About The Speaker
Niki Reiser
Speaker
After classical flute training, Niki Reiser studied jazz and classical music with a focus on film music at the Berklee School of Music in Boston from 1980 to 1984. In Basel, he deepened his training with studies in composition. Reiser had already composed film music in the USA, and after meeting Dani Levy he wrote the film music for his debut film “Du mich auch” (1986). He also composed for Levy in the following years, for example for “RobbyKallePaul” (1988) and “Silent Night” (1996, Bavarian Film Award). In 1997, Reiser received the German Film Award for the first time for the music to Caroline Link's “Jenseits der Stille”; the soundtrack sold over 200,000 copies in Germany alone. Reiser received further German Film Awards in 1999 for “Meschugge” and “Pünktchen und Anton”, in 2001 for “Nirgendwo in Afrika” by Caroline Link and in 2005 for Dani Levy's “Alles auf Zucker”. After a Bavarian Film Award for the drama “Liebesleben” by Maria Schrader in 2008, Niki Reiser was again awarded the German Film Award in 2009 for another collaboration with Caroline Link, “Im Winter ein Jahr”. In the following years, Reiser worked with Dani Levy again on “Das Leben ist zu lang” (2010), but also increasingly took on soundtracks for children's and youth films, such as “Die Abenteuer des Huck Finn” (2012) and “Das kleine Gespenst” (2013). In 2013, he ventured into African terrain for a second time with Caroline Link for the father-son drama “Exit Marrakech”. In 2015, Niki Reiser, together with Sebastian Pille, was again nominated for the German Film Award for Giulio Ricciarelli's drama about the prehistory of the Auschwitz trials “Im Labyrinth des Schweigens”. Niki Reiser has been on the board of the German Film Academy since it was founded in 2003.