Gerhard Gruber


Gerhard Gruber is an Austrian composer and piano player. As accompanist for silent films, he has become the leading authority in Austria since 1988.
He has performed for about 600 different films.
He composed the music for Café Elektric.
From 1983 until 2011 Gerhard Gruber was working and performing as a composer and musician for theatre.
He was featured in Ilse Aichinger's Subtexte as "the one who first makes each film possible and, at the same time, unnecessary. Those who have seen his hands move on the illuminated keys might even risk forgetting Chaplin"
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Awards

Gruber was awarded the Nestroy Theatre Prize in 2006 and the Bühnenkunstpreis des Landes Oberösterreich in 2008.

Performances for silent movies (out of 600)

Broken BlossomsDas Cabinet des Dr. CaligariDie freudlose GasseDie SklavenköniginThe White Hell of Pitz PaluCafé ElektricIntoleranceMetropolisNanook of the NorthNosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens

Venues

Theatre works (selection)

  • Das Nibelungenlied – Justus Neumann – 2010
  • Die 39 Stufen – Schauspielhaus Salzburg – 2010/2011
  • Hennir – Isabel Karajan – 2009
  • Bettleroper – Projekttheater Vorarlberg – 2009
  • How much, Schatzi? – Projekttheater Vorarlberg – 2006
  • Automatenbüfett – Theater in der Josefstadt Wien – 2004
  • Der Alpenkönig und der Menschenfeind – Theater in der Josefstadt Wien – 2004
  • Mann, Frau, Kind – Theater in der Josefstadt Wien – 2003
  • Das Dschungelbuch – Theater der Jugend Wien – 2002
  • Der Zerrissene – Volkstheater Wien – 1997
  • Die letzten Tage der Menschheit – Donaufestival Krems – 1994
  • Mir soll ins Herz gestochen werden – Theater Narrnkastl Wien – 1985
  • Mozarella – Zwischen den Zeilen Theater Zürich – 1983