Christian Petzold (director)

Christian Petzold ( born September 14, 1960 in Hilden ) is a German film director and screenwriter who is attributed to the Berlin school. He has received numerous prizes and awards.

Life

Growing up in Haan, he made after leaving school in 1979 his community service ( " No escape to Berlin !") In the small film club of the local YMCA ( "dual programs, consisting of an appetizer and a movie artwork, all for maladjusted young people. "). Since 1981 he has lived in Berlin, where he first began studying theater sciences and German Studies at the Free University and then studied 1988 to 1994 at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin ( dffb).

His debut film in 1995 was his final film at the Film School titled pilots. With his film ghosts, he took part in the competition of the Berlinale 2005 and the 2007 with his film Yella. The screenplays for his films, he writes himself, in many cases together with Harun Farocki. As a former teacher at the dffb Farocki was an important influence for Petzold.

While this is, however, associated more with a new devotion to realism and political cinema, to Petzold's films since The internal security are characterized by a preoccupation with the latest from the intermediate area between life and death. In Ghosts, the main character leads the life of a phantom, in Yella, the main character may be passed at the beginning of the film. These three films form originally proposed by Petzold not so-called "Ghost Trilogy".

Followed in 2008 by Dead Man, Wolfsburg and Yella fourth collaboration with Nina Hoss at the movie Jerichow. The drama is about an out of Afghanistan in the north-eastern German lowlands returning soldiers who embark on an affair with a married woman. The film received an invitation to compete in the 65th Venice Film Festival 2008. Moreover Petzold was nominated for the 2009 German Film Award for Best Director.

Although Petzold was exclusively known as a film director, he did not show it take, at the invitation of the Interim director Oliver Reese at the Deutsches Theater Berlin Arthur Schnitzler's The Lonely Way, turn to stage with Nina Hoss, on 14 March 2009 had premiere.

In August 2010, the filming started on the movie project Dreileben to the next Petzold also the directors Dominik Graf and Christoph Hochhäusler each contributed a movie. All three films revolve from different perspectives to a crime that occurred in a Thuringian town called Three Lives. Petzold post something better than death had with those of the other directors at the Berlinale 2011 in the section "Forum" Premiere and found a split in the media.

2012 received Petzold for his feature film Barbara, again with Nina Hoss in the title role, his third invitation for the competition at the Berlinale. The film is set in East Germany in 1980 and is about a doctor who is transferred to a provincial hospital, after having unsuccessfully applied for an exit request. Petzold was honored with the Silver Bear for best director and received in the same year nominations for the German Film Award in the categories of direction and screenplay. 2013 he received for " his intellectual brilliance and [ s ] a sense of can-do stories" that " him heir Käutner [ did ] ," the Helmut - Käutner price.

Filmography

Awards

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