List of composers of German-language films

This list contains people who became known through their work as composers of film music for German-language film and television productions .

A.

Andre Asriel (1950s – 1970s, including me, Canaillen! )

B.

Claus Bantzer (since the 1980s, including men , cherry blossoms - Hanami , carrier of film tape in gold )
Gerd Baumann (since the 1990s, including those who die earlier are longer dead , Almanya - Willkommen in Deutschland , German Film Prize 2007 )
Mick Baumeister (since 1984, including Krücke , Der zehnte Sommer , mainly composition for television films and series)
Gerhard Becker (1950s – 1960s, including The Tiger of Eschnapur , The Indian Tomb )
Christian Biegai (since 2000, inter alia. We say you! Sweetheart. , The fire )

Werner Bochmann (1930s – 1950s, including Quax, the Bruchpilot , Die Feuerzangenbowle , carrier of film tape in gold )

Hans-Otto Borgmann (1930s – 1950s, including The Golden City , Sacrifice , Young Eagles )

Martin Böttcher (1950s – 1990s, including Edgar Wallace and Karl May films )

Ernst Brandner (1950s – 1980s, including Hubertus Palace , spring at Immenhof )

Christoph Brüx (since the 2000s, television e.g. Alina's dream )

Christian Bruhn (1960s – 1990s, especially television like Heidi and Wickie and the strong men )

C.

Hans Carste (1930s – 1960s, including Die Gläserne Kugel , Im schwarzen Rößl )

D.

Frank Duval (1970s – 2000s, mainly television like Derrick , Der Alte )
Paul Dessau (1920s – 1960s, including dirty money , storms over Mont Blanc )
Franz Doelle (1930s – 1940s, including The Irresistible (1937) )
Klaus Doldinger (since the 1960s, including Das Boot , Die Unendliche Geschichte , Tatort - title melody)
Nico Dostal (1930s – 1960s, including Upside Down Happiness , One Night in Venice )
Dürbeck & Dohmen (since the 2000s, especially television, including Freier Fall , Tatort , Max Ophüls Prize 2008 )

E.

Bernhard Eichhorn (1940s – 1970s, including Unter den Brücken , Der brave Soldat Schwejk )
Werner Eisbrenner (1930s – 1960s, including Buddenbrooks , Berlin Ballade )
Hanns Eisler (1920s – 1960s, including No Man's Land , The Council of Gods )
Konrad Elfers (1950s – 1980s, including 4 keys , Pippi Longstocking )
Jörg Evers (since 1990s, including Werner - Beinhart! And Ballermann 6 )

F.

Harold Faltermeyer (1980s – 2010s, including Didi - The Double , Fire, Ice & Dynamite )
Johannes Fehring (1950s – 1970s, including Charley's aunt , Kaiserball )
Erich Ferstl (1960-1980s, including The answer only the wind knows , The gentle run )
Günther Fischer (1970s – 2010s, including Tecumseh , Solo Sunny , Sushi in Suhl )
Annette Focks (since 1990s, including Krabat , Ostwind )
Frank Fox (1930s – 1960s, including Black Forest Girl , Queen of a Night )
Siegfried Franz (1950s – 1970s, including beloved impostor , The Liar )
Heinz Funk (1960s, including The Gentlemen Ask for Cashier , The Dead Eyes of London )

G

Heino Gaze (1950s – 1960s, including when father with son , widower with five daughters )
Herb Geller (1980s, Otto - The Movie )
Heinz Gietz (1950s – 1960s, including crime tango , music is trump )
Nikolaus Glowna (since 1990s, including solo for clarinet , Der Sandmann )
Peter Gotthardt (1960s – 2000s, including The Legend of Paul and Paula , Seven Freckles )
Allan Gray (1930s – 1950s, including Berlin - Alexanderplatz , FP1 does not answer )
Franz Grothe (1930s – 1960s, including I often think of Piroschka , Three Girls from the Rhine , The Trapp Family )
Oliver Gunia (since 2000, television, including Die Rosenheim-Cops , In allerfreund )
Paul Vincent Gunia (1960s – 2000s, television, including In all friendship , police call 110 )
John Gürtler (since 2000, including Systemsprenger , European Film Award 2019 )
Artur Guttmann (1920s – 1940s, including Scampolo, a street kid , you don't need money )

H

Erwin Halletz (1950s – 1970s, including The Last Act , Our Great Aunts )
Hans Hammerschmid (1960s – 2000s, including A Beetle Goes All Out , Die Schwarzwaldklinik )
Stefan Hansen (since 2000, including Die Wolke , Keinohrhasen )
Reinhold Heil (since the 1990s, including Lola rennt , Sophie Scholl - The Last Days )
Gerhard Heinz (1960s – 2000s, reverend turns a blind eye , Der Bockerer )
Hans Werner Henze (since the 1960s, including Der Junge Törless , Eine Liebe von Swann )
Werner Richard Heymann (1920s – 1960s, including Die Drei von der Gasstelle , Der Kongress tanzt )
Wolfgang Hohensee (1950s – 1980s, including the green monster )
Gottfried Huppertz (1920s – 1930s, including Metropolis , Die Nibelungen )

I.

