About The Speaker
Fabian Kratzer
Fabian Kratzer is an award-winning composer from Nuremberg. After completing his Bachelor’s degree at the school for music studies in Düsseldorf, he graduated with honors from his Master’s course Scoring for Film, Television and Video Games at the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston/Valencia. Fabian was awarded the Jerry Goldsmith Award 2023 in April. He has also been nominated for several international awards, including the European Talent Award, the Hollywood Music in Media Award and the Hollywood Independent Music Award. Fabian has worked for well- known brands such as Unicef, Siemens, and Thyssen-Krupp, and has written music for short and feature films as well as plays. The documentary “Über Grenzen – der Film einer langen Reise”, for which he wrote the music, was released in cinemas across Germany in September 2019. Other TV films for the SWR and ARD have followed since, including the travel documentaries “Einfach Abgefahren”, “Running Wild in Afrika”, “Barfuß über den Nil” and “Hoch Hinaus”. Fabian also writes free instrumental works in addition to media music. His string quartet “In Between” was released in June 2022. Fabian is also a writer and published the first novel of his trilogy “Im Schatten des Lichts” in 2021. Part 2 followed in May 2023.