Composer

Marc Schubring

Marc Schubring is one of the most versatile composers for contemporary musical theatre and belongs to a generation of authors who have been developing the New German Musical since the 1990s, continuing a tradition that had its heyday in the »Golden Twenties«. His musical »Gefährliche Liebschaften« (»Dangerous Liaisons«), written together with the lyricist and translator Wolfgang Adenberg (premiered in 2015 by the Gärtnerplatztheater), was awarded five times the »German Musical Theatre Prize« in the same year, including in the categories »Best Musical« and »Best Composition«. As one of the few German musical composers, Marc Schubring was also performed in the USA: »Double Trouble«, an adaptation of the Kästner classic »Das doppelte Lottchen« together with David S. Craig, earned both authors a nomination at the renowned »Helen Hayes Award« in 2016.

Stephen Sondheim described Marc Schubring as »genuinely gifted« and recommended him for a commissioned composition as part of »Liaisons: Re-Imagining Sondheim from the Piano«, alongside Steve Reich, Mark-Anthony Turnage and others, resulting in »Rhapsody in Red«. Other works together with Wolfgang Adenberg include »Fletsch« (1993), »Cyrano de Bergerac« (1995), »Emil und die Detektive« (2001), »Der Mann, der Sherlock Holmes war« (2008), »Zum Sterben schön« (2013) and »Pünktchen und Anton« (2014). With Kevin Schroeder he wrote »Mehr ‒ Vom Fischer und seiner Frau« (2017), »Jacob und Wilhelm ‒ Weltenwandler« (2019) and the web-film musical »Das tote Pferd von Plön«. For the music theatre adaptation of the Marc Uwe Kling book »Das NEINhorn« (2022), he wrote the music as well as the book and song lyrics.

Since 2004 Marc Schubring has been a member of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop in New York and the Dramatists Guild of America, and since its foundation also of the German Musical Academy.