Alyosha pause

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Alyosha pause

Aljoscha Pause (born January 24, 1972 in Bonn ) is a German filmmaker , director , television journalist , author and producer .

Life, education and career beginnings

Aljoscha Pause grew up in Bonn. After graduating from high school, he studied Romance studies at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . From 1998 to 2002 he received speaker training at Deutsche Welle . Break is married; he has two daughters and lives in Bonn.

During his school days and studies, he worked early on in his father Rainer Pause's cabaret theater , the Bonn Pantheon Theater . At the same time he worked as a reporter for a Bonn city magazine and for the private radio station Radio Bonn / Rhein-Sieg .

In 1996, Pause began his television career. First he worked as an editor at the TV station DSF until 1999 and then until 2003 in the central sports department of the Kirch Group for Sat.1 in the sports program ran and Premiere . There he worked as a filmmaker, presenter, commentator and field reporter.

From 2009 to 2011, Aljoscha Pause was also a reporter for the Bundesliga television of Deutsche Telekom LIGA total! active.

Cinematic creation

Pause has been working as a freelance producer and filmmaker since 2003 and has since concentrated on longer, documentary projects. His cinematic works often deal with socio-political issues in sport such as homophobia in professional football, hooligans , alcohol in football or the blind football league .

Another focus is portraits of people, mostly about footballers, but z. B. also about the former hooligan and actor Michael Jäger .

The highly regarded long-term studies Tom meets Zizou (2011) and Trainer! (2013) were his first feature-length films. Pause has received numerous awards and prizes for his work.

Trilogy - Homophobia in Football (2008-2011)

With Das große Tabu - Homosexuality and Football , Pause produced an "honest, unexcited inventory" of the situation of homosexual footballers in Germany for DSF in 2008. It was the first extensive television documentary that dealt with the topic, for which he was awarded the Felix Rexhausen Prize 2008 by the Association of Lesbian and Gay Journalists (BLSJ).

In the second part of the trilogy Breaking Taboo - The New Path from Homosexuality in Football , Pause observed the topic for a further twelve months in 2009 and followed the development with the camera. According to Süddeutscher Zeitung, “Pause gives private broadcaster DSF a journalistic exclamation point. It lives up to a claim that no public institution on this subject has ever been able to meet. ”One year after the first documentation, he asked the question whether after the“ initial spark ”in 2008 - at the DFB and the league - the taboo was actually broken has given. In 2010 he received the Alternative Media Prize and the Grimme Prize for the film in the “Information & Culture / Special” category.

After the productions Das große Tabu - Homosexualität und Fußball (2008) and Tabubbruch - Der neue Weg von Homosexualität im Fußball (2009), Pause ended his cinematic trilogy on homophobia in football in March 2011 with the Sport1 documentary Football is everything - even gay and examined the question of how difficult it really is to relieve a taboo subject in the long term. For this, the film author observed the development for another year and a half. All three films were made in cooperation with the German Academy for Football Culture .

Tom Meets Zizou (2011)

