Axel Ranisch

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Axel Ranisch, 2016

Axel Ranisch (born June 30, 1983 in East Berlin ) is a German director , writer , actor and producer .

Life

Axel Ranisch was born in the summer of 1983 in the Berlin district of Lichtenberg and grew up in the district of Fennpfuhl . In 2003 he graduated from high school. Before that, in June 2002, he had made his first short film . In the following seven years he made about 80 short films on his own and a few more with his participation as an actor, author, film composer or film editor. Parallel to his Abitur, Ranisch began training in media and theater education at the Brandenburg DGB youth education center in Flecken Zechlin , which he completed in spring 2004. Since then he has managed numerous projects as a media educator.

Axel Ranisch then studied directing from 2004 to 2011 at the Konrad Wolf Academy for Film and Television . The films he made there have been shown at over a hundred small and large film festivals (including the Young Film Scene Workshop ) and have received awards at regular intervals. Axel Ranisch landed his first major success with his diploma film Big Girls , which made him an exponent of German Mumblecore . With his grandmother Ruth Bickelhaupt (* 1921) in the lead role and the two actors Heiko Pinkowski and Peter Trabner at their side, they improvised a tragic comedy in just ten days of shooting without a film team or budget , which premiered at the Hofer Filmtage in October 2011 and has been awarded prizes at numerous national and international film festivals. Axel Ranisch also graduated with distinction thanks to this film. In November 2012, Dicke Mädchen was distributed by MissingFILMs in German cinemas nationwide. In the same year, Ranisch founded the joint production company Very Good Films with his fellow students Dennis Pauls and Anne Baeker and the actor Heiko Pinkowski .

Together with the directors Tom Tykwer , Chris Kraus , Robert Thalheim and Julia von Heinz , Ranisch shot the documentary Rosakinder (2012) about the relationship with their mutual “film father” and mentor Rosa von Praunheim . In 2013 Ranisch staged his first opera evening ( The Bear by William Walton & La voix humaine by Francis Poulenc ) at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich . In addition, his debut film I Feel Disco started in German cinemas nationwide on October 31, 2013 and again received numerous national and international awards. On September 25, 2014, the comic opera George by Elena Kats-Chernin celebrated its world premiere in the orangery of Schloss Herrenhausen in Hanover, as part of the KunstFestSpiele Herrenhausen . Ranisch was not only responsible for the staging of this production, he also wrote the libretto . In spring 2018, Ranisch staged his first play Konrad or The Child from the Canned Can, based on Christine Nöstlinger, at the Theater an der Parkaue .

During the same period, Ullstein Verlag published his first novel Nackt über Berlin , which received the lit.Cologne 2018 debut prize endowed with 2,222 euros . The Bühnen Halle secured the license for a stage production early on, and the world premiere as the first music theater premiere of the season took place on September 16, 2018, and received great acclaim from the critics. The three-hour staging by Henriette Hörnigk on the opera “Raumbühne” was “a fireworks display with depth, a kind of bad chick ”, commented Matthias Schmidt on night criticism.

Axel Ranisch's most important teachers and mentors include the visual artist Ricardo Zamora, the filmmaker Rosa von Praunheim , the pedagogue and author Annelie Streit , the journalist and writer Gerhard Dahne, and Moritz von Engelhardt, the long-time director of the Wannsee Forum in Berlin .

Ranisch is openly gay and lives in Berlin. In 2016, Ranisch entered into a registered partnership with his long-term partner Paul .

Filmography (selection)

Short films

  • 2002–2010: approx. 80 short films, exercises, work as a media pedagogue, including:
    • 2004: Rhythm in the head (director, actor)
    • 2005: Hollbüllhuus (director, screenplay, actor, production)
    • 2008: Liebe Liebe ... (co-director with Nico Woche , screenplay, actor, production)
    • 2010: Diego Alonso (co-director with Ricardo Zamora , actor, production)

Cinema & TV

  • 2008: He just wants to play! (TV short film; director, screenplay, actor)
  • 2008: Glioblastoma (TV short film; co-director with Tanja Bubbel , screenplay and actor)
  • 2011: Big Girls (tragic comedy; director, screenplay, production and camera)
  • 2012: Rosakinder (television documentary; co-director)
  • 2013: I feel disco (tragic comedy; director, screenplay)
  • 2013: Reuber (children's film; direction, screenplay and production)
  • 2015: Alki Alki (tragic comedy; director, screenplay and production)
  • 2015: Löwenzahn (episodes on the topics of tolerance, gold and dung beetles; director)
  • 2016: The Lotzmann family on the barricades (TV film; ARD Degeto)
  • 2016: Tatort: ​​Babbeldasch ( Lena Odenthal - Tatort ; SWR)
  • 2017: Tatort: ​​Waldlust (Lena Odenthal Tatort; SWR)
  • 2018: Löwenzahn (episodes on the topics of river, Wadden Sea and parachute; director)

Working as an actor

Theater and opera

Literary works

  • Reuber - play for children from 8 years, Rowohlt Theater Verlag, Berlin 2014.
  • Naked about Berlin - Roman, Ullstein five, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-96101-013-4 .

