Biography
Marius Felix Lange was born in Berlin in 1968 and studied violin as a junior student at the Julius Stern Institute of Berlin's Hochschule der Künste from 1980 to 1987. He went on to study violin in Cologne and Klagenfurt, school music in Stuttgart, film music and sound design at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg, and composition with Ulrich Leyendecker in Mannheim. Between 2003 and 2012 he wrote scores for film and television, including episodes of “Wilsberg” and “Polizeiruf 110”. His first opera, “Das Opernschiff”, to a libretto by Elke Heidenreich, won first prize at the International Composition Competition in Cologne in 2004; it was followed by “Schneewittchen” (Cologne Opera, 2011) and the family opera “Das Gespenst von Canterville”, which premiered at Opernhaus Zürich in 2013. For the Junge Oper Stuttgart he composed the chamber opera “Krieg. Stell dir vor, er wäre hier” after Janne Teller's book, first performed at Stuttgart's Kammertheater in 2018. In 2025 the Gerhart-Hauptmann-Theater Görlitz-Zittau and the Lausitz Festival premiered his opera “Krabat”, based on the Sorbian legend.
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