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Anna Kühlein is a passionate film music composer working in Leipzig and Berlin. Her work is characterized by her ability to deeply empathize with a wide variety of stories, which is also reflected in her CV: in the feature film sector in the genres of drama, social and socio-critical, arthouse, suspense & thriller, science fiction, historical as well as the diverse world of various documentaries. She works with a variety of musical genres and instruments, using classical and acoustic instruments as well as synthetic sounds such as synthesizers. She plays with breaking listening habits and likes to leave familiar genres behind, experimenting with unfamiliar combinations, field recordings and unusual sounds - all of which make up her musical DNA.
Anna Kühlein studied music production with a focus on composition, recording technology and piano before successfully completing her master's degree in film music at the Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF in 2020.
Her most recent works include the score for Doris Dörrie's latest feature film “Freibad”, the TV film “Kanzlei Liebling Kreuzberg” by Franziska Margarete Hoenisch and the series “Was wir fürchten” by Daniel Rübesam. She also composed for the internationally successful multi-part films "Ku'damm 59" (directed by Sven Bohse, co-composed with Maurus Ronner), the third season of the youth series "Wir sind jetzt" (directed by Christian Klandt) and the thriller series "Decision Game" (directed by Benjamin Pfohl).

In the documentary film sector, Kühlein wrote the music for the highly acclaimed cinema documentary “Wem gehört mein Dorf?” (directed by Christoph Eder), which received a nomination for best documentary film at the Filmpreis 2022. She composed the score for the documentary “Anima - die Kleider meines Vaters” (directed by Uli Decker), which was awarded in the categories “Best Documentary Film” and “Audience Award Documentary Film” at the Max Ophüls Preis film festival, among others, and has received several awards to date.
She also composed the score for the German-Swiss production “Amazonen einer Großstadt” (directed by Thaïs Odermatt), which received the Swiss Film Award for Best Graduation Thesis in 2021.

Anna Kühlein was awarded with the "German Television Award - Best Music" for her score of "
Was wir fürchten" in 2024. has received several nominations in the “Best Film Music” category at the Max Ophüls Preis film festival (2021 and 2022 with two film scores) and was awarded the German Film Music Prize for Best Newcomer (“Best Young Talent”) while still studying film music in 2019.

+49 (0) 176 82 111 484
info@annakuehlein.com

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Nighties

Matthias Koßmehl, Suki Roessel

2024

Beckenbauer. Der letzte Kaiser

Torsten Körner

2024

Tatort Bremen: Solange du atmest

Franziska Margarete Hoenisch

2023-2024

Kanzlei Liebling Kreuzberg

Franziska Margarete Hoenisch

2023

Was wir fürchten

Daniel Rübesam

2022

Freibad

Doris Dörrie

2022

Step by Step

Felix Starck

2021

Almost Fly

Florian Gaag

2021

Wir sind jetzt

Christian Klandt

2021

Anima - Die Kleider meines Vaters

Uli Decker

2020

Wem gehört mein Dorf?

Christoph Eder

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The jury of the German Television Award 2024

"Anna Kühlein's music underlines the intensity of “Was wir fürchten” with filigree variety. She plays with genre-typical patterns and dissolves them in a way that is both stylistically confident and innovative. Her tense synthesizer pads and sinister basses meet delicately dabbed melodic fragments, irritatingly harmonious sounds and then again subliminally pulsating rhythms. The music merges with the sounds of the surroundings and in this way repeatedly creates an irritating juxtaposition of nightmare and reality."

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