Alexander Detig

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Alexander Detig (born November 1, 1966 in Salzgitter , Lower Saxony ) is a German composer , musician , journalist , book author and television producer . He composes soundtracks for TV and film productions. He also shoots and produces investigative TV documentaries on various sociopolitical, historical and cultural topics.

Life

Alexander Detig grew up in Pforzheim . After graduating from the Heinrich Wieland School in Pforzheim in 1987, he learned editing and directing in Frankfurt am Main , Mainz and Wiesbaden . Since 1996 he has been working as a freelance producer and author for various formats, including a. for ZDF , BBC and arte . He has been a journalist since 2005. He mainly deals with topics from the socio-political sector, the environment and culture. Since 2008 he has been working as a composer for TV and film.

The TV documentary Yakuza - Gangsters and Benefactors , for which Detig researched in the Yakuza milieu over several years , arose out of a personal interest in Japan . In 2015, the non-fiction book The Last Yakuza was published , in which the author on the one hand captures certain background information about his experiences, on the other hand creates the impression of a Japan connoisseur without naming the people and circumstances that made it possible for him to work on the film documentation.

Alexander Detig lives with his wife, the journalist and book author Tatyana Detig , in Bad Kreuznach .

Honourings and prices

Filmography (selection)

  • 2001: The War of the Century, episode 7: decisive battle - El Alamein 1942 (ZDF) (cut, production)
  • 2002: Secrets (BBC)
  • 2002: Ocean Voyager ( Canal + )
  • 2008: Adventure Ocean Quest , 5 episodes (arte)
  • 2011, with Tatyana Detig: Radioactive Detectives (Die Strahljäger) , 2 episodes (ZDF) (Director, Production)
  • 2012, with Tatyana Detig: Embittered City (The Radiant City) (ZDF)
  • 2013: Yakuza - gangsters and benefactors (arte) (director, author)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ARTE documentary 'Yakuza' about Japan's gangster gangs. In: www.tvdigital.de. Retrieved November 28, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Sonja Blaschke: The gangsters from next door. (No longer available online.) In: Das ARTE Magazin. arte.tv, February 5, 2013, archived from the original on December 8, 2015 ; accessed on November 28, 2015 .
  3. ^ Wolfgang Herbert: Münchhausen in Japan. Alexander Detig's fake glances into the Japanese underworld (pdf). In: Münchhausen in Japan. Detig's last yakuza. academia.edu, accessed June 16, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Palmarès 2010. (PDF) Festival mondial de l'image sous-marine, accessed on November 28, 2015 (French).
  5. ↑ FIFALE: 9ème Edition (2013). (No longer available online.) In: www.fifale.com. Archived from the original on December 17, 2015 ; accessed on November 28, 2015 .
  6. ↑ Alexander Detig. In: IMDb. Retrieved November 28, 2015 .
  7. ↑ Adventure Ocean Quest | ZDF Enterprises. In: zdf-enterprises.de. Retrieved November 28, 2015 .
  8. ↑ Radioactive Detectives | ZDF Enterprises. In: zdf-enterprises.de. Retrieved November 28, 2015 .
  9. ↑ The Radiation Fighters - Forgotten Bombs. In: doku.me. Retrieved November 28, 2015 .
  10. ↑ Embittered City | ZDF Enterprises. In: zdf-enterprises.de. Retrieved November 28, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Detig, Alexander
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Detig, Alex
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German investigative journalist, producer
DATE OF BIRTH November 1, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Salzgitter , Lower Saxony