2007

Stifters Dinge - a performative Installation (Musiktheater)
by Heiner Goebbels,
Light and stage: Klaus Gruenberg , sound: Willi Bopp, programming: Hubert Machnik
Co-produced by Theatre Vidy Lausanne with T&M-Nanterre Paris, Schauspielfrankfurt,
Berliner Festspiele - Spielzeit Europa, Grand Theatre Luxembourg,Teatro Stabile Turino
co-comissioned by artangel, London,

Songs of Wars I have seen, Suite for Ensemble with words by Gertrude Stein 55min, (Composition)
commissioned by the Southbank Centre London for the London Sinfonietta and the Orchestra in the Age of Enlightenment,
conduct. Sian Edwards
UA Southbank Centre, Queen Elizabeth Hall, London July 12th, 2007

2006

Bagatellen für Violine, oligate Klarinette und Sampler, 16min (Composition)
UA Groningen by Monica Germino

Landschaft mit entfernten Verwandten (Hörstück)
nach Texten von Giordano Bruno, Gertrude Stein und Henri Michaux
mit dem Ensemble Modern, dem deutschen Kammerchor, David Bennent, Ltg. Franck Ollu
50 minuten
SWR 2

Landschaft mit entfernten Verwandten (Musiktheater)
nach Texten von Giordano Bruno, Gertrude Stein und Henri Michaux
mit dem Ensemble Modern, dem deutschen Kammerchor, David Bennent, Ltg. Franck Ollu
110 minuten
SWR 2

2005

Fields of Fire (Installation)
Videoinstallation conceived by video artist Michal Rovner (New York/Tel Aviv) in collaboration with Heiner Goebbels (sound)
Corealisation Festival d'Automne, Jeu de Paume 2005

2004

Ou bien Sunyatta (concert)
for Kora, Vocal and Big Orchestra
premiere: Bochum 2004 (performed by Bochum Symphonics, Sira and Boubakar Djebate, conductor: Steven Sloane)

Hashirigaki (audio play)
with Carlotta Engelkes, Marie Goyette and Yumiko Tanaka
based on texts by Gertrude Stein
sound: Willi Bopp and Max Federhofer
SWR, HR, 2004

Eraritjaritjaka - museé des phrases (music theatre)
words by Elias Canetti
with André Wilms and the Mondriaan Quartett
music by Shostakovitch, Mossolov, Lobanoc, Scelsi, Bryars, Ravel, Crumb, Bach and Goebbels
premiere: Lausanne

2003

Aus einem Tagebuch / From a Diary (concert)
short notes for orchestra
premiere: Berlin 2003 (performed by Berlin Philharmonics, conductor: Sir SimonRattle)

Notiz einer Fanfare (concert)
premiere: Bochum 2003 (performed by Bochumer Symphonics, conductor:Steven Sloane)

2002

Landschaft mit entfernten Verwandten / Paysage avec parents éloignés / Landscape with distant relatives (opera)
with the Ensemble Modern, the Choir of the Opera Geneve, the actor David Bennent and the baritone Georg Nigl
premiere: Geneve

Komposition als Inszenierung
texts by Heiner Goebbels and about his work
Hrsg. Wolfgang Sandner. Berlin: Henschel, 2002

2001

No Arrival No Parking (staged concert)
for the Sound City Ensemble
premiere: London, International Festival of Theatre - L.I.F.T.

Stadt Land Fluss (for ensemble)
adaptions for saxophone quartet
premiere: Frankfurt (Blindman Quartett)

Scutigeras (for ensemble)
adaptions for Piano Circus (keyboard sextet)
premiere: Oxford

2000

Oder die glücklose Landung (live audio play)
premiere: SWR Freiburg

...même soir.- (...am selben Abend.-) (staged concert)
with Les Percussions de Strasbourg
light and stage: Klaus Gruenberg
premiere: Munich, musica viva festival, September 2000

