called "Vinetu" even received double-platinum in their country in March 2000. The "master of tunes" was honoured in a very special way in 2002: as a jury member (Europäischer Förderpreis - a European talent award) Martin Böttcher represented Germany at that year's European Biennale for Film Music in Bonn. Selected filmography The Captain and His Hero (1955) Teenage Wolfpack (1956) Lemke's Widow (1957) Thirteen Old Donkeys (1958) My Ninety Nine Brides (1958) The Woman by the Dark Window (1960) Pension Schöller (1960) The Black Sheep (1960) You Don't Shoot at Angels (1960) The Forger of London (1961) Our House in Cameroon (1961) Max the Pickpocket (1962) The Inn on the River (1962) He Can't Stop Doing It (1962) Street of Temptation (1962) Treasure of the Silver Lake (1962) The Black Abbot (1963) Apache Gold (1963) Mission to Hell (1964) The Phantom of Soho (1964) Last of the Renegades (1964) The Shoot (1964) Among Vultures (1964) The Oil Prince (1965) The Desperado Trail (1965) Old Surehand (1965) Winnetou and the Crossbreed (1966) Long Legs, Long Fingers (1966) Zärtliche Haie (1967) Creature with the Blue Hand (1967) The Monk with the Whip (1967) The Valley of Death (1968) Dr. Fabian: Laughing Is the Best Medicine (1969) Holidays in Tyrol (1971) Willi Manages The Whole Thing (1972) Bread and Stones (1979) Awards On 9 October 1995 the Deutsche Filmmusikpreise (German film music awards) were awarded at the Bonner Bundeskunsthalle. Martin Böttcher was honoured with the prize for his "outstanding contribution to German film history, which shows in an abundant musical oeuvre"; he was the very first person to receive this prize (in later years also Mikis Theodorakis and Ennio Morricone were among the recipients). The continuous success of the Karl May melodies was the reason why, at the Karl May Festival in Bad Segeberg in 1997, Schacht Music Publishers honoured the tremendously successful composer with a "special award". On 15 April 2000 Martin Böttcher received the "Edgar Wallace Award in Gold" for his merits in German crime movies. On 25 January 2004 Martin Böttcher was awarded in St. Moritz the German Bundesverdienstkreuz (Federal Cross of Merit) for his lifetime achievement. On 28 May 2009 Martin Böttcher was honoured in Berlin with the Deutsche Musikautorenpreis (German music authors’ award), category "composition for films". On 27 June 2013 Martin Böttcher was honoured in Munich with the Look & Listen – Telepool-BR-Music-Award. Literature Reiner Boller: Winnetou-Melodie