Aljoscha Pause shot a long-term documentary about former Bundesliga professional Thomas Broich for eight years . It describes Broich's Bundesliga career, which began promisingly, but after numerous sporting and personal setbacks and disappointments, it came to a temporary end with a move to the Australian club Brisbane Roar in 2010. The result of around 40 meetings in these eight years, a 135-minute film with the title Tom meets Zizou - No summer fairy tale , was premiered on March 25, 2011 as the opening film at the 8th International Football Film Festival 11mm in Berlin. The state German film and media evaluation (formerly Filmbewertungsstelle Wiesbaden) awarded the film the “rating: Particularly valuable”. The nationwide theatrical release by Mindjazz Pictures was on July 28, 2011. The project was supported by the DFB-Kulturstiftung . From the end of 2011, it was released on DVD and Blu-ray as well as other, partly international festival screenings, including in Poznan at the International Young Audience Film Festival , at the Thinking Football Film Festival in Bilbao , and the CINEfoot Festival in Rio de Janeiro , the Floodlight Film Festival in Basel (on February 1, 2014 together with Trainer! For the theme day “Failure”) as well as the Football Film Festival Australia 2015 in Brisbane and 2018 at the Football Film Festival in Beijing. By Tom Meets Zizou therefore now translated into English, Polish, Spanish and Portuguese exist. The WDR showed a 90-minute television version on August 21, 2012. For this, the film was awarded the VDS TV Prize 2012 . In addition, the 11-mm football film festival nominated it for the award "Best Football Film of All Time". In the ranking of the best football films of all time on Filmstarts.de - on the occasion of the football World Cup 2014 - Tom meets Zizou took first place: "Football film specialist Aljoscha Pause created with" Tom Meets Zizou "a rousing and highly entertaining documentary that the tough professional -Football business unmasked and at the same time provides a highly interesting portrait of an extraordinary person - an outstanding film. "

Mesut, 17 (2013)

In March 2013, the short film Mesut, 17 premiered at the 11mm film festival in Berlin. The nine-and-a-half-minute film about Mesut Özil, who was only 17 at the time, was made from (partly unpublished) material that Pause produced in early 2006 for a report on a youth football tournament . In addition to Özil himself, here in his very first television interview, Joachim Löw , who was still Klinsmann's assistant at the time, has a say.

Originally only planned as a contribution to the 10th anniversary of the 11 mm football film festival, the short film Mesut Özil was so popular that he published it on his Facebook page. Due to the extensive media coverage that followed and well over a million views on YouTube alone , the film became an Internet phenomenon . In 2014 there will be an English subtitled version of Mesut, 17 , which will be shown at the Hamburg International Short Film Festival .

Trainer! (2013)

At the beginning of June 2013, Pause mit Trainer! his second full-length documentary, for which he accompanied the three young professional trainers Frank Schmidt , André Schubert and Stephan Schmidt intensively for one season.

In addition, the film takes a look behind the scenes of the DFB soccer teacher training with head trainer Frank Wormuth . Established coaches such as Jürgen Klopp , Hans Meyer , Armin Veh , Mirko Slomka , Peter Neururer , Thomas Schaaf or Michael Oenning also have a detailed and profound voice. After six months of film preparation, Pause shot and edited the project for a year. The film is a pause film production on behalf of the WDR (editor Steffen Simon ). On June 3, 2013 there was the television premiere of the 90-minute television version on WDR television. After that, on June 11th, the 138-minute “Director's Cut” (theatrical version) premiered in the Babylon in Berlin-Mitte . This was followed, supported by the DFB-Kulturstiftung and distributed by Mindjazz Pictures, a nationwide film tour and in some cases exuberant reactions from the press.

On June 28, 2013, the film was also released on DVD and Blu-ray. In spring 2014 Aljoscha received a break for coaches! the "special recognition" of the VDS television award. After being nominated for the Adolf Grimme Prize 2014, he becomes a trainer! in the same year at the Floodlight Film Festival in Basel and at 11mm in Berlin. At the beginning of 2017 the film was shown at the film festivals in Yokohama and Kobe and in May 2017 it was ranked number 1 in the list of the best football films on Netflix by New York's "Paste Magazine".

The film has been available on Netflix since 2016 in German, English, Dutch, French, Spanish, Italian, Arabic and Japanese.

Being Mario Götze (2018)

At the beginning of June 2018, Aljoscha Pause published the documentary series Being Mario Götze - A German Football Story for the streaming service DAZN . The series contains 4 episodes of 50 minutes each.

For the series, Pause accompanied Mario Götze , the soccer world champion from 2014, for over seven months in his attempt to find his way back to his old level of performance and to make the leap into the German 2018 World Cup squad again. The film not only shows Götze's everyday sporting life and his fight for the World Cup ticket, but also gives profound insights into his private life.

