The composer and director Heiner Goebbels (born 1952) belongs to the most important exponents of the contemporary music
and theatre scene. His compositions (distributed by Ricordi) are performed by various orchestras and ensembles, his radio
works broadcasted by many German speaking radio stations and regularly there are about eight music theater productions in
the repertoire of Ensemble Modern, Theatre Vidy, Les Percussions de Strasbourg and artmobil which have been showed and are
to be seen on many major international music and theatre festivals.