Alexander Adolph

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Alexander Adolph

Alexander Adolph (born November 10, 1965 in Munich ), who at times uses the stage name Nanouk C. Wilmer , is a German screenwriter and director .

Life

After graduating from high school, Adolph studied law at Munich's Ludwig Maximilians University and passed the first and second state exams. During this time he was already writing radio plays, features and reports. In 1997 he received the international radio play award URTI (Grand Prix de la Radio) for the radio play Flirt .

Since the mid-1990s, Alexander Adolph has mainly worked as a freelance screenwriter and director. The first script from his pen was the WDR- Tatort Der Spezialist in 1996 . In 2002, Adolph was awarded an Adolf Grimme Prize for another Tatort episode, In freefall , which featured art forgery . He received another Grimme Prize for the first episode Verdecktes Spiel of the ZDF series Under Suspicion with Senta Berger, which he developed . For the second episode of this series, entitled Eine Landpartie , he received the German Television Prize in 2003 and the Juliane Bartel Prize . In the same year Adolph was awarded the Cologne Conference authors' prize. The film Little Sister , based on Alexander Adolph's script in 2004, received the VFF TV-Movie Award and was nominated for the Grimme Prize in 2005.

His documentary Die Hochstapler ( Die Hochstapler) caused a sensation : Four criminals convicted of fraud speak about their deeds in front of the camera; the film refrains from any moralizing or judgmental gesture and was shown at festivals in Nyon, Amsterdam, Solothurn, London, New Zealand and Munich. In the spring of 2009, the feature film, written and directed by Alexander Adolph, has never been so happy with Devid Striesow , Nadja Uhl and Jörg Schüttauf came into the cinemas. Devid Striesow was nominated for the German Film Award in the "Best Actor" category for his portrayal of a con man . Adolph's feature film The Last Employee with Christian Berkel , Jule Ronstedt and Bibiana Beglau started in cinemas nationwide in October 2011.

Since 2002 Alexander Adolph has been teaching at the University of Television and Film Munich , the International Film School Cologne and the Baden-Württemberg Film Academy .

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personal data
SURNAME Adolph, Alexander
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wilmer, Nanouk C. (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich