Peer Raben
Peer Raben ( born July 3, 1940 in Viechtafell; † January 21, 2007 in Mitterfels; actually Wilhelm Rabenbauer ) was a German composer.
Raven wrote the music for about 90 films and television films and numerous radio plays. He was also a writer, actor, producer and director, and was known for his collaboration with director Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
Life
After graduating from the musical branch of the German Gymnasium in Straubing Rabenbauer began at the University of Regensburg study of pedagogy, but broke this in favor of an acting training at the Folkwang School in Essen from. He then studied at the Ludwig- Maximilians- University of Munich, music and theater. In 1965 he was offered a contract at the stage of Berlin and 1966 at the Schauspielhaus Wuppertal.
Rabenbauer 1966 was one of the founders of the Munich Action Theatre, later antiteater, where he also worked as an actor and director. Here he met Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who staged the antiteater his feature film Love is Colder Than Death 1969. For cost reasons, Wil Rabenbauer, raven artist name as an actor, asked by Fassbinder was to merge the film music. His composition was a complete success so that more film music for Fassbinder under his pseudonym Peer Raben followed, such as The Marriage of Maria Braun, Lili Marleen and Berlin Alexanderplatz. Beginning of the 1970s was ravens Peter Zadek musical director at the Schauspielhaus Bochum. There he created in 1972 together with Erwin Bootz the music for the "Revue version " ( by Tancred Dorst and Zadek ) of Fallada's Little Man - what now?
For Fassbinder's Querelle - A Pact with the Devil (1982 ), he wrote for the actress Jeanne Moreau chanson Each Man Kills The Thing He Loves ( on a text by Oscar Wilde), and actor Günther Kaufmann sang his song Young And Joyful Bandit. In the absence of these, as such, but did not occur in the final film, but only as versions without orchestra (in the case of Moreau 's) or other actors sang (Kaufmann sings the song in the film is not ) found the critics will not accept them and nominated Ravens for the Golden Raspberry. Also, the repertoire of Chanson singer Ingrid Caven consists mainly of compositions by Peer Raben with texts by ravens, Cooper, Wolf Wondratschek, Hans Magnus Enzensberger and Jean -Jacques Schuhl.
1981 Raven turned his first feature film Today we play the boss. An illness forced him in 1992 to a two-year hiatus; However, in 1994 he was able to resume his work.
Since 2000 he lived in Albert bei Schwarzach.
On January 21, 2007, he died at the age of 66 years after a serious illness in the Bavarian Mitterfels.
Awards
In 1980, the Ravens Film Award for Robert van Ackerens The purity of the heart and Luc Bondy's The Ortliebschen women. In 2003 he was jointly awarded Artur Brauner and Erika Richter with the Berlinale Camera. In 2004, he won together with Shigeru Umebayashi the Golden Horse Award for 2046, 2005, he won for nor the Hong Kong Film Award. In addition, he was honored in October 2006 by the World Soundtrack Academy for his life's work.