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Volker Bertelmann

Composer / Pianist | * 1966 (58) | Kreuztal, North Rhine-Westphalia, West-Germany [now Germany]
Volker Bertelmann (born 1966) is a German composer, pianist and former rapper who mainly performs and records under the name Hauschka. He is best known for his compositions for prepared piano. He won an Academy Award and a British Academy Film Award for his work on All Quiet on the Western Front (2022). ()

Volker Bertelmann, also known as Hauschka, is an Academy Award-nominated composer, pianist and experimental musician. In 2016, Bertelmann collaborated with Dustin O'Halloran on the score for Garth Davis' Lion, which was nominated for an Academy Award, a Golden Globe and a BAFTA for Best Original Score. Since then, he has gone on to score numerous film and TV projects, among which Baltasar Kormákur's Adrift (2018), HBO mini-series Gunpowder (2018) and Showtime's Emmy-nominated TV series Patrick Melrose. Bertelmann is set to score the upcoming feature The Art of Racing in the Rain, based on the best-selling novel by Garth Stein. Beyond his work as a film composer, Bertelmann has gained recognition as a recording artist through his compositions for the prepared piano. In 2018, he signed a record deal with Sony Masterworks and he will release his first record on the label in early 2019.

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Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | Thriller | Comedies

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In 1840s England, palaeontologist Mary Anning and a young woman sent by her husband to convalesce by the sea develop an intense relationship. Despite the chasm between their social spheres and persona ...

Ammonite

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2020 | 3.5/5 | 1h 58min
Romance / Love, Drama
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A five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia; 25 years later, he sets o ...

Lion

PG-13

2016 | 4.1/5 | 1h 58min
Drama
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Paul Baumer and his friends Albert and Muller, egged on by romantic dreams of heroism, voluntarily enlist in the German army. Full of excitement and patriotic fervour, the boys enthusiastically march ...

All Quiet on the Western Front

R

2022 | 3.9/5 | 2h 27min
Drama, War
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War Sailor is a magnificent drama that tells the story of the more than 30,000 Norwegian war sailors and their families' fate during and after the Second World War. ...

War Sailor

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2022 | 4.0/5 | 2h 30min
Drama, War, History
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A critical and often humorous look at the upper class, tracking the protagonist's harrowing odyssey from a deeply traumatic childhood through adult substance abuse and, ultimately, toward recovery. ...

Patrick Melrose

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2018 | 3.8/5 | 1h per episode
Comedy, Drama
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Awards & Nominations for Volker Bertelmann

Academy Award for Best Original Score
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Movies with Volker Bertelmann as Crew(39)

Sound/Music2024 Hollywoodgate
Sound/Original Music Composer2024 Monkey Man
Sound/Original Music Composer2023 The Dive
Sound/Original Music Composer2023 One Life
Sound/Music2023 Jules
Sound/Music2023 Sörensen Catches Fire
Sound/Original Music Composer2022 Against the Ice
Sound/Original Music Composer2022 War Sailor
Sound/Original Music Composer2022 Memory of Water
Sound/Original Music Composer2022 All Quiet on the Western Front
Sound/Music Consultant2022 Ein Leben lang
Sound/Music2021 Stowaway
Sound/Music2021 Monte Verità
Sound/Original Music Composer2020 The Old Guard
Sound/Music2020 Sörensen's Fear
Sound/Original Music Composer2020 Summerland
Sound/Original Music Composer2020 Downhill
Sound/Original Music Composer2020 The Perfect Candidate
Sound/Original Music Composer2020 Ammonite
Sound/Musician2020 Ammonite
Sound/Original Music Composer2019 Hotel Mumbai
Sound/Original Music Composer2019 The Underdogs
Sound/Original Music Composer2019 Cunningham
Sound/Original Music Composer2019 The Art of Racing in the Rain
Sound/Music2019 The Space Between The Lines
Sound/Music2019 When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit
Sound/Music2018 What Doesn't Kill Us
Sound/Original Music Composer2018 Adrift
Sound/Original Music Composer2018 Different Kinds of Rain
Sound/Music2018 Ashes in the Snow
Sound/Original Music Composer2017 AlphaGo
Sound/Original Music Composer2016 In Dubious Battle
Sound/Original Music Composer2016 Lion
Sound/Original Music Composer2016 Exodus: Where I Come from Is Disappearing
Sound/Original Music Composer2015 The Boy
Sound/Original Music Composer2014 Futuro Beach
Sound/Original Music Composer2013 Wild Horses
Sound/Original Music Composer2009 Who Stole the Electric Car?
Sound/Original Music Composer2008 Act of Violence

TV Shows/Series with Volker Bertelmann as Crew(6)

Sound/Original Music Composer2023 War Sailor
Sound/Original Music Composer2023 Unwanted
Sound/Music2022 Life After Life
Sound/Original Music Composer2019 The Name of the Rose
Sound/Original Music Composer2018 Patrick Melrose
Sound/Music1970 Scene of the Crime

Full Name: Volker Bertelmann
Citizenship: Germany
Born: 1966 in Kreuztal, North Rhine-Westphalia, West-Germany [now Germany] (current age: 58 years)
Languages: German (DE), English (EN)
Record Label: Deutsche Grammophon, City Slang, Shadow Records
Other names for Volker Bertelmann (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"Hauschka" (Pseudonym)
Volker Bertelmann frequently works together with these people:
Anke Sevenich (15x, Actress)
Karl Kranzkowski (14x, Actor)
Hans-Uwe Bauer (14x, Actor)
Heinz-Werner Kraehkamp (14x, Actor)
Hans Peter Hallwachs (13x, Actor)
Marie-Lou Sellem (13x, Actress)
Dietrich Mattausch (13x, Actor)
Angelika Bartsch (13x, Actress)
Götz Schubert (12x, Actor)
Florian Bartholomäi (12x, Actor)
Karl-Heinz von Hassel (12x, Actor)
Rolf Becker (12x, Actor)
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WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:641403, Added: 10/24/2018, Last updated: 04/13/2024