Hashirigaki (music theatre)
with Carlotta Engelkes, Marie Goyette and Yumiko Tanaka
based on texts by Gertrude Stein
light and stage: Klaus Gruenberg
costumes: Florence von Gerkan
sound: Willi Bopp
premiere: Theatre Vidy, Lausanne, September 2000

timeios (ein Bild, das wir Zeit nennen) (sound installation in 5 languages)
based on Platon's "timeios"
solely using and manipulating the speech recordings
collaboration: Frederic Voisin
IRCAM/Centre Pompidou

fin de soleil (das Ende der Sonne) (sound installation)
based on a text by Hubert Reeves
solely using and manipulating the speech recordings
collaboration: Frederic Voisin
IRCAM/Centre Pompidou

1999

Eislermaterial (audio play/radio edit)
with the Ensemble Modern and Joseph Bierbichler
SWR

Fureur et Mémoire
premiere March 1999

Les Lieux De La (ballet music)
for the Centre Choréographique National de Montpellier, Languedoc-Roussillon
choreography: Mathilde Monnier
with Alexandre Meyer (Daxophon, E-guitar)
35'

Theatre music for De val von de goden (Hollandia)

1998

Schwarz auf Weiss (audio play/radio edit)
with the Ensemble Modern
SWR

Walden (for extended orchestra)
premiere: November 1998 - tour of the Ensemble Modern Orchestra to Hannover, Berlin, Vienna, Paris, Cologne, Frankfurt (conductor: Peter Eotvos)

Remix (ballet music)
for the Centre Choréographique National du Havre, Haute-Normandie
choreography: Francois Raffinot
30'

Nachtstueck
Duo Heiner Goebbels/David Moss
6'40'

Eislermaterial (TV film)
with the Ensemble Modern and the actor Josef Bierbichler
stage and light: Jean Kalman
premiere: HR, music viva

Eislermaterial (staged concert)
with the Ensemble Modern and the actor Josef Bierbichler
stage and light: Jean Kalman
premiere: Munich, May 1998

Max Black (music theatre)
with the actor André Wilms
based on texts by Paul Valery, Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Max Black
light and stage: Klaus Gruenberg
costumes: Jasmin Andreae
premiere: Lausanne, Theatre Vidy, April 1998

1997

Schwarz auf Weiss (CD + film production)
BMG-Classics, ZDF, ARTE

Die Wiederholung (live audio play)
based upon motifs by Kierkegaard, Robbe-Grillet & Prince
TAT radio version SWR
* audio play of the year

Schliemann's Scaffolding (music theatre)
with the Greek Theatre group Diplous Eros
premiere: Volos (Greece), September 1997

Landscape with man being killed by a snake ((music) theatre sketch)
for the Documenta X; with Hans Reichel, Bastiaan Maris and Christoph Anders
light and stage: Klaus Gruenberg
premiere: Kassel, September 1997

1996

Schwarz auf Weiss / Black on White (music theatre for ensemble)
published by Ricordi
stage and light: Jean Kalman
costumes: Jasmin Andreae
premiere: Frankfurt 1996; 75'

Nichts weiter (for big orchestra)
with Gustav Gruendgens' voice
published by Ricordi
premiere: Oldenburg 1996; 12'

Industry & Idleness (popular print for orchester)
published by Ricordi
premiere: Donaueschingen 1996 (cond. Peter Eotvos); 19'

In the Basement (for violin/clarinet/cymbalon and tape), 2'30

In the Basement (version for violine und tape), 4'
from: Schwarz auf Weiss/Black on White

Ecstazoo (Soundtrack)
for animated video by Gil Alkabetz
MTV, 30''

1995

Der Horatier - Chien Romain - Roman Dogs (3 audio plays)
based upon texts by Titus Livius, Pierre Corneille, William Faulkner, Heiner Mueller
SWF, SFB, WDR
premiere: Baden-Baden 1995; 40', 35', 30'
* Radio Ostankino-Preis,* Prix Italia 1996

Die Wiederholung / The Repetition (music theatre)
based upon motifs by Kierkegaard, Robbe-Grillet & Prince; for p, e-git, sampler and actor
stage and light design: Erich Wonder
costumes: Jasmin Andreae
premiere: Frankfurt 1995; 85'

1994

J.K. - Erfahrungen im Umgang mit dem Eigene Ich (soundtrack)
director: Gebrüder Dubini

Surrogate Cities (for big orchestra, voice, mezzosopran and sampler)
published by Ricordi
premiere: Frankfurt 1994; 90'

