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Peer Raben (born July 3, 1940 in Viechtafell ; † January 21, 2007 in Mitterfels ; actually Wilhelm Rabenbauer ) was a German composer .

Raben wrote the music for around 90 cinema and television films and numerous radio plays. He was also a writer, actor, producer and director, and was known for his collaboration with director Rainer Werner Fassbinder .

Life

After graduating from high school (1961) at the musical branch of the German grammar school in Straubing , Rabenbauer began studying pedagogy at the University of Regensburg , but broke it off to study drama at the Folkwangschule in Essen . He then studied music and theater studies at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . In 1965 he got an engagement at the Schaubühne Berlin and in 1966 at the Schauspielhaus Wuppertal .

In 1966 Rabenbauer was one of the co-founders of the Munich Action Theater, the later antiteater , where he also worked as an actor and director. Here he met Rainer Werner Fassbinder , who in 1969 directed his first feature film, Love is colder than death , with the antiteater . For reasons of cost, Rabenbauer was asked by Fassbinder to record the film music. His composition was a complete success, so that further film compositions for Fassbinder under the pseudonym Peer Raben followed, such as The Marriage of Maria Braun , Lili Marleen and Berlin Alexanderplatz later . In the early 1970s, Raben was musical director at the Schauspielhaus Bochum under Peter Zadek . There he and Erwin Bootz created the music for the “revue version” (by Tankred Dorst and Zadek) of Falladas Kleiner Mann - what now?

For Fassbinder's Querelle - Ein Pakt mit dem Teufel (1982) he wrote the chanson Each Man Kills The Thing He Loves for Jeanne Moreau (based on the poem The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde ), and Günther Kaufmann sang his song Young And Joyful Bandit . Since these songs did not appear in the film, but only as versions without an orchestra (in the case of Moreau) or were sung by other actors (in the case of Kaufmann), the critics did not like them and nominated Raven for the Golden Raspberry . The repertoire of the chanson singer Ingrid Caven also consists mainly of compositions by Peer Raben with texts by Raben, Fassbinder, Wolf Wondratschek , Hans Magnus Enzensberger and Jean-Jacques Schuhl .

In 1981 Raben made his first movie Today we play the boss . An illness forced him to take a two-year break in 1992; however, he was able to resume his work in 1994.

Since 2000 he lived in Albertsried near Schwarzach.

He died on January 21, 2007 at the age of 66 after a serious illness in Mitterfels.

Awards

In 1980 Raben received the gold ribbon for Robert van Ackeren's Die Reinheit des Herzens and Luc Bondy's Die Ortliebschen Frauen . In 2003 he was awarded the Berlinale Camera together with Artur Brauner and Erika Richter . In 2004 he won the Golden Horse Award for 2046 together with Shigeru Umebayashi , in 2005 he won the Hong Kong Film Award for it . In addition, he was honored for his life's work by the World Soundtrack Academy in October 2006 .

Filmography

Radio plays

  • 1970: Rainer Werner Fassbinder : All in White (Pastor) - Director: Together with Rainer Werner Fassbinder (radio play - BR / HR / SDR)
  • 1972: Rainer Werner Fassbinder: Nobody is bad nobody is good (Petrov) - Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder (radio play - BR)

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  1. ^ Hubert Ettl: Kurt Raab. Homage from the provinces , edition lichtung, Viechtach, undated, p. 35
  2. ↑ cf. Right of the music in the Süddeutsche Zeitung No. 18, January 23, 2007, page 12

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personal data
SURNAME Ravens, peer
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rabenbauer, Wilhelm (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film composer
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd July 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Viechtafell , Germany
DATE OF DEATH January 21, 2007
Place of death Mitterfels