Deutsches Filmorchester Babelsberg

The German Film Orchestra Babelsberg ( often called the Babelsberg Film Orchestra) is a symphony orchestra in Potsdam and Berlin. It was founded by Klaus Peter Beyer in 1993. The film orchestra emerged dance orchestra after the turn of the DEFA Symphony Orchestra and the Radio Berlin. For years, found photographs and samples mainly takes place at the radio station Nalepastraße. In 2007, the orchestra again " back to basics " go and moved to new premises for rehearsals, recordings and studios on the site of Studio Babelsberg.

The orchestra plays symphonic concerts, opera projects and crossover programs. In film and television, it is very active: About 220 film music productions such as The pharmacist, Solo for clarinet, Otto - The Katastrofenfilm, Dance with the Devil, The Musketeer, Lauras Stern, 7 Dwarves - Men alone in the woods or The Clown - Payday were produced and recorded in their own studios.

For years, the José Carreras Gala ( MDR) is accompanied by the Film Orchestra in Leipzig; she is the most successful long-barreled benefit show on German television. Even with the Elblandfestspiele Wittenberg, an international festival of operetta and film music, the orchestra has its foundation in 2000, a permanent partner with annual television recordings (RBB, all other third programs of ARD and 3sat ). In recent years, followed by recordings of orchestral accompaniments for Peter Fox's solo album Stadtaffe and albums of Silvermoon, Söhne Mannheims, Udo Lindenberg, Rammstein, as well as the Arctic Circle 18, 2007 and 2010 took the film orchestra along with numerous bands and soloists from the former GDR in the project East rock Classical part. In addition, radio one radio concerts organized in 2010 with the film orchestra and germination time and Selig.

The orchestra presents a large repertoire of famous silent films as " film live concerts " and is often referred to as "the only film orchestra of Western Europe ".

In 2009, she played on the album of the band The BossHoss Low Voltage, and the following tour.

Chief conductor since 1999, Scott Lawton, even if Günther Joseck often conducts the orchestra during recording. Lawton's predecessor were Frank Strobel (until 1998) and Bernd Wefelmeyer (until 1995 ).