The 24 nominees for the German Music Author Awards have been announced.
The winners of the German Musikautorenpreis – run by GEMA and voted on by songwriters and associated professionals – will be announced on 21 May 2015 at a festive gala in Berlin.
The victors in two categories – Life’s Work and Most Successful Publisher will be announced at a later date.
The latter is determined by GfK Entertainment and revealed at the ceremony.
German Music Author Awards 2015 – Nominees
Composition – Pop
- Element of Crime (Jakob Ilja, Richard Pappik, Sven Regener, David Young)
- Monta
- Rakede (Daniel Karelly, Julian Paul Schmit)
Composition – Hip-Hop
- Your friends (Luke Nimscheck, Markus Pauli, Florian Sump)
- Dexter (Dexter)
- Farhot (Farhad Samadzada)
Composition – Audiovisual Media
- Karim Sebastian Elias
- Fabian Römer
- Ralf Wienrich
Composition – Music Theatre
- Mark Andre
- Helmut Oehring
- Stephan Winkler
Composition – Orchestra
- Adriana Hölszky
- Tobias PM Schneid
- Walter Zimmermann
lyrics Schlager
- Udo Brinkmann
- Heike Fransecky
- Lukas Hainer
Lyrics Rock / Pop
- Wolfgang Niedecken
- Spaceman Spiff (Hannes Wittmer)
- Marcus Wiebusch
Newcomer Award (Division U)
- Cosby (Robin Karow, Marie Kobylka, Kilian Reischl, Christoph Werner)
- Marcel Brell
- Sea + Air (Daniel Benjamin, Eleni Zafiriadou)
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