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Freddie Röckenhaus (born October 15, 1956 in Dortmund ) is a German journalist and documentary filmmaker .

Life

After graduating from high school , Röckenhaus studied German , sports science and social sciences in Bochum and Münster . For the state examination he wrote, among other things, a thesis on the semiotics of youthful subcultures .

Röckenhaus has been working as a journalist since 1977. His training in journalism took place through a bi-media traineeship at the Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung (WAZ) and Radio Bremen TV. Röckenhaus became editor of the WAZ . He then worked from 1989 to 1994 as an editor for the weekly newspaper Die Zeit in Hamburg , then as an editor at SZ-Magazin , the supplement to the Süddeutsche Zeitung , in Munich and finally in Hamburg as editor-in-chief of the media magazine Studio / Moor (alias Canale Grande ), which was broadcast weekly on the pay-TV channel Premiere .

Röckenhaus also works as a documentary filmmaker for various television stations, including ARD , Arte and ZDF . Together with his long-time colleague and documentary filmmaker Petra Höfer, he founded a joint production company called colourFIELD tell-a-vision in Munich in 1994 . The production company has been based in Dortmund since 1997 .

Röckenhaus is considered a supporter of Borussia Dortmund . He wrote the book Do you know Borussia? 365 tricky questions for real BVB fans , published in 1993 by Eichborn Verlag .

Filmography

Freddie Röckenhaus has realized more than 50 documentaries with Petra Höfer. For these, Röckenhaus acted as scriptwriter , director and producer . Created among other things

  • 1995: Under German roofs : The bean counters (ARD / Radio Bremen)
  • 1996: The professionals (ARD / WDR)
  • 1997: Under German roofs : The mountain calls (ARD / RB), Under German roofs : Jobretter / Jobkiller (ARD / RB)
  • 1999: Under German roofs : Truckstop Geiselwind (ARD / RB) "
  • 1997–2000: Chic !, 13-part series (ZDF)
  • 2001: California Dreamin ', five-part series (ZDF)
  • 2003–2004: The Little Snob, 20-part series (Arte / HR)
  • 2003: ZDF Expedition - Tropical Fever (3 episodes)
  • 2006: Expedition into the brain (3 episodes, ARD / Radio Bremen / Arte / WDR / RAI / RTÉ / UR Sweden)
  • 2007: Blood and Games (2 episodes, ARD / WDR)
  • 2007: Tropenfieber 2 (3 episodes, ZDF)
  • 2008: Empire of Viruses (2 episodes, ARD / Radio Bremen / WDR / Arte / RAI / RTÉ / YLE Finland / UR Sweden / ERT Greece)
  • 2009: Love in Power: The Obamas (ARD / WDR)
  • 2010: Terra X: Germany from above (3 episodes ZDF, 5 episodes ZDF Neo)
  • 2011: Terra X: Germany from Above II (3 episodes, ZDF)
  • 2011: The automatic brain - The power of the unconscious (2 episodes; ARD, WDR, Arte, UR Sweden, Schweizer Fernsehen, YLE Finland, ERT Greece, RTÉ Ireland)
  • 2012: Germany from above - Germany from above (movie in cooperation with ZDF, distributed by Universum / Disney)
  • 2013: Terra X: Germany from above III (3 episodes, ZDF and ZDF Neo)
  • 2014: Terra X: Unterwelten - Germany from below (2 episodes, ZDF)
  • 2015: Terra X: Germany from Above IV (3 episodes, ZDF)
  • 2016: Migratory birds - scouts in distant worlds (Arte)
  • 2016: Terra X: Migratory Birds (2 episodes, ZDF and Arte)
  • 2018: Russia from above (Arte)
  • 2019: Our Forests - The Language of Trees (Arte)

Awards

For his journalistic work, Freddie Röckenhaus received the Henri Nannen Prize in 2005 (together with Thomas Hennecke) for a series of articles in the Süddeutsche Zeitung . Together with Petra Höfer and Francesca D'Amicis, Röckenhaus was awarded the German TV Prize in 2007 for the ARD / WDR two-part series "Blood and Games - The Doping Trap". In 2011 he received (together with Höfer, Peter Thompson and Werner Greipl) the German Camera Prize for the ZDF series "Germany from above". For the same series he also received the 2011 Aerospace Journalism Award . In 2012, his ARD / Arte two-parter "The Automatic Brain" ("Automatic Brain"; together with Höfer and D'Amicis) was awarded at the TV Awards of the Chicago Film Festival , as well as the Gold Medal Award at the New York Festival. Likewise, the film series was awarded the Audience Award at the Pariscience festivals in Paris and the European Science TV Award of the European Union. Röckenhaus - together with Höfer - was nominated for a number of other films for the Adolf Grimme Prize and the German Television Prize. In 2004 Röckenhaus was awarded the journalists' prize of the Federal Association of German Press Spokesmen , the "Golden Apple". In 2018 he received the Georg von Holtzbrinck Prize for Science Journalism .

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personal data
SURNAME Skirt house, Freddie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and documentary filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Dortmund , Germany