Benjamin Heisenberg
Benjamin Heisenberg ( born June 9, 1974 in Tübingen ) is a German film director, writer and visual artist. His grandfather was the physicist and Nobel laureate Werner Heisenberg.
Life
Heisenberg grew up in Reichenberg near Würzburg, the son of neurobiologist Martin Heisenberg and Apollonia Countess zu Eulenburg, a niece of Carl Friedrich and Richard von Weizsäcker at. After finishing school in 1993 he studied sculpture under Olaf Metzel to 1999 and received his diploma in 2000 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. From 1995 to 1997 he worked as an assistant to Walter Grasskamp at the Department of Art History of the Academy. Upon completion of his studies in 1998 Heisenberg was awarded the debutant price, with the best three students a year group are excellent. Immediately afterwards he studied film directing at the University of Television and Film Munich until he completed the studies in 2005 with his film sleeper.
In 2010 he received for his film The Robber, has the life of the Austrian criminals Johann Berger box on the subject, an invitation to the competition of the 60th Berlin Film Festival. He also won the Bavarian Film Award for Best New Director and in 2011 the first ever Austrian Film Prize. 2014 he received his first comedy super-ego and you got an invitation in the Panorama section of the 64th Special Film Festival Berlin.
Together with Christoph Hochhäusler and Sebastian Kutzli 1998 he founded the film magazine Revolver and is still with Christoph Hochhäusler, Jens Börner, Franz Müller and Nicolas Wacker Barth co-editor of the journal.
Stylistically, he is mostly attributed to the Berlin school.
Filmography
Awards
- 2000: Debutant Award of the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich
- 2001: Award in the Visual Arts Department of the City of Munich
- 2004: Starter Film Award of the City of Munich, for the opportunity
- 2004: Grand Prix du Jury ( D' film Écoles Européens ), Premier Plan Festival D' Anger, for the opportunity
- 2005: First Steps Award for sleepers
- 2005: Midas Prize, EuroPAWS, for best fiction drama set in science and technology, London, for sleepers
- 2005: Award Cinéma Tout Ecran best movie, Perspectives Film Festival International du Cinéma, Geneva, for sleepers
- 2006: Special Jury Prize, Premier Plan Festival D' Anger, for sleepers
- 2006: Max Ophüls Prize ( Best Film, Best Book, Best Music ) for sleepers
- 2006: Best Film, Film Arts Festival Schwerin for sleepers
- 2006: Best Movie, Festival du Cinéma Politique, Barcelona, for sleepers
- 2006: Bavarian Culture Prize of the E.ON Bayern AG
- 2006: Young Artist's Prize of the DEFA Foundation
- 2010: Bavarian Film Award, Category New Director for The Robber
- 2010: Special Prize of the blogger, Festival Paris Cinema, for The Robber
- 2010: Best Director, Palic International Film Festival, for The Robber
- 2010: Best Film, Maverick, Calgery International Film Festival, for The Robber
- 2010: Audience Award and Special Mention of the Jury, La Roche Sur Yon International Film Festival, for The Robber '
- 2010: Best Feature Film, Zagreb International Film Festival, for The Robber
- 2010: Award for Best Screenplay, Gijon International Film Festival, for The Robber
- 2010: award of the city of Würzburg
- 2011: Austrian Film Award, Best Director for The Robber
- 2011: Best Movie, Dublin International Film Festival