Peter Igelhoff (1930s – 1960s, including we make music , of course the drivers )
Günther Illi (since the 1990s, television, including Die Nun und der Kommissar , civil courage )

J

Peter Janda (since the 1980s, including Müller's office )
Michael Jary (1930s – 1950s, blood brotherhood , but being a father very much )
Hans Jönsson (1960s – 1970s, including two Durbridge films )
Walter Jurmann (1930s – 1940s, including a great idea , a song for you )

K

Steffen Kaltschmid (since the 2000s, including The Pilgrim , The Voice of the Eagle )

Piet Klocke (since 1980, u. A. Bang! You're dead! , Superstau )

Günter Klück (1950s – 1960s, including Berlin - corner of Schönhauser ... )

Jürgen Knieper (1970s – 2000s, including Christiane F. - We children from Bahnhof Zoo , Lindenstrasse )

Philipp F. Kölmel (since 1990s, including French for beginners , ruby red )

Walter Kollo (1930s – 1950s, including Upside Down Into Happiness , Ball in the Metropol )

Peter Kreuder (1930s – 1980s, including white slaves , spring melody )

Rolf Kühn (1970s, inter alia. Premature bed bunnies , The Death Avenger of Soho )

Eduard Künneke (1920s – 1950s, including The Pharaoh's Wife , Happy Journey )

L.

Reinhard Lakomy (1970s – 1990s, including the dragon Daniel , carnations in aspic )
Hans Lang (1930s – 1960s, including engagement at Lake Wolfgang , the landlady from the Danube beach )
James Last (1960s – 2000s, including at seven in the morning the world is still okay , Why men don't listen and women don't park well )
Wolfgang Lesser (1950s – 1960s, including König Drosselbart , description of a summer )
Leo Leux (1930s – 1950s, including Truxa , The Troublemaker )
Henning Lohner (since 1990s, including Der Eisbär , 666 - don't trust anyone you sleep with! )
Markus Lonardoni (1990-2010s, including Happy Birthday, Turk! , All Samba )

M.

Theo Mackeben (1930s – 1950s, including dance on the volcano , home )
Hans-Martin Majewski (1930s – 1990s, including Die Brücke , The flying classroom )
Nikos Mamangakis (since the 1960s, including Heimat - Eine deutsche Chronik , Kaspar Hauser )
Andrzej Markowski (1950s – 1960s, including The Silent Star )
Willy Mattes (1940s – 1970s, including The Frog with the Mask , The Red Circle )
Hans May (1920s – 1950s, including A Song Goes Around the World , The Great Unknown )
Alois Melichar (1930s – 1950s, The Double Lottery , The Immortal Heart )
Will Meisel (1930s – 1960s, including Queen of a Night , A Waltz for You )
Ernst Hermann Meyer (1950s, Högler's Order )
Hansom Milde-Meißner (1920s – 1950s, including the gas man , girl in uniform )
Stéphane Moucha (1990s – 2010s, including Die Fremde , The Lives of Others )
Johannes Müller (1930s – 1940s, The Rothschilds )
Rolf-Hans Müller (1950s – 1980s, television, including Salto Mortale , All my animals )
Siggi Mueller (since the 1980s, including Mein Mann, mein Leben und du , Erkan & Stefan in The Death Comes Krass )

N

Gerd Natschinski (1950s – 1980s, including Hot Summer , The Man Who Came After Grandma )
Thomas Natschinski (since the 1960s, including spooky under the ferris wheel , spooky outside )
Wilhelm Neef (1950s – 1970s, including The Sons of the Great Bear , Ernst Thälmann - leader of his class )
Edmund Nick (1930s – 1940s, including Am Abend auf der Heide , A woman for three days )
Charly Niessen (1950s – 1980s, including The Blue Sea and You , Hula-Hopp, Conny )

O

Rainer Oleak (since the 1980s, television, including the indoor fountain , family Dr. Kleist )
Lotar Olias (1930s – 1960s, including Freddy and the Millionaire , Kaiserball )

P

Matthias Petsche (since 2000, including Jesus loves you , I'll be gone then )
Franz Plasa (since 1990s, including Crazy , Knockin 'On Heaven's Door , Sonnenallee )
Hans Posegga (1950s – 1980s, television, including The Sea Wolf , Call of the Gold )
Zbigniew Preisner (since the 1980s, including Hitler Youth Salomon , three colors: white )
Anton Profes (1930s – 1960s, including Sissi , The White Dream )

R.

