Benjamin Herrmann

Benjamin Herrmann (born 1971 in Friedberg (Hessen) ) is a German film producer and the distributor.

Life

After his directing studies at the Munich Academy for Television and Film, where he prepares for his final film The Great Lacher has been awarded numerous short film awards in 1997, he was editorial director of the Department of German Films & TV Movies at ProSieben. There, he produced over 40 television and feature films, such as the critical and popular success deadly enemies by Oliver Hirschbiegel, Tomy Wigand Football is our life, or excellent with two Adolf Grimme price Phantom of Dennis Gansel. In 1998, he was also Managing Director of ProSieben feature film production subsidiary Seven Pictures, where he was an executive producer for one of the most successful German films since 1945, Michael Herbig Der Schuh des Manitu, responsible.

2000 Benjamin Herrmann Managing Director of production and distribution company of Senator Film. Successful films such as Oliver Hirschbiegel's The Experiment, Peter Thorwarth What does not fit is made ​​to fit, Sönke Wortmann's Das Wunder von Bern, Christian Züberts Lammbock and Anno Saul Where is Fred? of it ( co - ) were produced and conferred. Its production Merry Christmas by Christian Carion was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

In 2006, he founded the Majestic, a new company that produces mainly German cinema and distributed films. The first major film Majestics, Cherry Blossoms - Hanami by Doris Dorrie, advanced with over 1.1 million visitors to the successful arthouse cinema film of 2008 In addition, produced and gave Benjamin Herrmann Philipp Stölzl mountaineering drama North Face and Florian Gall Berger John Rabe, for. Benjamin Hermann was awarded the German film Award and the Bavarian film Award for Best Film. Then he produced and gave Sherry Hormann's Desert Flower on the autobiography of Waris Dirie, again with over 1.1 million visitors one of the most successful German films of the year 2009. 2011 came its production Tom Sawyer in the cinemas, which reached nearly 450,000 visitors and for the German film Awards was nominated for Best Children's Film. 2012 starts the sequel, The Adventures of Huck Finn. Most recently, he gave with great success the bestseller adaptation wetlands.

2011 took over Benjamin Herrmann held by the Odeon movie shares his Majestic company to 100%.

In 2013 he produced together with Florian Gall Berger tragicomedy Up and away under the direction of Christian Zübert, with Florian David Fitz, Jürgen Vogel, Julia Koschitz, Miriam Stein and Hannelore Elsner in the lead roles.

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