Reiner Bredemeyer
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Reiner Bredemeyer (2 January 1929 − 5 December 1995)[1] was a German composer.
Biography
Bredemeyer was born in
Munich Academy for Musical Arts. In 1954 Paul Dessau took him to East Germany, where Bredemeyer became a master student of Rudolf Wagner-Régeny at the DDR Academy of Arts, Berlin
.
He taught at the
Bertold Brecht, Walter Felsenstein and Ernst Busch. From 1957 to 1960 he was arts director at the Theatre of Friendship in Berlin and from 1961 kapellmeister and composer at the German Theatre. The composers of his generation (Friedrich Goldmann, Georg Katzer und Friedrich Schenker) broke with socialist realism and closed the gap to western Avant-garde music.[2] In 1978 Bredemeyer became a member of the Academy of Arts and in 1988 he was appointed professor
. Until 1989 he served as a board member of the GDR's composers' and musicologists' union. Bredemeyer died in Berlin. His grave is at Cemetery Pankow III, where many renown German artists are buried.
His oeuvre includes more than 600 works (of which around 300 are for theatre, film and audio drama), many of which have still not been performed in concert.
Awards
- 1969: Art Prize of the FDGB
- 1969: Banner of Labor
- 1975: Art Prize of East Germany
- 1983: National Prize of East Germany
- 1983: FIPRESCI Prize at the Berlin International Film Festival
- 1986: Composition Award at the National Film Festival of the GDR
- 1989: Order of Merit for the Fatherland
External links
- Reiner Bredemeyer at IMDb
- Reiner Bredemeyer
References
- ISBN 978-1-56159-263-0.
- ^ so nah - so fern, Deutschlandradio Kultur, Monday 9 November 2009
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