Ludger Vollmer

Ludger Vollmer (born June 29, 1961 in Berlin ) is a German musician, composer and graduate teacher.

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Since 1993 he has worked as a freelance composer and musician. Works of his were also abroad, e. B. the USA, Mexico, Australia and the Far East are listed.

Ludger Vollmer studied violin, viola and composition at the Hochschule für Musik Weimar from 1984 to 1990 . After graduating as an orchestral musician in viola , he worked in various orchestras in Leipzig and Magdeburg. He also used his chamber music activity.

From 1994 to 1995 he attended seminars with Alfred Schnittke at the University of Music in Hamburg. From 1995 to 1999 he studied composition, improvisation and pedagogy at the University of Music Leipzig with Dimitri Terzakis . He graduated with a diploma and the concert exam in composition .

Vollmer is married and has five children.

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Vollmer received the European Tolerance Prize in 2009 for his opera Gegen die Wand . The Stuttgart production of this opera (director: Neco Çelik ) won the German Theater Prize Der Faust 2011. In 2014 it was awarded the Weimar Prize , followed by the Thuringian Composition Prize in 2016/2017 .

Works (selection)

1995: Veni Creator Spiritus (premiere by the Dresdner Kreuzchor )

2004: Paul and Paula or The Legend of Happiness Without End Opera after Ulrich Plenzdorf (premiered at Theater Nordhausen / Loh-Orchester Sondershausen )

2005: My Love Is As A Fever string quartet, (premiered as part of Heidelberger Frühling )

2008: Gegen die Wand Opera based on the film of the same name by Fatih Akın (premiered at Theater Bremen ), 2010 at the Staatstheater Stuttgart , 2010 at the 1st Istanbul Opera Festival, 2011 at the Theater Hagen in German and Turkish with surtitles

2009: Schillers Räuber_Rap'n Breakdance Opera ( Premiere at Theaterhaus Jena )

2012: Border Youth Opera based on Euripides (premiere at the Cologne Opera )

2013: Lola runs after the film of the same name by Tom Tykwer (premiered at the Regensburg Theater )

2017: Crusades , opera about the late effects of the crusades (premiered at Theater Freiburg )

2017: Tschick , opera based on Wolfgang Herrndorf , (premiered at Theater Hagen )

2019: The Circle , opera based on the novel of the same name by Dave Eggers (premiered at the Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar )

Web links

Homepage of Ludger Vollmer
Works by and about Ludger Vollmer in the catalog of the German National Library
Biography at Schott

Individual evidence

↑ Press release of the City of Weimar from July 10, 2014 ( Memento from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
↑ Prize winners 2016/2017 , communication from the State Music Council of Thuringia
^ The Circle. Deutsches Nationaltheater und Staatskapelle Weimar , accessed on January 16, 2020 (announcement of the world premiere of Ludger Vollmer's opera for April 5, 2019 at the Weimar Nationaltheater).

personal data
SURNAME	Vollmer, Ludger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German musician, composer and qualified pedagogue
DATE OF BIRTH	June 29, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin

[1] Press release of the City of Weimar from July 10, 2014 ( Memento from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive )

[2] Prize winners 2016/2017 , communication from the State Music Council of Thuringia

[3] The Circle. Deutsches Nationaltheater und Staatskapelle Weimar , accessed on January 16, 2020 (announcement of the world premiere of Ludger Vollmer's opera for April 5, 2019 at the Weimar Nationaltheater).