
BIO
Verena Marisa is an award-winning German-Brazilian composer, sound artist and multi-instrumentalist. She is an expert performer of the theremin – an early electronic instrument, which is played without touching it.
Verena has premiered orchestral works, such as NEW ERA at Munich Philharmonic Hall and MORPHOLOGY at Tonhalle in Munich with great critical acclaim ("one of the best new works", NMZ).
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As a performer Verena appears at festivals in the experimental realm, including Jazz, Pop and New Music. She is the first thereminist to compose an entire solo concert program for this unique instrument, and continues to present it throughout Europe.
On the theremin she has collaborated fruitfully with lyricist Nora Gomringer, recipient of the prestigious Bachmann Prize.
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Verena has further composed the music for several feature films, both for cinema and TV. She has worked repeatedly with directors Rudi Gaul, Rainer Kaufmann and Golden Globe-nominee Max Färberböck.
In theater she has composed for Neuköllner Oper in Berlin and Schauspiel Frankfurt, with directors Sommer Ulrickson and Ersan Mondtag.
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AWARDS
German Film Music Award
Berlin Opera Award
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Franz Grothe Film Music Award
Music Award of the City of Munich
aDevantgarde Opera Award
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​Team Awards
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Golden Remi / WorldFest-Houston
(team Koma Kid)
German Television Award
(team Best Picture OPERATION ZUCKER)
Hamburg Producers Award for FREUNDINNEN
Jury statement: “The composed film music is to be especially emphasized...“
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Deutscher Filmmusikpreis
Berliner Opernpreis (Förderpreis)
Franz-Grothe-Filmmusikpreis
Förderpreis Musik der Stadt München
aDevantgarde Opernpreis
Team Auszeichnungen
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Golden Remi @ WorldFest-Houston
(Team Koma Kid)
Deutscher Fernsehpreis
(Team Bester Film OPERATION ZUCKER)
Hamburger Produzentenpreis für FREUNDINNEN
Jurybegründung: “Besonders hervorzuheben ist auch die komponierte Filmmusik...“
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NEWS
"TATORT: DAS JÜNGSTE GEIßLEIN"
@ Festival des deutschen Films Ludwigshafen am Rhein, August 2025
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For this unique genre-Tatort -- based loosely on the tale "The Wolf and the Seven Little Goats" -- Verena created a striking horror score, merging experimental sound design with traces of corroded childhood tunes. Directed by Rudi Gaul, produced by SWR.
"MISSING*LINK" @ Munich Film Festival
June 2025
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"MISSING*LINK", a sensitive drama directed by Michael Baumann and produced by INDI FILM, has its international premiere at Munich Film Festival. Verena's score weaves summer-light vocals with an undercurrent of electronic unease.
Theremin Solo @ Landesmuseum Stuttgart / About Pop Festival
May 2025
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Verena performs her solo set with theremin & electric violin in the darkened foyer of Landesmuseum Stuttgart. Her set is a meditative journey through otherworldly flora and fauna, floating in a state of transcendence, oscillating between horror and redemption.
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Expanded with visuals by The Satisfaction Of Giving Up, which they both developed collaboratively for this occasion.
