Jürgen Knieper

Jürgen Knieper
Jürgen Knieper
Born	14 March 1941 (age 83); Karlsruhe, Germany
Alma mater	State High School of Music
Occupation	Film score composer
Awards	German Film Award for Best Music

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]

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]

The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick (1972)
The Scarlet Letter (1973)
The Wrong Move (1975)
The American Friend (1977)
Germany, Pale Mother (1980)
Christiane F. – We Children from Bahnhof Zoo (1981)
Room 666 (1984)
River's Edge (1987)
Wings of Desire (1987)
Paint It Black (1989)
December Bride (1990)
Lisbon Story (1994)
Tuvalu (1999)

References

^ "Jürgen Knieper". BBC. Retrieved 28 August 2017.
^ ^a ^b Monaco, James (1991). "Knieper, Jürgen". The Encyclopedia of Film. Perigee Books. p. 302. ISBN 0399516042.
^ "Deutscher Filmpreis, 1975". Deutscher Filmpreis. Retrieved 9 June 2016.
^ Kenny, J.M.; Wenders, Wim; Knieper, Jürgen (2009). The Angels Among Us (Blu-ray). The Criterion Collection.
^ 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 978-1351563581.
^ "1990: The Nominations". European Film Academy. Retrieved 28 August 2017.
^ "Jürgen Knieper". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on August 29, 2017. Retrieved 28 August 2017.

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[1] "Jürgen Knieper". BBC. Retrieved 28 August 2017.

[Monaco-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.

[Knieper-4] Kenny, J.M.; Wenders, Wim; Knieper, Jürgen (2009). The Angels Among Us (Blu-ray). The Criterion Collection.

[Davison-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 978-1351563581.

[6] "1990: The Nominations". European Film Academy. Retrieved 28 August 2017.

[7] "Jürgen Knieper". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on August 29, 2017. Retrieved 28 August 2017.

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