Konrad Boehmer is a composer, culture researcher and administrator. He is the author of numerous musicological articles and essays on a variety of topics (including serialism, composing electronic music, cultural politics, European musical life, and sociology of music). He has held numerous positions as an administrator, for example with Geneco and Buma/Stemra. Boehmer composes both pure electronic music and works for orchestra, vocalists and instruments combined with electronic instruments, and music theatre. Among the audible sources of his inspiration are Cologne neo-expressionism and the music of Edgar Varèse. The Romantic Faust character is a recurrent element in his work. Boehmer’s music is performed internationally. “I learned a great deal in a technical sense from Boulez. Bruno Maderna made the deepest impression on me (certainly with regard to aesthetics!). I am, thus, torn inside – just as Novalis put it 2 centuries ago – ‘internally pluralistic’. If your whole life you are weighed down by what you learned from your teachers, you remain a psychological cripple who produces handicrafts.”