Uli M Schueppel
Uli M Schueppel ( born May 7, 1958 in Erbach (Odenwald ) as Ulf Schüppel ) is a German film director and documentary filmmaker. The M in the middle of his name is not an abbreviation of a first name, but a reference to the Elvis Presley song "Trouble": My middle name is misery and is correctly written without cut-off point.
Life and work
Childhood and youth
Schueppel is the son of the visual artist and author Hem Schüppel and educator Christine Schüppel, born Irmer and has a younger sister, Heike (* 1961). The father fell because of opposition in the GDR in political detention, which led him to the Soviet labor camp in Vorkuta. Through the establishment of diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and the FRG in 1955 he came surprisingly free as part of the return of tens of thousands with many other political prisoners and moved to the West has to offer. The mother moved in 1957 and moved with her husband to Guttersbach, a little later the son of Ulf, and a daughter were born. When the father accepted an appointment as Professor of Aesthetics and Communication at the University of Applied Sciences Frankfurt am Main, the family moved to Friedrichsdorf order in the Taunus. Schueppel visited the Humboldt -Gymnasium in Bad Homburg until graduation. After several months of community service and stay in Paris, he studied German and Romance Languages and Linguistics at the University of Heidelberg. During his studies he was part of the Spoken Words Poetry & Barney Group, in addition to a number of music cassettes and limited text books (among nomad in Germany, VipDip Deluxe, An overdose of aspirin ) published. In addition Schueppel made his first short films and wrote film reviews for various film and Frankfurt city magazines. When he realized that all his orientations were moving more and more towards film, Schueppel broke off his studies and moved to West Berlin in 1983.
1980s
From 1984 Schueppel began his studies at the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin. It created the first short films playBack2 (1985) and copier against copier ( 1986). The ideas for the first long feature film Nihil, or all the time arose in 1988 in the legendary Hansa studios, while Schueppel several months his friend, the musician of the band Einstürzende Neubauten, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds and Crime & The City Solution during their recordings Company placed. Many friends Schueppel played in his roles as Frederick Wall, Olivier Picot, Gesine Bohle, Kai Fuhrmann and Blixa Bargeld. Alexander Hacke composed the soundtrack. Nihil won several awards, including the Special Jury Award, the World Film Festival in Montreal in 1988, the soundtrack won second place in the 1989 Nino Rota Prize for film music, Trossinger Film Festival. The international film magazine movie thumb dedicated to the film's title history.
From 1988 to led and moderated Schueppel parallel to their studies, together with musician John Beck once a week the nightly radio show Slime Line show on the left - alternative station Radio 100 The station took off the show after Schueppel and Beck in September 1989 during a live broadcast a fictitious Mauerfall staged and the telephones or microphones emotional and politically "non- correct" responses of listeners opened.
Schueppel graduated in 1989, his film studies with the documentary "The Road To God Knows Where" & " Live At The Paradiso " from. The film documented the North American tour of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds in 1989. Theme of "The Road To God Knows Where" & " Live At The Paradiso " was the rock music business in the late 1980s. In addition to Nick Cave and his band are also other internationally known rock greats this time to speak, Mick Harvey, Blixa Bargeld, Kid Congo Powers, Lydia Lunch, Rayner Jesson and Thomas Wydler. The readers and journalists of the English magazine Total Film voted in May 2008 "The Road To God Knows Where" & " Live At The Paradiso " in the 20 best music movies of all time.
1990s
Together with the Canadian- British artist Susan Turcot realized Schueppel 1990 the short film A Priori (music: Alexander Hacke ). In the same year Schueppel made the documentary The song, in which he the musician Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds in the Hansa studio in the genesis of the song " Till The End Of The World" for the Wim Wenders film " Until the End world " portrayed. The song was re-arranged in 2004 and re-released in a shortened version.
In 1992 Schueppel first full-length feature film fatherland. The film talks about the journey of an Algerian who kidnapped his young son by a cold -Wende Germany. The film music was again composed by Alexander Hacke and Mick Harvey. Homeland won, despite filed protest of the Vatican to the jury in Amiens, 1993 OCIC Award.
1993 turns Schueppel years of the cold on the way political prisoners from the early days of East Germany to the gulags of Siberia. With the film, he worked simultaneously on the story of his father Hem Schueppel. The film score was composed by Blixa Bargeld and cash - published Commissioned Music.
