Andreas Marshal

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Andreas Marschall, 2015

Andreas Marschall (born January 13, 1961 in Karlsruhe ) is a German draftsman , screenwriter , film editor and film director . He gained fame in the 1980s as an illustrator of record covers . He has also been making music videos since the 1990s and works in various areas of the film industry .

Life

Marschall comes from a family with an affinity for art; both his father and mother are art teachers and painters . As a teenager, he began drawing comics for classmates. In 1981 Marschall relocated to West Berlin , where he met Karl-Ulrich Walterbach from Noise Records , with whom he was interested in comics and horror films. In the early 1990s he founded Cut and Run , a film production company. Since the 2000s he has been a partner of Teresa Nawrot's drama school “Reduta Berlin”, where he gives courses in camera acting .

Andres Marschall lives and works in Berlin.

Create

Marschall was already working as a comic artist for Métal hurlant magazine around 1980 , but decided against a professional career in this genre. Instead, he accepted the offer to draw record covers for the releases of the young label Noise Records. The first drawing was for the 1984 sampler Rock from Hell and Marschall became Noise Records' house draftsman. He later worked for other labels and bands, such as Sodom , Blind Guardian , Running Wild , Grave Digger , In Flames , Obituary , Kreator , Hate Eternal and Hammerfall . In addition, he drew film posters, a. a. for the films Nekromantik and Nekromantik 2 .

Marschall works with the airbrush technique using small retouching brushes. He hardly does any digital post-processing. In 2014 the Rock'n'Popmuseum in Gronau exhibited Marschall's cover drawings for several months.

At the beginning of the 1990s, Marschall found his way into the film business. His first work was the video Hallucinative Comas for the German band Kreator in 1991 . Around 60 other video clips, produced under professional conditions, followed. Marschall has worked as a film editor since the early 2000s. a. for So Far Your Feet from 2001 and some episodes of the Coast Guard series . While working at the “Reduta Berlin” he and his acting class developed a horror short story called Shakti , on the basis of which he made his feature film debut as a director in 2004 with Tears of Kali . In 2012, Masks was his second full-length horror film. In autumn 2013 he began shooting the episode horror film German Angst , which he realized together with Jörg Buttgereit and Michal Kosakowski. The film premiered in January 2015.

literature

  • Matthias Mader: Permit me, Mr. Freudstein . Cover artist Andreas Marschall in portrait. In: Rock Hard . No. 339 , August 2015, p. 36-39 .

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personal data
SURNAME Marshal, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German draftsman and filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlsruhe