Adnan G. Köse

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Adnan G. Köse (right)

Adnan Günter Köse (born October 19, 1966 ) is a German director , screenwriter , actor, playwright and producer of Turkish-German descent.

life and work

Beginnings

Adnan Günter Köse comes from a family of miners and grew up in the working-class district of Dinslaken-Lohberg . He began studying acting in 1989 at the Theater der Keller drama school and graduated as an actor in 1992.

He broke off his studies in German , American and history at the Gerhard Mercator University in Duisburg for the sake of acting. Between 1992 and 1998 he mainly played leading roles in the theater, including the Rheinisches Landestheater Neuss , Grenzlandtheater Aachen , Theater Oberhausen , Landestheater Burghofbühne Dinslaken , Schlosstheater Celle and other German theaters. In the character field, he mainly played roles in classic dramas by Shakespeare , Schiller , Sophocles and Büchner . In 1994 he got his first supporting role in the television series Schwarz intervenes , but remained loyal to the theater, so that he only appeared occasionally in front of the camera. a. as an episode actor in crime and family series such as B. SK-Babies , The Weltings from the main train station and Is what trainer? .

In 1999, the WDR / ARTE production Mein große Freund was broadcast based on a script by Köse. Köse continued to write commissioned productions for series such as Die Motorrad-Cops - Hart am Limit , Der Puma and Bis in die Spitzen and developed numerous projects for TV productions in cooperation with various production companies.

Film productions

In 2003 he wrote the screenplay To Hell with You , a 30-minute mystery thriller. The film was funded by the Board of Trustees of Young German Film and the FilmFernsehFonds Bayern , production was carried out by Münchener Fieber Film. The short film premiered at the Fantasy Film Festival in Munich and then toured worldwide at film festivals, including Lund, Sweden, and the Los Angeles Short Film Festival .

For Lauf um Dein Leben - Vom Junkie zum Ironman (2008), a film adaptation of the life of triatleth Andreas Niederig , Köse was responsible for the script and direction. The film was shown internationally at numerous film festivals.

Then Köse directed the children's film Homies! Reach for the stars and the like a. with Detlef D! Soost , Jimi Blue Ochsenknecht , Ann-Kathrin Kramer , Ali Murtaza and Günther Kaufmann . He wrote the script together with Andrea Kriegl.

In 2012, Kleine Morde was released in cinemas, a mystery thriller for which he again wrote the script. Kleine Morde won the script award of the Ministry of Culture of North Rhine-Westphalia for best script and won other film awards at the Silver Horse Festival in Lyon for the best script, the best film and the best director. The film was produced by Eyyüphan and Neslihan Duy from SteelWorX Film Production in Oberhausen and released in German cinemas by Studiocanal.

theatre

His father's work in the Lohberg colliery had a lasting impact on him, so that he dealt with the subject of migration and mining as a play. Unter Tage was published in 2003 by Rowohlt Theater-Verlag and premiered by the Landestheater Burghofbühne Dinslaken under the direction of Norman Warmuth . Seven years later Adnan G. Köse produced his piece again, this time under his own direction as part of RUHR.2010 - European Capital of Culture in the former Kaue of the Lohberg colliery.

Subsequently, Köse produced the play Da noch haben von Jon Fosse , in which the theater and cinema actor Richard Samel played the lead role. Between 2013 and 2015, Köse shifted his artistic focus to writing, staging and producing plays, including Christopher Durang's New York comedy Despite All Therapy and the classic Othello on the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare's death with singer and actor Dave Kaufmann in the title role and himself in the role of Iago . In October 2015 he made his debut as a librettist for his own piece Sehnsucht nach Isfahan , which was premiered in collaboration with the orchestra of the Bremer Kammerphilharmonie as an opera with music by Georg Friedrich Handel .

In 2014 he wrote, directed and produced the refugee documentary Last Refuge with his production company New Dakota Independent and in collaboration with UN refugee aid . The festival world premiere took place in October 2015 in the competition for documentaries at the Hof International Film Festival.

Filmography

  • 1994: Black Intervenes (Actor)
  • 1997: The First Semester (Actor)
  • 1999: My big friend (Alternative title: My friend Balou; screenwriter)
  • 2000: Holgi (actor)
  • 2000: The Puma - Fighter with a Heart (screenwriter)
  • 2001: The Motorcycle Cops - Hard at the Limit (Screenwriter)
  • 2001: Everything for the Dog (Actor)
  • 2003: To hell with you (director, screenwriter, actor)
  • 2005: To the top (screenwriter)
  • 2008: Run for Your Life - From Junkie to Ironman (Director & Screenwriter)
  • 2011: Homies (screenwriter, director)
  • 2012: Kleine Morde (screenwriter, director, actor)
  • 2015: Last Refuge (Writer, Director, Producer)

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