Radio

  • 2018: Anton and Pepe , pilot episode of a radio play series by Paul Norman Zacher and Axel Ranisch, NDR Kultur, 50 min
  • 2018: Klassik drastisch , music broadcast by and with Devid Striesow and Axel Ranisch, Deutschlandfunk Kultur (1st season with 12 episodes, 2nd season with 9 episodes, as well as a Christmas special)

Awards (selection)

  • 2006: Winner of the producer's clip for the short film Hollbüllhuus at the Berlin Youth Media Festival
  • 2006: Promotion award for the short film Rhythm in the Head at the Federal Festival of German Youth Video Awards
  • 2007: Silver medal of the BDFA for the short film Liebe Liebe ... at the FISH Festival in the Rostock city ​​harbor
  • 2007: Prize of the Rhineland-Palatinate State Film Service for the short film Liebe Liebe ... at the 24th video / film days in Koblenz
  • 2008: Nomination for the price for medium-length films for Der wants nur haben! at the Max Ophüls Prize film festival
  • 2008: Hans W. Geißendörfer Young Talent Award for the short film Der only wants to play! at the 25th video / film days in Koblenz
  • 2008: German Young Talent Award for the short film Glioblastoma at the up-and-coming film festival in Hanover
  • 2009: 3rd place at the Federal Festival Video of Generations for the short film Das Erste Mal
  • 2009: New berlin film award in the “Zitty Readers Jury Prize” category for the short film Glioblastoma at the achtung berlin film festival
  • 2010: "Best Short Film Youth" for glioblastoma at the Zinegoak GLBT Film Festival (Bilbao, Spain)
  • 2011: “Best Screenplay” and “Best Film Title” for fat girls at the Lünen Cinema Festival
  • 2012: “Spirit of Slamdance Award” in the “Filmmaker Choice Award” category and “Special Jury Award” for fat girls at the Slamdance Film Festival in Park City, Utah
  • 2012: Nomination for the First Steps Award for fat girls
  • 2012: Grand Prix de Jury for fat girls at the Festival de Mauvais Genre in Tours
  • 2012: New berlin film award in the “Best Film” category for fat girls at the achtung berlin film festival
  • 2012: Jury award for fat girls at the Festival Lesbian and Gay Film Days Hamburg
  • 2012: German Short Film Award , “Special award for films with a running time of more than 30 to 78 minutes” for fat girls
  • 2013: MFG-Star Baden-Baden for I feel disco
  • 2013: “Rocket” children's film award for “Reuber” at the Lünen cinema festival
  • 2013: “Das Mainzer Rad” - audience award for the best feature film at the “FILMZ - Festival of German Cinema” for I feel disco
  • 2014: “Best Narrative Feature Film” and “Best Feature Film Screenplay” at the 13th LA Indie Film Festival Los Angeles for I feel disco
  • 2014: “Queer Award” at the 29th Torino Gay & Lesbian Film Festival for I feel disco
  • 2015: Nomination for the Prix ​​Genève Europe (the most innovative fictional TV script by a young artist) for I feel disco
  • 2015: Best film at the Ahrenshooper Film Nights for Alki Alki
  • 2015: European Film Festival Göttingen 2015: Audience Award - Göttinger Liesel for Alki Alki
  • 2016: Nomination for the German Film Critics' Prize in the category of best children's film 2015 for Reuber
  • 2016: Audience award and youth jury award for Alki Alki at the Festival de Mauvais Genre in Tours
  • 2017: Nomination for the Grimme-Preis Spezial in the fiction competition for the screenplay for Alki Alki
  • 2018: Lit.Cologne's debut award for Naked About Berlin
  • 2019: Grimme Prize in the fiction competition for the Lotzmann family on the barricades

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ City walk with Axel Ranisch: How to become famous in Fennpfuhl. In: Der Tagesspiegel. August 5, 2018. Retrieved September 19, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Newcomer directing Axel Ranisch: The great desire for Pummelchen. In: Spiegel Online . October 30, 2013, accessed November 11, 2013 .
  3. ↑ Biography on the film homepage dickemaedchen.com . Retrieved July 10, 2017
  4. ↑ Official website of the production company Very good films
  5. ^ Debut price for Axel Ranisch , Börsenblatt from March 19, 2018, accessed September 18, 2018
  6. ↑ Naked about Berlin - Henriette Hörnigk stages the novel by Axel Ranisch in the new space stage of the Halle Opera , nachtkritik.de from September 16, 2018, accessed September 18, 2018
  7. ↑ Roland H. Dippel: Brightly colored fates - Axel Ranisch's “Naked About Berlin” in the Halle Opera House , review in the Neue MusikZeitung on September 18, 2018, accessed September 18, 2018
  8. ↑ I believe in instant magic . Interview in the Tagesspiegel
  9. ↑ Sandy Schulze: Actor Axel Ranisch: Between the "Zorn" shoots on a secret mission wedding. Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, September 28, 2016, accessed January 6, 2017 .
  10. ↑ dandelions. Retrieved April 1, 2018 .
  11. ↑ German Short Film Award 2012 ( Memento from February 10, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
personal data
SURNAME Ranisch, Axel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film director, screenwriter and actor
DATE OF BIRTH June 30, 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH East Berlin