Die unsichtbare Hauptrolle: Die dramaturgische Kraft der Filmmusik

It leads without demanding attention. It creates atmosphere, rhythm, and emotion, and often determines how we remember a scene. Film music is far more than accompaniment: it is a narrative tool that deepens images, fills silences, and gives stories their own inner momentum.

Director Eva Trobisch, whose new film »Etwas ganz Besonderes«, following its premiere in the competition at the 2026 Berlinale, is now showing in cinemas, approaches the relationship between image, rhythm, and sound with remarkable precision. Joining her is Hansjörg Weisbrich, one of Europe’s most acclaimed film editors. Through his collaborations with directors including Maren Ade, Luca Guadagnino, and Edward Berger, he has developed a profound understanding of the interplay between editing and music, and of how their interaction creates cinematic tension.

In conversation with music journalist and curator Milena Fessmann, they discuss the creative collaboration between directing, editing, and composition, the careful use of silence and sound, and why film music often has its greatest impact precisely when we are barely aware of it.

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