Andreas Dresen

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Andreas Dresen at the Berlinale 2015

Andreas Dresen (born August 16, 1963 in Gera ) is a German film director . Since November 2012 he has also been one of nine judges of the constitutional court of Brandenburg for ten years .

life and work

Andreas Dresen is the son of the theater director Adolf Dresen and the actress Barbara Bachmann . After his parents separated, the theater director Christoph Schroth became his foster father.

From 1979 to 1982 he attended the Extended Goethe High School in Schwerin . There he made his first amateur films and directed school plays. After his military service in the NVA , he worked as a sound engineer at the Schwerin Theater in 1984/85 . In 1985 and 1986 he completed a traineeship in the DEFA studio for feature films and was assistant director to Günter Reisch . This was followed from 1986 to 1991 by studying directing at the University of Film and Television in Potsdam- Babelsberg , from which he graduated with a diploma. His student film As Fast as It Goes to Istanbul (1990) was also shown at the Berlinale and received the Prix ​​Europa . With his first feature film Stilles Land (1991/92), Dresen ironically reflected the turmoil of the turnaround in a small town theater. Dresen has been working as a freelance writer and director since 1992. After initially working for television, since his second feature film, Nachtgestalten (1999), he has mainly made feature films. Since Nachtgestalten, Dresen has often relied on improvisation and handheld cameras, which gives his films a very realistic and semi-documentary character.

From 1990 on, he worked primarily with cameraman Andreas Höfer , with whom he had studied together in Babelsberg, and since 2000 with Michael Hammon . Dresen worked with Wolfgang Kohlhaase as a screenwriter for three of his films : Summer in front of the balcony (2005), Whiskey with Vodka (2009) and As we träumten (2015). Kohlhaase appreciates Dresen's “friendly”, “almost affectionate” way of looking at and dealing with the actors and their characters. Dresen then confirmed that he and Kohlhaase share the same “view of the world and people”.

Since 1996 Dresen has also been working for the stage, for example at the Cottbus State Theater (Goethe's Urfaust ), the Leipzig Theater and the German Theater in Berlin. In 2006 he staged Mozart's Don Giovanni at the Basel Opera and Ödön von Horváth's play Kasimir and Karoline with the music of the 17 hippies at the Deutsches Theater Berlin .

In 2013 he was appointed to the competition jury of the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival . In 2015, Dresen was represented in the competition of the Berlinale for the third time with his film As Wir Träumten after 1999 ( Nachtgestalten ) and 2002 ( Half Staircase ). 2016 Dresen had a guest appearance on the WDR telecast free room! with Christine Westermann and Götz Alsmann . The protagonist of this episode is Axel Prahl .

In 2018, Dresen's feature film Gundermann was released and won a total of six Lolas at the German Film Prize 2019 , including the prize for the best film .

Engagements and memberships

In 2003, Andreas Dresen was one of the founding members of the German Film Academy . He is also a member of the European Film Academy and the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of the Arts . In addition, Dresen was Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the DEFA Foundation from 2013 to 2019 .

In October 2012 he was elected as a layman constitutional judge in the state of Brandenburg at the suggestion of the Die Linke parliamentary group . In November 2012, he approved the election.

Since 2016, Andreas Dresen has been supporting the “Alliance for Brandenburg”, an initiative of the state of Brandenburg that aims to ensure that refugees are successfully integrated.

Since the summer semester of 2018, he has held the newly established professorship for film acting at the Rostock University of Music and Drama .

Private

Dresen lives in Potsdam.

Filmography

Feature films

Documentaries

Short films

  • 1987: Consequences - Peter, 25
  • 1987: each other's steps
  • 1988: The rats sleep at night
  • 1988: What everyone must ...
  • 1989: Train into the distance
  • 1990: As soon as possible to Istanbul
  • 1991: Lulu
  • 1991: The fools are not dying out
  • 1992: Everything remains very different

theatre

Awards

National prices

Andreas Dresen, 2008
  • Bavarian film award
    • 2003: Director's Prize for Half Staircase
    • 2006: Director's award for summer in front of the balcony
  • Grimme Prize
    • 2001: Gold Adolf Grimme Prize for Die Polizistin
    • 2011: Grimme Prize, Information & Culture / Special section , for artistic direction at 20 × Brandenburg
  • German film award
    • 1999: Nomination for the Gold Film Award for Extraordinary Achievement in Direction for Nachtgestalten
    • 2002: Silver film award for half stairs
    • 2002: Nomination for film award for exceptional performance in director for Halbe Staircase
    • 2009: Best director for Cloud Nine
    • 2012: Nominations in the directing and screenwriting categories for Halt on Open Track
    • 2012: Prize in the directing category for a stop on the open road
    • 2019: Best director for Gundermann

International prices

  • European film award
    • 2002: Nomination for director's award for Halbe Stuhl
    • 2008: nomination for directing award for cloud nine

literature

Documentaries about Andreas Dresen

  • The director Andreas Dresen - Halfway there. Documentary, Germany, 2013, 29:45 min., Script and director: Katrin Teubner, camera: Ferdinand Teubner, production: MDR , series: CVs, first broadcast: August 15, 2013 on MDR, from MDR, a. a. with Lothar Bisky , Wolfgang Kohlhaase and Axel Prahl .
  • Andreas Dresen - My Life. Documentary, Germany, 2008, 43 min., Director: Cordula Kablitz-Post , production: avanti media, ZDF , first broadcast: February 14, 2009, summary by arte

Web links

Commons : Andreas Dresen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Interviews

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ines Walk: Biography Andreas Dresen. ( Memento from January 6, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) In: film-zeit.de , March 2008, accessed on January 5, 2015, here with a list of literature ( Memento from the original from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet tested. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. the DEFA Foundation . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.defa-stiftung.de
  2. ↑ School history. ( Memento from July 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) In: Goethe-Gymnasium Schwerin - General Education and Music High School , (archived).
  3. ↑ Quiet Land. In: filmportal.de , accessed on January 5, 2015.
  4. ^ Portrait of Andreas Dresen. In: Kino.de , accessed on January 5, 2015.
  5. ↑ Audio interview on whiskey with vodka . ( Memento from September 14, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) In: stichwortdrehbuch.de , August 31, 2009, 38:32 min., Comments on Dresen towards the end of the interview.
  6. ↑ Andreas Dresen: Love, Death and Weather. A homage. In: Die Zeit , February 11, 2010, No. 7.
  7. ↑ Andreas Dresen on "When we dreamed": Am Abgrund der Nachwendezeit , film talk in the Berliner Zeitung on February 3, 2015, accessed February 7, 2015
  8. ↑ Katrin Schlösser elected chairwoman of the DEFA Foundation. DEFA Foundation, May 9, 2019, accessed on May 9, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Wenke Husmann: Judging with the trained eye of a filmmaker. In: Zeit online , November 7, 2012.
  10. ↑ Our supporters (A to E) | Alliance for Brandenburg . In: Alliance for Brandenburg . ( buendnis-fuer-brandenburg.de [accessed on April 18, 2017]).
  11. ^ MDR television: The director Andreas Dresen - Halfway ( memento from January 6, 2015 in the Internet Archive ).
personal data
SURNAME Dresen, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film director
DATE OF BIRTH August 16, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Gera