Born in 1984, Florian C. Reithner completed his extensive musical training in St. Pölten and Vienna, among other places. Concert tours as a conductor, pianist, organist and composer have taken him to many European countries, Asia and North America. For several years, Reithner has also devoted himself to scoring films, including DER LETZTE MANN – THE LAST LAUGH (1924), DER ZINKER – THE SQUEAKER (1931), and ANGST – FEAR (1928).
Florian C. Reithner was commissioned by Bertelsmann to create a new score for F.W. Murnau’s TABU (1930) for the UFA Film Nights 2015. For his new composition of the music to DER BERG DES SCHICKSALS – MOUNTAIN OF DESTINY, Reithner performed as a soloist on the organ with the Metropolis Orchester Berlin at the UFA Film Nights 2022. This year, the same orchestra will play Reithner’s composition for Ernst Lubitsch’s KOHLHIESEL'S DAUGHTERS under the direction of Burkhard Götze. The second film of the evening, I DON'T WANT TO BE A MAN marks the debut of the five-member Ensemble Narrativ led by Maria Reich and Florian C. Reithner.
With the Metropolis Orchester Berlin, a professional cinema orchestra entered Berlin’s cinema and music scene in 2017 – for the first time since the silent film era. Founded by conductor Burkhard Götze and Berlin musicians with a passion for silent film, the ensemble sets standards in the field of active silent film preservation and promotes the renaissance of a forgotten musical genre – cinema music. New compositions are also created exclusively for the orchestra. After a regular silent film series was first established at Berlin’s Babylon cinema, the Metropolis Orchestra can now be seen at other Berlin cultural venues as well, such as the Theater im Delphi, the Zeughauskino and Heimathafen Neukölln. The orchestra is also regularly invited to play at major film festivals.
In 2022, the Metropolis Orchester Berlin opened the UFA Film Nights with the music to MOUNTAIN OF DESTINY, and last year it accompanied WO IST COLETTI? – WHERE IS COLETTI? with a new composition by Richard Siedhoff. This year, the orchestra will be playing the UFA Film Nights for the third consecutive year, again performing music by Florian C. Reithner.
