Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck

Florian Graf Henckel von Donnersmarck, Florian Maria Georg full name Christian Graf Henckel von Donnersmarck ( born 2 May 1973 in Cologne ) is a film director, screenwriter and film producer. This comes from the altschlesischen noble family Henckel von Donnersmarck and has in addition to German and Austrian citizenship. 2007 his feature film The Lives of Others was awarded the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.

Life

Family

Donnersmarck belongs to the elder line of the house Henckel von Donnersmarck. His father is the former Maltese President Leo -Ferdinand Graf Henckel von Donnersmarck. His uncle is the Cistercian abbot Gregor Henckel Donnersmarck. His great-grandfather was the Prussian deputies Edwin Henckel von Donnersmarck, his great-great grandfather of the members of the Reichstag Lazarus IV Henckel von Donnersmarck. His mother is Anna -Maria, born of the mountain. His great-grandfathers mother were the police president of Hanover Count of Berg- Kurd Schönfeld and the chief of the Secret Civil Cabinet Friedrich Wilhelm II von Berg, of his nephew, Donnersmarck's grandfather, adopted after his father was killed in an accident.

Donnersmarck is the lawyer Christiane Henckel von Donnersmarck ( born Asschenfeldt ) married and has three children with her.

Impressions and beginnings

Donnersmarck spent his childhood and school years in New York (six years), Berlin (three years), Frankfurt am Main (four years) and Brussels ( four years). There he put the European Baccalaureate from, then spent two years of study in St. Petersburg and then worked briefly as a teacher of Russian.

Donnersmarck studied from 1993 to 1996 at New College, Oxford University, Philosophy, Politics and Economics, and graduated with a Master of Arts from.

Career in film

Donnersmarck began his film career with a government apprenticeship with Richard Attenborough.

After shooting at the University of Television and Film Munich (HFF Munich), he turned there, the short films Dobermann (1998) and The Templar ( 2002). Doberman, won the National Competition at Filmfest Dresden, received the award for the " Best Short Film " at the Filmfestival Max Ophüls Prize and the Shocking Shorts Award of 13th Street, which Donnersmarck earned participation in the Universal Studios film Masters Program in Hollywood. The Templar won the Eastman Award of the Hof International Film Festival, the producer price of Sehsüchte film festivals in the School of Film and Television " Konrad Wolf" and the predicate is particularly valuable the Filmbewertungsstelle Wiesbaden.

Donnersmarck held in November 2002 in the Abbey of Heiligenkreuz near Vienna on to write the first draft of his screenplay for The Lives of Others. On 28 October 2007, he was honored at Heiligenkreuz Abbey in a ceremony.

The Lives of Others

Donnersmarck's first feature film The Lives of Others ( Written and directed his thesis film at the Munich Film ) deals with the crimes of the GDR State Security. He arrived on 23 March 2006 in German cinemas and was established in July 2006 with the German Film Prize ( in seven categories with eleven nominations ), the Bavarian Film Prize (in four categories) and the European Film Prize (in three categories). On February 25, 2007 The Lives of Others in Los Angeles was awarded the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

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The Tourist

2010 was succeeded by his second feature film, the thriller The Tourist with Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp, based on the screenplay for Vanishing Point Nice concluded in 2005. The Tourist was nominated for three Golden Globe Awards ( Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress ). Worldwide, the film played 278 million dollars at the box office, and was thus a " box office hit".

The Tourist was received mixed, the German magazine Focus on Film wrote in her film criticism: [ it ], the German filmmaker proves once again as a sovereign, absolutely stylistically confident filmmaker who knows his charming aufspielenden Stars ( Johnny Depp, Angelina Jolie ) just as radiant to set the scene as the hand-picked venues in Paris and Venice. Old School had seldom so sensual and modern as here, whereas the Süddeutsche Zeitung ruled that the film lacked craftsmanship of the director.

Filmography

Awards

• 2000 Max Ophüls Prize for Doberman
• Shocking Shorts Award at the 13th Street station ( Filmfest München ) for Doberman

• Eastman Award for the best young filmmakers ( Hof International Film Festival ) for The Templar

• Bavarian Film Prize for The Lives of Others Best Screenplay
• Young Director Award

• The European Film Prize for The Lives of Others Best Picture
• Best Screenplay

• Best Feature Film
• Best Director
• Best Screenplay

• Independent Spirit Award for The Lives of Others as best foreign production

• British Academy Film Award for The Lives of Others as Best Foreign Language Film
• César for The Lives of Others as Best Foreign Language Film

• Bambi in the category German in Hollywood

• Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Picture - Comedy / Musical

• Award as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in Davos.

In addition Donnersmarck directing won The Lives of Others 2007 as a German contribution to the Oscar in the category Best Foreign Language Film.

Medals and honors

• Bavarian Order of Merit
• Order of Merit of North Rhine -Westphalia
• Admission to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which awards the annual Oscar
• In 2011 Donnersmark was honored by his alma mater, the University of Oxford as one of its most important 166 graduates from 10 centuries. More Honored include Erasmus, Thomas More, Adam Smith, TE Lawrence, Oscar Wilde, JRR Tolkien and the surviving graduates Rupert Murdoch, Bill Clinton, and Stephen Hawking. Oxford University has named 2011 for the cover of their official study guide the streets in the center of Oxford for these graduates. The Upper Oxpens Road was named under this action by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck.

Influence

In December 2012, the University of Leeds hosted a two - day symposium on the different units in 11 aspects of work Donnersmarck, were also partly critical, lit. Speakers included Professors David Bathrick from Cornell University and Eric Rentschler from Harvard University. Conference Chairman Paul Cooke of Leeds University made ​​a presentation entitled: Henckel von Donnersmarck 's Dialogue with Hollywood: from The Lives of Others to The Tourist ( 2010), in which he examines the movie The Tourist. According to Cooke " is Donnersmarck opposes [ Although ] aware of any Hollywood Frenetik ", however, uses " its European perspective is not to critique Hollywood cinema, but to increase it." The collected papers were published as a book in June 2013 from the academic publisher, De Gruyter. The first chapter is a guest lecture that kept Donnersmarck in October 2008 at the University of Cambridge.