Jürgen Knieper

Jürgen Knieper (born 14 March 1941) is a German film score composer. Born in Karlsruhe, he was educated at Berlin's State High School of Music.[2]

Jürgen Knieper
Born (1941-03-14) 14 March 1941[1]
Karlsruhe, Germany
Alma materState High School of Music
OccupationFilm score composer
AwardsGerman Film Award for Best Music

Career

He began working for director Wim Wenders with his 1972 film The Goalkeeper's Fear of the Penalty.[2] For Wenders' 1975 film The Wrong Move, Knieper won the German Film Award for Best Music.[3]

Wenders turned to Knieper again for the music of his 1987 film Wings of Desire. Knieper assumed harps and violins would suffice for a score for a film about angels, until he saw a cut of the film. Seeing the angels were discontent, he wrote a different score employing a choir, voices and whistling.[4] Musicologist Annette Davison argued this score includes elements of Eastern European and Orthodox Christian music.[5]

In 1990, he was nominated for the European Film Award for Best Composer for December Bride.[6]

Filmography

His films include:[7]

References
  1. "Jürgen Knieper". BBC. Retrieved 28 August 2017.
  2. Monaco, James (1991). "Knieper, Jürgen". The Encyclopedia of Film. Perigee Books. p. 302. ISBN 0399516042.
  3. "Deutscher Filmpreis, 1975". Deutscher Filmpreis. Retrieved 9 June 2016.
  4. Kenny, J.M.; Wenders, Wim; Knieper, Jürgen (2009). The Angels Among Us (Blu-ray). The Criterion Collection.
  5. Davison, Annette (2017). "Music to Desire By: The Soundtrack to Wim Wenders's Der Himmel über Berlin". "Hollywood Theory, Non-Hollywood Practice ": Cinema Soundtracks in the 1980s and 1990s. Routledge. ISBN 1351563580.
  6. "1990: The Nominations". European Film Academy. Retrieved 28 August 2017.
  7. "Jürgen Knieper". British Film Institute. Retrieved 28 August 2017.


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