Martin Lingnau
Martin Lingnau (* 16th November 1971 in Wilhelmshaven ) is a German musical - and film - composer . He lives and works in Hamburg .
Life
Martin Lingnau studied composition, orchestration and harmony with many well-known German lecturers such as Klaus Ignatzek and Johannes Schmoelling . He also refined his craft at various international master classes by Alan Menken , James Lapine , Michael Kunze , Stephen Schwartz and others. a. In 1993 he also completed the Popkurs , a contact course for popular music at the Hamburg University of Music and Theater .
Since 1991 he has worked as a pianist for various artists, such as Lucia Aliberti and Udo Lindenberg . Since 1986 he has been the musical director of various theaters, television broadcasts and dubbing of music films and writes pop songs and stage music .
Act
In 1994 he started to work for the Schmidt Theater and Schmidts Tivoli in Hamburg. To this day he is active there as musical director and composer. The following musicals by him were premiered there:
- A Midsummer Night's Dream (Text: Sigrid Andersson and Edith Jeske )
- Swinging St.Pauli (Text: Heiko Wohlgemuth , Thomas Matschoss, Edith Jeske)
- Villa Sonnenschein (Text: Heiko Wohlgemuth, Thomas Matschoss)
- Hot corner (book: Thomas Matschoss, lyrics: Heiko Wohlgemuth)
- The Kings of the Kiez (Text: Heiko Wohlgemuth, Mirko Bott).
- Cindy Reller (Text: Heiko Wohlgemuth)
- The robber Hotzenplotz (Text: Heiko Wohlgemuth)
- Once upon a time (Text: Heiko Wohlgemuth)
- The little Störtebeker (Text: Heiko Wohlgemuth)
He was also responsible for the revues Fifty Fifty, Sixty Sixty, Ahoi , Karamba and Volles Programm , both musically and as a co-author. Swinging St. Pauli is also played as Swinging Berlin in a production by Helmut Baumann .
In 1995 he composed the new hymn of the city of Hamburg The city with its nose in the wind (Text: Edith Jeske ), which was released in 1999 with Hamburg celebrities Udo Lindenberg , Bill Ramsey , Rolf Zuckowski , Heidi Kabel , Lilo Wanders , Wilhelm Wieben , Jan Fedder and others . v. a. was recorded and is available on CD.
From 1997 to 2015 Lingnau played a key role in the conception of the internationally award-winning entertainment for AIDA Cruises . He was also responsible for almost all the original compositions of the fleet during this period. On August 31, 2016, the two AIDA discontinued music pieces he composed, “AIDA Sailaway” and “Linen Los”, were released. In Germany, both made it into the top five of the itunes instrumental charts and the amazon soundtrack charts.
On December 5, 2004, the musical The Orange Girl by Jostein Gaarder with music by Martin Lingnau was premiered in Trier . The revised version premiered on December 5, 2008 in Vienna . He co-invented the successful Hamburg stage soap Pension Schmidt and composed over 60 songs for it. Lingnau also composed numerous theater music nationwide, including a. for Dieter Wedel's production of Walter Hasenclevers A Better Man and the German premiere of Elling , directed by Corny Littmann .
For the ARD - telenovela Sophie - Braut wider Willen he composed 2005/2006 together with two partners, the music of all 69 episodes.
In October 2006 the musical Die 13 1/2 Lives of Käpt'n Blaubär celebrated its world premiere in Cologne, based on the international bestseller by Walter Moers, with music by Martin Lingnau and texts by Heiko Wohlgemuth. In 2007 this musical won the Live Entertainment Award in the category “Best Ensuite Event 2007”. At the end of 2008 this musical was to be seen on a major tour of Germany.
In autumn 2007 the 1000th performance of the musical Heiße Ecke took place in Hamburg. On September 16, 2008 the musical celebrated its 5th birthday. At the beginning of 2008, the number of viewers of the productions in which he was involved as an author and / or composer exceeded the 2 million mark. In August of the same year he founded the studio association “cinetunes” with the composer Ingmar Süberküb.
On December 7th, 2008, another work was premiered, Der Schuh des Manitu , in the Berlin Theater des Westens in a Stage Entertainment production . It is a musical adaptation of the German film by Michael Bully Herbig . Heiko Wohlgemuth wrote the lyrics again , the book is by John von Düffel . The musical premiered in Tecklenburg as an open-air musical in the summer of 2013.
