Axel Fuhrmann

Axel Fuhrmann (born April 7, 1962 in Solingen-Ohligs ) is an author , director and producer of documentaries and music recordings .

Career

Fuhrmann studied musicology , linguistics and marketing at the Saarland University .

From 1989 to 2001 he was a writer and producer of feature broadcasts, reports, features and audio art program, presenter of live broadcasts and program adviser to the wave SR2 Kulturradio of Saarland Radio . During this time he also produced other radio programs within the ARD .

From 1993 to 2001 he worked at the same time at SR Fernsehen Südwest, where, in addition to reports and magazine articles, he also produced documentaries as well as opera and concert recordings. From 2001 to 2003 he was project manager for international documentary co-production and development as well as executive producer at ZDF Enterprises GmbH.

In 2003 he moved to Provobis GmbH Hamburg, then in 2004 as a producer for merkur.tv GmbH Bonn, a subsidiary of the Rheinischer Merkur publishing group. From 2009 to 2010 he was managing director of merkur.tv GmbH Bonn. Since 2011 Fuhrmann has been the managing partner of the film and television production company "DokFabrik", which he founded.

Since the 2019/2020 winter semester, he has been teaching documentary film in the design department at the Anhalt University of Applied Sciences in Dessau.

Work

• Cello on the Rocks (1997)
• Karajan's Heirs (1998)
• Mozart is without end - Vesselina Kasarova (1999)
• Voices for Wagner (2000)
• Voices in the Labyrinth - Luciano Berio (2000)
• Chauffeurs of great conductors (2001)
• Akhenaten and Nefertiti (2002)
• Time travel - discovering history (2003)
• Rulers of Life and Death - Doctors Under the Swastika (2004)
• To the End of the World - The Expeditions of the Nazis (2004)
• Richard Wagner and the women (BR, Das Erste, 2005)
• The Stinnes Empire (2005)
• The Mannesmann Story (2006)
• Paganini's Secret (2006)
• The Road to Europe - 50 Years of the Treaty of Rome (2007)
• Overcoming Time - The Composer Mauricio Kagel (2007)
• Kohleengel - Rescuers underground (2007)
• The white giant: Werner Müller - Minister, Manager and Buddy (2008)
• Puccini - Magician of Passion (2008)
• Nobility Obliged: Karl von Schwarzenberg - Prince, Minister, European (2009)
• The Red Atom - Stalin's Forgotten Science City Obninsk (2009)
• For Bavaria the best - Bavarian Academy of Sciences (2009)
• Dream job diplomat ? - Everyday life in Germany's embassies (2009)
• Heintje , Henze , Nina Hagen - 60 Years of Music in Germany (2009)
• Robert Schumann's Lost Dreams (2010)
• The Zuse Story - How a German Invented the Computer (2010)
• Exotica by Mauricio Kagel (2010)
• Roots of Swing - The Pasadena Roof Orchestra (2010)
• For Elise  - Beethoven's bestseller (2012)
• The Magic Flute - Mozart's Legacy (2013)
• Peter and the Wolf - Story of a World Success (2014)
• Concert for a deaf soul - Maurice Ravel (2014)
• Moonlight Sonata - The Folk Pianist Elly Ney (2015)
• England's Secret Anthem - Land of Hope and Glory (2016)
• The Rhine - Stream of Music (2017)
• Departure - New European Songbook (2017)
• An Old War - New European Songbook (2018)
• West Side Story - Bernstein's Broadway Hit (2018)
• Music for Marxloh - A school project of the Ruhr Piano Festival (2018)
• The dream of a total work of art - contemporary art and opera (2019)

Web links

• Axel Fuhrmann in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• DokFabrik