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Martin Böttcher is a German composer and conductor who is best known for his work in film music. He has composed music for over 200 films, including the popular German television series Der Alte. He has also composed music for several operas, ballets, and symphonies.
Böttcher was born in Berlin in 1927. He studied music at the Berlin Conservatory and the University of Music and Theatre in Leipzig. He began his career as a composer in the 1950s, writing music for films and television. He has composed music for films such as The Bridge at Remagen, The Odessa File, and The Spy Who Came in from the Cold.
Böttcher has won numerous awards for his work, including the German Film Award for Best Music in 1965 and the Bavarian Film Award for Best Music in 1967. He was also awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1998.
Böttcher is still active in the music industry, and continues to compose music for films and television. He is also a professor at the University of Music and Theatre in Leipzig.
| Popular As |
Martin Hermann Böttcher |
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composer,music_department,soundtrack |
| Age |
92 years old |
| Zodiac Sign |
Gemini |
| Born |
17 June, 1927 |
| Birthday |
17 June |
| Birthplace |
Berlin, Germany |
| Date of death |
19 April, 2019 |
| Died Place |
Westerrönfeld, Germany |
| Nationality |
Germany |
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Who Is Martin Böttcher's Wife?
His wife is Anneliese Kaplan (? - 19 April 2019) ( his death) ( 2 children)
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Martin Böttcher Net Worth
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Timeline
On 27 June 2013 Martin Böttcher was honoured in Munich with the Look & Listen - Telepool-BR-Music-Award.
On 28 May 2009 Martin Böttcher was honoured in Berlin with the Deutsche Musikautorenpreis (German music authors' award), category "composition for films".
On 25 January 2004 Martin Böttcher was awarded in St. Moritz the German Bundesverdienstkreuz (Federal Cross of Merit) for his lifetime achievement.
The "master of tunes" was honoured in a very special way in 2002: as a jury member (Europäischer Förderpreis - a European talent award) Martin Böttcher represented Germany at that year's European Biennale for Film Music in Bonn.
On 15 April 2000 Martin Böttcher received the "Edgar Wallace Award in Gold" for his merits in German crime movies.
In 1998, the composer once more conquered the German charts. A band from Cologne, the "Superboys", scored a hit with a vocal version of the "Winnetou-Melodie" from the second Winnetou film. Their song "Ich wünscht' du wärst bei mir" ("Wish U Were Here") even reached the top of the ZDF television charts. Another cover version by the Czech group Tezkej Pokondr called "Vinetu" even received double-platinum in their country in March 2000.
The continuous success of the Karl May melodies was the reason why, at the Karl May Festival in Bad Segeberg in 1997, Schacht Music Publishers honoured the tremendously successful composer with a "special award".
On 9 October 1995 the Deutsche Filmmusikpreise (German film music awards) were awarded at the Bonner Bundeskunsthalle. Martin Böttcher was honoured with the prize for his "outstanding contribution to German film history, which shows in an abundant musical oeuvre"; he was the very first person to receive this prize (in later years also Mikis Theodorakis and Ennio Morricone were among the recipients).
In the 1990s, among others, Air Albatros took off - a very special project for the composer, as he could pay a musical tribute to his passion for flying. And when Pierre Brice mounted his horse again as Winnetou for the ZDF television station, he was, of course, accompanied by a score by Martin Böttcher.
Martin Böttcher composed more evergreen themes for TV-series, such as It can't always be caviar (1977), Schöne Ferien (Beautiful holidays) or Forsthaus Falkenau.
In the 1970s Martin Böttcher wrote a number of successful scores, among them music for the TV series Sonderdezernat K1 and numerous episodes of Der Alte and Derrick, which are also known outside Germany.
Max the Pickpocket (1962) contained the track "Hawaii Tattoo" (recorded by "The Waikikis"), which Böttcher had written under the pseudonym of Michael Thomas. Within a short time, this theme became famous all over the world, and even received attention in the American Billboard charts.
With the German film industry declining at the end of the 1960s Martin Böttcher increasingly focused on working for German TV, which benefited from his talents in many films and series produced for TV.
Already his next movie Teenage Wolfpack (1956), was a great artistic success for himself. He becomes one of the busiest composers for Cinema and TV in Germany.
In the year 1955 he wrote the music for his first film Der Hauptmann und sein Held (1955).
In 1954, Böttcher left the music stand and turned to manuscript paper. His talent did not escape the attention of the German film industry, which was just gaining new momentum at that time.
In 1950, Böttcher, who liked to work on new sounds, recorded the first trick guitar pieces in Germany in the style of Les Paul.
Böttcher was born 1927 in Berlin/Germany. After the second world war the young Böttcher began as solo guitarist at Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk.
