Peter Gotthardt
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
- 1990: Ernst Reuter Prize for original sound radio play I propose that the applause be kept short
- 2018: Honorary Prize of the German Film Music Prize for his life's work
Sound carrier
- Lovedreams. Film music by Peter Gotthardt. VEB Deutsche Schallplatten Berlin / Amiga 856 270, 1987
Film music
- 1958: Our Sandman (TV)
- 1965: Female students - impressions from a university
- 1967: The brave truancy
- 1968: With both feet up in the sky - encounter with a flight captain
- 1971: The Russians arrive
- 1971: Albrecht Dürer 1471 - 1528
- 1971: career
- 1972: Convened
- 1973: The little commander
- 1973: I am a young pioneer
- 1973: The legend of Paul and Paula
- 1974: Police call 110: The Hitchhiker's Guide (TV series)
- 1974: Police call 110: No paradise for magpies (TV series)
- 1974: love at 16
- 1974: Criminal cases without example: Murder after the final whistle (TV series)
- 1974: ... damn it, I'm an adult
- 1974: Police call 110: The death of the professor (TV series)
- 1975: Flowers for the man in the moon
- 1975: Police call 110: It doesn't work out (TV series)
- 1976: In Search of Gatt (TV)
- 1976: Nobody grows up without fairy tales (TV)
- 1976: Police call 110: Reclaimed roses (TV series)
- 1976: The Lindstedts (TV series)
- 1977: Berliner in Pankow
- 1977: Well-intentioned acclamation or The Kleefest
- 1977: Icarus
- 1977: homesickness for Rügen or yesterday I was a cook
- 1977: The Seducible (TV)
- 1977: Hitchhiking north
- 1978: fire spots
- 1978: seven freckles
- 1978: The Hadramaut Valley
- 1978: Bumblebee flight
- 1979: Here where I live
- 1979: Do you know the country ... A political review (doc. Film)
- 1979: Until death do you part
- 1979: Snow White and Rose Red
- 1979: The Garden of Eden
- 1980: The sailors of Cattaro (Kotorski mornari)
- 1980: Solo for Martina (1980) (TV)
- 1981: Nobility in decline (TV)
- 1981: Dearest Dziodzio (documentary)
- 1981: Trumpet Anton (TV)
- 1982: Police call 110: Petra (TV series)
- 1982: Police call 110: Im Tal (TV series)
- 1982: The Girl and the Boy (TV)
- 1983: Pages of a Chronicle (TV)
- 1983: Angelica from Mexico
- 1983: Island of the Swans
- 1984: Tutoring for Dad (1984) (TV)
- 1984: Aviator (TV)
- 1984: The Widow Capet (TV)
- 1984: Rublak - The legend of the surveyed land
- 1984: crossing (TV)
- 1984: where others are silent
- 1984: I love Victor (TV)
- 1984: Police Call 110: Difficult Years (Part 1) (TV series)
- 1984: Polizeiruf 110: Difficult Years (Part 2) (TV series)
- 1985: The stolen face
- 1985: Police call 110: One step too far (TV series)
- 1986: The prosecutor has the floor : a surefire tip (TV series)
- 1986: Acting: Touchpoints (TV series)
- 1986: Monk don't get angry (TV)
- 1986: Acting: Room 418 (TV series)
- 1987: Käthe Kollwitz - Pictures of a Life
- 1987: Man, Hermann! (TV series)
- 1987: Entry into Paradise (TV series, 6 episodes)
- 1987: Jan Oppen (TV)
- 1987: The prosecutor has the floor: I will never betray you (TV series)
- 1988: The prosecutor has the floor: Smashed love (TV series)
- 1988: Gabriel come back (TV)
- 1988: Thomas Müntzer
- 1988: The prosecutor has the floor: I'm not going to take part (TV series)
- 1988: Lieb Georg (TV)
- 1988: The prosecutor has the floor: Where nobody knows me (TV series)
- 1989: Police call 110: Midnight Case (TV series)
- 1989: Acting: At Second Sight (TV series)
- 1989: The prosecutor has the floor: Blue dove should fly (TV series)
- 1990: The prosecutor has the floor: Hello partner (TV series)
- 1997: The Captain of Köpenick (TV)
- 2003: Eternal beauty
- 2005: The Hitler Cantata
- 2008: Category C - The Film
Radio play music
- 1988: Thomas Rosenlöcher : Das Gänseblümchen - Director: Werner Grunow (Children's radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR )
- 1992: Clemens Brentano : The fairy tales from the Rhine and the Müller Radlauf - Director: Peter Groeger (children's radio play - DS Kultur)
- 1993: Adam Bodor : The Branch Office - Director: Peter Groeger (radio play - MDR / ORF)
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
- ↑ Nominees & Prize Winners 2018 on deutscherfilmmusikpreis.de
- ↑ A life's work in tones. In: Berliner Woche , Hellersdorf, Kaulsdorf and Mahlsdorf edition, October 21, 2018, p. 2.
- ↑ political-bildung-brandenburg.de on the Ernst Reuter Prize to Peter Gotthardt
- ↑ German Film Music Prize for Peter Gotthardt , DeRadio Kultur from August 22, 2018, accessed August 22, 2018
Web links
- Peter Gotthardt in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Peter Gotthardt at filmportal.de
- Homepage Peter Gotthardt
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Gotthardt, Peter |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German composer, musician and publisher |
DATE OF BIRTH | August 22, 1941 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Leipzig |