Ralf Wienrich

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Ralf Wienrich 2002 during a production with the Babelsberg German Film Orchestra in Berlin

Ralf Wienrich (* 1967 in Dresden ) is a German composer and music producer .

biography

Ralf Wienrich studied composition and piano at the Liszt School of Music Weimar with Wolf-Günter Leidel and then film music at the Baden-Württemberg Film Academy with Cong Su . During his studies he devoted himself mainly to the composition and orchestration for symphonic ensembles, which u. a. in his arrangement of Puccini's one-act opera Suor Angelica for chamber orchestra and the symphonic poem Eine Pilgerfahrt shows (both performed in Weimar). He was awarded the Rolf-Hans Müller Prize for Film Music for his first score for the short film Life Afterwards - Heavenly Views . The comedy Rochade , another collaboration with director Thorsten Schmidt , received the Student Academy Award in 1998 in the “Best Foreign Film” category.

In the first few years after graduation, he oriented himself towards what is often referred to as Hollywood Sound , music for an opulent orchestra, influenced by late romanticism , impressionism and classical modernism . This is especially true in his work on Detlev Buck's love for your neighbor! , the Irish production Love & Rage and the American adventure film Coronado produced by Volker Engel .

In 1999 Till Brönner recorded his music, interspersed with elements of modern jazz , for the film My Brother, the Idiot . This was the first collaboration with director Kai Wessel , which in the following years repeatedly led to unusual music concepts. For example, the chamber music to Goebbels and Geduldig, which alternates between circus fanfares and melodrama (recorded by the ensemble KONTRASTE under Frank Strobel ), the neo-impressionist music recorded with the German Film Orchestra Babelsberg for the film Leben would be beautiful, or the only music for Alles Liebe performed on a zither (interpreted by Georg Glasl ).

From 2002, not least under the aesthetic and economic pressure of ubiquitous digitization , he turned away from purely orchestral studio productions, as a result of which he increasingly mixed techniques of sound design with those of traditional composing .

In October 2004 he wrote and produced the music for the ZDF production LiveMovie - Fire in the Night , a television game told in real time with 18 cameras at various locations. He set several episodes of the series Bella Block (with directors Christian von Castelberg and Rainer Kaufmann, among others ) and Spreewald thriller (with directors Thomas Roth and Roland Suso Richter, among others ) to music . He was nominated twice for the German Television Award for three of these episodes .

In 2014 he received the German Academy for Television Prize for his music for the film Spreewaldkrimi - Mörderische Wärme . At the beginning of their relationship, Irene sings the Sorbian folk song Schylila jo se jarobinka to her lover Gottfried . Ralf Wienrich takes up this song in the film music in order to subject it to an adequate metamorphosis parallel to the economic, psychological and ultimately emotional decline of the main character. If in the initial love scene it still sounds pure and ingenuous, in its original tonality , it is gradually declined in ever darker church modes, in order to finally dissolve, barely recognizable, into Oliver Messiean's limited transposable scales . This film about the inexorable maddening of an East German loser in modernization reached 6.3 million viewers when it was first broadcast and received numerous nominations and awards, despite its daring narrative style.

In 2005 he was commissioned to compose orchestral music for the official celebration of the Day of German Unity . He is a member of the German Film Academy .

2014 at the award ceremony of the German Academy for Television

Filmography (selection)

year title Director production comment
1995 Life After - Heavenly Prospects Thorsten Schmidt , Jörg Lühdorff Film Academy Baden-Württemberg German Film Orchestra Babelsberg
1997 castling Thorsten Schmidt Film Academy Baden-Württemberg German Film Orchestra Babelsberg
1998 Zita - stories of deadly sins Christian Wagner Film Academy Baden-Württemberg
1998 Misguided Angel Stefan Jäger handsUP! Film production Carsten Hennig (co-author), German Film Orchestra Babelsberg
1998 Kidnapping Mom & Dad Kai Wessel ProSieben German Film Orchestra Babelsberg
1998 Love your neighbor! Detlev Buck Buoy Buck production Stefan Fischer (co-author), German Film Orchestra Babelsberg
1999 Deadly shadows Diethard Klante ARD / SWR German Film Orchestra Babelsberg
1999 Snow on New Years Eve Thorsten Schmidt UFA, Buena Vista Pictures German Film Orchestra Babelsberg
2000 Are you Luigi? Stephan Brüggenthies Moving records
2000 My brother the idiot Kai Wessel ZDF Till Brönner (trumpet), Matthias Bätzel (piano), Manfred Bründl (bass)
2000 Love & Rage Cathal Black J&M Entertainment German Film Orchestra Babelsberg
2000 Does he have work? Kai Wessel ZDF German Film Orchestra Babelsberg
2001 In the name of justice Stefan Jäger Zodiac Pictures International Sebastian Krahnert (conductor), German State Philharmonic Rhineland-Palatinate
2002 Goebbels and patient Kai Wessel ARD / SWR ensemble KONTRASTE, Frank Strobel (conductor)
2003 Coronado Claudio Fäh Uncharted Territory German Film Orchestra Babelsberg
2003 The architect's wife Diethard Klante ARD / MDR Markus Stockhausen (trumpet), German Film Orchestra Babelsberg
2003 Life would be nice Kai Wessel ARD / BR German Film Orchestra Babelsberg
2004 Bella Block : The Freedom of Wolves Christian von Castelberg ZDF German Film Orchestra Babelsberg
2004 Live movie - fire in the night Kai Wessel ZDF
2005 The happiest people in the world Shaheen Dill-Riaz ZDF
2005 Bella Block: The carpenter's wife Kai Wessel ZDF German Film Orchestra Babelsberg
2006 The secret in the moor Kai Wessel ZDF
2006 Bella Block: The Happiness of Others Christian von Castelberg ZDF
2006 Bella Block: Blackout Rainer Kaufmann ZDF Sebastian Studnitzky (trumpet)
2007 The mysterious treasure of Troy Dror Zahavi Sat 1 Jörg Lemberg (co-author), Eckart Gadow (co-author), German Film Orchestra Babelsberg
2007 Duel in the night Matti Geschonneck ZDF Sebastian Studnitzky (trumpet)
2008 In the enclosure Kai Wessel ZDF
2008 Braams - No murder without a corpse Sven Taddicken ZDF
2010 All the best Kai Wessel ARD / BR Georg Glasl (zither)
2010 The uranium mountain Dror Zahavi ARD / MDR Jörg Lemberg (co-author), German Film Orchestra Babelsberg
2011 Spreewald thriller - The tears of the fish Thomas Roth ZDF
2011 Police call 110: ... and you're out! Christian von Castelberg ARD / NDR Eckart Gadow (co-author)
2012 Murder in Ludwigslust Kai Wessel ZDF German Film Orchestra Babelsberg
2012 Police call 110 - one person carry the other's burden Christian von Castelberg ARD / NDR Eckart Gadow (co-author)
2012 Lena Fauch and the daughter of the gunman Kai Wessel ZDF Eckart Gadow (co-author)
2012 Spreewald thriller - angel of fire Roland Suso Richter ZDF
2013 Lena Fauch - Dangerous silence Johannes Fabrick ZDF Eckart Gadow (co-author)
2014 Spreewald thriller - murderous heat Kai Wessel ZDF German Film Orchestra Babelsberg
2014 The dead of Hameln Christian von Castelberg ZDF
2014 Lena Fauch - forgiveness or revenge Johannes Fabrick ZDF Eckart Gadow (co-author)
2015 Pampas Blues Kai Wessel ARD / SWR Titus Wolfe (co-author, vocals, guitar)
2015 Mrs. Roggenschaub's trip Kai Wessel ZDF Giovanni Weiss (co-author, guitar), German Film Orchestra Babelsberg
2015 Lena Fauch - You shouldn't kill Martin Weinhart ZDF
2016 Power to Change - The Energy Rebellion Carl-A. Fechner fechnerMEDIA Prague Symphony Orchestra , Eckart Gadow (co-author)
2017 Spreewald thriller - Between death and life Kai Wessel ZDF German Film Orchestra Babelsberg

Discography (selection)

CDs

  • 1998: love your neighbor! - Motor Music / Buoy Buck
  • 2004: Coronado - Jerktone Music
  • 2015: Pampa Blues - Score And More Music
  • 2017: Spreewald Crime - The Film Music - Alhambra Records
  • 2017: Spreewald Krimi - Die Filmmusiken Vol. 2 - Between Death and Life - Alhambra Records

DVDs

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ This is the best television thriller of the year . Elmar Krekeler on May 12, 2014 on welt.de. Retrieved April 19, 2018.
  2. ↑ Blazing madness . David Denk on May 12, 2014 on süddeutsche.de. Retrieved April 19, 2018.
  3. ↑ Spreewald thriller - Murderous Heat . Tilmann P. Gangloff on May 12, 2014 on fr-online.de. Retrieved April 19, 2018.
  4. ↑ The fog remains impenetrable . Heike Hupertz on November 13, 2017 on faz.net. Retrieved April 19, 2018.
  5. ^ German film music award for "Tatort" and "Spreewaldkrimi" ( Memento from October 27, 2018 in the Internet Archive ). Article dated October 26, 2018, accessed October 27, 2018.
  6. ↑ Woman power at the German Film Music Prize . Article dated October 26, 2018, accessed October 27, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Wienrich, Ralf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer and music producer
DATE OF BIRTH 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden