Enrique Sánchez Lansch

Enrique Sánchez Lansch (* 1963 in Gijon ( Spain) ) is a producer and director of documentary films. The last name is sometimes listed as a lance.

Life

Sánchez Lansch grew up the son of a German mother and a Spanish father in Gijon, northern Spain and later in Cologne. He studied music with a major vocal and completed his studies in Romance languages ​​, philosophy and German literature with a thesis about literary adaptation from. Already during his studies, he began working as a director and writer of music and documentaries. A study in the U.S. at Columbia University and UCLA led him into a screenplay for a feature film. Since 2002, Enrique Sánchez Lansch lives in Berlin and works as a director and writer mainly of documentaries, many of them in connection with music. In addition, he developed fictional projects.

Works

A selection of his films in recent years includes:

• Russian salon music documentary and piano works of Alexander Scriabin and Sergei Rachmaninoff in the interpretation of Burkard Schliessmann. 30 min 1995.
• Rhythm is it! Documentary film co-directed by Thomas Grube on a dance project with students to Stravinsky's Le sacre du printemps with the choreographer Royston, Sir Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic under its Education Working Future @ BPhil. 100 min 2004.
• Sing for your life! Documentary about hope and fear of young participants in the International Singing Competition " New Voices " in 2005. 60 min 2005.
• Schumann, Schubert and the snow filmic adaptation of the opera by Hans New piano rock with songs by Robert Schumann and Franz Schubert. 60 min 2006.
• Art of the Fugue music film about Bach's Art of Fugue with the Musica Antiqua Köln, shot in the premises of the Langen Foundation, Neuss - Reinhard Goebel. 75 min 2007.
• Mstislav Rostropovich - The Musical Conscience documentary on and with the cellist and conductor Rostropovich with recordings from his final rehearsals and master classes. 52 min 2007.
• Now is the time to have ... two-part documentary about Rachmaninoff and aging. With Semyon Bychkov and the WDR Symphony Orchestra. 2 × 60 min in 2007.
• The Marching Band - The Berlin Philharmonic and National Socialism cinema documentary. 90 min 2007.
• The Promise of Music - The Sound of Hope documentary about the young conductor Gustavo Dudamel and the Sinfónica de la Juventud Venezolana Simón Bolívar. 90 min 2008.
• Let me compose forever. SOUND - The 24 hours of the day. Documentary about rehearsals and premiere of Stockhausen's KLANG cycle. 60 min 2010.
• Piano Encounters - Encounters at the piano. Documentary film, the piano playing children accompanied by four years, and their knowledge and experience documented in workshops with pianists Emanuel Ax, Katia & Marielle, Gabriela Montero and the Duo Tal & Groethuysen. 95 Min, 2010.
• Somewhere in the world Dagmar Manzel Werner Richard Heymann discovered. Documentary. 59min. 2011
• SUNDAY from LIGHT - The premiere of the opera by Karl- Heinz Stockhausen. Documentary. 59min. 2011
• The 12 - The 12 Cellists of the Berlin Philharmonic. Documentary. 59 min 2012
• Overture 1912 - 100 Years of German opera. Documentary. 90 min, 2012 Original Air Date: . October 23, 2012 in rbb.
• The sound of the Ruhr - 25 years Ruhr Piano Festival. Documentary. 59 min 2013

Prizes and awards

• Rhythm is it! was, inter alia, with the Impact of Music Award at the Nashville Film Festival, the German Critics' Prize, the Bavarian Film Award and twice won the German Film Award.
• The Promise of Music won the Best Documentary Award at the Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival.
• The Marching Band was awarded the Diapason d'Or de l' Année 2008 and with the Choc du Monde de la Musique De L' Année 2008.
• Piano Encounters was awarded in 2010 at the SEMINCI, the international film festival in Valladolid Spain with the second prize for the best documentary.