Oliver Hirschbiegel
Oliver Hirschbiegel ( born December 29, 1957 in Hamburg ) is a German film director. His commercially successful works include The experiment and Downfall.
Career
After attending a Waldorf school, Hirschbiegel decided to go to sea as a scullion. Soon, however, he decided to study at the Hamburg Academy of Fine Arts in painting and graphics. He later moved on to study in film.
Initial successes celebrated Hirschbiegel as a performance artist with the group M. Raskin Stichting, together with Andy Coerper, Rotraut Pape and Eschi Fiege. He was also instrumental in the development of a video magazine called Infermental.
Go to film Hirschbiegel came over his friend, screenwriter Michael Arnal, mediated him as manager for the third season of the television series Losberg. Here Hirschbiegel is also seen in a funny appearance as an Italian gangster Tedesco on the side of Ida di Benedetto and Sky du Mont.
His first screenplay, The Go! Project could Hirschbiegel sell 1986 ZDF. He led here then also directed. This was followed in the next few years, several television projects. Noteworthy here is the 1991 broadcast thriller Murderous decision, which the same story is from the perspective of two people in the form of two films, the viewers themselves could determine the perspective: Both versions were broadcast in parallel in ARD and ZDF, a German television time process. Hirschbiegel also responsible for crime scene sequences Children's (1992) and eastward (1994 ), as he took in a total of fourteen episodes of the TV series Inspector Rex Director.
His first feature film was the psychological thriller The Experiment with Moritz Bleibtreu in 2001. For this he was, inter alia, awarded the Bavarian Film Prize. After this success his film followed in 2002 My last film with Hannelore Elsner in the lead role. Also for this movie Hirschbiegel has been widely praised by critics and audiences alike.
2004 followed the film with which he attracted worldwide attention: He directed, produced by Bernd Eichinger project Downfall. The film describes the last days of Adolf Hitler in the Führerbunker in Berlin. This film is not without controversy and made headlines worldwide for heated discussions. On the other hand, learned Hirschbiegel for his directorial work great recognition. The sinking has been awarded several prizes. This includes a nomination for Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards 2005.
In the fall following project Oliver Hirschbiegel the subject of the Nazi period remained faithful. On behalf of the NDR Hirschbiegel turned the TV movie An ordinary Jew after the eponymous stage play. The main role was played by Ben Becker.
Hirschbiegel's next film, this fourth film adaptation of the novel was the Body Snatchers, titled Invasion. Theatrical release in Germany was 18 October 2007. This film was created as opposed to Hirschbiegel's previous projects not in Germany but in the United States. The film remained at the box office far behind the expectations and was also rated by the critics mostly very negative. Oliver Hirschbiegel was replaced in the course of production as a director. The Wachowski brothers and James McTeigue worked in a row in the revision of the film without being mentioned by name in the credits.
Hirschbiegel produced in the UK and Ireland feature film Five Minutes of Heaven launched on 17 June 2010 in German cinemas and was seen by about 4,000 spectators.
2011 had Hirschbiegel on the co-produced by ZDF television series Borgia, a 25 million -US-dollar production about the Borgia family with an international cast with.
In 2007 he was a jury member of the 3rd Zurich Film Festival, chaired by U.S. producer Albert S. Ruddy. 2013 his film " Diana " was released. He lives in Vienna with his wife and two daughters.