With Götze's family and numerous prominent companions such as Jürgen Klopp , Jogi Löw , Matthias Sammer and Toni Kroos , the documentary series looks back on the beginnings, the great successes and the crises of the Dortmunder and for the first time also addresses Götze's medical history in detail. The five-time German champion speaks about the World Cup goal and the extreme experiences after his move to FC Bayern Munich and describes his view of football and life in a more detailed and open manner than ever before. In this way he gives the viewer an idea of ​​what it means to be Mario Götze.

A compressed 136-minute version was shown in German cinemas from October 2018. A month later it was released on DVD and Blu-ray.

For the series, Pause received the award "Prädikat valuable" from the German Film and Media Assessment (FBW) as well as a nomination for the AIPS - International Sport Media Award 2019 in the category "Video - Athlete Profile".

In 2019 he received the award for the best German-language sports film at the 1st VDS-SportFilmFest of the Association of German Sports Journalists .

Inside Borussia Dortmund (2019)

From December 2018, Pause worked on a documentary about the German Bundesliga club Borussia Dortmund . The four-part documentary series entitled Inside Borussia Dortmund was published on Amazon Prime Video on August 9, 2019 . In the series, Pause accompanies coaches, players and protagonists of the Bundesliga club Borussia Dortmund during the second half of the 2018/19 Bundesliga season and provides insights into club life and the team. In September 2019, a compressed 55-minute television version was shown on the ARD television station Das Erste . In 2020 the series was nominated as the best TV documentary by the Austrian film and television award ROMY .

Like a Stranger - A German Pop Music Story (2020)

On June 5, 2020, Pause will release the five-part documentary series Wie ein Fremder - A German Pop Music Story as Blu-ray and VOD. In the long-term study over six years, he accompanies the musician Roland Meyer de Voltaire (known under the name SCHWARZ and as the singer of the former German band Voltaire ). The series was created with the participation of music journalists and companions such as Schiller , Madsen , Megaloh and Enno Bunger and deals with central questions such as success and failure in the world of pop music or alternative lifestyles.

Memberships

Aljoscha Pause is an appointed member of the German Film Academy and the German Academy for Football Culture .

Film productions (selection)

Awards

  • 2008: Felix Rexhausen Prize for The Great Taboo
  • 2010: Adolf Grimme Prize for breaking taboos - The new way of homosexuality in football
  • 2010: Alternative media prize for breaking taboos - The new way of homosexuality in football
  • 2011: "Predicate particularly valuable" for Tom meets Zizou
  • 2012: VDS television award for Tom meets Zizou
  • 2013: Best football film of all time: nomination for Tom meets Zizou
  • 2013: VDS television award for "Trainer!" (Special recognition)
  • 2014: Adolf Grimme Prize: nomination for trainer!
  • 2018: "Predicate valuable" for Being Mario Götze
  • 2019: Nomination for the AIPS - International Sport Media Award 2019 for Being Mario Götze
  • 2019: "Best German-Language Sports Film" for Being Mario Götze
  • 2020: ROMY - nomination "Best TV Documentary" for Inside Borussia Dortmund

Other engagements

  • Member of the German Film Academy
  • Academy member of the German Academy for Football Culture
  • Participation in the DFB AGs against discrimination and racism in football
  • Co-author of the DFB brochure on football and homosexuality
  • Co-author of the book "My first stadium visit"

