Jürgen Knieper

German composer (born 1941)

Jürgen Knieper

Born|  (1941-03-14) 14 March 1941 (age 84)[1]

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

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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

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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

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1. ^ "Jürgen Knieper". BBC. Retrieved 28 August 2017.
2. ^ a b Monaco, James (1991). "Knieper, Jürgen". The Encyclopedia of Film. Perigee Books. p. 302. ISBN 0399516042.
3. ^ "Deutscher Filmpreis, 1975". Deutscher Filmpreis. Archived from the original on 9 August 2016. Retrieved 9 June 2016.
4. ^ Kenny, J.M.; Wenders, Wim; Knieper, Jürgen (2009). The Angels Among Us (Blu-ray). The Criterion Collection.
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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