Markus Aust

Markus Aust is a Cologne-based composer and works for film, television, radio and stage. To date he composed music for over 50 feature films and documentaries. In the mid-90s he scored ten episodes of "OP. Schicksale im Klinikum" (ZDF, Bavarian Film Prize) and his music became known to a vast audience. Since 2000 he's composing for film, e.g. International-Arthouse-Featurefilm-Co-Productions "Lowlights" (Lt/D, Lithuanian Silver Crane), "Blue Tiger" (CZ/D), "Patty's ketchup", "Happy Lambs" or cinema-documentaries "Waves/Moug" (EGY, San Sebastián/Dubai/Ismailia/d'Annecy/Sarajevo/Leipzig/Montreal/Brisbane), "Censored Voices" (IL/D, Sundance/Berlinale/DocAviv/Toronto/Geneva/IDFA, Best Documentary Israeli Film Academy, Oscar-Longlist), "Who is Oda Jaune?" (D, Berlinale, Preselection Lola/German Filmprize). Markus Aust is member of the German Film Academy and the European Film Academy. Being a trained audio-engineer he places great importance on the interaction between film score, sound design and sound editing. As sound director and protagonist of the "1st German Electrophonic Orchestra" Markus Aust frequently hosts concerts at home and abroad.