• D&C, 11'
• Samplersuite (Sarabande/N-touch, Allemande/Les Ruines, Courante, Gigue, Bourree/Wildcard, Passacaglia, Chaconne/Kantorloops, Menuett/L'ingenieur, Gavotte/N-touch remix, Air), 30'
• Die Faust im Wappen, 7'
• In the Country of Last Things (text: Paul Auster), 5'
• Die Staedte und die Toten 4 -Argia, 4'
• 3 Horatiersongs (based upon texts by Heiner Mueller), 15'
• Surrogate (text: Hugo Hamilton), 7'

Samplersuite (ensemble version)
published by Ricordi
premiere: Frankfurt 1994

Surrogate (ensemble version)
published by Ricordi
premiere: Frankfurt 1994

In the Country of last things (ensemble version)
published by Ricordi
premiere: Frankfurt 1994

1993

Ou bien le débarquement désastreux (music theatre)
based upon texts by Joseph Conrad, Heiner Mueller, Francis Ponge
for one actor, kora, singing, trb, git, daxophon and keyboards
together with Boubakar Djebate
premiere: Theatre des Amandiers, Nanterre/Paris, 1993; 75'

Die Befreiung des Prometheus (staged concert)
version for actor, dr and sampler
premiere: Frankfurt 1993; 50'

Ludwig 1881 (soundtrack)
director: Gebrüder Dubini

Medeamaterial (theatre music)
together with Maestro Neguinho de Samba (OLODUM)
premiere: Salvador de Bahia 1993; 90'

1992

Herakles 2 (for 5 brass instruments, dr und sampler)
published by Ricordi
premiere: Paris 1992; 16'

Schliemanns Radio (audio play)
HR Frankfurt
premiere: Frankfurt 1992; 75'
* Karl Sczuka Preis 1992, * Prix Italia 1992

Schliemanns Radio (audio play, short version)
premiere: Parma 1992; 55'

1991

La Jalousie - sounds from a novel (for ensemble)
published by Ricordi
premiere: Frankfurt 1991; 20'

Roemische Hunde (music theatre)
for mezzosoprano, tenor, div. voices and sampler
premiere: TAT, Frankfurt 1991; 75'

Die Befreiung des Prometheus (staged concert)
version for actor and sampler
premiere: Marseille 1991; 45'

1990

Shadow/Landscape with Argonauts (audio play)
based upon texts by Edgar Allen Poe and Heiner Mueller
for female voice, git, dr, cl, keyboards a.o.
premiere: Boston 1990; 85'

Shadow/Landscape with Argonauts (CD version)
based upon texts by Edgar Allen Poe and Heiner Mueller
premiere: Baden-Baden 1992; 55'

Shadow/Landscape with Argonauts (synchronized version)
based upon texts by Edgar Allen Poe and Heiner Mueller
premiere: SWF, Baden-Baden 1992; 55'

Penthesilea (Kleist, theatre music)
director: Ruth Berghaus premiere: Burgtheater, Vienna 1990; 70'

Newtons Casino (music theatre)
for countertenor, Greek voice and percussions
premiere: TAT, Frankfurt 1990; 90'
* Pegasus Preis 1992

Bauhaus 1 (lottery installation)
together with Mischa Kuball

Reaching beyond (ballet music)
premiere: Frankfurt

1989

Befreiung (concertante scene)
for voice and ensemble (text: Rainald Goetz)
published by Ricordi
premiere: Frankfurt 1989, 14'

Pfingsten (soundtrack)
for a video by Norbert Meissner, 7'

Wolokolamsker Chaussee I-V (audio plays)
based upon texts by Heiner Mueller
together with Megalomaniax und We Wear The Crown
premiere: SWF, BR, Berlin 1989; 75'
* Karl Sczuka Preis 1990, * Prix Futura 1990, * Hörspielpreis der Akademie der Künste 1990

Dantons Tod (Buechner, theatre music)
director: Ruth Berghaus
premiere: Thalia Theater, Hamburg 1989; 90'

Heimweh (Jung, theatre music)
director: Ernst Stötzner
premiere: Schaubühne, Berlin 1989; 70'

Der Balkon (Genet, theatre music)
director: Axel Manthey
premiere: Schauspielhaus, Duesseldorf

together with Christoph Anders
Cassiber - 'A Face we all know'

• This was the way it was (text: Chris Cutler) 0'52
• Remember (text: Chris Cutler) 2'52
• Old Gods (text: Chris Cutler) 0'28
• 2 o'clock in the morning (text: Chris Cutler) 2'36
• Philosophy 1, 2 and 3 (text: Chris Cutler) 0'07, 0'22, 0'32
• Start the show (text: Thomas Pynchon) 3'48
• A screaming comes across the sky (text: Thomas Pynchon) 3'02
• They go in under archways (text: Thomas Pynchon) 3'12
• They have begun to move (text: Thomas Pynchon) 4'12
• Time gets faster (text: Chris Cutler) 3'33
• Its never quiet (text: Chris Cutler/Rainald Goetz) 2'26
• A screaming holds (text: Thomas Pynchon) 1'57
• I was old (text: Chris Cutler) 3'55
• The way it was (text:Chris Cutler) 5'07
• To move, 2'53

1988

Red Run - 11 songs for 11 instruments (ballett music for ensemble)
published by Ricordi
Choreography: Amanda Miller, Ballet Frankfurt
premiere: Frankfurt 1988; 30'

Red Run - 9 songs for 11 instruments (new version)
published by Ricordi
Choreography: Amanda Miller, Ballet Frankfurt
premiere: Frankfurt 1991, 18'

Looking upon the wide waste of Liquid Ebony (staged concert)
for ensemble and voices
based upon a text by E.A. Poe
premiere: ars electronica, Linz 1988, 90'

1987

Der Mann im Fahrstuhl (staged concert)
for voice, git, dr, trb, trp, sax, keyboards
premiere: Artrock Festival, Frankfurt 1987, 75'

An der Donau (opera for actors)
based upon a libretto by Herbert Achternbusch
for small orchestra, e-git, sax, dr, keyboards
premiere: Vienna, 120'

Richard III (Shakespeare, theatre music)
director: Claus Peymann
premiere: Burgtheater, Vienna ; 30'

Stein Schere Papier (ballet music)
Choreography: Amanda Miller, Ballet Frankfurt
premiere: Frankfurt , 36'

Maelstromsuedpol (soundtrack)
for a performance together with Heiner Mueller and Erich Wonder
premiere: Documenta 8, Kassel 1987; 30'

Maelstromsuedpol (new version)
premiere: ars electronica, Linz 1988; Berlin 1988; 30'

1986

Thraenen des Vaterlands (concert for dancers)
Ballet Frankfurt
premiere: Frankfurt 1986, 120'

Das Verschwinden des Ettore Majorana (soundtrack)
WDR

Edvige Scimitt (soundtrack)
ZDF

Totenfloss (Harald Mueller, theatre music)
premiere: Schauspielhaus, Stuttgart

together with Christoph Anders and Chris Cutler
Cassiber - 'Perfect Worlds'

• Dust and Ashes (text: Chris Cutler) 2'03
• Crusoes Landing (text: Daniel Defoe) 4'34
• Miraculo (text: Chris Cutler) 4'53
• Prometheus (text: Chris Cutler) 4'51
• Sleep Armed (text: Chris Cutler) 2'15
• In a Room (text: Chris Cutler) 4'56
• Todo dia, 2'35
• Orpheus Mirror, 5'02
• I tried to reach you (Text: Chris Cutler) 1'59

1985

Die Befreiung des Prometheus (audio play in 9 scenes)
based upon texts by Heiner Mueller
premiere: HR, Frankfurt, 45'
* Hörspielpreis der Kriegsblinden, * Prix Italia

Scratch (soundtrack)
directors: Heiner Goebbels and Erich Wonder
premiere: Schauspielhaus, Duesseldorf, 90'

Die Hermannschlacht (soundtrack)
director: Claus Peymann
ZDF

Sound of freedom (soundtrack)
director: Tom Carlé
ZDF

Die Hamletmaschine (soundtrack)
video director: Peter Henning

1984

Verkommenes Ufer (audio play)
text: Heiner Mueller
premiere: HR, Frankfurt 1984; 19'
* Karl Sczuka Preis

