Christoph Silber

Christoph Silber ( born April 26, 1971 in Berlin as Christoph Schu sink ) is a German author who lives in the USA. In the film business, he came next to his work on German and English screenplays as a producer and director in appearance.

Life

Christoph Silber spent his childhood and youth in Berlin and London. He grew up bilingual. His mother is the German literary translator Christa Schuenke. His foster father is who grew up in England Shakespeare translator, publicist and theater dramaturge Maik Hamburger.

Before starting his writing career, he worked as a musician, translator and freelance journalist. He translated American books on film and screenplays for German book publishers, including Quentin Tarantino's "Pulp Fiction". The success of this translation led 1995 silver first professional engagement as the author at the Burgtheater in Vienna, where he wrote an adaptation of Puccini's " Tosca" for the speaking stage. This led to further work for the theater and contacts in the movie business.

As a screenwriter of films had silver by numerous works for television and book adaptations for the big screen his break when director Wolfgang Becker chose him as co- writer for "Good Bye, Lenin! ". Silver has since been involved in numerous, often award-winning films such as "North Face " at home and abroad and has participated in hit films such as " Devil's Kickers " and " Hanni & Nanni " films. He is a member of the German Film Academy and the Writers Guild of America.

With his Berlin business partner Thorsten Wettcke he wrote successful TV detective series, including the German press acclaimed Hamburg crime scenes " Investigative " and " On the Sunny Side ". As chief authors developed silver and Wettcke with the North German Radio embodied by the figure of Mehmet Kurtuluş crime scene investigator Cenk Batu. For this work they won the 2009 Adolf Grimme Audience Award. The two also wrote, inter alia, the Münster Tatort " between the ears" for Germany's most popular Ermittlerduo Jan Josef Liefers and Axel Prahl.

Silver lives predominantly in the United States, the homeland of his wife since early 2008. Together with the American filmmaker Stefan Schaefer 2009, he founded the New York independent production company Silver Shepherd film. Their award-winning first production " My Last Day Without You" starring Nicole Beharie and Ken Duken is in Germany under the title " Nie Mehr Ohne Dich " appeared. 2012 Silver moved to Los Angeles, where he was taken as a freelance screenwriter of the Management Company Industry Entertainment under contract.

In Europe, silver has played alongside Germany on projects in Austria, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and Italy, where he worked with Terence Hill 2007/2008.

2011 honored the New York Vilcek Foundation as part of its silver AIFP program at the Hawaii International Film Festival as a "film maker in immigrant ... Whose creative spirit enlivens and inspires American cinema. "

Since the end of 2012 Silver teaches regularly as Honorary Professor of script in the newly founded film program of the Southern California La Sierra University.

Filmography

Cinema

  • 2001: Brooklyn Bridge
  • 2001: Julietta
  • 2003: Good Bye, Lenin!
  • 2004: The Ring Thing ( also co- producer)
  • 2006: Eiswind (also director)
  • 2006: Pilots
  • 2007: Arranged ( script consultant )
  • 2007: Mrs. Ratcliffe 's Revolution ( script consultant )
  • 2007: How to kill yourself without dying (also director and co-producer )
  • 2008: My mother's tears
  • 2009: The Albanians
  • 2009: North Face
  • 2010: Teufelskicker
  • 2010: Goethe! ( Script consultant )
  • 2011: My Last Day Without You ( also producer)
  • 2012: Hanni & Nanni 2 ( screenwriter )
  • 2013: Hanni & Nanni 3 ( screenwriter )
  • 2014: Bank Lady ( screenwriter )

TV

Awards and nominations

  • 2002: Brooklyn Film Festival, Best Film for Julietta
  • 2004: German Film Award, Best Screenplay, Best Film for Good Bye, Lenin!
  • 2004: European Film Award, Best Screenplay, Best Film for Good Bye, Lenin!
  • 2007: Brooklyn Film Festival, Best Film for Arranged
  • 2009: Prize of the German Film Critics Award, Best Screenplay for north face
  • 2009: Golden Camera Awards, nominated for Best Picture the scene: On the sunny side
  • 2009: Civis Media Prize, Nomination for Crime Scene: On the sunny side
  • 2009: Adolf Grimme Prize, Audience Award for Crime Scene: On the sunny side
  • 2011: Max Ophüls Prize, Best Film for The Albanians
  • 2011: Brooklyn Film Festival, Best Producer for My Last Day Without You
  • 2011: Hawaii Int'l Film Festival: AIFP speedwell the Vilcek Foundation
  • 2011: Hamburg Film Festival, nominated for the producer price in the section "16:9" for The Miracle of Carinthia
  • 2012: Black Reel Awards: Best Independent Film for My Last Day Without You
  • 2012: Black Reel Awards: Nomination Best Original Song for My Last Day Without You
  • 2012: Romy: Best Screenplay for TV movie The Miracle of Carinthia
  • 2012: Golden Sparrow: Best Children's Film for Hanni & Nanni 2
  • 2013: Adolf Grimme Award: nomination for The Miracle of Carinthia
  • 2013: Montblanc Screenplay Award: Nomination Bank Lady
  • 2013: International Emmy: Best TV movie The Miracle of Carinthia
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