Robert Thalheim
Robert Thalheim (born 2 July 1974 in Berlin ) is a German theater and film director and screenwriter.
Life
Robert Thalheim worked 1997/1998 at the Berliner Ensemble as an assistant director. From 1998 to 2000 he studied German Literature, History and Politics at the Free University of Berlin. During this time he published the first copies of the cultural magazine Plotki. In 2000 he started a film directing course at the Film School in Potsdam -Babelsberg. His teacher was directed here by Pink Praunheim, who supervised him at first film work.
In 2003 he returned to the theater and directed his own play Wild Boys at the Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin. In 2004 he debuted with his first feature film net, for which he won an award at the German Film Festival with the film art prize. In 2006, he staged at Auschwitz, where he had worked in the 1990s in the International Youth Meeting, he graduated film And Along Come Tourists. The movie was shown in a side series at the Film Festival of Cannes in 2007 and was mid-August 2007 in the German cinemas. It was produced by the director - colleagues Hans -Christian Schmid and Britta Knöller.
With Kolja Mensing he created mosque DE, a scenic reconstruction of the building of the Khadija Mosque in Berlin- Heinersdorf 2006. The work was first performed on February 27, 2010 at the Schauspielhaus Hannover.
2011 came Thalheim's Westwind feature film to the cinema, which deals with the interaction of young East German athletes and German tourists in Hungary just before the Wall came down. Together with the directors Tom Tykwer, Chris Kraus, Axel Ranisch and Juliet by Heinz turned Thalheim the documentary Pink Baby (2012 ) on the relationship to their common " film father " and mentor Rosa von Praunheim.
Works
Filmography
- 2005: net
- 2007: And Along Come Tourists
- 2011: West Wind
- 2012: Rosa Children
- 2013: Parents
Plays
- (together with Kolja Mensing ): Mosque DE. Criminals Verlag, Berlin, 2011. ISBN 978-3-940426-69-7. First performed at the Schauspielhaus Hannover on 27 February 2010.
Awards
- 2005: Screenplay prize at the Berlinale for the movie Net
- 2005: Art of Film Award for net
- 2005: Nomination and Award of the Max Ophüls Film Festival for net
- 2006: Prize of the German Film Critics "Best feature film debut" for net
- 2008: German Critics Prize
- 2010: Culture Prize of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover
- 2011: Eberhard Fechner scholarship VG Bild-Kunst for Along Come Tourists