Gert Wilden
Biography
Gert Wilden is best known for his scores to Taxi Lisboa by Wolf Gaudlitz, the Oscar award-winning shortfilm Quiero Ser by Florian Gallenberger and the extremely successful children`s film The Wild Soccer Bunch part 1. He also contributed a piano composition to Marc Rothemund's Oscar-nominated drama Sophie Scholl - The Final Days.
Wilden studied composition, piano and conducting at the Richard Strauß Conservatory in Munich. He worked with various renowned artists of the international jazz and rock scene, including Billy Cobham, John Lord, Brian Auger, Hermeto Pascoal, Claus Doldinger and many others. Gert Wilden composed and produced music for more than 100 fiction and documentary films - one of which is the documentary Scientists under Attack, which was nominated for the best original score at the American MAVERICK MOVIE AWARDS. His latest film scores include the music to the Klaus Härö directed European coproduction The Fencer and Karola Hattop's The Snow Queen, which was nominated twice for the Grimme Award 2015 as well as for the Austrian ROMY Award. In 2019 Gert Wilden worked on the documentary Kroos, directed by Manfred Oldenburg, and on Esther Gronenborn's latest projects Väter allein zu Haus and Ziemlich russische Freunde (WT).
In January 2016, Gert Wilden received the Bavarian Film Award in the category "Best Film Score" for his work on the Oscar-shortlisted film The Fencer and for the score for Hannas schlafende Hunde (directed by Andreas Gruber).
Film
Last Contact, 2023
Directed by Tanel Toom
Das weiße Schweigen, 2022
Directed by Esther Gronenborn
Das Leben ist kein Kindergarten - Umzugschaos, 2021
Directed by Esther Gronenborn
Zum Glück zurück, 2020
Directed by Dirk Regel
Väter allein zu Haus - Andreas, 2020
Directed by Esther Gronenborn
Ziemlich russische Freunde, 2020
Directed by Esther Gronenborn
Väter allein zu Haus - Timo, 2019
Directed by Esther Gronenborn
Kroos, 2019
Directed by Manfred Oldenburg
Who owns Nature?, 2017
Directed by Alice Agneskirchner
Ich werde nicht schweigen, 2016/17
Directed by Esther Gronenborn
Katharina Luther, 2016
Directed by Julia von Heinz
Schweigeminute, 2015
Directed by Thorsten M. Schmidt
The Fencer, 2015
Directed by Klaus Härö
Hannas schlafende Hunde, 2015
Directed by Andreas Gruber
Directed by Karola Hattop
Directed by Karsten Scheuren
Documentary
Directed by Karola Hattop
Romantic Comedy
Directed by Stefanie Gromes
Documentary
George, 2013
Directed by Joachim Lang
Herz aus Eis, 2012
Directed by Martin Gies
Melodrama
Directed by Sebastian Kutzli
Directed by Martin Gies
Melodrama
Directed by Maria von Blumenkron
Documentary
Directed by Florian Gallenberger
FILMSCORE
On occasion of the Reformation Jubilee in 2017, Julia von Heinz directed a biopic on Katharina von Bora, wife of Martin Luther.
Born of a noble but poor family, Katharina was only three when she was sent away to school and eventually took vows to become a nun. In spring 1523, with the Reformation well under way, Katharina and some of her fellow nuns escaped from their Cistercian convent. Once they arrived in Wittenberg, she was taken in by the family of none other than Lucas Cranach the Elder and soon after became Martin Luther’s companion and equal partner and a self-assured, self-confident, liberated woman at the side of her husband, with whom she had six children.
The film was first broadcast on German TV (ARD) on February 22, 2017.
FILMSCORE
Klaus Härö’s Miekkailija (The Fencer), a European coproduction which is partly based on true life events of the Estonian sportsman and coach Endel Nelis (1925-1993), is set in the early 1950s and tells the story of a young fencer who arrives in a small Estonian coastal town after fleeing the communist secret police. He becomes a fencing teacher and trains his team to prepare for the all-Soviet schools Championships.
For the filmscore, composer Gert Wilden collaborated with the German Film Orchestra Babelsberg.
Making Movies in Finland produced the film with Kickfilm in Germany and Allfilm in Estonia.
Theatrical release Germany: 17 December 2015
GOLDEN GLOBE Nominee 2016
OSCAR-Shortlist 2016 Foreign Language Film
Audience Award Arras Film Festival 2015
Estonian Film Award - Tallinn Black Nights FF
German Cinema Award for Peace 2015
FILMSCORE
A Minute’s Silence (original title Die Schweigeminute) takes place in the German fishing town Hirtshafen, where the local high school holds a memorial in honour of Stella Petersen, the school’s young English teacher. For one of her students Stella was, however, more than just a teacher, she was his first love. From 18-year-old Christian’s point of view we re-live a magical summer affair between two young people, which ends abruptly and tragically. But through death the affair changed into immortality.
A Minute’s Silence, an adaptation of the best-selling novella by Siegfried Lenz, is a tender love story of a time, and yet speaks to any time: as a story about growing up and being a grown-up, a story that contrasts encounters charged with subtle erotic tension and shimmering romance with the experience of sudden loss and painful grief.