Peer Raben
Producer-composer Peer Raben's career is intrinsically linked with German New Wave filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder, with whom he collaborated on over 30 films. Raben's scores have become synonymous with some of the best of new German cinema. After working in theater, where he founded Munich's Action Theatre, Raben met Fassbinder and eventually moved into an apartment with him and actor Irm Hermann. Raben fronted the money to produce Fassbinder's gangster tale "Love is Colder Than Death" in 1969, for which he also composed the melodramatic score. He produced seven of Fassbinder's films throughout the early 1970s, memorably the mysterious family drama "Why Does Herr R. Run Amok?." He worked alongside the often abusive and tyrannical Fassbinder--with whom he had a brief affair--at a breakneck pace. Fassbinder made over 40 films--many now classics--in just 15 years. The centerpiece of both of their careers, the 14-part miniseries "Berlin Alexanderplatz," which follows the post-prison life of the hulking Franz Biberkopf between the world wars, has the distinction of being the longest narrative film ever made. After defining the maudlin tone of post-World War II Germany in "The Marriage of Maria Braun" and shocking audiences and fans with the stylized electronic score to the gay seafaring romance " Querelle," Raben carried on after Fassbinder's death, contributing frequently to German cinema. In the early 2000s he was contacted by lauded director Wong Kar-wai, who hired him to score his love-and-sex drama " Eros."
Filmography
Movies
Credit | |||||
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87% |
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2046 | Original Music | $261.5K | 2004 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Off Season | Original Music | - | 1992 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Cheaters | Original Music | - | 1984 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | L'air du crime | Le chef d'orchestre (Character) | - | 1984 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Image of Dorian Gray in the Yellow Press | Original Music | - | 1984 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Swing | Original Music | - | 1983 |
93% |
|
Lola | Original Music | - | 1982 |
65% |
|
Querelle | Original Music | - | 1982 |
76% |
|
Veronika Voss | Original Music | - | 1982 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Wizard of Babylon | Original Music | - | 1982 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Day of the Idiots | Original Music | - | 1981 |
65% |
|
Despair | Original Music | - | 1979 |
No Score Yet |
|
Ticket of No Return | Original Music | - | 1979 |
92% |
|
The Third Generation | Original Music | - | 1979 |
93% |
|
The Marriage of Maria Braun | Original Music | - | 1978 |
75% |
|
In a Year of 13 Moons | Music | - | 1978 |
40% |
|
The Stationmaster's Wife | Original Music | - | 1977 |
75% |
|
Satan's Brew | Original Music | - | 1976 |
83% |
|
Chinese Roulette | Original Music | - | 1976 |
100% |
|
I Only Want You to Love Me | Original Music | - | 1976 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Shadow of Angels | Original Music | - | 1976 |
100% |
|
Mother Kusters Goes to Heaven | Original Music | - | 1976 |
86% |
|
Fox and His Friends | Original Music | - | 1975 |
No Score Yet |
|
Fear of Fear | Original Music | - | 1975 |
63% | No Score Yet | Tenderness of the Wolves | Original Music | - | 1973 |
84% |
|
Beware of a Holy Whore | Original Music | - | 1971 |
100% |
|
Whity |
Producer, Original Music |
- | 1971 |
50% |
|
Recruits in Ingolstadt | Original Music | - | 1971 |
No Score Yet |
|
Rio das Mortes |
Producer, Original Music |
- | 1971 |
79% |
|
The American Soldier |
Producer, Original Music |
- | 1970 |
67% |
|
The Niklashausen Journey | Original Music | - | 1970 |
70% |
|
Love Is Colder Than Death |
Unknown (Character), Producer, Original Music |
- | 1969 |
100% |
|
Katzelmacher |
Producer, Original Music |
- | 1969 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Bridegroom, the Actress and the Pimp |
Willi / |
- | 1968 |