1995 was Sid & Nancy / Ex & Pop, a documentation of the intense and at times chaotic genesis of the play Sid & Nancy based on the movie Sid and Nancy. In the film, Ben Becker, Meret Becker, Alexander Hacke, Otto Sander and Barbara Philipp played.
In 1997, he turned the place over the synthetic creation of a supposed center of the capital, the Potsdamer Platz is supposed to represent. The course is the first part of the trilogy, in which songs Schueppel deals with the definition of emotional geography. The film music is by FM unit. From the rotated material Schueppel cut with FM unit nor an entirely different short film: In Space ( ReMix - Potsdamer Platz) based on a poem by the expressionist poet Paul Zech from the year 1920 on the Potsdamer Platz, spoken by Otto Sander.
2000s
1999/2000 produced and turned Uli M Schueppel with Planet Alex one of the first in Germany to a full-length feature films on mini - DV. Planet Alex tells of young people and their stories around the Alexanderplatz in Berlin with Marie Zielcke, Baki Davrak, Nadezhda Brennicke, Ben Becker, Andreas Schmidt, Birol Ünel, Marusha, Meret Becker, Regine Zimmermann, uva The soundtrack was composed jointly by Mick Harvey and Alexander Hacke. Planet Alex ran on countless international festival, to the Museum of Modern Art, and was nominated for the ZDF German Television Award 2002 in the category Best Original Score and Best Supporting Actress.
For the beta Berlin Film Festival, initiated in 2001 Schueppel the digital fiction award. In the 2002 Festival reorganized under a new name & b.film digitalvision Festival Schueppel is the digital vision section and for programming the films responsible as a curator. At the conference of the week as part of the Media Berlin-Brandenburg, he was a curator in the field of digital entertainment responsible. In numerous conferences and panels he lectured then worry about the digital movies.
From the International Film Festival Berlin 2001 Schueppel got the order to create the official Berlinale trailer / opener. Since 2002, opened this computer animation in cooperation with the film production company The plant - was Berlin, all films in all sections of the festival. As more computer animation created Schueppel 2003 Delphi-Trailer/Opener for the Delphi Film Distribution.
From 2002 to Schueppel was a regular guest lecturer for " Dramaturgy and Directing" at the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin, and at the Netherlands Film and Television Academy, Amsterdam and led various workshops / masterclasses on the subject of music - documentary.
In 2005 he turned the essay film Santos - heroics, nobody needs with Ben Becker and Peppi prank, which premiered at the 39th Hof International Film Festival. 2006 Documentary Berlin song, a musical film about the myth of Berlin. 2006/2007 created several photo / video works / installations, in cooperation with the Norwegian photographer Marie Sjoevold. Which were shown in Oslo, Copenhagen, Denmark and Jogjakarta
2007/2008 he turned the second part of his " songs " trilogy, the film essay The Day theme is the confrontation with death. The soundtrack comes back from FM unit. The day will receive the 2009 New Berlin Film Award ( Prize of the Ecumenical Jury) at Achtung Berlin Festival.
2007/2008 turned Schueppel the documentary From paths over the first concert of Einstürzende Neubauten in the cultural center of the VEB Elektrokohle Lichtenberg, in East Berlin. Schueppel joined in 1989 turned from him footage with current scenes. This time, the concert was co-initiated by the writer Heiner Müller, who also gave a speech, and next to the French Minister of Culture Jack Lang also other members of the French ministerial delegation Backstage brings. From paths in the program of the 59th International Film Festival Berlin ran in Panorama. Under the distribution title Elektrokohle ( Von Wegen ) he was released, and has been shown at numerous international festivals and events around the world on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Berlin Wall.
2009 is replaced Schueppel the " Underground Spirit Award" (16th European Film Festival Palic ) for " his extraordinary achievements in independent film."
2010 published Schueppel tranzania.living.room. The film describes a journey between Tanzania and Germany. He was first performed in the 39th International Film Festival Rotterdam program.
2010/2011 came Brötzmann - As the world belongs to me the times of the group Caspar Brötzmann Caspar Brötzmann massacre is. The film was shown in 2012 in the official program of the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival in the Panorama.
Schueppel is a member of the European Film Academy. Uli M Schueppel lives in Berlin and has a son (* 2000).