Michael Meert

Michael Meert ( born November 6, 1953 in Bonn ) is a German film director.

Studies at the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin.

Co-founder of the video movement in the 1970s. Specialist in music documentaries and docu-drama.

Michael Meert is influenced by Andrei Tarkovsky, Joris Ivens and Johan van der Keuken, whom he met and at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin ( dffb) later by the Polish playwrights Edvard Bernstein Zebrowski and the director Krzysztof Kieslowski, with whom he three years long worked at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin and debated. The new video technology, he explored areas of the border between documentary and video art. This results in a continuous work developed in the field of music film. It is his intention to bring poetic principles in the TV everyday.

Since 1993, he is married to the Spanish journalist Maite Serrano, who collaborated in these film projects. Parallel to the music films arise repeatedly documentaries, mostly biographical stories in different cultures. To cult films, his works were: War of tones, Bad Boy of Music, The Flamenco Clan and Herencia Flamenca.

Filmography (selection)

• 2012: All men are brothers. The Freemasons and the music
• 2010: The 12 long years
• 2009: The Hanging Gardens of Cordoba
• 2008: A Musical Journey - Beethoven in Bonn
• 2007: live from the beautiful
• 2007: The young Beethoven
• 2007: The Mystery of the Third Gate
• 2005: Jordi Savall, or as the Indians einschlichen in Baroque music
• 2005: A Baltic journey - Gidon Kremer
• 2004: The Flamenco Clan
• 2003: Pablo Casals, a musician requires a better world
• 2000: Bad Boy of Music
• 1999: Violin Up! - Isaac Stern
• 1996: Iberia - The Isaac Albéniz Story
• 1995: Paco de Lucía. Light and Shade
• 1993: Manuel de Falla and Federico García Lorca
• 1989: The death of Maurice Ravel
• 1987: War of the tones
• 1984: Interface