»If there‘s any one person in the world who‘s really influenced my work, then it‘s Chris Marker. For once, many years ago, when I came out of a cinema after seeing Sans Soleil, I knew that I too wanted to compose differently. «
–Ulrike Haage
It only needs a few notes to get the idea behind Ulrike Haage‘s album in:finitum (2011). The notes set themselves apart from other sounds, reform and become autonomous in their repetition. In her compositions, then, she systematically gives lots of space to the individual note – it its clearest pristine form. Indeed, on her first two solo albums, SÈlavy (2004) und Weißes Land (2006), she gives herself up to the search of the perfect sound – supported there by electronics, drums and cellos. At the concert in Dortmund, Ms Haage will be accompanied by Eric Schaefer on drums and she will be presenting some of her compositions for the documentary film Zwiebelfische – Jimmy Ernst, Glückstadt New York. They were issued in November 2010 as part of a series entitled Edition Filmmusik – Komponiert in Deutschland. The series is co-published by the Dortmund | Cologne International Film Festival and film-dienst, the German film magazine. Ulrike Haage, a unique performer now resident in Berlin, has enjoyed close ties with the Women‘s Film Festival for some years now. She has in the past given a live performance of her radio play Ghosts of the Civil Dead and conducted a workshop on the topic of film music.
Ulrike Haage
Ulrike Haage is a composer, (jazz) pianist, sound artist, radio play writer and one of the most versatile performers in Germany. She was the pianist in the all-female big band known as Reichlich weiblich (approx: »Amply Womanly«), formed with Katharina Franck the basis of the Rainbirds pop group, has been active at theatres in Zurich, Düsseldorf and Berlin and she has worked with musicians such as Alfred Harth, FM Einheit and Phil Minton. She has also supervised productions for the radio and her audiobook publishing company Sans Soleil. In 2003, she was the first woman to be awarded the German Jazz Prize (Albert-Mangelsdorff- Preis). In 2010, at the Lübeck Nordic Film Days, Ulrike Haage was awarded the Special Music Prize for her soundtrack to the documentary film Zwiebelfische – Jimmy Ernst, Glückstadt New York (directed by Christian Bau and Arthur Dieckhoff).
