Ralf Hildenbeutel

News & updates:

FEBRUARY 2015:

"INTERVIEW" MAGAZINE, MARCH ISSUE

JANUARY, 2015:

KOMMISSARIN LUCAS

Working on the score for two episodes of the German TV thriller "Kommissarin Lucas".

DECEMBER, 2014:

REMIX FOR "FRED BANANA COMBO"
Started remixing a new track of "Fred Banana Combo", a German cult Kraut-Rock band from the 70ies, they are releasing some new and old material in 2015.

RADIO MIX "FAHRENHAIDT"
I worked on the radio mix for the single "Frozen Silence" of the project "Fahrenhaidt" (ELECTROLA). The track will be released in February 2015.

VERBOTENE LIEBE
After working the last three years on the score for the daily TV show "Verbotene Liebe" (ARD), which has been an intense challenge, exciting and excausting at the same time, the daily series is now turning into a weekly format which I look forward to scoring as this means more time for other projects again.

"AUSGERECHNET SIBIRIEN" ON TV
The movie "Ausgerechnet Sibirien" will be screened on Arte TV tonight at 20.15h.

NOVEMBER, 2014:

DER KOCH
The movie "Der Koch" will be in cinemas on November, 27th 2104 in Germany.
The soundtrack will be available on November, 28th.

KOMMISSARIN LUCAS
Started to work on the filmmusic for two TV crime thrillers of the series "Kommissarin Lucas", they will be aired on German TV (ZDF) in 2015.

"BASTARD" ON TV
Bastard will be screened in "SAT3" on November 11th. Watch if you missed it....

OCTOBER, 2014:

BLACKTAPE
Started working on the music for an interesting movie about the history of German Hip-Hop from the 80ies till today.

INTERVIEW "WELT KOMPAKT" 24.10.2014
An nice little interview in "Welt Kompakt" (only in German) in occasion of
Sven Väth's 50ies Birthday (click on picture to enlarge)

MARCH, 2014:

DER KOCH
Endmix of the movie, always exciting. In cinemas in Germany in November 2014, in Suisse in September 2014.

FEBRUARY, 2014:

BASTARD
Antonia Lindemann won the "Preis der deutschen Filmkritik" (Award of the German Film Critics Association) for her outstanding performance as "Mathilda". Congratulations!

JANUARY 15th, 2014:

BASTARD NOMINATiONS
Bastard has been nominated in three categories for the "Preis der deutschen Filmkritik" (Award of the German Film Critics Association) for Best camera, best director's debut and best actress.
It will be awarded on the Berlinale on the 10th of February, fingers crossed!

DECEMBER 11th, 2013:

BASTARD ON TV
Tonight, 22.00h, SWR

bastard

DECEMBER 2013:

DER KOCH
Working with B-Zet on the music for "Der Koch". Preparing notation for the string recordings...

der koch noten

NOVEMBER 2013:

INTERVIEW
Nice feature in "Frankfurter Neue Presse" newsmag (in German only).
Click here to see the article.

SEPTEMBER 2013:

MOMENTUM

I am very honored to be nominated in the category BEST MUSIC at the
NEWPORT INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (UK)

Also very exciting: MOMENTUM won at the NEW YORK SHORT FILM FESTIVAL (Best Student Film Award) and won two awards at the acclaimed SAN FRANCISCO DANCE FILM FESTIVAL ("Best Student Award" and "Best Screendace Award").

See all awards and infos (and the movie!) about the film on the Momentum website.

Meanwhile the short movie has been featured on "Vimeo Staff Picks" on Vimeo.com and as "Short of the week" on shortoftheweek.com. Till today the movie has reached around 90.000 clicks on Vimeo.

AUGUST 2013:

STARTING ON SCORE TO "DER KOCH"
Started working on a new score for the movie "Der Koch" which is directed by Ralf Huettner (Vincent will meer). It's a film adaption of the same titled besteller-book by Martin Suter and will be in cinemas next year after summer.

MAY 2013:

MOMENTUM. Online!
The internationally multi-awarded short-movie is now online on vimeo.
I can warmly recommend watching it: www.borisseewald.de/momentum
There you'll find also a link to the free-download of my original soundtrack!

APRIL 2013:

BASTARD SOUNDTRACK
The highly acclaimed movie BASTARD with Martina Gedeck and Markus Krojer will be in cinemas April 18th 2013. The original soundtrack with the music by Stevie B-Zet and me is available now on iTunes, Amazon, etc.

