Female Film Composer Class

Jessica de Rooij

As the daughter of a jazz bandleader and a singer, Jessica de Rooij was born into music. Right after learning to walk, she started to play the piano and composed her first songs with nine years.

Her first cinema visits awakened her fascination for the music behind the pictures, so she decided to study Music & Technology at the Utrecht School of Arts in the Netherlands.

After her master's degree, she moved to Los Angeles to ghostwrite for well-known composers.

For the last decade, she worked primarily in Berlin and expanded her work as a composer for cinema and television to do music supervising.

Besides more than 40 scores for feature films, Jessica recently composed the score for the TV series “SISI” and scored the Netflix hit “Blood & Gold”.

Jens Kindermann

Member of GEMA since 1996.

Head of Products Department.

Specialized in audiovisual productions, monitoring, sound files, and production rights.

Hansjörg Kohli

Hansjörg Kohli is a film composer living and working in Munich. He grew up in Switzerland, studied film scoring and jazz piano at Berklee College of Music in Boston, USA and the University of Performing Arts in Munich. He started out as an orchestrator for a variety of film projects. Later on, he became head of the film music department at the German National Television studio ZDF in Mainz. For several years now his focus has shifted back to composing for film and media.
Among his more recent works are the scores to In Wahrheit - Zwischen Recht und Gerechtigkeit (ARTE/ZDF), Der Spalter (Filmfest München/ZDF), Die Küstenpiloten (ARD/Degeto), Jenseits der Spree (ZDF), Väter- Allein zu Haus (ARD/WDR), Kirgistan - Hochgebirgsland voller Schätzr (ARTE).

Henning Marquaß

Henning worked after school as assistant, radio journalist and music festival organiser before studying audiovisual media at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM). His diploma film 'The Dissect' was shown on international festivals.

Since 2010 Henning works as a screenwriter, director and film editor.
In addition, he passes on his experience in film editing and project development in seminars and workshops, e.g. at the Rheinische Hochschule Köln or as postproduction coordinator at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne.

As a film editor, he edits everything where image sequences become visual music - documentaries, feature films/series and TV stuff.
As a writer, he focusses on feature films/ series for adults an children and youth novels.

To Henning film editing and screenwriting are inextricably linked.
When consulting for postproduction he favors a holistic perspective to balance artistic visions with the realities of filmproduction.

Thomas Mikusz

Corinna C. Poeszus

Corinna C. Poeszus is a senior business executive with over 30 years experience in the music, digital media & film production, advertising and tv entertainment industries driven by the power of passion and an open mind and the desire to think outside the box. Corinna is a successful Leader and Manager with more than 18 years of experience in leading teams to their goals. Her experience is well rounded with an in-depth understanding of international media business management & operations, product branding, online marketing, social media, CRM, planning and controlling of marketing, monitoring, marketing & comms, monitoring of strategic marketing activities, B2B as well as B2C.
Her professional career took her from Polygram via Endemol Entertainment to Bertelsmann and Universal Publishing, Bavaria Media and many more.

Corinna C. Poeszus ist eine erfahrene Führungskraft mit über 30 Jahren Erfahrung in den Bereichen Musik, digitale Medien und Filmproduktion, Werbung und TV-Entertainment. Sie ist angetrieben von der Kraft der Leidenschaft und Offenheit, über den Tellerrand hinaus zu denken. Corinna ist erfolgreiche Managerin mit mehr als 18 Jahren Erfahrung, ihre Teams zu Zielen zu führen. Ihre Erfahrung zeichnet sich durch ein tiefgreifendes Verständnis der internationalen Medien, Business Management & Operations, Produkt-Branding, Online-Marketing, Social Media, CRM, Planung und Controlling von Marketing, Monitoring, Marketing & Kommunikation, Überwachung von strategischen Marketing-Aktivitäten - sowohl B2B als auch B2C.

Ihre beruflichen Stationen führten sie von Polygram über Endemol Entertainment zu Bertelsmann und Universal Publishing, Bavaria Media und viele weitere Stationen.

Luisa Prinz

Luisa Prinz ist seit Januar 2023 als Verlagsleiterin Artists & Repertoire für den Enterprises Sonor Musikverlag zuständig. Sie wechselte 2022 aus TV-Rechtevertrieb in den Filmmusikverlag, der ihre Interessen aus Film und Musik perfekt miteinander vereint. Ihre akademische Ausbildung umfasst einen Masterabschluss in amerikanischer Literaturgeschichte von der Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universität München sowie einen Bachelorabschluss in "North American Studies".

Corinna Stahl

Corinna Stahl studierte Musikwissenschaften in Köln und ist seit über 30 Jahren für verschiedene Labels und Verlage tätig, u.a. Kick Musikverlag, Winter&Winter, Care MusicGroup und Chrysalis Music Publishing. Zunächst mit dem Schwerpunkt Pop- und Jazz ist sie vor 9 Jahren zur Filmmusik gewechselt und verantwortet bei der Bavaria Media in München als Verlagsleiterin Rights Administration die Verlage Bavaria Sonor und die Enterprises Sonor.