Neco Celik

Neco Çelik ( * 1972 in Berlin ) is a German educator, film and theater director of Turkish descent.

Life

Çelik is the son of Turkish immigrants who came as guest workers to Germany. He grew up in Berlin 's Kreuzberg district, where he was a 36er as a youth member of the gang, out of which 36 were boys.

As part of his training to become educators Neco worked in 1993 in the Kreuzberg Youth Centre Naunyn Ritze and organized precisely where film projects.

Çelik is married with Nermin Celik (born Ucar ), they have five children.

Services

Neco Çelik turned the fictional documentary 36 m² Fabric (1997) and the feature films everyday life ( 2002), Urban Guerillas (2003) and short films and in 2001 founded the film production company " 36 Pictures". In 2006 he turned the TV documentary Kreuzberg nights - Young Turks in Berlin, which was broadcast on ZDF 37 degrees in the series. Çelik was allegedly referred to by the U.S. Vanity Fair as " Spike Lee " of Germany. With the dramatic comedy kisik Ateste 15 dakika 2006 he staged his first Turkish-language film. He is regarded as a representative of auteur cinema.

Since 2006 Çelik also staged plays and operas, first Black Virgins of Feridun Zaimoglu and Günter lace 2006 at Berlin's HAU, then Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet in 2007 also at HAU, Ausgegrenzt 2008 to the Munich Chamber Play Xavier Durringers and 2009 Nathan Messiah at Ballhaus Naunynstrasse. In 2011 he took over at Ludger Vollmer's opera after Fatih Akin's film Gegen die Wand at the Staatsoper Stuttgart his first opera director. In 2012, he staged Dimitri Shostakovich's musical comedy Moscow Birdcherrylands at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden.

Awards

• 2004: Audience Award at the film festival Turkey / Germany in Nuremberg ( for Urban Guerillas )
• 2011: German Theatre Prize The fist category " directed musical theater "