European Film Award recipient Dascha Dauenhauer is one of Germany’s most prominent film composers.

The films she scored are shown internationally at film festivals. Jibril (by Henrika Kull) had its premiere at Berlin International Film Festival, just like Burhan Qurbani’s celebrated film Berlin Alexanderplatz. Evolution by Hungarian director Kornél Mundruczó was selected for Cannes International Film Festival 2021.

In 2023, the biopic Golda by Israeli director Guy Nattiv, starring Dame Helen Mirren as Golda Meir, premiered at Berlin International Film Festival, alongside the international 8-episode TV production The Swarm, the most expensive German TV series of all times created by Frank Doelger. Her score for Golda was nominated at the 2023 World Soundtrack Awards as Discovery of the Year.

2023 also saw the premiere of Guy Nattiv and Zar Amir Ebrahimi’s project Tatami starring Cannes Best Actress award winner Zar Emir Ebrahimi (Holy Spider) at Venice Film Festival with a score by Dascha. Her most recent work includes the soundtracks for Jan-Ole Gerster’s Islands as well as Burhan Qurbani’s highly anticipated film No Beast. So Fierce, both with world premieres at Berlinale 2025.

Dascha has received nominations for the German Film Music Award and the German Television Award. In 2020, her music for Berlin Alexanderplatz won her the German Film Award, the European Film Award for Best Original Score as well as a nomination for the Discovery of the Year Award at the World Soundtrack Awards. In 2022, her soundtrack for Alex Eslam’s film Souls was honored with the Best Music Award at CANNESERIES and she received the German Music Authors’ Prize (Category Audiovisual Media).

Dascha began playing the piano at the age of five and soon took piano and composition lessons. She studied piano at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler, received her diploma in Music Theory from the University of the Arts Berlin and completed her Master of Film Music at the Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf. Since then, she has worked on numerous cinema productions as a composer and music producer. Dascha’s musical oeuvre spans a large variety of works, including chamber music and solo concertos. Her first orchestral piece "Sinfonietta" was premiered at the Philharmonie Berlin in 2004.