Helmut Oehring

Helmut Oehring (born 1961^[1]) is a German composer. He was born in East-Berlin, the son of deaf parents.^[1] After training as a construction worker, Oehring worked as a cemetery gardener, forest worker, geriatric nurse and stoker.^[2] He is self-taught as guitarist and composer.^[3] From 1990 to 1992, Oehring studied with Friedrich Goldmann and Georg Katzer at the Academy of Arts, Berlin.^[4] He was a fellow of Villa Massimo in 1994/1995.^[5] Oering is honorary professor for Théatre musical at the University of the Arts Bern.^[3]

Awards

• Hanns Eisler Prize (1990)^[6]
• Prize at the Young Composers Forum, WDR (1992)^[1]
• Scholarship of Lower Saxony (1993/94)^[1]
• Scholarship of the Villa Massimo (1994/95)^[5]
• Scholarship from the Cité des Arts (1994)^[1]
• Hindemith Prize of the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival (1997)^[6]
• Schneider-Schott Music Prize (1998)^[1]
• Arnold Schönberg Prize (2008)^[6]
• German Music Authors' Prize in the music theater category (2015)^[3]
• Brandenburg Art Prize for Music/Composition (2016)^[3]

Memberships

• 2005 Academy of Arts, Berlin^[3]
• 2013 Sächsische Akademie der Künste^[4][3]

Works

• c. 350 musical works of all genres^[7]

Autobiography

• Oehring, Helmut (2011). Mit anderen Augen vom Kind gehörloser Eltern zum Komponisten (in German). München. ISBN 978-3-442-75296-6. OCLC 756272841.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)