---
name: "Lorenz Dangel"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/lorenz-dangel"
fi1m_id: "lorenz-dangel"
imdb_id: "nm1656612"
tmdb_id: 1275130
wikidata_id: "Q1756778"
roles: ["Composer"]
born: "19 April 1977"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-30T22:25:22.012496+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Lorenz Dangel

## Identity

Lorenz Dangel

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/lorenz-dangel
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** lorenz-dangel
- **IMDb ID:** nm1656612
- **TMDB ID:** 1275130
- **Wikidata ID:** Q1756778
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1756778, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1656612/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1275130

Composer. Born 19 April 1977 in Würzburg, Germany.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Born:** 19 April 1977, Würzburg, Germany
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1756778, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1656612/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1275130

## Coming up

- *Krux* (2027-02-04), Original Music Composer

## Streaming the US now

- **Paramount+:** [*September 5*](https://film.one/film/september-5.md) (74)

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## Biography

Lorenz Dangel is a German composer of film, classical and theatre music. Born in Würzburg in 1977, he studied double bass and composition at the Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler" in Berlin, followed by film composition at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München and further studies at the Royal College of Music in London, from which he graduated with distinction in 2004. He has lived and worked in Berlin since 2005.

Dangel is known for his scores to films including *Hell* (2011), *A Fortunate Man* (2018), *The Colony* (2021), *Dying* (2024) and *September 5* (2024). He has also worked as a conductor on numerous film recordings. His awards include the Max Ophüls Prize for best music for *Schläfer* (2006) and the German Film Prize for the music of *Hell* (2012), *Tides* (2021) and *Dying* (2024). He received a nomination for the German Film Prize for his work on *September 5*.

*Sources: imdb.com, lorenzdangel.com, de.wikipedia.org, filmportal.de, awardsfocus.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *September 5* (2024), Fi1m 74, Original Music Composer, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/september-5.md)

## Complete filmography (34)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Krux* (2027), Original Music Composer
- *Berlin Hero* (2025), Original Music Composer
- *The Carpenter's Son* (2025), Original Music Composer
- *September 5* (2024), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/september-5.md)
- *Dying* (2024), Original Music Composer
- *The Intermission* (2023), Music
- *Die Verteidigerin - Der Gesang des Raben* (2023), Sound
- *Cloud Under the Roof* (2022), Music
- *The Colony* (2021), Original Music Composer
- *Vic the Viking: The Magic Sword* (2019), Conductor
- *The German Lesson* (2019), Original Music Composer
- *Blochin: Das letzte Kapitel* (2019), Music
- *A Fortunate Man* (2018), series, Original Music Composer
- *A Fortunate Man* (2018), Original Music Composer
- *Mademoiselle Paradis* (2017), Original Music Composer
- *What Will People Say* (2017), Original Music Composer
- *Hitler's Hollywood* (2017), Original Music Composer
- *Sleepless* (2017), Conductor
- *NSU German History X* (2016), series, Original Music Composer
- *Suspicion* (2015), Original Music Composer
- *Blochin – Die Lebenden und die Toten* (2015), series, Original Music Composer
- *Me and Kaminski* (2015), Original Music Composer
- *Pompeii* (2014), Conductor
- *West* (2013), Original Music Composer
- *The Dead and the Living* (2012), Original Music Composer
- *Partly Sunny* (2012), Original Music Composer
- *Hell* (2011), Original Music Composer
- *Michael* (2011), Original Music Composer
- *Davon willst du nichts wissen* (2011), as Score Engineer
- *Almost* (2011), Music
- *The Robber* (2010), Original Music Composer
- *Die zwei Leben des Daniel Shore* (2009), Original Music Composer
- *Sleeper* (2005), Original Music Composer
- *Scene of the Crime* (1970), series, Original Music Composer, Music

## Awards

### Other awards — 1 won

- German Film Award for best original music 2021: German Film Award for best original music (won), for *Tides*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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