Welcome to Ludger Vollmer
"Ludger Vollmer is considered the most performed contemporary opera composer in the German-speaking world." (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 2023)
"Ludger Vollmer's music pulls, pulls, captivates. From the very beginning you are drawn into it... There is an unconditional passion in everything the composer Ludger Vollmer does" (WDR 3)
In his operas, Vollmer uses west-eastern scales and a dramatically accelerated dramaturgy driven by the pace of today's aesthetics.
"The City of Weimar thanks Ludger Vollmer, the passionate composer and musician, who works in his works for the reduction of prejudices against minorities and for cultural diversity. He succeeds in his compositions again and again to build bridges between cultures. He sets standards as an artist and as a human being with a signal effect for Germany." (Certificate text for the award of the Weimar Prize 2014)
OPER! Award 2026 for the opera RUMMELPLATZ
RUMMELPLATZ is “a comprehensive artistic and discursive event” that goes far beyond a standard premiere and explores the history of Chemnitz in depth (OPERA! Awards jury). Vollmer’s central theme is theatre at the heart of society, the place where people negotiate their lives.
"Minutes of applause, hoots, whistles from an audience that could never have experienced anything like this before! That was the result of this almost three-hour performance ... it should ... point to ... a core area of our culture. " This is Ludger Vollmer with the help of many like-minded people succeeded. " Der Neue Merker, Vienna, about the opera GEGEN DIE WAND (Head-On).
Philosophie
The opera GEGEN DIE WAND (Head-On) was awarded the European Tolerance Prize 2009 on 14.2.2009.
The Stuttgart staging of this opera (director Neco Celik) won the German theater prize DER FAUST 2011.
Vollmer is the recipient of the 2014 Weimar Prize and the 2018 Thuringian Composition Prize.
He is chairman of the Hamburg Regional Association within the German Composers’ Association and president of the Hamburg Regional Music Council.
Ludger Vollmer is a member of the Free Academy of Arts in Hamburg.
Music for all genres
"The sparkling with wit Ludger Vollmer discovered magical sounds (and) sequences of sound with suggestive floating intervals ... The love of the Faust Quartet to the fragile, expressive sounds of the piece was unmistakable ..." (Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung)
Ludger Vollmer's works have been performed and broadcast in many European countries, the Far East, Australia, Central America and the USA.
"... a storm of emotions ... the audience was more than enthusiastic ..."
(El Siglo de Torreon, Mexico)