Film Music
My film music is characterized by creative sounds and unconventional sound mixtures and compositions. Hand-made for every film project, it draws on acoustic sound sources and – as far as possible – dispenses with the use of sample files. Often, I work at the interface with artistic sound design; for example, by exaggerating or alienating tonal aspects that originate in the scenic sound.
Alongside prepared strings and keys such as Zither, glockenspiel, piano, banjo and harmonium, my arsenal of instruments includes megaphones, drinking glasses, Birkhahn bird whistle and everyday objects equipped with a contact microphone. When possible, I work with renowned musicians – the allure of real people making music together in the same space at the same time cannot be artificially produced.
The focus of my work to date has been documentary films – I am interested in how artistically elaborate the music can be when set against images that show the facets of a reality. Again and again this means exploring the tension between the documentary’s authenticity on the one hand, and on the other, the possibilities of the music while always respecting the dignity of the protagonist.
Recent Work
United States Vs. Reality Winner
feature documentary
director: Sonia Kennebeck, Codebreaker Films
executive producer: Wim Wenders
This film tells the story of a young whistleblower who disclosed a classified document about Russian election interference and became the number one leak target of the Trump administration. Reality Winner has been in prison since her arrest on June 3, 2017.
Fredda Meyer
Short documentary by werkgruppe2
director: Julia Roesler
Katharina is clinic clown Fredda Meyer. At work in the children’s hospital, her child Moritz, who was suffering from cancer, grew dear to her heart. Moritz will soon die. Fredda stays and is there for the parents, for the carers, cleaning staff and for Moritz. She makes fun when nobody can laugh anymore. She cries clown tears when everyone is frozen. Fredda breaks the taboos and conventions of how we deal with death.
After the first short film MARINA, werkgruppe2 is producing another short film based exclusively on interviews. Completion is scheduled for January 2021.

Enemies Of The State
feature documentary thriller
director: Sonia Kennebeck, Codebreaker Films
executive producer: Errol Morris
review: The Hollywood Reporter
Escape
Drugs and Torture
Forest

#Global Goals / Zero Hunger – “Chef’s Trash Can”
Advertising campaign on behalf of the United Nations and the Tribeca Film Festival
director: Sonia Kennebeck
agency: Grabarz & Partner
Zero waste

Für immer jung
TV documentary – NDR
director: Tina Soliman
Song: Glimpse
Bluthandel – Dollar gegen Gesundheit
TV documentary
director: Stefanie Dodt
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Opener Song “The deal”
From Journalist to Hostage
documentary – New York Times Op Docs
director: Sonia Kennebeck
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National Bird
documentary
director: Sonia Kennebeck – Ten Forward Films
executive producer: Wim Wenders, Errol Morris
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Massage
Trauer Afghanistan
Kill Chain

The Implant Files
TV documentary
director: B. v.d. Heide, E. Kuch
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Accomplices – VW and the Brazilian Miltary Dictatorship
TV documentary
director: S.Dodt, T. Aders – NDR (North German Broadcasting)
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Opener
VW-Werk Brasilien

The Invisible Enemy
TV documentary
director: E.Kuch, C. Adelhardt – NDR (North German Broadcasting)
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Opener
Schaum
Indien

Suffocated in the Truck – The End of a Flight
TV documentary
director: E. Kuch, S. Pittelkow, A. Musawy, B. v.d. Heide – NDR (North German Broadcasting)
Opener
Safehouse

The VW-Thriller
TV documentary
director: Christine Adelhardt, Svea Eckert – NDR (North German Broadcasting)
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Thema

After the Golden Rain
TV documentary
director: Tina Soliman – NDR

Sex made in Germany
TV documentary
director: Tina Soliman, Sonia Kennebeck – NDR
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Find Me
Breathe In
Cooperations

Ice-Cold Track
TV-documentary
director: Björn Platz, NDR
film score: isola music
song: Insa Rudolph & isola music
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Splinter

Foreign Daughter
motion picture
director: Stephan Lacant, Kurhaus production
music: Dürbeck & Dohmen
song: Insa Rudolph, Dürbeck & Dohmen
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All we left behind
Mirko is dead

Blind Spot
TV movie
director: Stephan Lacant
music: Dürbeck & Dohmen
song: Insa Rudolph, Dürbeck & Dohmen
Blindspot

Guilt – The Other
TV series
director: Maris Pfeiffer
music: Meiser & Meister
song: Insa Rudolph, Marco Meister
Hold, hold on to you

Arschkalt
motion picture
director: André Erkau, Wüste Film
music: Dürbeck und Dohmen
song: Insa Rudolph, Dürbeck & Dohmen
Circle of lies

Soundless Wind Chime
motion picture
director: Kit Hung
music: Claudio Puntin, Insa Rudolph
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In between

Life Actually
motion picture
director: Alain Gsponer
music: Marius Felix Lange
songs: Insa Rudolph
Perfect Circle
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