Peer Raben (1960s – 2000s, including Die Flambierte Frau , Lili Marleen )
Matthias Raue (since the 1980s, including river cruise with chicken , Adelheid and her murderers )
Arthur Rebner (1930s, including eight girls in the boat , a star falls from the sky )
Mathias Rehfeldt (since the 2010s, including The Sorcerer's Apprentice , Walpurgis Night - The Girls and Death )
Niki Reiser (since the 1980s, including Go for Zucker! , The White Masai , Nowhere in Africa )
Egon Riedel (since the 1990s, including Das Blut der Templer , Hui Buh - Das Schlossgespenst )
Carsten Rocker (since the 1990s, including that you think of me forever , missing )
Fabian Römer (since the 1990s, including Jimmie , Die Tür , Männertag )
Stephan Römer (since 2009, including Die Fallers , Der kleine Drache Kokosnuss )
Raimund Rosenberger (1950s – 1980s, including The Executioner of London , girl behind bars )
Ernst Roters (1930s – 1960s, including The Murderers Are Among Us , The Story of Little Muck )
Enis Rotthoff (since 2000s, including wetlands , The Trapp Family - A Life for Music )
Marius Ruhland (since the 1990s, including Anatomy , Heaven )

S.

Oskar Sala (1940s – 2000s, including Snow White and Rose Red , The Birds )
Hans J. Salter (1930s – 1960s, including the executioner of London , autumn storms )
Peter Sandloff (1950s – 1980s, including the invisible claws of Dr. Mabuse , The Avenger )
Karl-Ernst Sasse (1960s – 1990s, including track of the falcon , blood brothers )
Werner Scharfenberger (1950s – 1960s, including when Conny with Peter )
Eberhard Schoener (1960s – 2010s, television, including the legacy of the Guldenburgs , Siska )
Andreas Schilling (since the 1990s, including edelweiss pirates )
Dieter Schleip (since the 1980s, inter alia Der Rote Kakadu , Der Felsen , inter alia German Television Award, German Film Critics Award, Adolf Grimme Award)
Clemens Schmalstich (1930s, among others Laughing Heirs , An Enemy of the People )
Willy Schmidt-Gentner (1920s – 1950s, including Nathan der Weise , Emil and the detectives )
Ludwig Schmidseder (1930s – 1960s, including the heavenly waltz )
Enjott Schneider (since the 1970s, including 23 - Nothing is what it seems , Stalingrad )
Friedrich Schröder (1930s – 1960s, including white slaves , Charley's aunt )
Norbert Schultze (1930s – 1970s, including Kolberg , The girls from Immenhof , the girl Rosemarie )
Ralph Maria Siegel (1930s – 1960s, including the fisherwoman from Lake Constance , aunt Wanda from Uganda )
Richard Stauch (1930s – 1950s, including Hansel and Gretel , Cinderella )
Alfred Strasser (1930s – 1950s, including green is the heath , I lost my heart in Heidelberg )
Robert Stolz (1930s – 1950s, including Heaven on Earth , the trees in Prater bloom again )
Karel Svoboda (1960s – 2000s, including three hazelnuts for Cinderella , Maya the Bee )

T

Eugen Thomass (1960s – 1990s, including these drombuschs , sugar - a really sweet catastrophe )
Peter Thomas (since the 1960s, including The Witcher , Raumpatrouille )
Martin Todsharow (since the 1990s, including honey in the head , elementary particles )
Herbert Trantow (1940s – 1960s, including Pünktchen and Anton , on the Reeperbahn at half past twelve )
Werner Twardy (1960s – 1970s, including our doctor is the best , pediatrician Dr. Fröhlich )

V

Titus Vollmer (since the 1990s, television, including Lena Lorenz , Murder Commission Istanbul )

W.

Thomas Wanker (since the 1990s, including Nothing but Truth , Dresden )
Matthias Weber (since the 1990s, including In 3 Days You're Dead , The Fall of Lemming )
Konstantin Wecker (since the 1970s, including The White Rose , Bavarian Film Prize 2009 for Lippel's Dream )
Hans-Hendrik Wehding (1950s – 1970s, including don't forget my Traudel )
Ralf Wengenmayr (since the 1990s, including all my daughters , Der Schuh des Manitu , Wickie and die stark Männer )
Joachim Werzlau (1950s – 1970s, including Jakob the Liar , The Brave Little Tailor )
Gert Wilden (since the 1950s, including me, Dr. Fu Man Chu , Heidi )
Rolf Alexander Wilhelm (1950s – 1990s, including Pappa ante Portas , The Flying Classroom )
Herbert Windt (1930s – 1960s, including dogs, do you want to live forever , triumph of will )
Gerhard Winkler (1930s – 1960s, including The Voice of Longing , Black Forest Melody )

Z

Stephan Zacharias (1990s – 2000s, including The Great Bagarozy , The Downfall )
Wolfgang Zeller (1920s – 1950s, including Immensee , Jud Süß )
Helmut Zerlett (since the 1980s, including news from WiXXer , Maria an Callas )
Attila Zoller (1960s – 1970s, including Katz and Maus , Tamara )