Die Familie oder Schroffenstein (TV soundtrack)
director: Hans Neuenfels
ZDF

Der Beginn aller Schrecken ist die Liebe (TV soundtrack)
director: Helke Sander
ZDF

Die Sintflut (Achternbusch, theatre music)
director: Axel Manthey
premiere: Schauspielhaus, Bochum

Die Reise nach Aschenfeld (Waechter, theatre music)
premiere: Residenztheater, Munich

Schwärmer (soundtrack)
director: Hans Neuenfels

together with Chris Cutler, Christoph Anders and Alfred Harth
Cassiber - 'The Beauty and the Beast'

• Six Rays (text: Chris Cutler) , 4'04
• Robert, 4'52
• Last Call (text: Ernst Stoetzner) , 3'01
• Ach heile mich(text: J S Bach) , 6'26
• What, 1'56
• Time is running out, 5'
• Under new Management (text: Chris Cutler) , 5'23
• Vengeance is dancing (text: Chris Cutler) , 2'14
• In einer Minute / Und ich werde nicht mehr sehen (Brecht/Eisler), 2'53
• Prendre la lune avec les dents/ At last I am free (Edwards/Rodgers), 3'29

together with Alfred Harth:

• Watch out, 1'
• Die Pekingoper (p, tsax, div. instruments, tape), 15'55
• Die Reise nach Aschenfeld (p, git, synthesizer, trb, ssax a.o.), 5'50
• Stell dir vor du bist ein Delphin (p, tsax, a.o.), 4'52
• Blitze ueber Moskau (div. instruments, tape), 4'39
• Paradies und Hoelle (p, tsx, tape) , 4'53

1983

Der Balkon (Genet, theatre music)
director: Hans Neuenfels
premiere: Schillertheater, Berlin

Alles Vergessene schreit im Traum um Hilfe (TV soundtrack)
WDR

Heinrich Penthesilea von Kleist (TV soundtrack)
director: Hans Neuenfels
ZDF

Unruhiges Requiem (tape composition)
text: Walter Mossmann, 20'18

together with Fred Frith, Chris Cutler, Alfred Harth a.o.

• Duck & Cover (for vc, tb, git, voc, dr, key, saxes), 60'
  premiere: Moers

Cripta together with Pino Masi

The Stanislavsky Method together with Chris Cutler

Copy Machine together with Franco Fabbri

Finta di Nulla together with Umberto Fiori

1982

Das Packeis Syndrom (soundtrack)
director: Peter Krieg

Die Hermannschlacht (Kleist, theatre music)
director: Claus Peymann
premiere: Schaupielhaus, Bochum 1983; 30'

Die letzte Buche (tape composition), 2'27

Schauplatz Indien (TV soundtrack)
director: Enzio Edschmid
WDR

Klaus Stoertebeker (theatre music)
director: Christof Nel
premiere: Schauspielhaus, Hamburg

So wird der Schrecken ohne Ende langsam normales Leben (tape composition), 3'39

together with Chris Cutler, Christoph Anders, Alfred Harth
Cassiber - 'Man or Monkey'

• Red Shadow (text: Chris Cutler) 3'50
• Prisoner Chorus/Chor der Gefangenen, 4'51
• Our Colourful Culture (Text: Chris Cutler) 3'05
• O Cure me (Text: J S Bach) 5'54
• This Core (text: Chris Cutler) 4'20
• Not me (Text: Chris Cutler) 3'39
• Man or Monkey, 16'39

1981

Berlin Q-damm 12.4.81 (tape composition), 5'05

Der subjektive Faktor (TV soundtrack)
director: Helke Sander
ZDF

Penthesilea (Kleist, theatre music)
director: Hans Neuenfels
premiere: Schillertheater, Berlin

Apfelboeck oder die Lilie auf dem Felde
text: Bertolt Brecht
for synthesizer, cl, harmonium, voice, chorus, 3'34

Wer zuhause bleibt, wenn der Kampf beginnt (text: Bertolt Brecht, for p, voice)

Autobahn, 0'36

Mahlzeit (text: Ernst Jandl), 2'20

Wertkauf (text: Johannes Beck), 2'18

together with Alfred Harth

• Zyklus ueber den modernen Mensch (synthesizer, p, div. saxes)
  
