Helmut Lachenmann – My Way

The composer Helmut Lachenmann, born in Stuttgart/Germany in 1935, has shaped contemporary music worldwide over the past 50 years with his "Musique Concrète Instrumentale" - a unique "noise music" in which violinists use all parts of their instruments, trumpeters crackle with baking paper, and water-filled horns are played.The very personal film approaches this music and its protagonist in a sensual and humorous way. It shows Helmut Lachenmann rehearsing with Sir Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic, it lets us participate in the thoughts of this extraordinary artist, in the adventures of creative work - in a phase of life in which the end is becoming increasingly tangible. Above all, the film thrives on the captivating personality of the composer himself, who grows dear to our hearts with his affectionate manner, his self-irony and his Swabian humor.