Özgür Yıldırım (film director)

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Özgür Yildirim at the German premiere of the film Boy7 on August 16, 2015 in Düsseldorf.

Özgür Yıldırım (born September 12, 1979 in Hamburg-Dulsberg ) is a German film director .

Career

Yıldırım comes from a Turkish guest worker family . He started writing stories at the age of 11 and published his first book at the age of 14, the horror novel Gray Nights (1993).

After graduating from school, Yıldırım studied directing at the Hamburg Media School .

According to Alım Market (2004), some of the first short films by Fatih Akin's “most talented young German director” were awarded prizes .

In 2007 he made his first feature film, Chiko . For authored by him screenplay he received the 2008 screenplay prize at the Nordic Film Days in Lübeck . The film premiered at the Berlinale in 2008 and one year later was nominated for the German Film Award in four categories , including Best Feature Film . Yıldırım himself received another award for his script.

In 2011 the director shot the feature film Blutzbrüdaz with Sido in the lead role and also participated in the script. In Germany, Blutzbrüdaz had 128,139 moviegoers after the first weekend, a total of 528,834 people saw the film.

In 2013, the crime scene episode Feuerteufel, set in Hamburg , was produced under his direction for NDR, with Wotan Wilke Möhring as the new investigator. The first broadcast on April 28, 2013 reached 10 million viewers in Germany. The press rated the film and the new team of investigators largely positive. A partially "illogical plot" was criticized, which still leaves room for improvement for future consequences. In March 2016, his second Tatort Zorn Gottes with Wotan Wilke Möhring was broadcast.

In August 2015, Yıldırım's third feature film Boy 7 - based on the novel of the same name by Mirjam Mous - with David Kross and Emilia Schüle was released in German cinemas.

His fourth feature film Nur Gott kann mich mich mit Moritz Bleibtreu and Birgit Minichmayr was released in German cinemas in January 2018 and won the Hessian Film Prize for "Best Feature Film" before it even opened . This was followed by his third crime scene: Everything you say with Wotan Wilke Möhring , who was largely positively received by the criticism.

For the second season of the TNT-produced series 4 Blocks , Yildirim and Oliver Hirschbiegel directed the series, which was broadcast from October 2018. In December of the same year it was announced that the series would end with the third season. On March 22, 2019, the production company announced that filming for the third season had begun and that it would air in winter 2019. Özgür Yıldırım will once again direct all six planned episodes.

Filmography

Short films

  • 2002: The necessary cutting edge
  • 2003: love in Turkish
  • 2004: Alim Market

Feature films

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Abendblatt.de .
  2. ↑ hamburgmediaschool.com ( Memento from February 24, 2008 in the Internet Archive ).
  3. ^ Petra Haase: Hamburg Ghetto Story. In: Lübecker Nachrichten. April 17, 2007; P. 31.
  4. ↑ Özgür Yıldırım at filmportal.de .
  5. ↑ Christopher Klausnitzer: German Charts: “Sherlock Holmes 2” stays in front, “Blutzbrüdaz” the best newcomer . In: film starts . Filmstarts.de. January 3, 2012. Retrieved January 5, 2012.
  6. ↑ Film hit list: Annual list (German) 2012 . In: Filmförderungsanstalt . FFA.de. Retrieved February 10, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Yıldırım, Özgür
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish-German film director
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg-Dulsberg