{{Short description|German composer, producer and lecturer on music}} '''Martin Todsharow''' (born 6 September 1967) is a German composer, producer, and lecturer on music, since 2004 a professor at the Konrad Wolf Film University of Babelsberg.
He has won the German Film Critics' Best Music Award and the German Music Authors' Prize for Film Music Composition.
==Early life== Born in Berlin, from 1989 to 1994 Todsharow was a student at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin, where his degree was in piano, counterpoint, and composition.<ref name=todsharow>[https://todsharow.com todsharow.com]</ref>
==Career== Since 1991 Todsharow has composed for theatre. In 1993 he was awarded a foreign scholarship of the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program to study in Britain. From 1994 to 1996 he was an instrumentalist in both serious and pop music. Since 1997 he has worked as a professional film composer, a producer, a music supervisor, and a lecturer at film academies . In 2004 he was elected to a chair at the Konrad Wolf Film University of in Potsdam-Babelsberg.<ref name=todsharow/><ref>''Film-Dienst'', Vol. 60, Issues 8-13 (2007), p. 283</ref>
In 2013 he won the Preis der deutschen Filmkritik Best Music Award for ''Sources of Life'' (Quellen des Lebens).<ref>[https://www.vdfk.de/preis-der-deutschen-filmkritik-2013-482 PREIS DER DEUTSCHEN FILMKRITIK 2013] dated 10 February 2014 at vdfk.de, accessed 1 May 2019</ref> In 2014 he received the German Music Authors' Prize for Film Music Composition, in a ceremony on 8 May 2014 at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Berlin.<ref>Norbert Sievers, Patrick S. Föhl, Tobias J. Knoblich, ''Jahrbuch für Kulturpolitik 2015/16: Transformatorische Kulturpolitik'' (Transcript Verlag, 2016), [https://books.google.com/books?id=bEO1DQAAQBAJ&pg=PA451 p. 451]</ref>
==Work as film composer== *''No Place to Go'' (2000) *''Hijack Stories'' (2000) *''Tattoo'' (2002) *''Angst'' (2003) *''Eierdiebe'' (2003) *''Agnes and His Brothers'' (2004) *''Guys and Balls'' (2004) *''Minotaur'' (2006) *''Atomised'' (2006) *''Mogadischu'' (2008) *''Lulu and Jimi'' (2009) *''Hilde'' (2009) *''Phantom Pain'' (2009) *''Desert Flower'' (2009) *''Jew Suss: Rise and Fall'' (2010) *''Kokowääh'' (2011) *''Guardians'' (2012) *''Kokowääh 2'' (2013) *''Sources of Life'' (2013) *''3096 Days'' (2013) *''Frau Ella'' (2013) *''Joy of Fatherhood'' (2014) *''Head Full of Honey'' (2014) *''Frau Müller muss weg!'' (2015) *''Friend Request'' (2016) *''Fog in August'' (2016) *''The Captain'' (2017) *''Hot Dog'' (2018) *''Herrliche Zeiten'' (2018) *''Klassentreffen 1.0'' (2018) *''Head Full of Honey'' (2018) *''The Tunnel'' (2019) *''Enfant Terrible'' (2020) *''Snake Eyes'' (2021) *''Locked-in Society'' (2022) * ''Seneca – On the Creation of Earthquakes'' (2023) * ''Manta, Manta: Legacy'' (2023)
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