Neil Jordan

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Neil Jordan (Berlin, September 2007)

Neil Jordan (born February 25, 1950 in County Sligo , Ireland ) is an Irish film director , screenwriter , producer and writer .

Career

Neil Jordan started out as a writer after studying English literature and history at University College Dublin . He published his award-winning first work Nights in Tunisia (1976) in the Irish Writers Cooperative , which he co-founded , and later used it as a template for the film Miracle - A Mysterious Summer . He also started working as a screenwriter with Miracles & Miss Langan (1979 for TV) and Traveler (1981)

Movies

Neil Jordan's first feature film, for which he wrote the script himself, was Angel Road Without End in 1982 . After this success, other films were made that made him internationally known. The time of the wolves in 1984 is much more than an insider tip today (and not a children's film either).

His film Mona Lisa, starring Michael Caine and Bob Hoskins , competed for the Palme d'Or at the 1986 Cannes Film Festival , with his lead actor Hoskins winning the Actor Award. Jordan won an Oscar for Best Screenplay in 1993 for his ambiguous thriller The Crying Game, starring Stephen Rea . He himself was nominated for Best Director .

The film Michael Collins , which is about Michael Collins and Éamon de Valera , was almost able to build on this success again. A year later, Jordan was awarded a Silver Bear as Best Director at the 1998 Berlinale for the literary film adaptation The Butcher Boy (based on the novel of the same name by Patrick McCabe ) . The film itself was in competition for the Golden Bear. The Stranger Inside You made it to number one in the US box office in 2007.

Literary works

Jordan began his career writing short stories that appeared in the 1976 volume Nights in Tunisia . Jordan's books are in part not dissimilar to the films. In the novel The Past (1980) in particular, he traces the cultural and political development of Ireland in the first half of the 20th century in an almost Impressionist style with images strongly influenced by film . In Sunrise with Seamonster , which appeared 15 years later, the subject is in the spotlight in a similar way, but the perspective changes. The inner development of Ireland, which is understandable, if contradicting itself, in The Past is broken through here. The Spanish civil war marks the turning point at which generations as well as political attitudes and human behavior are divided. The role of the past in the present and the relationship between reality and unreality play a role again and again. This is particularly evident in The Dream of a Beast (1983), a thematically reminiscent of Kafka's Metamorphosis , in which the (gradual) physical transformation of a "normal father of a family" into a non-precisely definable animal-human hybrid leads to questions of the Existence , reality, perception , impermanence and changeability leads.

In 2011, Jordan received the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award and the Irish Book Award (Irish novel of the year) for his novel Mistaken .

Filmography (selection)

Director
production
script
  • 1981: Landfahrer (Traveler) - Director: Joe Comerford
actor

Books

  • Nights in Tunisia. Stories. Co-Op Books 1976, German seduction. Goldmann , 1996.
  • The past. Novel. Jonathan Cape, 1980.
  • The Dream of a Beast. Novel. Jonathan Cape, 1983.
  • Sunrise with Sea Monster. Novel. Jonathan Cape 1995, German Nocturno. Goldmann, 1995.
  • Shade. Novel. John Murray 2005, German shadow. Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2005.
  • Mistaken. Novel. John Murray, 2011.

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME Jordan, Neil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Irish film director, screenwriter, producer and writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH County Sligo , Ireland