[Malte Müller]

I agree to the above! It is a mystery to me that so few of Doldinger’s film and tv works have been released besides mostly theme collections and plenty of his jazz work with his band Passport. He not only wrote for TATORT, he wrote the theme that is still in use largely unchanged besides a arrangement update – I think – from late 80s. His score to DAS BOOT should definately be mentioned.

How could I have forgotten to mention Böttcher on my film score origin post. His Karl May score are also some of my earliest film score memorires.

Peter Thomas’ is also great, he basically shared duties on the Edgar Wallaces movies with Böttcher. His score to RAUMPATROUILLE is also a classic.

CAPTAIN FUTURE is also a favorit of mine by Christian Bruhn. He also did some great so called Christmas mini series like SILAS or JACK HOLBORN.

Frank Duval I also remember from crime series. I like some of the instrumentals but not so much when he(?) sings 😉

Here a just few scores that I quite like:

Rolf Wilhelm – Die Nibelungen (the 1960s version)
Andre Matthias – The Light Thief
Hans-Werner Henze – Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum (The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum)
Chris Hülsbeck – Turrican (80s/90s Video Games which he updated a few year ago with great new arrangments)
Jürgen Knieper – Himmel über Berlin (Knieper also was the main composer for Wim Wender’s movies)
Enjott Schneider – Stalingrad
Karl-Ernst Sasse – various DEFA westerns (the Easter German counterparts of the Western Karl May westerns)

And of course there are silent movie scores like Huppertz’ METROPOLIS or DIE NIBELUNGEN. Or Wolfang Zeller’s THE ADVENTURES OF PRINCE ACHMEND (sadly no official album but two versions availble with the film).