Reiner Bredemeyer (2 January 1929 − 5 December 1995) was a German

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. He was born in Vélez, Santander and went to school in Breslau. In 1944 he was drafted into military service and was briefly held as a prisoner of war of the American Army in Bavaria. After the end of World War II, he met composer Karl Amadeus Hartmann who introduced him to the music of

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, Anton Webern,

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and

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took him to East Germany, where Bredemeyer became a master student of Rudolf Wagner-Régeny at the DDR Academy of Arts, Berlin. He taught at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin and worked together with Bertold Brecht, Walter Felsenstein and Ernst Busch. From 1957 to 1960 he was arts director at the Theatre of Friendship in Berlin and from 1961 kapellmeister and composer at the German Theatre. The composers of his generation ( Friedrich Goldmann,

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Deutschlandradio Kultur, Monday 9 November 2009 In 1978 Bredemeyer became a member of the Academy of Arts and in 1988 he was appointed professor. Until 1989 he served as a board member of the GDR's composers' and musicologists' union. Bredemeyer died in Berlin. His grave is at Cemetery Pankow III, where many renown German artists are buried. His oeuvre includes more than 600 works (of which around 300 are for theatre, film and audio drama), many of which have still not been performed in concert.

Awards

* 1969: Art Prize of the FDGB * 1969: Banner of Labor * 1975: Art Prize of East Germany * 1983:

National Prize of East Germany The National Prize of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) (german: Nationalpreis der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik) was an award of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) given out in three different classes for scientific, artistic, ...

* 1983: FIPRESCI Prize at the Berlin International Film Festival * 1986: Composition Award at the National Film Festival of the GDR * 1989: Order of Merit for the Fatherland

External links

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bredemeyer, Reiner 1929 births 1995 deaths People from Santander Department 20th-century classical composers German classical composers German male classical composers German film score composers Male film score composers Recipients of the Patriotic Order of Merit Recipients of the Banner of Labor Recipients of the National Prize of East Germany Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts Members of the Academy of Arts, Berlin 20th-century German composers 20th-century German male musicians Recipients of the Medal of Merit of the GDR