cage , including the meticulously planned art film One 11 and 103 , Cage's only feature-length film, shaped the collaboration of the artist duo . The work was completed shortly before Cage's death and is considered a “poetic as well as suggestive cinematic essay” that “deals with the effect of light in an empty room without any subject matter and reveals the amazing realization that no room is really empty.” With the Completely composed homage The Revenge of the Dead Indians (1993) Lohner Cage posthumously set a cinematic monument; numerous artists appear in it, among them Dennis Hopper , Matt Groening , Heiner Müller and Yoko Ono .

Lohner's and Van Carlson's audio-visual installation Raw Material, Vol. 1–11 (1995) has been exhibited in The Hague, Rome and Berlin, among others. The video composition was created from Lohner's several hundred hours of raw material archive and showed on eleven monitors both interviews and landscapes in "an equal coexistence of language, images and sounds."

This gave rise to the series of works in motion / Active Images , which were shown for the first time in 2006 at the Springer Gallery in Berlin under the title raw material - portraits and landscapes . According to Lohner, the idea arose out of the “love for video photography and the later desperation about the loss of these images if a film was cut from them.” Lohner and Carlson's framed video images mark the border area between film and photography; In static camera settings, film excerpts from landscape and portrait shots are shown.

Lohner's media art has been shown in numerous exhibition locations around the world, including the Center Georges-Pompidou , San Francisco Museum of Modern Art , Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, Museu Calouste Gulbenkian in Lisbon, the Galleria Traghetto in Venice and Rome, and the Kunsthalle in Emden , National Art Gallery in Kuala Lumpur and the Mira Art Collection in Tokyo.

The culture journalist Detlef Wolff wrote in 1996 that Lohner's work rose “far above the often so desolate lowlands of video art. It can form a peak because its originator perfectly masters the technical requirements for a creative use of the camera and does not give out any poorly thought-out declarations of intent as results. [...] With his work, Lohner identifies himself as a permanently curious artist who is capable of taking a closer look. Time and again he succeeds in discovering the extraordinary in the seemingly normal. "

Documentaries

Lohner shot his first work as a filmmaker in 1988 with cultural contributions for the ZDF magazine aspekte . To date, he has made over 140 films, including numerous documentaries on contemporary artistic personalities such as Dennis Hopper , Gerhard Richter , Karl Lagerfeld and Brian Eno . In his four-part mockumentary German Hollywood Dreams (2000) for Arte , Lohner portrayed various German filmmakers in Hollywood. Der Spiegel wrote: "Lohner cleverly condenses the efforts to achieve celebrity into an entertaining soap opera."

Lohner documentary Ninth November Night about the artist Gottfried Helnwein and its processing Kristallnacht in 1938, in which among other Sean Penn and Maximilian Schell occur was on the AFI premiere -Fest and came as the best short documentary on the Oscar - shortlist . The Los Angeles Times described the film as "a stirring meditation on art and memory."

Teaching

Lohner holds guest lectures at regular intervals, including at Harvard University , Boston, the Baden-Württemberg Film Academy and the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts , and has been a visiting professor at the Zurich University of the Arts since 2004 .

Filmography (selection)

As a composer

As a director

  • 1988: Stockhausen - Lichtwerke
  • 1990: Stockhausen: Michael's journey
  • 1991: Karl Lagerfeld and music
  • 1992: 22708 Types
  • 1992: Dennis Hopper as Collector and Artist
  • 1992: Dixieland Jazz Festival Enkhuizen
  • 1993: United Jazz & Rock Ensemble in Concert
  • 1994: Gerhard Richter in the art and exhibition hall of the FRG
  • 1994: The Alphabet of Shapes
  • 1995: Dennis Hopper: LA Blues
  • 1995: Les Prairies de la Mer (with Jacques Cousteau and Louis Malle )
  • 1996: The Modern String Quartet
  • 1997: Hollywood Halloween
  • 1998: Music in the mirror of feelings
  • 2000: German Hollywood Dreams
  • 2003: Dennis Hopper: Play or Die (Dennis Hopper: Create or Die)
  • 2004: Ninth November Night

As an artist in the field of multi-media

Awards

  • 1994: The National Educational Film Festival of the USA: Silver Apple Award, Oakland, California, for One 11 and 103
  • 2005: Academy Award Shortlist in the Best Documentary Short Film category for Ninth November Night
  • 2005: Prize of the International Film Music Critics (IFMCA): Nomination for the best horror soundtrack for The Ring 2
  • 2006: BMI Film Music Award for The Ring 2
  • 2006: BMI London Film Music Award for The Ring 2

Web links

Individual evidence

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  12. ↑ International Visual Music Awards - Cannes, January 1992, nominated in Category: TV Program - Classical Music Documentary
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  35. ↑ Henning Lohner: The feature film 'One 11 and 103' by John Cage. A personal development report , in: Mehr Licht, VVS Saarbrücken (ed.), Berlin 1999, p. 123.
  36. ↑ http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/werke/one11-and-103/
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  61. ^ Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences, communication dated January 14, 2005 to Henning Lohner.
personal data
SURNAME Lohner, Henning
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer
DATE OF BIRTH 17th July 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen