Andreas Voigt (director)

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Andreas Voigt (born August 25, 1953 in Eisleben ) is a German director and writer for documentary films . Andreas Voigt has become internationally known for his "Leipzig films".

Life

Andreas Voigt spent his childhood and youth in Dessau . After graduating from the Workers 'and Farmers' Faculty in Halle, he began studying physics in Krakow , Poland. After breaking off his studies there, he studied economics and economic history in Berlin, which he completed with a diploma. He also worked as an assistant director and production manager in the DEFA studio for documentaries. Immediately after completing his studies, he received a contract as a dramaturge.

In the mid-1980s he studied directing at the film school in Potsdam-Babelsberg and worked from 1987 to 1990 as a director in the DEFA studio for documentary films.

Since the studio was closed in 1991, he has worked as a freelance director and writer for cinema and television. In addition to filmmaking, Andreas Voigt teaches at film schools and gives directing seminars.

The film work has taken him to France, Great Britain, Georgia, Greece, India, Kazakhstan, Nicaragua, the Netherlands, Nigeria, Austria, Poland, Spain, Russia, South Africa, Syria and the USA.

Teaching: Seminars on documentary work

  • Eastman School of Music, Rochester University, USA
  • Toronto University, Canada
  • Singapore (Film Department, NgeeAnn)
  • India (Goethe-Institut)
  • Syria (Damascus, University of Television)
  • Script workshop Lower Saxony
  • University of Film and Television Potsdam-Babelsberg
  • the medienakademie Hamburg, Berlin
  • University of Paderborn
  • iSFF, Berlin

Leipzig films

Voigt's Leipzig films are a multiple award-winning film series that was made between 1987 and 2015. It comprises six long documentary films that tell the life stories and fates of people in Leipzig over a period of almost 30 years and became a moving document of a time of upheaval.

Single films in the series :

  • Alfred , shot in the autumn of 1986, was Voigt's graduation film at the film school.
  • Leipzig in Autumn emerged in October 1989, shortly before the Wall fell , on the streets of the city during the Monday demonstrations and documents the huge mass demonstrations.
  • The next film, Last Year Titanic , tells from December 1989 to December 1990 about five people in the last year of the GDR and the beginnings of unified Germany.
  • 1993 Faith Love Hope was born . A group of radical young people is accompanied for a year.
  • In Big Wide World in 1997, Voigt returned to some of the protagonists from the earlier films to see what became of them.
  • Everything else shows the time opened on October 26, 2015, the 58th International Documentary Film Week in Leipzig.

In July 2015, the first five films were released in a DVD box. the last film was released on DVD in August 2016.

Filmography

cinemamovies

  • Time shows everything else (2015), (Bavarian Film Prize 2016; International Competition DOK Leipzig, Doc against Gravity, Warsaw and others)
  • When we were the future ... (2015)
  • Invisible - illegal in Europe (2004), (European Docu Zone Award, Leipzig International Documentary Film Week)
  • Big wide world (1997)
  • East Prussia (1995), (Viennale, Vienna 1996)
  • Faith, Love, Hope (1994), (Grand Prix, Festival du Film de Strasbourg, France)
  • Grenzland eine Reise (1992), (Prix de la Direction Regionale des Affaires Culturelles, Festival du Film de Strasbourg, France)
  • Last year Titanic (1991), (Adolf-Grimme-Preis, predicate "Particularly valuable")
  • Departure Leipzig - October 1989 (1990), (scenario)
  • Leipzig im Herbst (1989), (Taube 89, Jury Prize of the International Leipzig Documentary Film Week)
  • People with Landscape (1988), Das Kleine Fernsehspiel, ZDF.
  • Alfred (1987), (Prize of the GDR Film Club for the best documentary film)
  • House and yard (1980, concept)

Television films

  • The Mahouts of Kerala (2014) SWR / arte
  • Samuchas last summer (2010) SWR / arte (National Geographic Magazine Award, Film Festival Autrans, France)
  • 20 times Brandenburg (2010), rbb, episode "Der Landpfarrer" (Adolf Grimme Prize for the entire project, 2011)
  • With reindeer nomads across the Urals (2007), SWR / Fance5 (Golden Coins, Grand Prix Roshd International Film Festival, Tehran; Grand Prix Orobie Mountain Film Festival, Italy; Best Film, TAC Film Festival Oregon, USA)
  • Ein Sohn der Taiga (2006), for the series ”Fremde Kinder”, ZDF / 3sat (Grand Prix, Earth Vision, International Film Festival Tokyo, 2008)
  • Russia's cold heart (2005), for countries, people, adventures, SWR / NDR
  • The musician from the Tatras (2003), for the series “Foreign Children”, ZDF / 3sat
  • David @ NewYork (2001), for the series "Fremde Kinder", ZDF / 3sat
  • trouble spots (1999) Memories of October 1989
  • Veldpost International (1998/99), for the Dutch TV broadcaster VPRO
  • 25 short films about the life of the unemployed in Berlin-Schöneweide
  • No home in Kurdistan (1998), for the series "Fremde Kinder", ZDF / 3sat (nomination ECHO, Television & Radio Award, Vienna, 1998)
  • At the Taj Mahal (1996), for the series "Fremde Kinder" on ZDF / 3 sat
  • Mr. Behrmann Leben Traum Tod (1995), for ZDF / 3 sat (European contribution "input 96" in Guadalajara, Mexico; 1996 Silver Wolf, main prize for the best video film, IDFA, Amsterdam; prize of the youth jury of the International Leipzig Documentary Film Week)
  • Reyad from Damascus (1995), for the series "Foreign Children, ZDF / 3sat
  • Encounter with Krzysztof Kieslowski (1995), for the BR

Film awards (selection)

literature

  • Christiane Mückenberger, Ingrid Poss, Anne Richter: The principle of curiosity . In: DEFA Documentary Filmmakers Tell, New Life Publishing House, 2012.
  • Reinhild Steingröver: The Extraordinary in the Ordinary: Andreas Voigt's Leipzig Pentalogy, 1986-96 . In: Last Features: East German Cinema's Lost Generation , 2014.

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME Voigt, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German documentary film director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH August 25, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Eisleben