Now on Netflix · from 30 October 2026

Das Geschenk

My score for the new Netflix comedy directed by Vanessa Jopp and produced by Eric Bouley, starring Jeanne Goursaud, Edin Hasanović and Heiner Lauterbach.

It is also where the Stingbow was born: I invented it while writing this score, and it already sings on several tracks of the soundtrack. The soundtrack album is released on the same day, 30 October.

About

I have always been looking for freedom in music – which is why improvisation has always been my way. For me that is a kind of Zen path: sharpening my tools until I am ready for anything. Technique, harmony, melody, composition, counterpoint – everything I learn makes me freer. Searching for my own voice also meant learning to sing.

The world is complicated enough. So I keep my music clear and simple – to find the greatest freedom within my limits.

I studied jazz guitar at the Cologne University of Music and have been writing music for film and television since the early 1990s, including several Tatort episodes. In 2015, the song “Here in the Rain” from Lügen und andere Wahrheiten won the German Film Music Award for best song in a film. At my studio loyproduction, I work with a trusted team of musicians, arrangers and specialists on film music, sound design and audio branding.

My newest chapter is the Stingbow – a bowed guitar that sounds somewhere between guitar, cello and voice.

Now

On my desk