Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck

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Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck (2015)

Florian Maria Georg Christian Count Henckel von Donnersmarck (born May 2, 1973 in Cologne ) is a film director , screenwriter and film producer . He comes from the old Silesian noble family Henckel von Donnersmarck and has both German and Austrian citizenship . In 2007, his feature film, The Lives of Others, won an Oscar in the Best Foreign Language Film category.

Life

family

Donnersmarck belongs to the older line of the Henckel von Donnersmarck family . His father was the former Maltese President Leo-Ferdinand Count Henckel von Donnersmarck . His uncle is the former Cistercian abbot Gregor Henckel-Donnersmarck . His great-grandfather was the Prussian delegate Edwin Henckel von Donnersmarck , his great-great-grandfather the Reichstag delegate Lazarus IV. Henckel von Donnersmarck . His mother is Anna-Maria, née von Berg . His maternal great-grandfathers were the police president of Kassel and Hanover and district president of the districts of Stade and Hanover, Count Kurd von Berg-Schönfeld and the head of the secret civil cabinet of Wilhelm II. Friedrich von Berg , who adopted his nephew, Donnersmarck's grandfather, after his father had a fatal accident was.

Henckel is married to the lawyer Christiane Henckel von Donnersmarck and has three children with her.

youth

Henckel spent his childhood and school days in New York , Berlin , Frankfurt am Main and Brussels . There he passed the European Abitur , then spent two years studying in Saint Petersburg and then briefly worked as a Russian teacher.

Henckel studied from 1993 to 1996 at the New College of the University of Oxford Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE).

Film career

Henckel began his film career with an apprenticeship as a director with Richard Attenborough .

After admission to the Munich University of Television and Film (HFF Munich), he made the short films Dobermann (1998) and Der Templer (2002) there. Dobermann won the national competition at the Dresden Film Festival , received the award for “Best Short Film” at the Max Ophüls Film Festival and the Shocking Shorts Award from 13th Street , which earned Donnersmarck participation in the Universal Studios Filmmasters Program in Hollywood . The Templar won the Eastman Award of the Hof International Film Festival , the producer award of the student film festival of the Babelsberg Film University Konrad Wolf Sehs Bäumen and the title of Particularly Valuable from the Wiesbaden Film Evaluation Office .

In November 2002, Donnersmarck stayed in Heiligenkreuz Abbey near Vienna to write the first version of his screenplay for The Lives of Others . On October 28, 2007, he was honored with a ceremony in Heiligenkreuz Abbey.

The Lives of Others

Henckel's first feature film The Lives of Others (written and directed, his graduation film at the HFF Munich, leading actor: Ulrich Mühe ) deals with the crimes of the GDR state security . It was released in German cinemas on March 23, 2006 and was awarded the German Film Prize (in seven categories with eleven nominations), the Bavarian Film Prize (in four categories) and the European Film Prize (in three categories) in July 2006 . On February 25, 2007, The Lives of Others won an Oscar in Los Angeles in the category of best foreign language film .

René Pollesch sits down in the "post-tabloid comedy of confusion" L'affaire Martin! ... , which premiered in the Great House of the Volksbühne Berlin , deals with the question of the extent to which a historical film about The Lives of Others could be made, as the filmmaker named in the play "Junker Hencker von der Donnersmarck" intends to do and "as if from his own and can be told about someone else's life in general ”.

The tourist

His second feature film followed in 2010, the thriller The Tourist with Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp , a remake of the French film Vanishing Point Nice from 2005. The Tourist was nominated for three Golden Globe Awards (Best Film, Best Actor, Best Actress). The film grossed 278 million US dollars at the box office worldwide, making it a "box office hit".

The Tourist was received very mixed by the German criticism, however, in the USA the reviews were mostly negative.

Allegory Films

In 2016, Henckel von Donnersmarck and Sam Raimi founded the production company Allegory Films with the support of the Chinese Beijing Cultural Investment Holding, which was to produce films with a budget of between 30 and 80 million dollars.

Filmography

Films in the top 250 of the IMDb
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58 The Lives of Others
  • 1997: Midnight (short film, with Sebastian Henckel von Donnersmarck)
  • 1998: The Date (short film, with Sebastian Henckel von Donnersmarck)
  • 1999: Doberman Pinscher (short film)
  • 2002: The Templar (short film, with Sebastian Henckel von Donnersmarck)
  • 2003: Großstadt Schocker / Petits mythes urbains (Direction of an episode)
  • 2006: The Lives of Others (director, screenplay, co-production)
  • 2010: The Tourist (Director, Screenplay)
  • 2018: work without author (direction, screenplay)

Awards

In addition, Donnersmarck's directorial work, The Lives of Others, won the Oscar in the category Best Foreign Language Film in 2007 as a German contribution .

