Dietrich Hahne

Composer / Media artist

Born in Bielefeld on 10 June 1961, Dietrich Hahne is a composer, media artist and university teacher. He studied composition and electronic composition at the Folkwang Universität der Künste in Essen with Wolfgang Hufschmidt and Dirk Reith, and subsequently media art at the Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln, with Werner Nekes and Dominik Graf among others; in 1994 he graduated there with distinction. In 1997 he founded the A/V media studio of the Institut für Computermusik und Elektronische Medien (ICEM) of the Folkwang Universität, which he has directed ever since; since 2004 he has been professor of composition and visualisation there. From 2001 intermedia works with multichannel video came into being, and since 2014 large-format photographic computer graphics. He is represented as a composer on the album Harmonies and Counterpoints between Germany and America, released by Cybele Records in 1999.