1. Henning Lohner was born on 17 July 1961 and is a German-American composer and filmmaker.
14 Facts About Henning Lohner
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Henning Lohner is best known for his film scores written as a long-standing member of Hans Zimmer's music cooperative Remote Control Productions.
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Henning Lohner has one brother, Peter, who is a lawyer turned writer-producer for film and television.
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Henning Lohner returned to Germany to study musicology, art history, and Romanic languages at Frankfurt University, from which he graduated as Master of Arts in 1987.
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In 1985, Henning Lohner was awarded a grant for music composition at the Centre Acanthes to study with Greek composer Iannis Xenakis, who became his lifelong mentor.
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Henning Lohner became assistant to German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen in 1984; Henning Lohner was introduced to the visual media working on Stockhausen's opera Licht at La Scala in Milan.
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Henning Lohner paid homage to Zappa with the biographical art film Peefeeyatko, to which Zappa himself contributed the original score.
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Henning Lohner is a Visiting Professor at the Zurich University of the Arts in Switzerland.
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Henning Lohner is a member of the European Film Academy and the German Film Academy.
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In 1996, Henning Lohner began his career as film composer in Los Angeles at Hans Zimmer's film score company Remote Control Productions.
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Henning Lohner contributed music to Broken Arrow, The Thin Red Line, and Gladiator, and provided additional composing on The Ring and Spanglish, which received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Original Score.
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In 2012, Henning Lohner was commissioned to rearrange the theme tune of the oldest and most watched news program on German television, Tagesschau, which caused a stir in the German media; Henning Lohner wrote new compositions for all newscasts of the German principal public television channel Das Erste.
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Henning Lohner began producing and directing cultural reports for German Public Television in 1988.
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Henning Lohner has directed more than 100 short films and over 40 feature-length documentaries and teleplays, many of them portraits of influential contemporary artists such as Dennis Hopper, Benoit Mandelbrot, Gerhard Richter, Karl Lagerfeld, Brian Eno, and Abel Ferrara.