Have a sneak preview here:

MARCH 2013:

MOMENTUM

The awarded shortmovie by Boris Seewald is still screened on several national and international festivals. It will be online and viewable in April '13 after the "Let's all be free" festival in London!
Awards so far:
1st Prize Cinedans 2013 - Dance on Screen
1st Prize Dance Film Festival Luzern 2013
Prädikat: Besonders Wertvoll + Short Film of the Month February
New Vision International FIlmfestival 2013: Best experimental short film

FEBRUARY 2013:

CARGO CITY (www.cargocitymusic.com)

The new album "Talking to myself", wich I have produced, will be released on March 22nd and the band will be on tour in April 2013. The Video to the single "Me and my headphones" can be watched here on Youtube.

NOVEMBER 2012:

CARGO CITY

Working on new CARGO CITY Album. Release will be in March 2013.

SEPTEMBER 2012:

PROJECTS

Have been working on TV scores and several projects this year. Also finished scoring the new amazing short movie "Momentum" from Boris Seewald which will be online soon. Be updated via Momentum's Facebook-site.

MAY 2012:

AUSGERECHNET SIBIRIEN
May 1o, premiere of "Ausgerechnet Sibirien" (with Joachim Krøl, Armin Rohde, Yulya Men, Vladimir Burlakoy a.o.) in Berlin.

THE FEAST VIDEO
The video from "THE FEAST" by Boris Seewald won the 2nd jury price at the arte shortfilm-festival. watch here.

FEBRUARY 2012:

BVR CAMPAIGN (Commercial)
Finished on of my rare Advertising jobs, the new BVR campaign (Bundesverband der deutshcen Volksbanken) , including Juergen Klopp and others.

AUSGERECHNET SIBIRIEN
Finished the music on "Ausgerechnet Sibirien". With actors Joachim Kròl, Katja Riemann and others. Collaboration with Stevie B-Zet with whom I did score and most of the songs of the movie.
In cinemas on may 2012. Trailer: www.ausgerechnetsibirien.de

My most used instrument during the time making the music to the movie, it's quite heavy weighted if you're not used to...

Akkordeon

OCTOBER, 2011:

BASTARD
"Bastard" was the opening movie for the 45th Annual Hofer Filmtage (Germanys biggest filmfestival for young and new German movies).
It was also the premiere of the highly acclaimed psycho-drama-thriller by Carsten Unger.

APRIL, 2011:

"VINCENT WILL MEER" GETS "DEUTSCHER FILMPREIS"-AWARD

"Vincent will meer" won Best Film and Best Actor prizes at the 61st Annual German Film Academy Awards (Deutscher Filmpreis 2011)! The movie also will be screened in the United Staes and in Australia.

MARCH, 2011:

CARGO CITY, new album

Over the last months I produced the new Cargo City album ("Dance/Sleep").
I personally think it's fantastic, the band really has grown and developed over the last years. Release will be in April, 15th 2011. www.cargocitymusic.com

FEBRUARY, 2011:

"KOMISARIN LUCAS" (TV)

Finished the filmmusic to "Komissarin Lucas 15 - Gier" with Stevie B-Zet which will be on TV (ZDF) on June 6th. Directed by Ralf Hüttner ("Vincent will meer").

THE FEAST - VIDEO
The video from Boris to "the Feast" from my latest solo-album (see below) has been showed on lots of short-film festivals during the fashion weeks etc and was highly acclaimed.

DECEMBER, 2010:

BASTARD (movie)

The filmmusic to the movie "Bastard" has just been finished. A great modern filmed thriller-drama with Martina Gedeck, Hans Zischler and others wich will be in cinemas next year. Together with Stevie B-Zet I've done the score including the songs. A very modern electro-progressive soundtrack

DECEMBER, 2010:

LIVE-PERFORMANCE.
On the 1st of December I will play live (piano solo) at the Planetarium Hamburg as guest from "L'abstrait voyage" with Raphael Marionnau. It will be exciting to play during the famous star and light/lazer show of the Planetarium.