• Der stuerzende Mensch, 3'40
  
• Der lachende und der weinende Mensch, 1'46
  
• Der durchdrungene Mensch, 3'36
  
• Der reibungslose Mensch, 3'11
  
• Der kommunistische Mensch, 4'15
  
• Der redende und der schweigende Mensch, 2'56
• Indianer for Morgn (tape, saxophone), 2'18
• Dunkle Wolk (cembalo, tsax), 5'11
• Kein Kriegsspielzeug for Jonathan (p, tsax, tape), 4'11
• Borrough's Haiku, 2'17
• Tagesanbruch (text: Bertolt Brecht, vor organ, bass cl, voice a.o.), 4'28
• Ich, Bertolt Brecht (text: Bertolt Brecht, vor p, ssax, voice a.o.), 1'16
• Schwaechen (text: Bertolt Brecht, for vc, syn, ssax, singing), 1'12
• Morgens und abends zu lesen (text: Bertolt Brecht, for div. instruments and voice), 0'48
• Liebeslied (text: Bertolt Brecht, for div. instruments and voice), 1'26
• Abbau des Schiffes Oskawa durch die Mannschaft (text: Bertolt Brecht, for p, tsax, rhythm machine, voice), 6'26
• Es lebt eine Graefin in schwedischem Land (text: Bertolt Brecht, for cembalo, bcl, singing), 2'03
• Die Voegel warten im Winter vor dem Fenster (text: Bertolt Brecht, for p, saxophone, voice a.o.), 2'54
• Der Pflaumenbaum(text: Bertolt Brecht, for cembalo, tsax, syn, singing), 1'38
• Legende von der Entstehung des Buches Tao Te King auf dem Wege des Lao Tse in die Emigration (text: Bertolt Brecht, for acc, tsx, voice), 5'25
• Liedchen aus alter Zeit (text: Bertolt Brecht, for div. instruments and voice), 0'37
• Sonett (text: Bertolt Brecht, for git, bcl, voice a.o.), 1'25
• Deutsches Lied (text: Bertolt Brecht, for voice, singing, tape), 1'26
• 1940 (Ich befinde mich auf dem Inselchen Lidingoe) (Text: Bertolt Brecht, for p, ssax, voice), 3'35
• An die Nachgeborenen, Adresse des sterbenden Dichters an die Jugend (text: Bertolt Brecht, for voice, git, p, syn), 2'49

together with Alfred Harth, Rolf Riehm a.o.

• Die Abrazzo-Oper (music theatre)
  premiere: Ruhrfestspiele, Recklinghausen 1981

together with Alfred Harth, Christof Anders, Paul Lovens, Annemarie Roelofs

• Laendliches, 2'05
• Meinen Eltern, 2'00
• Schottendicht, 1'32
• Uhu, 1'53
• Durch den Wald, 2'46
• Knecht U, 1'34
• Tilt, 2'12

1980

Maerchen von einem der auszog das Fuerchten zu lernen (Hauff, theatre music)
premiere: Frankfurt

Marie Woyzeck (Buechner, theatre music)
director: Karge/Langhoff
premiere: Schauspielhaus, Bochum 1980

Absahnierung (theatre music)
director: Heinrich Pachl
premiere: Schauspielhaus, Koeln

Bis bald, Kalypaus, Bochum 1980

Absahnierung (theatre music)
director: Heinrich Pachl
premiere: Schauspielhaus, Koeln

Bis bald, Kalypso (for piano solo), 1'33
premiere: Frankfurt

Trotz alledem (for Blasorchester), 3'42
premiere: Frankfurt

Haelfte des Lebens (text: Hoelderlin, for Blasorchester), 2'31
premiere: Frankfurt

Ohne dass ich sagen wuerde, ich bin der neue Fuehrer (text: Kuehnen, for Blasorchester and voice), 7'46
premiere: Frankfurt

Schahmatt (music for documentary film)
director: Thomas Giefer

'improvisations on themes by Hanns Eisler' together with Alfred Harth
premiere: Frankfurt

• Vom Sprengen des Gartens (p, s-sax) , 5'35