Arne Birkenstock
Arne Birkenstock (born December 7, 1967 in Siegen ) is a German author and director .
Life
Arne Birkenstock studied economics , politics , history and Romance studies in Cologne , Buenos Aires and Córdoba and, during his studies, realized the first TV documentaries for the series Unter deutscher Dächern (ARD) and Menschen first-hand . Together with André Schäfer, he produced the award-winning documentary You can see with your ears - About football madness on Saturdays on the radio (1999).
His first feature documentary, 12 Tangos - Adios Buenos Aires , premiered in 2005. In addition to various documentaries for television such as the WDR series 7000 Kilometers of Homesickness - A Year in China or Sandpit Warriors about German NCOs who are trained as educators at a Bundeswehr technical college for the documentary film series Grand Format on ARTE (together with Katherina Knees), Birkenstock also performed he directed the documentary films Chandani und ihr Elefant (together with Jan Tengeler) for which he received the 2011 German Film Award in the category of best children's and youth film , and the music documentary Sound of Heimat - Deutschland singt (together with Jan Tengeler).
Arne Birkenstock's cinema documentary Beltracchi - The Art of Forgery about the art forger Wolfgang Beltracchi was awarded the 2014 German Film Prize in the category Best Documentary . The film had its international premiere at the World Film Festival in Montréal . The film adaptation of the documentary theater project The Moscow Trials by Swiss director Milo Rau , which he produced, was honored with a "Special Award" at the Festival of German Films in Ludwigshafen am Rhein in 2014.
Arne Birkenstock produced Milo Raus' film and transmedia project Das Kongo Tribunal and, together with filmmakers Yasemin and Nesrin Şamdereli, their film “The Night of the Nights” and worked on other projects with directors such as Uli Gaulke and Enrique Sánchez Lansch .
Arne Birkenstock wrote books on tango and Latin American music As a scientific author, Birkenstock also wrote studies for the State Chancellery of North Rhine-Westphalia, the Cologne Cultural Council, the Grimme Institute and the Federal Ministry of Family Affairs . He organized several cultural-political symposia in his hometown of Cologne.
In January 2014, Arne Birkenstock was appointed by the Minister of State for Culture Monika Grütters for three years to the committee "Production of full-length feature films and documentaries (A)" of the federal government's cultural film funding; since 2016 he has also been a member of the non-fiction commission at the Zürcher Filmstiftung . Birkenstock is a board member of the German Film Academy , also a member of the European Film Academy , the German Academy for Television and the Documentary Film Working Group , where he was a member of the board from 2011 to 2014. He is involved in the advisory board of the Kunstsalon Köln and in the board of trustees of AFS Intercultural Encounters, with whom he spent a year in the USA in 1984/85 as an exchange student .
Arne Birkenstock is married, lives in Cologne and has two children. As a sideline, Birkenstock plays the accordion in the Cologne dialect band Schmackes . Arne Birkenstock is the eldest son of the Cologne defense lawyer Reinhard Birkenstock and grandson of the aviation pioneer Hans Jacobs .
Awards
- Nomination of the Congo Tribunal by the German Film Academy for the German Film Prize for best documentary
- Nomination of the Congo Tribunal by the Swiss Film Academy for the Swiss Film Prize in the categories of Best Documentary and Best Original Score
- Award for The Night of Nights (Director: Yasemin Şamdereli ) with the Bavarian Film Prize 2017 as best documentary film
- World premiere of The Congo Tribunal at the Semaine de La Critique at the Locarno Festival 2017.
- Honorable Mention for the Congo Tribunal by the jury of the International Competition of the International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film 2017.
- Award for the Congo Tribunal with the Zurich Film Prize 2017.
- Nomination for Schlagerland for Romy (award) 2017.
- Nomination for Beltracchi - The Art of Forgery for the German Documentary Award 2015.
- Award for Beltracchi - The Art of Forgery by the German Film Academy with the German Film Prize as best documentary film
- Nomination for Beltracchi - The Art of Forgery by the Association of German Film Critics for the Prize of German Film Critics 2015 in the category "Best Documentary"
- Award for Chandani and her elephant by the German Film Academy as best children's film with the German Film Prize
- Award for Sound of Heimat - Germany sings with the 2014 annual award for best music documentation from the German Record Critics' Award
- Award for Chandani and her elephant with the first prize for best documentary at the International Children's Film Festival in Chicago
- Participation of Chandani and her Elephant at Children's Film Festival Golden Sparrow 2010, the TIFF KIDS, the Children's Film Festival of Toronto International Film Festival and numerous other children's film festivals.