NOVEMBER, 2010:

Video "The Feast" from album "Wunderland"

This lovely video was made by Boris Seewald, www.borisseewald.com

OCTOBER, 2010:

WUNDERLAND

I'll do some rare and special live permormances during the release time of my solo-album. First one will be on Dec 1st '10 in Hamburg at the "Planetarium"

SEPTEMBER, 2010:

WUNDERLAND Soloalbum finished and release-date is fixed

I'm very happy to announce that my soloalbum "WUNDERLAND" is eventually finished and will be released in November 19th, 2010.

CARGO CITY
Working on the the next album from Cargo City which will be released in April 2011. www.myspace.com/cargocity

AUGUST, 2010:

VINCENT WILL MEER

More than 1,5 million people watched thew movie. It turned out to be the surprising movie-hit of the year in Germany.

JULY, 2010:

Producing some tracks for German artist Francisca Urio. Her album will be released in 2011.

APRIL 28th, 2010:

"VINCENT WILL MEER" enters position two

The touching roadmovie "Vincent will meer" just entered the 2nd place in the German moviecharts. Director Ralf Huettner accomplished the tightrope walk between the tragic story of three people in therapy treatment and lots of funny moments on their escape to the italian sea.

vincent will meer

The soundtrack to the movie is out since Aptil 16th 2010.

APRIL 15th, 2010:

HEGEMUND - "Nuit Blanche"

Collaboration from G.Tollmann & R.Hildenbeutel. Albumrelease 16th of April 2010. More under www.HEGEMUND.com
Video by Robin Derrick:

DECEMBER 2009:

Working on the filmmusic" for "Vincent will meer. The movie will be in cinema in April 2010, more infos coming soon.

Recording my next solo album, string recordings are in good progress.

Aleen (www.Aleenmusik.de) performs the title-song of the new daily "Eine wie keine". The single "Weisst du was Liebe ist" is out on Dec, 4th.

OCTOBER 2009:

You can watch "What a Witch" now online on the homepage:
What a Witch

SEPTEMBER 2009:

ALEEN
Working on Aleen´s debut album (colab. with Stevie B-Zet)

Having good progress on my soloalbum. But release not before 2010...

JULY 2009:

Have done music for the short movie "What a Witch". Premier screening: 43 Lancaster Square, London. 25th of July.

JANUARY 2009:

MOVING STUDIO

Studio and office move has been finished.
Bye Bye Offenbach, Hello Frankfurt.

