FM Einheit is the stage name of the musician Frank-Martin Strauß, who was born in Dortmund in 1958. He developed his own musical language from 1980 to 1996 with the band Einstürzende Neubauten, which refused to accept the traditional understanding of music. In addition to numerous record releases u. a. with Palais Schaumburg, Downhill, Marianne Rosenberg, Rio Reiser, Diamanda Galás, Gry and Caspar Brötzmann, he has worked with many other art genres and created the atmospheric ground for text, stage, light and costume in more than 150 theater productions. Together with Andreas Ammer he revolutionized the radio play and freed it from a too narrow corset of literature. He was awarded the Hörspielpreis der Kriegsblinden in 1995 and 2002 and received the Günter Eich Prize in 2019. At the Fondation Gulbenkian Paris he realized the sound installation L’exposition d’un rêve in 2017, and he contributed the film music to Fatih Akin’s 2019 film The Golden Glove. In the 2019/20 season, FM Einheit developed the sound design for the immersive installation Sensefactory, which can be seen in Zeche Eins at Schauspielhaus Bochum.

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