Simon Verhoeven

Simon Vincent Verhoeven ( born June 20, 1972 in Munich) is a German actor, screenwriter, director and film composer

Life

Simon Verhoeven is the son of actress Senta Berger and the director and physician Michael Verhoeven, brother of Luca Paul. Up to the age of 17 Simon Verhoeven played as a striker for TSV 1860 München in the highest German youth class and the DFB-team football. Due to a serious injury by an opponent he had to end his football career. In 1991 he made ​​in Munich High School and started six months later, a drama school in New York at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute. A year later he went to Boston to study at Berklee College of Music in jazz composition and film music.

Verhoeven in 1995 was admitted to the Tisch School of Arts at New York University and studied film direction there. He completed his studies in 1999. A year later wrote and turned Simon Verhoeven already his first feature film, 100 Pro, which was nominated for the German Film. As an actor he has worked with directors such as Sönke Wortmann, Doris Dorrie and Roland Suso Richter together. Suso Richter turned in 2008 when Jürgen Vietor Verhoeven film Mogadishu over the hijacking of the Landshut in 1977, which the German Television Prize was awarded in 2009 for best TV movie of the year.

Following Verhoeven took over the direction of the film comedy Men's hearts with Christian elms, Til Schweiger and Nadja Uhl produced the soundtrack in the leading roles, for which he also wrote the screenplay and. The film reached over two million viewers. Simon Verhoeven was awarded for men's hearts with the Bavarian Film Award 2009 for Best Screenplay. He also received the German Film Award Audience Jupiter after a man's heart was voted by the readers of the magazine Cinema at the best German film of 2009.

Already in the following year wrote and turned Verhoeven continuation men's hearts ... and the very, very great love again with the same ensemble cast. The film was made ​​by Warner Bros. in the cinemas in September 2011 and debuted at No. 1 on the German cinema charts. As I wrote in the hearts of men and produced Verhoeven again a big part of the soundtrack, including the title song, the very very great love, is sung by Justus von Dohnányi aka " Bruce Berger ".

For Men Hearts 2 Simon Verhoeven was awarded nationally on 10 November 2011, the largest German media award Bambi best film. In January 2012, Verhoeven once again received the Bavarian Film Award, as men's hearts ... and the very, very great love was honored with the Audience Award. To select the five most successful German films of the year had been.

Filmography

Directing

As an actor

Movie Documentary

Awards

  • 2010: Bavarian Film Award 2009, Best Screenplay, for men's hearts
  • 2010: Jupiter for men's hearts, best German film 2009
  • 2011: Bambi for men's hearts and the very, very great love, best film nationally in 2011
  • 2012: Bavarian Film Prize 2012 Audience Award for men's hearts and the very very big love 2011
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