Andres Veiel
Andres Veiel ( born October 16, 1959 in Stuttgart ) is a German film director, theater director and writer.
Life and work
From 1982 to 1988 Andres Veiel studied psychology in West Berlin and completed between 1985 and 1989 a directing and dramatic training at the international seminars directed at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien, including Krzysztof Kieślowski at.
He made the first productions in a Berlin prison and with a group of old actresses. It was founded in 1991, the documentary Winter Night's Dream. In 1994 he led at Balagan Director, he turned with a Jewish- Palestinian theater group in Israel. The survivors (1996 ) is his most personal film. He goes in on the fate of three of his classmates who had taken his own life after high school.
Known to a large audience Veiel was mainly through his documentary Black Box BRD (2001), in which he contrasts the biographies of the database manager Alfred Lord Hausen and the RAF terrorist Wolfgang Grams each other.
In 2004, the documentary Addicted to Acting on four young drama student at the Academy of Dramatic Arts " Ernst Busch" Berlin.
Together with the dramaturge Gesine Schmidt Veiel wrote the documentary play The kick, which was premiered in April 2005 at the Theater Basel and at the Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin. The piece focuses on the murder of the young Marinus Schoeberl 2002 at the Brandenburg village Potzlow and is in the tradition of documentary theater by Peter Weiss and Heinar Kipphardt. In 2006 it was invited to the Berlin Theatre Meeting and numerous guest performances in Germany and abroad. The piece was previously performed by more than thirty theaters in the German-speaking countries and translated into seven languages. Veiel own documentary about the substance was premiered at the Berlinale 2006. 2005 produced RBB Radio Culture in collaboration with the Southwest Broadcasting a radio play version of The Kick in the Veiel took over the radio drama editing.
In addition to his films Andres Veiel explores his fabrics also in nonfiction. Black Box BRD. Alfred Lord Hausen, the German bank, the RAF and Wolfgang Grams goes in his extensive research far beyond the eponymous film. In February 2007 she released The Kick. A lesson about violence, for which he was awarded the 2008 German Youth Literature Prize in the category of nonfiction. It consists of a piece of the kick and three times as wide approaches. This book explains Jens Bisky in the Süddeutsche Zeitung, "could be a classic: a history book about the present as well as a model analysis of a violent crime ."
Veiel was and is a lecturer at various film schools and universities, including at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin ( dffb), the Free University of Berlin, the University of Zurich, Ann Arbor (Michigan University, USA ), in Johannesburg, New Delhi, Calcutta, Osaka, Cairo and Tunis. He is a member of the European and the German Film Academy and the Academy of Arts.
On 5 September 2008, he turned the segment over the editorship of the Bild-Zeitung Volker Heise's 24 - hour documentary project 24h Berlin - A Day in the Life, which aired exactly a year later on several television stations.
Veiel 2010 turned first feature film Who if not we been invited to compete in the 2011 Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the Alfred Bauer Prize. The film has the history of the RAF on the topic and revolves around the people Bernward Vesper, Gudrun Ensslin and Andreas Baader. The screenplay, which both Veiel own research as well as on the book Vesper, Ensslin, Baader - based primal scenes of German terrorism of the journalist Gerd Koenen, was nominated for the Thomas Strittmatter Screenplay Award 2009. Protagonists were August Diehl, Lena and Alexander Fehling Lauzemis. The film has won numerous awards, including in 2011 with the German Film Award in Bronze, the Hessian Film Award for Best Feature Film and for Best Actress, as well as two awards ( Best Film in Silver, best male lead ) on the European Cinema Film Festival Seville.
2012 led Veiel discussions with (former) board members from various banks. From this he developed the piece " The Raspberry Reich", which was premiered at the Staatstheater Stuttgart and at the Deutsches Theater Berlin in January 2013.
Awards (selection)
Filmography
Pieces / productions
- 2005 The Kick, Theater Basel and Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin ( invitation to the Berlin Theatre Meeting 2006)
- 2013 The Raspberry Reich, Staatstheater Stuttgart Deutsches Theater Berlin, Free Acting Ensemble Frankfurt
Publications
- Andres Veiel: In here you can have it all. A piece of jail. In: Theater, theater. Current pieces. Vol 2 S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1992.
- Andres Veiel: The last sample. A piece of revolution in the nursing home. Play in 3 acts. S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1991.
- Andres Veiel: Black Box BRD. Alfred Lord Hausen, the German bank, the RAF and Wolfgang Grams. German publishing house, Munich 2002, ISBN 978-3-421-05468-5.
- Andres Veiel: The Kick. A lesson in violence. German publishing house, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-421-04213-2.
- Gerd Koenen, Andres Veiel: 1968th video track one year. Torchbearers Verlag, Köln 2008, ISBN 978-3-7716-4359-1.
- Andres Veiel, Beatice Ottersbach (ed.): documentary. Workshop reports. UGC publishing company, Konstanz 2008, ISBN 978-3-86764085-5.