Philip Gröning

Philip Groening ( born April 7, 1959 in Dusseldorf ) is a German director and documentary filmmaker.

Life

After graduating from the Gorres -Gymnasium ( Dusseldorf ) Groening was in 1978 in the technical field of film and TV productions worked. 1979-81 he studied psychology and medicine and worked as an assistant director for Peter Keglevic. In 1982 he began to study film at the Munich Film School. A year later his first short film was released, the dry float. His feature film debut in 1986 with the film Groening summer, for which he the Kodak Award erhielt.1990 he was awarded the Prize of North Rhine-Westphalia in Amsterdam.

With the grotesque Terrorists Groening made ​​headlines in 1992 because German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, whose assassination plan the three protagonists, the film (unsuccessfully) wanted to ban. In Locarno, the film was awarded the Bronze Leopard. In 2000, L' amour, l' argent, l' amour, a filmed in the style of experimental films of the 70s road movie about a prostitute and a laborer appeared. For this film, he received the Hessian Film Award for Best Director; Actress Sabine Timoteo was named Best Actress by the Swiss Film Prize and the Bronze Leopard at Locarno, protagonists Florian Stetter was awarded the Max Ophüls Award for Best Actor.

His film Into Great Silence from 2004 was nominated with the Bavarian Film Award, the Special Jury Prize at Sundance and won the 2006 Best Documentary at the European Film Awards and was also responsible for the German Film Prize 2006.

In 2013 his drama was the wife of the police premiered as the only German contribution in the competition at the International Film Festival of Venice and was awarded the Special Jury Prize.