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hooligan series: Pause junior shoots with Marienhof-Star , express.de, May 9, 2008, accessed on March 23, 2013
  2. ↑ Rütteln am Tabu - Interview on the TV documentary "The great tabu - homosexuality and football" , stern.de, November 7, 2008, accessed on March 11, 2014
  3. ↑ German Academy for Football Culture on breaking taboos - The new way of homosexuality in football ( Memento from March 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Press release on the Alternative Media Prize 2010 - Laudation on breaking taboos , Video section ( Memento from December 16, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF)
  5. ↑ Grimmepreis 2010 for breaking taboos - the jury's reasoning ( Memento from October 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ German Academy for Football Culture about football is everything - even gay ( Memento from October 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ Visiting filmmaker Aljoscha Pause: Tom meets Zizou - No summer fairy tale ( Memento from May 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), 11freunde.de, March 25, 2011
  8. ↑ "Predicate: Particularly Valuable" for Tom Meets Zizou - press release of the German Film and Media Assessment (PDF)
  9. ↑ Tom Meets Zizou at the 29th International Young Audience Film Festival Ale Kino
  10. ↑ Program 2014. Thinking Football Film Festival, May 2014, archived from the original on April 9, 2013 ; accessed on February 1, 2016 .
  11. ↑ Congratulations to Australia. Retrieved May 30, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Winner: VDS TV Prize 2012
  13. ↑ " Getting really close": Aljoscha pause on "Trainer!" ( Memento from June 25, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Interview a. a. on the VDS TV Prize 2012 at dfb.de, accessed on June 2, 2014
  14. ↑ "The nominations for the best football film of all time have been confirmed" News from December 20, 2012 on 11mm.de, accessed on June 2, 2014
  15. ↑ "The 22 best football films for the World Cup" News from June 6, 2014 on filmstarts.de, accessed on September 22, 2015
  16. ^ "Mesut, 17" - the film about Özil's Kick-Start , sportbild.de, accessed on March 11, 2014
  17. ↑ Mesut, 17: A filmic portrait of the young Messt Özil , spiegel.de, March 31, 2013, accessed on March 11, 2014
  18. ↑ Short film on Sunday: “Mesut, 17” with Messt Özil , filmstars.de, May 19, 2013, accessed on March 11, 2014
  19. ↑ Mesut, 17 on youtube.de
  20. ↑ We're running for our lives - The soccer documentary “Trainer!” , Faz.de, March 3, 2013, accessed on March 11, 2014
  21. ↑ Aljoscha Pause wins the VDS television award at www.fussball-kultur.org, accessed on May 9, 2014
  22. ↑ Grimmepreis nominations for the Information & Culture / Special 2014 competition ( Memento from August 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) on grimme-institut.de
  23. ↑ trainer! at the Yokohama Football Film Festival 2017 ( Memento from August 25, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
  24. ↑ T he 10 Best Soccer Titles On Netflix (Paste Magazine)
  25. ↑ Aljoscha Pause receives the title Valuable from the German Film and Media Rating at www.fbw-filmbeval.com, accessed on May 30, 2019
  26. ↑ Aljoscha Pause among the top 10 finalists for the AIPS Sport Media Award, at www.aipsawards.com, accessed on May 30, 2019
  27. ↑ VDS News | Messages | VDS - Association of German Sports Journalists. Retrieved November 28, 2019 .
  28. ↑ Aljoscha Pause produces documentary about Borussia Dortmund. Retrieved March 28, 2019 .
  29. ↑ BVB and Amazon Prime Video present documentation, at www.bvb.de, accessed on May 21, 2019
  30. ↑ Editor: Kurier Romy: The nominees have been chosen. Retrieved April 27, 2020 .
  31. ↑ About fame and failure: New documentary series “Wie ein Fremder” will be released in June. April 27, 2020, accessed on April 27, 2020 (German).
  32. ↑ https://www.fussball-kultur.org/adresse/address/aljoscha-pause
  33. ↑ VDS News | Messages | VDS - Association of German Sports Journalists. Retrieved November 28, 2019 .
  34. ^ Deutsche Filmakademie - New Members 2019 , accessed on November 13, 2019
  35. ↑ Aljoscha Pause - Membership website of the German Academy for Football Culture ( Memento from October 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Pause, Alyosha
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German director and filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Bonn , North Rhine-Westphalia, Federal Republic of Germany