Gregor Schnitzler
Gregor Schnitzler (* 1964 in Berlin ) is a German film director.
He was known primarily for his film debut with the feature film What to Do in Case of Fire? (2002) and the film adaptation of the play The Cloud (2006) by Gudrun Pausewang.
Biography
Schnitzler studied Social and Communication Sciences at the University of Arts in Berlin. He worked several years as a still photographer, and then began his career in 1990 as a director of music videos and commercials, of which he produced a total of 65 pieces to 1997. 1994 turned Gregor Schnitzler with a sequence of RTL series in the name of the law for the first time a long dramatic format. In the following four years, followed by seven more episodes. There were 1998 and 1999, two television films of the ZDF Saturday night crime series TEAM Berlin and 1999, the result of Hazardous paternity of the RTL series Balko.
With Eleni Ampelakiotou he had in 1991 and 1992, the short films The window and Sundays staged. Together with the director, he also shot the movie Finnlandia (2001), the festivals attracted attention worldwide. Just like What to do when there's a fire? , Which won the Audience Award at the Lünen Film Festival in 2002. With solo album, the film adaptation of Benjamin of Stuckrad - Barre's cult novel, Gregor Schnitzler could inspire audiences and critics alike in 2003. In 2005, he adapted the novel The cloud of Gudrun Pausewang for the big screen, who received the Bavarian Film Award for Best Youth Film 2007.
Moving and symbolisms
Among film critics Schnitzler attracted attention through the symbolic destruction of everyday objects in scenic ground in some of his works. Thus, the use of a toppling vase in key scenes of certain movies a symbolic climax dar. This Askosentechnik (see askos ) can be a plurality of interpretation approaches.