Martin Lingnau is represented with five titles on the debut album by Echo Prize winner Frank Ramond from 2009.
In March 2010 he composed the music for the Salvator rehearsal on the Nockherberg . The live broadcast on Bavarian radio had 3 million viewers. In 2011 and 2012 Lingnau was also the co-author and musical director of the event. The quotas were each year among the highest that the BR achieved on an annual average.
For the opening ceremony of the Alpine World Ski Championships in 2011 , Lingnau wrote all of the original music, which was played live by the BR radio orchestra and broadcast internationally.
In February 2011 the nature documentary Serengeti was released with great success. The film is a co-production by Buena Vista and NDR . It received the "particularly valuable" award and was in the German top ten of the cinema charts for a long time. Lingnau wrote the film music together with Ingmar Süberkrüb. Since then, they have been composing nature documentaries together for international television channels such as National Geographic Channel and Arte .
On May 21 the musical "Heiße Ecke" celebrated its 2000th performance and has been one of the most successful German-language musicals ever since.
In August 2011, Frank Ramond's second solo CD , "very clear", was released, which he produced together with the artist and almost completely composed. In September 2011, together with Frank Ramond, he produced Maite Kelly's solo debut album "Das voll Programm", for which he also composed the music in nostalgic "revue pop", while Frank Ramond and Rudolf Müssig were responsible for the lyrics.
In October 2011 two new works celebrated their world premieres. In Hamburg the first popular music theater version of the robber Hotzenplotz authorized by Otfried Preußler in the Hamburg Schmidt Theater. The lyrics are again from Heiko Wohlgemuth . The second premiere was the world premiere of the musical Droomvlucht in the Netherlands. This musical is a co-production of Stage Entertainment and the Efteling theme park . The Cast CD immediately landed at number 3 on the Dutch charts when it was released. Three songs from "Droomvlucht" were included in the Dutch top 25 of the most popular musical hits in 2012. Two of them in the top ten.
Martin Lingnau is featured with two titles on Mary Roos ' album "Denk, Was Du Wollen" , which was released on April 12, 2013.
On September 6, 2013, the musical "The Kings from the Kiez" celebrated a world premiere at the Schmidt Theater in Hamburg, which was acclaimed by the press. Lingnau wrote it together with Heiko Wohlgemuth and Mirko Bott. On September 16, 2013, the musical “Heiße Ecke” celebrated its tenth anniversary.
Lingnau is represented with four titles on Annett Louisan's album “Too Much Information”, which was released on February 14, 2014 . It rose to three in the German Media Control Charts and achieved gold status in April 2015. On November 1st, the musical "Der kleine Störtebeker" celebrated its world premiere, which Lingnau composed again together with Texter Wohlgemuth. On November 23, 2014, the musical Das Wunder von Bern, composed by Martin Lingnau, based on the film by Sönke Wortmann, opened the Theater an der Elbe in Hamburg in a production by Stage Entertainment. In November 2014, four long-run musicals composed by him stood parallel on Hamburg's stages: “Heiße Ecke”, “The Kings from the Kiez”, “Der kleine Störtebeker” and “The Miracle of Bern”.
On September 3, 2016, the two millionth viewer of the "hot corner" was celebrated. The musical productions in which Martin Lingnau was involved as an author and / or composer saw over 5 million viewers.
On September 10, 2016, a gala with the Munich Philharmonic , Simply Red , Sunrise Avenue , Peter Kraus , Niila and Lena Meyer-Landrut took place in the Munich Olympic Stadium to mark the centenary of the BMW car brand . Thomas Gottschalk moderated . Martin Lingnau worked for this event as a music supervisor and composer.
On September 15, 2016, the world premiere of the musical “Cindy Reller” took place at the Schmidt Theater in Hamburg. This production was the tenth collaboration between Lingnau and the songwriter Heiko Wohlgemuth.
On September 23, 2016, the musical “Doctor Faustus' Magical Circus Part II” with lyrics by Wolfgang Adenberg was premiered at the Württembergische Landesbühne in Esslingen.
Web links
- Works by and about Martin Lingnau in the catalog of the German National Library
- Homepage of the composer
- Homepage of the composer at the theater publisher Whale Songs
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stuttgarter Zeitung, Stuttgart, Germany: "Faust II" as a freak show: When the devil seduced Eckermann - Stuttgarter Zeitung. Retrieved September 27, 2016 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lingnau, Martin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German pianist, theater, musical and television composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 16, 1971 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wilhelmshaven |