
Paul Smaczny
- Known for
- Production
- Born
- January 1, 1957
- Birthplace
- Regensburg, Germany
Paul Smaczny is a German-based documentary film-maker and a producer of concert and opera recordings. His latest work is the award-winning Knowledge is the Beginning, about the West-Eastern Divan orchestra.
Filmography

Gustav Mahler Symphony No.4 (Ricardo Chailly, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra) TBA
Producer
- Metanoia
Metanoia TBA
Director

Triegel meets Cranach 2026
Director, Writer

Arnold Schönberg - Der rastlose Visionär 2024
Producer

Riccardo Chailly & Alexander Malofeev Lucerne Festival 2024 2024
Producer

Rock Chicks 2023
Executive Producer
- Der Freischütz, Konzerthaus Berlin
Der Freischütz, Konzerthaus Berlin 2021
Executive Producer

Winterreise 2021
Producer

Beethoven Reloaded 2020
Producer

Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet 2020
Producer

Universe, Incomplete 2019
Producer

The Unanswered Ives - Wunderkind. Wall-Street-Gigant. Klangpionier 2019
Producer

Leidenschaft und Pflicht und Liebe - Die drei Leben der Clara Schumann 2019
Producer

Barbara Hannigan - Ein Opernstar auf neuen Wegen 2019
Executive Producer

Dvořák: From the New World 2018
Producer
- Music and Power
Music and Power 2018
Producer

Maestras: The Long Journey of Women to the Podium 2017
Producer

Ludwig van Beethoven: Tripelkonzert op.56 2017
Producer

Midori Plays Bach. Sonatas And Partitas For Solo Violin 2017
Producer

Adam's Passion 2015
Producer

The Lost Paradise 2015
Executive Producer

Mozart Requiem - Claudio Abbado & Lucerne Festival Orchestra 2013
Producer

John Cage: Journeys in Sound 2012
Director, Producer

Mozart - Berliner Philharmoniker - Radek Baborák - Daniel Barenboim 2012
Production Director

Die Thomaner 2012
Director

Mahler: Symphony No. 4 / Schoenberg: Pelleas and Melisande 2009
Producer

Haydn: Die Schöpfung - Adam Fischer 2009
Production Design

Händel Celebration Concert 2009
Producer

El Sistema 2008
Director

Johann Sebastian Bach: Brandenburg Concertos 1-6 2008
Producer

Americans in Pyongyang 2008
Executive Producer

Daniel Barenboim: Beethoven - Piano Concertos 1-5 2007
Producer

A Night Of Rhythm & Dance (Waldbühne 2000) 2006
Producer

Un Ballo in Maschera 2005
Producer

Knowledge Is the Beginning 2005
Director

Keith Jarrett: The Art of Improvisation 2004
Executive Producer
- Pierre Boulez: Emotion and Analysis
Pierre Boulez: Emotion and Analysis 2004
Director

Claudio Abbado: Hearing the Silence 2003
Director, Producer

Europakonzert 2001 from Istanbul 2001
Producer

Abbado: The Silence that Follows the Music 1996
Director, Writer
Credits from TMDB.