Fatih Akın
Fatih Akın ( born August 25, 1973 in Hamburg ) is a German -Turkish film director, screenwriter, actor and producer.
For his fourth feature film Gegen die Wand with Ünel Birol and Sibel Kekilli in the lead roles was Akın awarded the 2004 Golden Bear, the German Film Prize and the European Film Awards. These awards have contributed to its international reputation.
Life and work
Fatih Akın is the son of Turkish immigrants. Its derived from the Trabzon father Enver moved in 1966 to Germany, via. His mother followed three years later. Born and raised Akın in Hamburg's Altona district, where he attended high school avenue.
At times he was a member of a youth gang. Already in the school wrote Akın short stories and short screenplays, made first film experiments with a Super -8 camera and was a member of a fringe theater group at Hamburg's Thalia Theater.
Career
In 1993 Akın with temporary jobs before and after the film sets in the desert Filmproduktion Hamburg producer Stefan Schubert and Ralph fescue and increasingly worked as a writer, director and actor. After high school he graduated from 1994 to 2000 studying Visual Communications at Hamburg's College of Fine Arts ( Academy of Fine Arts ). The collaboration with fescue first two short films were produced, Sensin (1995) and faked (1996). Akın 1998 debuted as a feature film director with short and painless, then followed with In July (2000) and solino (2002) more directorial work, in which he each Moritz Bleibtreu entrusted the male lead.
In 2004, Akın together with Andreas Thiel and Klaus Maeck the film production company corazón international. In the same year he produced the feature film Head-On the first part of a planned trilogy about love, death and the devil and filmed the Heinrich -Heine- song The old evil songs as Germany's contribution to the produced by Lars von Trier film European visions, the contributed among other things, Tony Gatlif, Theo van Gogh, Aki Kaurismäki and Jan Troell episodes. For Head-On Akın won the Golden Bear at the 2004 Berlin Film Festival, and later the German Film Award and a European Film Award.
In recognition of his filmmaking Fatih Akın was invited to the jury of the Cannes Film Festival in 2005. In the winter semester 2005/ 06 he was appointed lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts in Hamburg. In the same year published Fatih Akın his first feature-length documentary film Crossing The Bridge - The Sound of Istanbul, where he reports on the musical diversity of Istanbul, and was responsible for the screenplay with the cross-cultural comedy Kebab Connection.
2007 Fatih Akın member of the Free Academy of the Arts in Hamburg. In the same year, he realized with On the other hand, the second part of his "Love, Death and the Devil " trilogy. The drama had its world premiere in competition at the 60th Cannes Film Festival, and the filmmaker was there honored for his screenplay and the Special Prize of the Ecumenical Jury. In addition to other prices received on the other side of the German Film Award in the categories of Film, Director and Screenplay, the screenplay prize at the European Film Awards Ceremony 2007.
During his work on the other side Akın launched a long-term documentary film project, titled Garbage in the Garden of Eden, about a proposed landfill in the home village of his grandparents. The film was premiered in 2012 during a special performance at the 65th Cannes Film Festival. For episodic film Germany 09-13 short films State of the Union contributed Akın the piece The name Murat Kurnaz case.
Private life
Akın is a German citizen and lives in Hamburg- Ottensen. He is married to the German - Mexican Monique Akın, they have two children.
Engagements
Fatih Akın support since 2009 together with other friends of the club Soul kids. In protest against the Swiss ban on minaret construction Akın said from Switzerland to participate in the premiere of Soul Kitchen.
Because of the protests in Turkey in 2013 committed police violence and media censorship in the Republic of Turkey wrote Akın an open letter to the Turkish President Gul and supported an initiative of cultural workers that prompted Angela Merkel and other European leaders for an end to violence use against the Turkish population. "I appeal to your conscience: Stop this madness ," he wrote to his writing in German and Turkish writing.
Filmography
- 2001: We have forgotten return (director and writer)
- 2005: Crossing the Bridge - The Sound of Istanbul ( director, screenplay and production)
- 2012: Garbage in the Garden of Eden (director and writer)
- 2002: Digger Dance: Digger is a dancer
- 2010: Aynur Doğan: Rewend
Awards
Publication
- Soul Kitchen: screenplay by Fatih Akın, edited by Hermann and Mette Merete Vonsbaek and an afterword by Oliver Möbert. Tyskforlaget, Denmark, 2012, ISBN 87-90755-75-8; ISBN 978-8790755-751.
- In the clinch. The story of my films. Edited by Volker Behrens and Michael Töteberg. Rowohlt, Reinbek 2011, ISBN 978-3-498-00669-3.