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 Hermann Kopp | |
| Born | 21 August 1954 |
| Occupation(s) | musician, composer, actor |
| Years active | 1981–1990, 2004-present |
Hermann Kopp (born 21 August 1954, in Stuttgart) is a German composer and musician, presently living in Barcelona, Spain.
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Hermann Kopp | |
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| Hermann Kopp | |
| Born | 21 August 1954 |
| Occupation(s) | musician, composer, actor |
| Years active | 1981–1990, 2004-present |
Hermann Kopp (born 21 August 1954, in Stuttgart) is a German composer and musician, presently living in Barcelona, Spain.
In the early eighties, Kopp released two vinyl records with a sound that can be vaguely classified as electronic minimalism and then became a member of the German electro-industrial band Keine Ahnung with which he played live in Mannheim and Berlin. In 1987 he participated in the soundtrack of the German horror film Nekromantik , followed in 1989 by music to the movie Der Todesking and in 1990 to Nekromantik 2 . Unlike the early song material that tends to be intimist and voluntarily drawing on the kitsch side, his film scores create uneasy and haunting atmospheres, weaving atonal strings, slow motion rhythms, moog synthesizers and plain noise into soundtrack form. In 2007, Hermann Kopp released “Psicofonico”, abstract violin soundscapes influenced by a Spanish documentary on the Electronic Voice Phenomena. In 2007 he got signed to the German label Galakthorrö, known for its releases of industrial music, maintaining his own morbid musical language.
2020 saw his soundtrack for the Californian film The Queen Of Hollywood Blvd. directed by the young filmmaker Orson Oblowitz,
In 2023 Kopp was invited to compose the soundtrack for the Serbian movie Videotheque, directed by Luka Bursac which premiered in Belgrade in 2024.
In March 2025 Hermann Kopp presented his new score for the German silent movie Der Golem in a cinema in Paris.
Hermann Kopp has had releases on the following labels throughout his career:
In the movie Der Todesking Hermann Kopp plays a part as a man drowning himself in his bathtub. His name in the film, Barsch, bears similarities with the German politician Uwe Barschel who was found dead around the same time in the bathtub of a hotel in Geneva, following a political scandal that became popular under the name of “Waterkantgate”.
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