He studied composition and conducting from 1957 to 1962 at the German Academy of Music Berlin, the current Academy of Music 'Hanns Eisler'. After engagements at various theaters and a Kapellmeister activity in Rostock (1968-1970) he turned to acting music and working with actors. From 1971 to 1974 he was a lecturer at the drama school 'Ernst Busch', after which he was a member of the „Deutsches Theater Berlin” until 2003, where he composed the stage music for numerous productions. Twice he received the Critics' Prize of the „Berliner Zeitung”. Repeatedly he also designed recitals of actors at the Deutsches Theater, starting with the 'German Folksongs' directed by Adolf Dresen (1976) on the 'Berliner Lieder' e.g. with Kurt Böwe (1987), the evening 'A Yearning ...' with Dagmar Manzel, Kathrin Klein, Daniel Morgenroth and Jochen Kowalski (1995) to Dagmar Manzel's solo recital 'Ich bin ein Wesen leicht Art' (2003). Since 2010 he is director and arranger of the 'Salonorchester Unter'n Linden' in which members of the Staatskapelle Berlin perform together with the soloists Winnie Böwe, Dagmar Manzel and Jochen Kowalski. Uwe Hilprecht has edited operettas by Offenbach for the Deutsche Theater and the Berliner Ensemble, which are played by other houses. He also worked for television, for the record and for audiobooks. (Rainer Stelle)