| Jürgen Knieper | |
|---|---|
| Born | (1941-03-14) 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.
Career
He began working for director Wim Wenders with his 1972 film The Goalkeeper's Fear of the Penalty. For Wenders' 1975 film The Wrong Move, Knieper won the German Film Award for Best Music.
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. Musicologist Annette Davison argued this score includes elements of Eastern European and Orthodox Christian music.
In 1990, he was nominated for the European Film Award for Best Composer for December Bride.
Filmography
His films include:
- 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.
- ^ 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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