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HEINER GOEBBELS, Composer, director - in the 70s, he mostly composed theatre music, film music and ballet music. In the middle of the 80s, Goebbels began composing and directing audio plays of his own, most of them based on texts by Heiner Mueller. Since 1988 Heiner Goebbels composes chamber music for the Ensemble Modern (Red Run, Befreiung, La Jalousie) and the Ensemble intercontemporain (Herakles 2). In 1994 followed Surrogate Cities, a9O minutes composition for big orchestra commissioned by the Alte Oper Frankfurt and performed of the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie, conductor: Peter Rundel. 1996, as a commission for Donaueschingen, he composed industry & Idleness (premiere by Radiokamerorkest Hilversum, conductor: Peter Eotvos). Walden for extended orchestra was created in 1998 for the first tour of the newly founded Ensemble Modern Orchestra (conductor: Peter Eotvos). Invitations to nearly all major theatre, new music, jazz and performing arts festivals and tours with ail his ensembles, the productions for stage and the portrait concerts of the Ensemble Modern got him to more than 30 countries in the last 15 years. Lately about 10 CD productions were published. In 1993 the music theatre piece Ou bien le débarquement désastreux (Or the hapless landing) was directed by him in Paris. In 1995 his music theatre piece Die Wiederholung (The Repetition, La Reprise - based upon motifs by Kierkegaard, Robbe-Grillet and Prince) was created in Frankfurt (Theater am Turm). His music theatre piece Schwarz auf Weiss (Black on White) was created at the TAT Frankfurt in 1996 for 18 musicians of the Ensemble Modern. It was filmed for Arte, recorded for BMG and the SWF and is still being shown in Europe and overseas. His music theatre piece Max Black with André Wilms premiered in April 1998 in Lausanne, and together with the Ensemble Modern he created a tribute to Hanns Eislers' 100th anniversary called Eislermaterial - a staged concert that was first shown in Munich in May 1998. Nearly all of his music theatre works have been performed more than 50 times on the major music and theatre festivals in Europe as well as in the USA, Japan, Australia and Singapore. 1994/95: guest professor at "Institut für Angewandte Theaterwissenschaft" University Giessen. 1 997/98: guest professor at "Musikhochschule Karlsruhe - Kompositionsklasse". From April 1999 on, Heiner Goebbels works as a professor at the Institute for Applied Theatre Studies, which is situated in the Justus Liebig University in Giessen (Germany). He will be in charge of several seminars and artistic projects. Since 2006 Heiner Goebbels is President of the Theater Academy Hessen. In 2002 Heiner Goebbels premiered his first opera Landschaft mit entfernten Verwandten / Paysage avec parents éloignés / Landscape with distant relatives. In the context of his 50th birthday Heiner Goebbels released his first book Komposition als Inszenierung, In 2003 Heiner Goebbels premiered his orchestra piece From A Diary as a commission of the Berlin Philharmonics / conductor Sir Simon Rattle. After Max Black (1998, with André Wilms), La Reprise (1999) and Hashirigaki (2000), Heiner Goebbels came back for the 4th time in 2004 at Théâtre Vidy Lausanne with Eraritjaritjaka - musée des phrases after words by Elias Canetti, with André Wilms and the Mondriaan Quartet, string quartet from Am-