		News & updates: FEBRUARY 2015: "INTERVIEW" MAGAZINE, MARCH ISSUE JANUARY, 2015: KOMMISSARIN LUCAS Working on the score for two episodes of the German TV thriller "Kommissarin Lucas". DECEMBER, 2014: REMIX FOR "FRED BANANA COMBO" Started remixing a new track of "Fred Banana Combo", a German cult Kraut-Rock band from the 70ies, they are releasing some new and old material in 2015. RADIO MIX "FAHRENHAIDT" I worked on the radio mix for the single "Frozen Silence" of the project "Fahrenhaidt" (ELECTROLA). The track will be released in February 2015. VERBOTENE LIEBE After working the last three years on the score for the daily TV show "Verbotene Liebe" (ARD), which has been an intense challenge, exciting and excausting at the same time, the daily series is now turning into a weekly format which I look forward to scoring as this means more time for other projects again. "AUSGERECHNET SIBIRIEN" ON TV The movie "Ausgerechnet Sibirien" will be screened on Arte TV tonight at 20.15h. NOVEMBER, 2014: DER KOCH The movie "Der Koch" will be in cinemas on November, 27th 2104 in Germany. The soundtrack will be available on November, 28th. KOMMISSARIN LUCAS Started to work on the filmmusic for two TV crime thrillers of the series "Kommissarin Lucas", they will be aired on German TV (ZDF) in 2015. "BASTARD" ON TV Bastard will be screened in "SAT3" on November 11th. Watch if you missed it.... OCTOBER, 2014: BLACKTAPE Started working on the music for an interesting movie about the history of German Hip-Hop from the 80ies till today. INTERVIEW "WELT KOMPAKT" 24.10.2014 An nice little interview in "Welt Kompakt" (only in German) in occasion of Sven Väth's 50ies Birthday (click on picture to enlarge) MARCH, 2014: DER KOCH Endmix of the movie, always exciting. In cinemas in Germany in November 2014, in Suisse in September 2014. FEBRUARY, 2014: BASTARD Antonia Lindemann won the "Preis der deutschen Filmkritik" (Award of the German Film Critics Association) for her outstanding performance as "Mathilda". Congratulations! JANUARY 15th, 2014: BASTARD NOMINATiONS Bastard has been nominated in three categories for the "Preis der deutschen Filmkritik" (Award of the German Film Critics Association) for Best camera, best director's debut and best actress. It will be awarded on the Berlinale on the 10th of February, fingers crossed! DECEMBER 11th, 2013: BASTARD ON TV Tonight, 22.00h, SWR DECEMBER 2013: DER KOCH Working with B-Zet on the music for "Der Koch". Preparing notation for the string recordings... NOVEMBER 2013: INTERVIEW Nice feature in "Frankfurter Neue Presse" newsmag (in German only). Click here to see the article. SEPTEMBER 2013: MOMENTUM I am very honored to be nominated in the category BEST MUSIC at the NEWPORT INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (UK) Also very exciting: MOMENTUM won at the NEW YORK SHORT FILM FESTIVAL (Best Student Film Award) and won two awards at the acclaimed SAN FRANCISCO DANCE FILM FESTIVAL ("Best Student Award" and "Best Screendace Award"). See all awards and infos (and the movie!) about the film on the Momentum website. Meanwhile the short movie has been featured on "Vimeo Staff Picks" on Vimeo.com and as "Short of the week" on shortoftheweek.com. Till today the movie has reached around 90.000 clicks on Vimeo. AUGUST 2013: STARTING ON SCORE TO "DER KOCH" Started working on a new score for the movie "Der Koch" which is directed by Ralf Huettner (Vincent will meer). It's a film adaption of the same titled besteller-book by Martin Suter and will be in cinemas next year after summer. MAY 2013: MOMENTUM. Online! The internationally multi-awarded short-movie is now online on vimeo. I can warmly recommend watching it: www.borisseewald.de/momentum There you'll find also a link to the free-download of my original soundtrack! APRIL 2013: BASTARD SOUNDTRACK The highly acclaimed movie BASTARD with Martina Gedeck and Markus Krojer will be in cinemas April 18th 2013. The original soundtrack with the music by Stevie B-Zet and me is available now on iTunes, Amazon, etc. Have a sneak preview here: MARCH 2013: MOMENTUM The awarded shortmovie by Boris Seewald is still screened on several national and international festivals. It will be online and viewable in April '13 after the "Let's all be free" festival in London! Awards so far: 1st Prize Cinedans 2013 - Dance on Screen 1st Prize Dance Film Festival Luzern 2013 Prädikat: Besonders Wertvoll + Short Film of the Month February New Vision International FIlmfestival 2013: Best experimental short film FEBRUARY 2013: CARGO CITY (www.cargocitymusic.com) The new album "Talking to myself", wich I have produced, will be released on March 22nd and the band will be on tour in April 2013. The Video to the single "Me and my headphones" can be watched here on Youtube. NOVEMBER 2012: CARGO CITY Working on new CARGO CITY Album. Release will be in March 2013. SEPTEMBER 2012: PROJECTS Have been working on TV scores and several projects this year. Also finished scoring the new amazing short movie "Momentum" from Boris Seewald which will be online soon. Be updated via Momentum's Facebook-site. MAY 2012: AUSGERECHNET