Heiner Goebbels

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Full Name	Heiner Goebbels
Occupation	Composer
Date Of Birth	Aug 17, 1952(1952-08-17)
Age	72
Birthplace	Neustadt an der Weinstraße
Country	Germany
Birth City	Rhineland-Palatinate
Horoscope	Leo

Heiner Goebbels Biography

Heiner Goebbels is one of the most popular and richest Composer who was born on August 17, 1952 in Neustadt an der Weinstraße, Rhineland- Palatinate, Germany. Heiner Goebbels (born 17 August 1952) is a German composer, director and professor at Justus-Liebig-University in Giessen and artistic director of the International Festival of the Arts Ruhrtriennale 2012-14.

Goebbels was a professor at Justus-Liebig-University in Giessen, Institute for Applied Theater Studies from 1999 until 2018, and teaches the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland. He was the President of Theater Academy of Hesse from 2006 to 2018. In recent years Goebbels enjoyed the privilege of several guest professorships and nominations for composer-in- residence., he is member of several academies of arts (Berlin, Bensheim, Dusseldorf, Mainz, Munich), Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Studies in Berlin, Honorable Fellow at the Dartington College of the Arts and the Central School of Speech and Drama, London. He was awarded an honorary doctorate in 2012 by Birmingham City University and in 2018, by the National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts, Sofia (Bulgaria).

In September 2010, it was announced that Goebbels was the artistic director designate for the 2012-14 seasons of the Ruhrtriennale.

He received numerous awards and honours, such as Prix Italia, Europe Theatre Prize, and 2012 the International Ibsen Award, one of the world’s most prestigious theatre awards, for bringing “new artistic dimensions to the world of drama or theatre.”.

Goebbels was a Neustadt an der Weinstrasse native. Goebbels is a composer of large-orchestral compositions and ensemble works. He studied music and sociology in Frankfurt am Main. He has produced many radio plays and staged concerts. Since the 1990s, he has been invited to participate in the most important music festivals and theatres around the world.

Heiner Goebbels Net Worth

Heiner Goebbels is one of the richest Composer from Germany. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Heiner Goebbels 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Alfred Harth and Goebbels were musical partners in Duo Goebbels/Harth (1975-1988). They co-founded Sogenanntes Linksradikales Blasorchester (1976-1981), and Cassiber (1982-1992), along with Chris Cutler, Alfred Harth and Christoph Anders. They made five albums and toured extensively in Europe, Asia, and North America. Cassiber (minus Anders), joined Duck and Cover in October 1983 at the request Burkhard Hennen to Alfred Hartth for the 1983 Moers Festival. This was followed by performances at the Berlin Jazz Festival in West Berlin and another performance in East Berlin in February 1984.

His close collaboration with Heiner Muller, an East German writer, resulted in some of his most well-known works. These include stage compositions and shorter pieces (concerts and audio plays), based on Muller texts such as VerkommenesUfer (Waste Shore), Die Befreiung des Prometheus (1985), Wolokolamsker Chaussee (1989), etc. Goebbels attempted to fill the gap between opera and theatre that was left empty by traditional genre boundary drawing. Projects such as “Ou Bien le debarquement desastreux” (1993 Paris), Schwarz auf Weiss (1696) and Die Wiederholung (1995). Critics often refer to his political work. Heiner Muller is partly responsible for his interest. This may also be true of his interest in Bertolt Birecht and Hanns Eisler works that he used to compose his 1998 staged concert Eislermaterial. 1998 also saw him create the music theatre play “Max Black”, with lyrics by Paul Valery, 2002 was his first opera “Landscape with distant family”, and 2004 was the award- winning “Eraritjaritjaka”. 2007 was followed by the performative installation, “Stifters Dinge”, which has been performed over 300 times on four continents. 2007 was followed by the concert “Songs of Wars” which featured Gertrude Stein’s words. 2008 saw “I went to the House, but didn’t enter” by the Hilliard Ensemble with words by Maurice Blanchot and Samuel Beckett. He created “When the Mountain changed it’s clothing” in 2012 with the Choir Carmina Slovenica and staged John Cage’s “Europeras 1&2”, Harry Partch’s Delusion of the Fury 2013, and Louis Andriessen’s De Materie for the Ruhrtriennale Internale Festival of the Arts.

Goebbels’ work is being increasingly acknowledged as he is being played and staged around the world and as his recordings are being published. He collaborated with the finest ensembles and orchestras – Ensemble Modern, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Ensemble musikFabrik, Asko/Schönberg, Berg Orchestra, Berlin Philharmonic, Bochumer Symphoniker, Junge Deutsche Philharmonie, Brooklyn Philharmonic and many others and worked with conductors like Sir Simon Rattle, Peter Eotvos, Lothar Zagrosek, Peter Rundel, Steven Sloane and many others. In 2000 he collaborated with Piano Circus and composer Richard Harris to produce Scutigeras, which received a live BBC radio premiere in the UK. His Surrogate Cities, a work for big orchestra dating from 1994 and featuring texts from Paul Auster, Heiner Müller, and Hugo Hamilton, has been performed widely in Europe, the US and Australia and was nominated for a Grammy in the category Best Classical Contemporary Composition at the 43rd Grammy Awards in 2001. His Eislermaterial won him another Grammy nomination at the 46th Grammy Awards in 2004, this time in the category Best Small Ensemble Performance (with or without conductor).

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