- Silver Screen Award for the documentary series 7000 Kilometers of Homesickness at the US International Film and Video Festival 2009, Chicago
- Festival and competition participation of 12 tangos at The Era New Horizons International Film Festival Warsaw , Jecheon International Music & Film Festival Seoul , Monterrey International Film Festival , Cinemania Festival Sofia , International Film Festival Calcutta , Easter Festival Tirol , 7th Festival of Latin American Films Salzburg , Easter Festival Basel , Tango Festival Geneva , Yamagata International Documentary Festival .
- Festival participation of 7000 kilometers of homesickness at the international documentary film festival GZ DOC 2008 in Guangzhou
- Axel Springer Prize 2000 for You can see with your ears - About the football madness on Saturdays on the radio (RB / ARD, 1999).
Works
literature
- Tango. History and stories. Deutscher Taschenbuchverlag, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-423-24182-9 (non-fiction book with audio CD together with Helena Rüegg).
- Screenwriting training and scriptwriting promotion in Germany. An impact analysis. Study by KunstSalon eV on behalf of the State Chancellery of North Rhine-Westphalia (January to August 2001).
- Salsa, samba, santeria. Latin American music. Deutscher Taschenbuchverlag, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-423-24341-4 (non-fiction book with audio CD together with Eduardo Blumenstock).
- Mission: City of Art - Starting point and options for a strategic positioning of Cologne as a city of the arts. Study on behalf of the Kölner Kulturrat eV, September 2003.
- Future Family: Information on the 7th Family Report of the Federal Ministry for Family, Seniors, Women and Youth. (together with Irmela Hannover & Jürgen Kura).
- Family pictures and family topics on German television. Study for the Grimme Institute and the Federal Ministry for Family, Seniors, Women and Youth, Cologne 2005 (together with Irmela Hannover).
Filmography
- The night of the nights (production), director: Yasemin Samdereli, feature documentary, 96 minutes, 2018
- The Congo Tribunal (production), director: Milo Rau, feature documentary, 100 minutes, 2017
- Schlagerland (script & direction), production: Benjamin Seikel, C-Films Germany, TV documentary, 90 minutes, SWR / ARD 2017
- Beltracchi - The Art of Forgery (script, direction, production), cinema documentary, 104 minutes, 2014
- The Moscow Trials (production), director: Milo Rau, feature documentary, 91 minutes, 2014
- Sound of Heimat - Deutschland singt (script, direction, production), feature documentary, 94 minutes, 2012
- Chandani and her elephant (script, direction, production), feature documentary, 94 minutes, 2009
- Battle for Amazonia 3: The Judgment Ship (book, director) 2010, TV documentary, 45 minutes, 2010
- 7,000 kilometers of homesickness (script & direction together with Jürgen Kura), TV documentary series 4 × 30 minutes, 2008
- Die Sandpitenkrieger in the Grand Format series (written and directed together with Katherina Knees), documentary 90 minutes for Florianfilm , ZDF / ARTE, 2008
- 12 Tangos (production, script, direction), feature documentary, 94 minutes, 2005
- About right-wingers and fighters - observations in Germany's smallest district court in the Unter deutscher Dächern series (2000, ARD / RB, 45 minutes), written and directed together with André Schäfer
- Mood cannons - three solo entertainers in the series Menschen Hautnah (2000, WDR, 45 minutes), script & direction together with André Schäfer
- You can see with your ears - About the football madness on the radio on Saturdays in the series Unter deutscher Dächern (1999, ARD / RB, 45 minutes), written and directed together with André Schäfer
Web links
- Literature by and about Arne Birkenstock in the catalog of the German National Library
- Arne Birkenstock in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Arne Birkenstock at filmportal.de
- Website Fruitmarket Arts & Media GmbH
- Website of Arne Birkenstock's film and transmedia production "The Congo Tribunal"
Individual evidence
- ↑ 12 Tangos - Adios Buenos Aires.
- ↑ 7,000 kilometers of homesickness - a year in China
- ↑ Tango - history and stories ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , DTV Munich 1999, together with Helena Rüegg
- ↑ Salsa, Samba, Santería ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , DTV Munich 2002, together with Eduardo Blumenstock
- ↑ Zurich Film Foundation committees
- ↑ Deutsche Filmakademie Presidium and Board of Directors ( Memento of the original from February 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Art Salon Advisory Board
- ^ The Board of Trustees of AFS
- ^ Winner of the Bavarian Film Prize until 2017
- ↑ Semaine de la Critique 2017
- ↑ DOK Leipzig Prize Winner 2017 ( Memento of the original dated December 7, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Cadrage 2017
- ↑ Nomination for the Romy Academy Awards 2017
- ↑ Nominations for the German Documentary Film Award 2015
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| SURNAME | Birkenstock, Arne |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German author and director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 7th December 1967 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wins |