Anna-Marlene Bicking, Sebastian Schmidt, Christian Biegai, Kerim König

Anna-Marlene Bicking is a versatile composer and singer who completed her Master's degree in Film Music at the Film University Potsdam. Prior to this, she earned her Bachelor in Jazz at the UdK Berlin. Bicking has composed music for numerous short films, documentaries and radio plays, including the award-winning “UNTER UNS FRAUEN”. work “UNTER UNS FRAUEN - GEBURT IN MEGENDI”. She regularly publishes own music in the ambient/neo-classical and singer-songwriter pop genres and received the the German Music Writer's Prize in 2018 for her debut album “Tagtraum”. She is currently working currently working on the film music for an RBB documentary and the ZDF crime series “BLUTIGE ANFÄNGER” (season 6 on TV from September 2024). She is also working on the Saxon documentary film series “HEIMAT - SINFONIE DER KULTUREN”.

Kerim König gained his first stage experience with bands and ensembles as a drummer, singer and guitarist. He studied “Cultural Studies and Aesthetic Practice” with a focus on music and media at the University of Hildesheim. During his studies, he created his first film scores for short and animated films by directors Lothar Herzog and Jan-Peter Meier. In order to deepen his knowledge, he took part in the “Hollywood Music Workshop” under the direction of Conrad Pope in Baden near Vienna. König then moved to Berlin and his first commissions for various television productions followed. König released solo albums on the Cologne label Hey!blau Records, which show other facets of his compositions that are independent of images. During the production of the albums, he collaborated with the Japanese concert pianist Mayuko Miyata, the string orchestra Scoring Berlin and the New Zealand singer Teresa Bergman. Kerim König lives and works in Berlin.

Christian Biegai is a freelance saxophonist and film composer. He began composing for film during his saxophone studies at the UdK Berlin and the Royal College of Music in London. He went on to earn a Master of Music degree from Rutgers University in New Jersey, specializing in orchestration, electroacoustics and composition. Christian composed his first film score in 2002 for Duncan Jones' “Whistle”. In 2006, he worked as a composer and music editor on Peter Jackson's Park Road Post. Since his return to Berlin in 2007, he has composed the music for numerous feature films (“Wir Sagen Du! Schatz.”, “Nacht vor Augen”, “Der Brand”, “Mi America”, etc.), TV series (“Tatort”, “Blutige Anfänger”, “Löwenzahn”, etc.) and documentaries (“Das kalte Eisen”, “Family Meals”, etc.). In 2007, together with Dave Whitehead, he won the New Zealand TV Award for Best Film Music for the series “The Big Picture”. Since 2019 he has been working with Kerim König and created the soundscape for the series “Bloody Beginners”. In 2022 he was nominated with Kerim König for best film music for the crime scene “Propheteus” at the German Academy for Television. As a saxophonist, Christian has worked with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Leipzig Chamber Orchestra, clair-obscur, DM Stith, Marla Hansen, Antony & The Johnsons and Barbara Morgenstern, among others.

Sebastian Schmidt studied classical music at the Hochschule für Musik Mainz and film music at the Musicube Academy Bonn before studying film music at the Film University Babelsberg “Konrad Wolf”. the Musicube Academy Bonn. Since graduating from Babelsberg (2018), the now Berlin-based Berlin-based film composer has already worked on numerous award-winning TV & cinema feature films  documentaries and series as a composer. Sebastian has also worked as an orchestrator and conductor Sebastian has also worked with numerous orchestras in Europe. In addition to the thrill of exciting film projects, it is above all the inspiring and appreciative inspiring and appreciative collaboration with filmmakers is what makes working as a film composer for for him.