Urs Egger

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Urs Egger at the award ceremony of the German Academy for Television 2015

Urs Johannes Egger (born March 9, 1953 in Bern ; † January 18, 2020 in Berlin ) was a Swiss film and television director .

Life

Urs Egger reported from 1975 to 1977 as a film correspondent from Los Angeles for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung , the Cinema Papers (Sydney) and other publications.

He made a Director -Training as Director Fellow at the American Film Institute in Los Angeles. From 1993 he lived mainly in Berlin. From the 1990s, Egger staged numerous television productions for public television, which were awarded three Adolf Grimme prizes , among other things . He died in January 2020 at the age of 66 after a long illness in Berlin.

Assistant director

Between 1978 and 1985 he worked as an assistant director for the following films, among others:

Filmography (selection)

Urs Egger (center) with the main cast while filming A Love for Peace - Bertha von Suttner and Alfred Nobel in Vienna 2014

Awards and nominations (selection)

  • Quality award from the Swiss Confederation, Go West, Young Man
  • Best Foreign Film Festival Ft. Lauderdale, children of the highway
  • Prix ​​meilleure interpretation feminine - Festival Amiens, Kinder der Landstrasse
  • Prix ​​du Jury - Amiens Festival, Children of the Road
  • Nomination Adolf Grimme Prize - Opera Ball
  • 1998: Golden Screen - Best TV Film for Opera Ball
  • Cinema-Jupiter - Best TV Film 1998 for Opera Ball
  • Goldener Gong - Best Director for Opera Ball
  • Gold Plaque Award Special Achievement, Chicago Film Festival, Opera Ball
  • Silver Nymph Monte Carlo - Best Director Opera Ball
  • 2004: Golden Romy - Best TV Film for The Return of the Dance Teacher
  • 2006: Golden Romy - Best Director for Death of a Boar
  • 2007: Nominated for the Adolf Grimme Prize for the death of a boar
  • 2008: Nominated for the Erlkönig 2008 crime thriller award in Wiesbaden
  • 2008: Adolf Grimme Prize for To the Limit
  • 2008: German TV Prize 2008 for The Last Judgment : best supporting actress, Silke Bodenbender, best editing (Andrea Mertens)
  • 2014: Nominated for the 2008 Wiesbaden crime prize for Munich murder
  • 2015: Adolf Grimme Prize for The Bruckner Case
  • 2015: Award "Best Director" from the German Academy for Television for the Bruckner case
  • 2017: Seoul International Drama Award in the “Best Director” category for Gotthard
  • 2019: Romy - Austrian TV Award for The Wonder of Wörgl (Best TV Film)
  • 2019: 51st TV Prize from Austrian Adult Education for The Miracle of Wörgl
  • 2019: Golden Compass media award for the film A child is wanted

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary , Tagesspiegel Berlin
  2. ↑ ORF co-productions “Das Sacher” and “Gotthard” received awards . OTS notification dated September 8, 2017, accessed September 8, 2017.
  3. ↑ TV prices for adult education for ORF productions. Retrieved June 26, 2019 .
  4. ↑ “Golden Compass” award winner: director Urs Egger died , pro-medienmagazin.de, article from January 22, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Egger, Urs
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Egger, Urs Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss film and television director and film critic
DATE OF BIRTH March 9, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Bern , Switzerland
DATE OF DEATH January 18, 2020
Place of death Berlin