Dietmar Diesner (* 2. September 1955 in Elsterwerda) ist ein deutscher Holzbläser (Sopransaxophon, Klarinette), der vor allem im Bereich der freien Improvisationsmusik tätig ist. Diesner studierte von 1975 bis 1978 am Konservatorium in Cottbus und anschließend bis 1984 an der Hochschule für Musik „Carl Maria von Weber“ Dresden. Seit 1979 spielte er in der „Dresdner Musikbrigade“ und im Improvisationstrio „Evidence“, seit 1982 ist er auf internationalen Festivals zu hören. Er arbeitete mit Musikern wie Ulrich Gumpert, Ernst-Ludwig Petrowsky, Manfred Schulze, Hans-Günther Wauer, Hans Rempel, Joe Sachse, Hannes Bauer und Radu Malfatti, aber seit 1982 auch mit Helge Leibergs interdisziplinärem Projekt „Gokan“ und seit 1983 mit Sasha Waltz. Später trat er auch mit Tony Oxley, Fred Frith, Arto Lindsay, Sven-Åke Johansson (CD „Konsumdelikatessware“, 1988), Heiner Goebbels, Jon Rose, Shelley Hirsch, David Moss, Günter Baby Sommer, Franz Koglmann oder Theo Jörgensmann auf. Seit 1983 gibt er auch Solokonzerte als „saxophon-actor“. Auch gehörte er zu Georg Gräwes „Grubenklangorchester“ und dem „King Übü Orchestra“ sowie zu Noisebands wie „Kixx“ („Weißer Voodoo“, 1991) oder „Slawtherhaus“. Die Entwicklung von präparierten elektronischen Saxophonsounds und individuellen Spieltechniken brachte Diesner, der Echtzeitkomposition propagiert, dem Reclams Jazzlexikon zufolge den Ruf eines innovativen Improvisators ein. Er schrieb auch Bühnenmusiken für Heiner Müller und die Filmmusik zu „Franz Fühmann – Das Bergwerk“. Dietmar Diesner is an active participant in the contemporary music scene, in particular in Europe, the United States and Canada. He has been an established member of the east German jazz scene since 1979, and has performed so-called improvised music with numerous international groups. Dietmar Diesner was born in 1955 in Elsterwerda (GDR). He received his first musical training at the Cottbus Conservatory in 1966 and went on to study at the “Carl Maria von Weber" College of Music in Dresden from which he graduated in 1985. He had already been granted an official license to work as a professional musician in 1979 and from that time forward he has earned his living as a freelance musician, first in Berlin and abroad. He is now based in Dresden. Dietmar Diesner works actively to develop new performance techniques for the saxophone. He is one of the few players who have mastered circular breathing, a technique which enables a performer to create continuous and uninterrupted sound structures and maintain them over a long period of time. Dietmar Diesner is a practitioner of so-called “real-time composition and performance", an established form of improvised music which combines the spontaneous-intuitive and compositional aspects of one¹s individual style with spatial and other aspects present at the moment of performance. The musician moves beyond his normal role of (mere) interpreting or improvisation to organize the dramatic-scenic course of the moment with which he is confronted, using aspects such as the room, its echo, other people and their reactions, as well as the relative quiet or noise. In addition to his work as a performer, Dietmar Diesner has composed music for the stage, which has been heard in productions at the Theater 1230 in Bern, Switzerland, the Staatstheater in Dresden, the Kleist-Theater in Frankfurt/Oder, the carroussel theater in Berlin, among others. In 1988-89 he collaborated with playwright-director Heiner Müller. In 1997 Diesner's music was used in the documentary film "Franz Fühmann - Das Bergwerk" (Franz Fühmann - The Mine) by Karlheinz Mund, in 2000 in "Preussen - ein Streitfall" (Prussia - A Dispute) (TV arte/ORB) and in 2001 in "Konzert im Freien" ("A Place in Berlin") (with Günter "Baby" Sommer) by Jürgen Böttcher (Strawalde). Appearing himself in a Tilo Schiemenz short film, "DD", Dietmar Diesner is a saxophone actor in the truest sense. Dietmar Diesner has taken part in numerous radio, TV, and record productions, as well as concerts and music festivals. The musicians with whom he has performed include Tony Oxley, Radu Malfatti, Paul Rutherford, Phil Wachsman, Barry Guy, Phil Minton, Sven-Ake Johansson, Tristan Honsinger, Floris Floridis, Irene Schweizer, David Gattiker, John Lindberg, Gerry Hemmingway, Shelley Hirsch, Laura Newton, Fred Frith, Elliot Sharp, Arto Lindsay, David Moss, Jim Meneses, Butch Morris, Jon Rose, Han Bennink, Tenko, Dror Feiler, Alex von Schlippenbach, Dror Feiler, ... as well as German musicians such as Carlo Inderhees, Hansi Noack, Lothar Fiedler, Gottfried Rössler, Steffen Hübner, Ernst-Ludwig Petrowsky, Heinz Becker, Klaus Koch, Joe Sachse, Manfred Hering, Christoph Winckel, Ulrich Gumpert, Hanno Rempel, Conny and Johannes Bauer, Manfred Schulze, Heiner Reinhardt, Peter Hollinger, Heiner Goebbels, Günter "Baby" Sommer, Georg Gräwe, Wiegald Boning, Lars Rudolph, Grit Diaz de Arce, Peter Kowald, Nico Richter de Vroe, Paul Lovens, Erhard Hirt, ... Since 1982 Dietmar Diesner has given solo performances that blur the boundaries of genre. He has worked with writers like Bert Papenfuss, artists such as Hans Scheuerecker, Helge Leiberg (Performancegroup GOKAN), Prof. Claus Weidensdorfer, Prof. Jürgen Haufe, and Matthias Bolz (TON-BILD-KUMPANEI), Frank Voigt (art project "Metamorphosen"), Hans W. Scheibner and the frequency performer INGO R. Diesner¹s collaborations with dancers like Fine Kwiatkowski and Sasha Waltz (Berlin), Takako Suzuki (Jap), David Zambrano (Venezuela), Mark Tompkins (USA), and Frans Poelstra (Netherlands) have been presented on stages throughout the world, including New York, Paris and Philadelphia.