Sönke Wortmann
Sönke Wortmann ( August 25, 1959 in Marl) is a German director, producer and former football player.
Life and work
Wortmann, son of a miner wanted after graduation, first professional football player and played, among others, are in the third- highest division at Westfalia Herne and SpVgg Erkenschwick. For a great career he lacked ambition, which is why he ended his career after three years in favor of studying.
He first studied one semester sociology in Münster before 1983 enrolled at the University of Television and Film Munich for studying directing. After he had spent a year as an exchange student at London's Royal College of Art, he graduated in 1989 his studies successfully. He also worked as a taxi driver and actor, including in the television series The Happy Family of the Bayerischer Rundfunk. His feature film debut as a director, he was in 1991 with the movie alone, women with Thomas Heinze, who attracted a million visitors in the cinemas. Also Kleine Haie (1992 ) with Jürgen Vogel, Kai Wiesinger and Gedeon Burkhard as aspiring drama students was a success and helped some actors to break through. The film The moving man with Til Schweiger, who was released in 1994, was one of the most successful post-war films with more than 6.5 million moviegoers.
The superwoman on a novel by Hera Lind turned Wortmann with Veronica Ferres supposedly just to prove that " even successful films can be made from successful books ". About 2.3 million visitors saw the film in German cinemas. The campus, which is to be created for the same reason, had significantly fewer viewers. Movies like Mr. Bluesman and the dramatic episode movie night with Maruschka Detmers St. Pauli, received good reviews for the Wortmann, were commercial flops and stayed only a short time in the cinema. The Hollywood after the worldwide success of Leon de Winter, whom he had with Tom Berenger, Jacqueline Kim, Rod Steiger and Burt Reynolds shot in America in 2001, came in 2004 in the German cinemas, and did not run very long. The Miracle of Bern was then with over three million viewers, the second most successful German movie of the year 2003.
When Confederation Cup in 2005 and during the football World Cup 2006 Wortmann accompanied the German national team with the camera. Integrated into the team he was at every game with on the bench and prepared during the World Cup on behalf of national coach Jürgen Klinsmann films that were presented to the players before each game and they agreed to leave the fray. The two-hour documentary about the World Cup, made of over 100 hours of footage was shown on 14 August 2006, the German national football team as a preview and ran on 5 October 2006 under the title Germany. A summer fairy tale in theaters. The film was a huge success with more than four million viewers. The net proceeds of the film was the SOS Children's Villages donated.
In 2009 they had Wortmanns far most elaborate film, the bestseller adaptation Pope Joan. Wortmann had 2007, directed by Volker Schlöndorff taken, who had developed the project for years. The original for the title role of the alleged Pope Joan provided Franka Potente was replaced by Johanna Wokalek, also appeared with John Goodman and David Wenham also international stars with. In Germany more than 20 million euro film reached approx. 2.5 million moviegoers, the great international success, however, did not materialize.
His 2012 released comedy film The Wedding Video turned Wortmann then under a pseudonym and mostly with little-known theater actors.
With the Little Shark Entertainment GmbH Wortmann In 1998 he founded his own production company. He also shot commercials for Nike, among other things, Gerolsteiner, Bitburger, Sony, Air Berlin, Commerzbank, German Bank, Prince role, Nivea, DFB, König Pilsener, Früh Kölsch, Vodafone, Honda, Dresdner Bank and SolarWorld. A commercial for the Hanse Merkur Insurance Group appeared in August 2007 with Mario Gómez, besides there were spots for the Aachen Münchener (including " Heiko meet again ", " At the parachute " ) with Mario Adorf and for the Rewe Group in 2010 with Lukas Podolski. ( " The train comes !") In a commercial for the German Bahn AG occurs Wortmann on itself.
He is an active member of the German national team authors ( Autonama ). From 3 April 2008, he supported the campaign "Your Football Club", who wanted to try in a year to generate 30,000 members who pay 39.95 euros per year. For this, they should have a say in transfers, the completion of friendly matches, the jersey color, merchandising and other internal association matters have. This initiative emerged after the British model Ebbsfleet United. The concept was presented to several associations and in the end it was decided ( as Sönke Wortmann ) as a partner for the SC Fortuna Köln. "Your Football Club" was one of 2010 9.202 members. The initiative, which had missed their target so, was completed in 2012.
Sönke Wortmann is a member of Alliance 90/The Greens. In the election of the German President in 2010 and 2012 belonged Wortmann on a proposal from the North Rhine- Westphalian green of the 14th and 15th federal assembly to.
Sönke Wortmann is married to actress Cecilia Kunz and has three children. He lives with his family in Dusseldorf.
Filmography
As a director,
As a performer,
As a producer,
- 2001: Lammbock - Everything in handmade
- 2005: Arnies Welt
- 2008: Hardcover
- 2009: Hang Time - No easy game
- 2011: An island named Udo
- 2012: fame
Theater
Bibliography
- The Miracle of Bern. Audiobook at Hörverlag, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-89940-205-7.
- Germany, a summer fairy tale. World Cup Diary Cologne 2006, ISBN 3-462-03759-5.