about
The story of german singer Daniel Freitag is one of restlessness. With it he has come a considerable way: from a small village in Germany into the international theatre world as a composer and back to his musical beginnings as a Songwriter and Producer.
Daniel Freitag acquired his skills in writing and producing on his own. While still in school he assembled his first studio in his parents basement, trying to learn every instrument he could lay his hands on and beginning to shape his sound. After studying musicology he discovered theatre as place to realize his musical ideas. He started working at the Berliner Schaubuehne where he composed for Thomas Ostermeier as well as Ivo van Hove. He went on to collaborating with several other internationally renowned theatre artists like Kirill Serebrennikov, Falk Richter and Kornél Mundruczo at theaters like the Barbican London, Gogol Center Moscow, Thalia Hamburg, ITA Amsterdam or the Volksbühne Berlin. His music is also being in TV and film, i.e. his score for the documentary “Offline” by Mehran Djojan.
He also acts as a producer and mix engineer for artists like Sandra Hüller, PaulaPaula, Kliffs amongst others and is a part of the synth rock trio Polypore.
In 2017 he founded his own label Akkerbouw with the latest release being his second album „The Laws Of Attraction“, which was released in 2022.
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