Hans Weingartner
Hans Weingartner ( born November 2, 1970 in Feldkirch, Vorarlberg) is an Austrian film director, film producer and author.
Life and work
Hans Weingartner grew up as one of eight children in a farming village on the outskirts of Feldkirch, Vorarlberg in Austria.
After leaving school he worked as a canoe guide in Canada and as a ski instructor in Austria. Later he moved to Vienna, where he studied (1991-1997) Physics ( 1990), and neuroscience. He worked in Berlin in neurosurgery, where he made his diploma (1997).
In addition to his scientific orientation, he trained as 1993-1994 as a camera assistant. He worked then as a production assistant at the Vienna location of the American romantic comedy Before Sunrise (1995 ), in which he completed at the same time a cameo appearance as a coffee house guest.
From 1997 to 2000 he studied at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne Film and Television. A screwed to a large extent in his own flat with a budget of only 42,000 DM diploma film The White Noise ( 2001) was the first long feature film, which was produced at this school. The film is about a young man who suffered from schizophrenia. Weingartner researched for a year in clinics and by concerned on the subject. At the time he received a scholarship from the state of North Rhine -Westphalia for the gifted.
The film premiered at the Film Festival Max Ophüls Prize in Saarbrücken, and was awarded the main prize of the festival. He also won the First Steps Award, the Award of the German Film Critics for the best debut film as well as the prize for the best graduate film. Daniel Brühl received for his portrayal of a schizophrenic young man in 2002 the German Film Award for Best Actor, and thus made his breakthrough as a character actor.
In summer 2003, Weingartner then turned the anti-capitalism film The Edukators, which was shown in May 2004 as the first German post after a gap of 11 years in competition at the International Film Festival of Cannes and there aroused great enthusiasm. He came then to the movies in over 50 countries, reaching around 1.5 million visitors. The film gained the status of a cult film in many countries in the younger generation.
In 2006 he founded the production company in Berlin Kahuuna film in place of Y3 film, which he had previously for the production of The Edukators launched.
2007 came his satire Free Rainer - Your TV is lying to the movies, with Moritz Bleibtreu in the lead role of washed-up TV producer Rainer, who gathers a band of rebels to be the cause by manipulating the TV ratings a cultural revolution in Germany.
In 2009 they had the omnibus film Germany 09-13 short films of the Union address, in which not only Weingartner directors Fatih Akın, Wolfgang Becker, Dominik Graf, Sylke Enders, Romuald Karmakar, Nicolette Krebitz, Isabelle Stever, Hans Steinbichler and Tom Tykwer were involved. Comprised of films and documentaries on the project is a film Germany in Autumn (1978 ) ajar discussion of the current political and social reality in Germany. The rotated by Weingartner episode The instigator is based on the investigation against the social scientist Andrej Holm.
In 2012 he received for his directing at The sum of the individual parts of my nominated for the German Film Award. The film presents (played by Peter Schneider) at the center., The lands after a burnout on the street and befriends there with a Russian-speaking boy a mentally unstable mathematician
Weingartner is known for its conscious minimalism in the preparation conditions. Thus, the films are often realized with a small team and a small budget. By dispensing with great technical effort he tries to achieve maximum authenticity. In addition, he is repeatedly praised for his excellent acting work. The protagonists of his films regularly win prizes and have received many awards.
Thematically he practices in his films repeatedly criticizing social conditions. So is The Edukators of three young anti-globalization campaigners, who put their anarchic actions against the excesses of capitalism. Add Free Rainer he turns against a media company that gives itself through excessive consumption of Trash TV of mental imbecility.
His social criticism, he connects it frequently with the presentation of utopias (sometimes ironically ) identify alternative ways and states. Hanns -Georg Rodek wrote in The World: " Hans Weingartner is one of the few filmmakers who could not be driven out by reality their utopias. "
In addition, he is devoted to his films like the switching points between psyche and society and try to link from the description of people in mental borderline situations mental states with socio-political developments (for example, in the white noise and the sum of my individual parts).
Filmography
Awards
- 2001: First Steps Award for the white noise as the best full-length feature film
- 2001: Award of the Babelsberg Media Rates for White noise
- 2001: Max Ophüls Prize for White noise for Best Picture
- 2002: Nominated for the German Film Prize for White noise for Best Feature Film
- 2003: Prize of the German Film Critics for the best debut film for the white noise
- 2004: Nomination of The Edukators for the Palme d'Or at the International Film Festival of Cannes 2004
- 2004: Prize of the German Film Critics for The Edukators for Best Feature Film
- 2004: New German Cinema Award for directing and screenplay for The Edukators
- 2004: Jury Prize at the Cape Town World Cinema Festival for The Edukators
- 2005: Audience Award at the Miami Film Festival for The Edukators
- 2005: German Film Award in Silver for The Edukators for Best Motion Picture and a nomination for Best Director
- 2012: nominated for the German Film Award in the category Best Director for The sum of my individual parts