SIBIRIEN May 1o, premiere of "Ausgerechnet Sibirien" (with Joachim Krøl, Armin Rohde, Yulya Men, Vladimir Burlakoy a.o.) in Berlin. THE FEAST VIDEO The video from "THE FEAST" by Boris Seewald won the 2nd jury price at the arte shortfilm-festival. watch here. FEBRUARY 2012: BVR CAMPAIGN (Commercial) Finished on of my rare Advertising jobs, the new BVR campaign (Bundesverband der deutshcen Volksbanken) , including Juergen Klopp and others. AUSGERECHNET SIBIRIEN Finished the music on "Ausgerechnet Sibirien". With actors Joachim Kròl, Katja Riemann and others. Collaboration with Stevie B-Zet with whom I did score and most of the songs of the movie. In cinemas on may 2012. Trailer: www.ausgerechnetsibirien.de My most used instrument during the time making the music to the movie, it's quite heavy weighted if you're not used to... OCTOBER, 2011: BASTARD "Bastard" was the opening movie for the 45th Annual Hofer Filmtage (Germanys biggest filmfestival for young and new German movies). It was also the premiere of the highly acclaimed psycho-drama-thriller by Carsten Unger. APRIL, 2011: "VINCENT WILL MEER" GETS "DEUTSCHER FILMPREIS"-AWARD "Vincent will meer" won Best Film and Best Actor prizes at the 61st Annual German Film Academy Awards (Deutscher Filmpreis 2011)! The movie also will be screened in the United Staes and in Australia. MARCH, 2011: CARGO CITY, new album Over the last months I produced the new Cargo City album ("Dance/Sleep"). I personally think it's fantastic, the band really has grown and developed over the last years. Release will be in April, 15th 2011. www.cargocitymusic.com FEBRUARY, 2011: "KOMISARIN LUCAS" (TV) Finished the filmmusic to "Komissarin Lucas 15 - Gier" with Stevie B-Zet which will be on TV (ZDF) on June 6th. Directed by Ralf Hüttner ("Vincent will meer"). THE FEAST - VIDEO The video from Boris to "the Feast" from my latest solo-album (see below) has been showed on lots of short-film festivals during the fashion weeks etc and was highly acclaimed. DECEMBER, 2010: BASTARD (movie) The filmmusic to the movie "Bastard" has just been finished. A great modern filmed thriller-drama with Martina Gedeck, Hans Zischler and others wich will be in cinemas next year. Together with Stevie B-Zet I've done the score including the songs. A very modern electro-progressive soundtrack DECEMBER, 2010: LIVE-PERFORMANCE. On the 1st of December I will play live (piano solo) at the Planetarium Hamburg as guest from "L'abstrait voyage" with Raphael Marionnau. It will be exciting to play during the famous star and light/lazer show of the Planetarium. NOVEMBER, 2010: Video "The Feast" from album "Wunderland" This lovely video was made by Boris Seewald, www.borisseewald.com OCTOBER, 2010: WUNDERLAND I'll do some rare and special live permormances during the release time of my solo-album. First one will be on Dec 1st '10 in Hamburg at the "Planetarium" SEPTEMBER, 2010: WUNDERLAND Soloalbum finished and release-date is fixed I'm very happy to announce that my soloalbum "WUNDERLAND" is eventually finished and will be released in November 19th, 2010. CARGO CITY Working on the the next album from Cargo City which will be released in April 2011. www.myspace.com/cargocity AUGUST, 2010: VINCENT WILL MEER More than 1,5 million people watched thew movie. It turned out to be the surprising movie-hit of the year in Germany. JULY, 2010: Producing some tracks for German artist Francisca Urio. Her album will be released in 2011. APRIL 28th, 2010: "VINCENT WILL MEER" enters position two The touching roadmovie "Vincent will meer" just entered the 2nd place in the German moviecharts. Director Ralf Huettner accomplished the tightrope walk between the tragic story of three people in therapy treatment and lots of funny moments on their escape to the italian sea. The soundtrack to the movie is out since Aptil 16th 2010. APRIL 15th, 2010: HEGEMUND - "Nuit Blanche" Collaboration from G.Tollmann & R.Hildenbeutel. Albumrelease 16th of April 2010. More under www.HEGEMUND.com Video by Robin Derrick: DECEMBER 2009: Working on the filmmusic" for "Vincent will meer. The movie will be in cinema in April 2010, more infos coming soon. Recording my next solo album, string recordings are in good progress. Aleen (www.Aleenmusik.de) performs the title-song of the new daily "Eine wie keine". The single "Weisst du was Liebe ist" is out on Dec, 4th. OCTOBER 2009: You can watch "What a Witch" now online on the homepage: What a Witch SEPTEMBER 2009: ALEEN Working on Aleen´s debut album (colab. with Stevie B-Zet) Having good progress on my soloalbum. But release not before 2010... JULY 2009: Have done music for the short movie "What a Witch". Premier screening: 43 Lancaster Square, London. 25th of July. JANUARY 2009: MOVING STUDIO Studio and office move has been finished. Bye Bye Offenbach, Hello Frankfurt.
............................................................... Releases (click on cover to purchase): "Der Koch (OST)" "Bastard (OST)" "Hegemund - Nuit Blanche" "Ausgerechnet Sibirien (OST)" "Wunderland" "Lucy´s Dream"
RALF HILDENBEUTEL c 2015
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