Orders and honors

influence

In December 2012, the University of Leeds organized a two-day symposium, at which eleven lectures examined various aspects of Donnersmarck's work, some of which were critical. The speakers included Professors David Bathrick from Cornell University and Eric Rentschler from Harvard University . Conference chairman Paul Cooke from the University of Leeds gave a presentation entitled: Henckel von Donnersmarck's Dialogue with Hollywood: from The Lives of Others to The Tourist (2010) examining the film The Tourist . According to Cooke, “Donnersmarck [although] consciously opposes any Hollywood frenetic,” but uses “his European perspective not to criticize Hollywood cinema, but to enhance it.” The collected presentations were published in June 2013 by the scientific publisher De Gruyter published as a book. The first chapter is a guest lecture that Donnersmarck gave in October 2008 at Cambridge University .

literature

  • Paul Cooke: The Lives of Others and Contemporary German Film: A Companion . Walter De Gruyter Incorporated, 2013, ISBN 978-3110268102 .
  • German gender book. Volume 171. CAStarke, Limburg 1975 (article Asschenfeldt)
  • Genealogical manual of the count's houses. Volume X. C. A. Starke , Limburg 1981 (article Henckel von Donnersmarck)
  • Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck: The life of others . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 3-518-45786-1 .
  • Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck: The life of others . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 3-518-45908-2 (blackened edition).
  • Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck: Cinema! Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-518-46513-4 . (19 essays)
  • Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck: work without an author. Movie book. Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-518-46915-6 . (Original script with film photos)
  • Daniela Nagel: The script - a drama for the screen? Script analysis using the example of Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's “The Lives of Others” . Tectum Verlag, 2008, ISBN 978-3828897243 .
  • Joanna Newska: Voice-over translation process using the example of the Polish translation of the film “The Lives of Others” by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck . GRIN Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3640949434 .

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ genealogics.org ( Memento from April 14, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) Count Florian Maria Georg Christian Henckel von Donnersmarck - Relationship to Freiherr Karl Theodor von und zu Guttenberg .
  2. ^ Genealogical handbook of the Count's Houses . Volume X. C. A. Starke , Limburg 1981 (article Henckel von Donnersmarck)
  3. ↑ Large Federal Cross of Merit for Dr. Leo-Ferdinand Count Henckel von Donnersmarck. ( Memento from September 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ^ And the Oscar goes to ... Kath.net , January 24, 2007
  5. ^ Edwin Hugo Lazarus Henckel von Donnersmarck (1865-1929).
  6. ^ Lazarus IV Henckel von Donnersmarck.
  7. ^ Karl Ludwig Hermann Kurd, Count von Berg-Schönfeld.
  8. ↑ Friedrich von Berg in the online version of the edition files of the Reich Chancellery. Weimar Republic
  9. ↑ http://prezi.com/qndrr34nodk7/florian-henckel-von-donnersmarck/
  10. ↑ http://www.evi.com/q/biography_of_florian_henckel_von_donnersmarck
  11. ↑ donnersmarck.com/florian ( Memento from August 14, 2014 in the web archive archive.today )
  12. ↑ An Oscar “from” Heiligenkreuz ( Memento from February 26, 2012 on WebCite ). Stift-Heiligenkreuz.org
  13. ↑ [1]
  14. ↑ [2]
  15. ↑ Christina Tilmann: Who is Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck? Der Tagesspiegel , February 26, 2007
  16. ↑ Silesians don't get Lolas . The daily newspaper , October 13, 2006
  17. ↑ boxofficemojo.com
  18. ↑ Box Office Shocker: The Tourist Has Become an International Hit . The Hollywood Reporter, June 2, 2011.
  19. ↑ [3]
  20. ↑ [4]
  21. ↑ Sam Raimi & Florian Von Donnersmarck Launch Allegory Films With China Backing at deadline.com , accessed on April 20, 2016
  22. ↑ The Top 250 of the IMDb (as of June 14, 2015)
  23. ↑ Previously known Bambi Prize Winners 2009 ( Memento from November 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive ). In: Naumburger Tageblatt online, November 24, 2009
  24. ↑ Reference to the press release of the WEF 2013 (PDF; 122 kB)
  25. ↑ New member of the Oscar Academy . Süddeutsche Zeitung , June 18, 2007
  26. ↑ Reference to Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck on the Oxford University website ( memento from March 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), March 24, 2013
  27. ↑ http://www.leeds.ac.uk/arts/events/event/1035/
  28. ^ "The Lives of Others" and Contemporary German Film A Companion, Ed. by Cooke, Paul, Publication Date: June 2013, ISBN 978-3-11-026847-8
personal data
SURNAME Henckel von Donnersmarck, Florian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Henckel von Donnersmarck, Florian Maria Georg Christian Graf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Austrian film director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH May 2nd 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne