Heiner Goebbels
composer

Born in Neustadt in the Palatinate in 1952, Heiner Goebbels has lived in Frankfurt since 1972. Certainly one of the world's most frequently performed living composers, he is also an extraordinary artist, staging his own creations. The author of musical theater, radio plays and works for musical ensembles and symphony orchestras, he is in demand by the most renowned composers, from the Ensemble Intercontemporain to the Berlin Philharmonic. He creates audacious and demanding shows, whose depth also reveals the sociologist behind the brilliant musician and the director with a streamlined aesthetic. Heiner Goebbels works with sound, musical parameters, sight and imagination, all at once, assiduously practicing the art of textual and musical collage, thus offering a multidisciplinary approach that is as assertive as it is accomplished. He began his career writing incidental music for theater, film and dance, and has been directing his own music-theater works(Ou bien le débarquement désastreux, Max Black) since the early 90s. Goebbels wrote his first opera in 2002, Paysage avec parents éloignées, for the Grand Théâtre de Genève. In 2003, he wrote "From a Diary", commissioned by the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and conducted by Simon Rattle, followed by the musical theater pieces Eraritjaritjaka and Stifters Dinge. Since 1999, he has taught at the Institute for Theatre Studies at the University of Giessen, which he directed from 2003 to 2011. Since 2006, he has also been President of the Theaterakademie der Land Hessen in Frankfurt. From 2012 to 2014, he was artistic director of the Ruhrtriennale - International Arts Festival.