Peter Gotthardt

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Peter Gotthardt (born August 22, 1941 in Leipzig ) is a German composer, musician and publisher. The film melodies he composed (more than 500 in total) are known to a wide audience, including great successes such as the pieces played by the Puhdys When a Man Lives and Walk to Her from the DEFA feature film from 1973 The legend of Paul and Paula under directed by director Heiner Carow .

Life

From 1961 to 1966 Gotthardt studied piano , accompaniment , conducting and composing at the “Hanns Eisler” University of Music in Berlin . In 1965 he wrote his first composition for a documentary by Winfried Junge . A year later he wrote his first orchestral work. In 1968 the first collaboration for the DEFA film The Russians Come with Heiner Carow began , from which five joint films emerged in the following years. From 1975 to 1976 he was also head of drama music at the Rostock Volkstheater.

Since 1976 he has been working as a freelance composer. In 1991 he founded his own music publishing company and has since written various compositions for industrial films. In 2018 he received the honorary award of the German Film Music Award .

Gotthardt has lived in Berlin-Mahlsdorf since 1975 .

Awards

Sound carrier

  • Lovedreams. Film music by Peter Gotthardt. VEB Deutsche Schallplatten Berlin / Amiga 856 270, 1987

Film music

Radio play music

literature

  • HP Hofmann: Beat Lexicon. Performers, authors, technical terms . VEB Lied der Zeit Musikverlag, Berlin (East), 1977.
  • Wolfgang Thiel: Beyond PAUL UND PAULA or: In search of a film-appropriate sound. Notes on Peter Gotthardt's compositions for film and television. In: Filmblatt Volume 18, No. 52 Autumn 2013, ISSN  1433-2051 pp. 25–31.
  • Rosa Marie Blunt: Sometimes I think of something ... A documentary collection for the 70th birthday of the composer Peter Michael Gotthardt. Poems, lyrics and sentences by Peter Michael Gotthardt, APHAIA VERLAG, 2011, ISBN 978-3-926677-82-2 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nominees & Prize Winners 2018 on deutscherfilmmusikpreis.de
  2. ↑ A life's work in tones. In: Berliner Woche , Hellersdorf, Kaulsdorf and Mahlsdorf edition, October 21, 2018, p. 2.
  3. ↑ political-bildung-brandenburg.de on the Ernst Reuter Prize to Peter Gotthardt
  4. ↑ German Film Music Prize for Peter Gotthardt , DeRadio Kultur from August 22, 2018, accessed August 22, 2018

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personal data
SURNAME Gotthardt, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer, musician and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH August 22, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig