Reinhard Karger
Reinhard Karger (born May 3, 1953 in Tübingen ) is a German composer and musician.
Life
In 1972 Karger graduated from the Albert-Einstein-Gymnasium Böblingen. He then studied composition from 1972 to 1977 with Erhard Karkoschka at the Stuttgart University of Music . In 1977 and 1978 he studied theater and music at the California Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles.
From 1985 to 1987 he was the director of incidental music at the Staatstheater Kassel .
With Verena Joos he developed cabaret programs and revues, which he directed staging and musical.
From 2005 to 2008 he was professor for contemporary music and project work at the University of Kassel . Karger has been Professor of Composition with a focus on media composition at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna since 2008 .
Private
He is married to Verena Joos and has a son and a daughter. He lives with his family in Vienna.
Works
Compositions
- 1975: Emomatsch
- 1975/1976: Shadow forms
- 1977: My snail shell - an unfinished piece
- 1979: breakthrough
- 1982–1983: My snail shell - feelers out!
- 1984: German remains No. 1
- 1985: boulder
- 1986: Cadence Dance
- 1987/1988: Alphabet 87
- 1988: Again no light on the Milky Way
- 1988: death. Straightening force.
- 1989: Hello, do you have twenty minutes?
- 1989: Singing with your mouth closed
- 1990: traffic jam
- 1991: Rag Khammaj
- 1993/1994: The Seven Winds
- 1994/1995: Walk softly
- 1995: conversion into E flat
- 1996–1998: La Vie c'est Ailleurs - Homage to Marcel Proust
- 1998/1999: Come, O death, you sleepy brother
- 2000/2001: the penrose piano book of pentatonic secrets
- 2002: falling in the wind
- 2002: gold and silver
- 2003: That obscure object of desire
- 2004–2006: The Late World
- 2005: mes adieux - for Wolfgang Stryi
- 2006: She sat in the afternoon sun and smoked
- 2007: nec sine te nec tecum
- 2011: The blind mirror
- 2011/2012: To Joseph Roth
- 2013: maybe we knew
- 2014: To Joseph Roth (version for trombone)
- 2014: This is the show
- 2014/2015: come closer
- 2016: how is the world so quiet
Theater projects
Musical theater
- 1978: Before the performance
- 1985: Words and Music
- 1989: Beethoven's future
- 1990/1991: pedestrian zone
- 1992–1994: desert area. Be right.
- 1999/2000: Remedia Amoris - a men's concert
- 2001: Upstairs - downstairs
- 2002: I don't want chocolate
- 2003: No more fun!
- 2004/2005: The orchestra rehearsal
- 2005/2006: Devil's Pacts or: Five Ways to Sell Your Soul
- 2006/2007: Marlborough goes to war
- 2007/2008: so then
- 2008/2009: do you love me?
- 2010: Fermata
- 2011: Quartet outdoors
- 2013: silence here
- 2016: lake view
- 2018: take me off! - A declaration of love to the French chanson
Theater music
- 1976: The collision
- 1976: Urfaust
- 1977: The Argentine Night
- 1977: Biedermann and the arsonists
- 1979: Klein Zack
- 1979: Crash in Chiozza
- 1980: George Dandin
- 1981: The dead souls
- 1981: The Threepenny Opera
- 1982: the talisman
- 1983: Strong Hans
- 1983: Purgatory in Ingolstadt
- 1983: The short life of the snow clouds
- 1983: fairy tale of someone who moved out
- 1984: Christmas at the front
- 1984/1985: blackout
- 1985: The conceited sick man
- 1985: Dario Fo spectacle
- 1985: The Threepenny Opera
- 1985: Viennese stories
- 1985: Oh Robinson
- 1985/1986: A Midsummer Night's Dream
- 1986: Baal
- 1986: Outside the door
- 1986: King Lear
- 1987: Professor Unrat
- 1987: Dangerous liaisons
- 1988: Prince Sihanouk
- 1990: Princess donkey skin
- 1990: The mother
- 1991: Lysistrata
- 1992: The Indian dream
- 1993: Cyrano from Bergerac
- 1994: Soliman
- 1994: Peer Gynt
- 1995: The Threepenny Opera
- 1996: Woyzeck
- 1997: joke, satire, irony ...
- 1998: Spark of the gods
- 1998: The Giants of Phoenix
- 2000: Princess Brambilla
- 2001: Two Munich residents in hell
cabaret
- 1982: It's laughing, boom, it's crying ...
- 1992: Compact and for sale
- 1995: He has a lot from me ...
- 1997: Highest Railway
- 1999: ... I don't know who I belong to ...
- 1999: The death of the Prince Charming
- 1999: Songs from Theresienstadt
- 2000: Young man, do not be lusted ...
- 2003: We'll be there!
- 2003: O dear Augustine
- 2007: You poor Lord King, your kingdom is now over ...
- 2009: do you love me?
Music projects
Free music projects
- 1994: Response 94
- 1996: Response 96
- 1997/1998: MundWerk 1–13
- 1998: Response 98
- 1998/1999: Seul, en train de ...
- 1999: Im Eis - radio play with music
- 1999: ear opener
- 1999/2000: Speech pieces
- 1999/2000: Response 2000
- 2001: SMS - short music stories
- 2001: Response 2001
- 2001/2002: cosmic comix
- 2003: adorno
- 2004/2005: The orchestra rehearsal
- 2005/2006: Devil's Pacts or: Five Ways to Sell Your Soul
- 2014/2015: New Pipa
Bands
- 1986-1991: Pretty Bad Tones
- 1992–1997: Sparbier Band
Texts
- 1988: THE COMPOSER
- 1997: The Ecstasy of Slowness or The Maiden of Baroness Putbus
- 2001: stop telling stories!
- 2006: My cell phone is playing Beethoven or: How time flies for the composer
Awards
- 1980: Sponsorship award from the Wilfried Steinbrenner Foundation Berlin
- 1985: Composition Prize of the State Capital Stuttgart
- 2004: Culture Prize of the City of Kassel (together with Verena Joos)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ asandmann.de/sign - Andreas Sandmann, Kassel Germany (mail@asandmann.de): Reinhard Karger - biography. Retrieved March 10, 2018 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Karger, Reinhard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 3, 1953 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tübingen |