Benedict Neuenfels

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Benedict Neuenfels (2nd from left) with part of the Styx film team (2019)

Benedict Neuenfels (born March 11, 1966 in Bern ) is a German Director of Photography . He identified with this international job title at an early stage and to this day rejects the traditional German term cameraman .

Neuenfels is known, among other things, for its collaboration with directors Dominik Graf and Stefan Ruzowitzky .

Life

Benedict Neuenfels was born in Bern as the son of the actress Elisabeth Trissenaar and the director Hans Neuenfels . After graduating from high school, he worked as a camera assistant with Xaver Schwarzenberger in Ödipussi , Otto - Der Film , Momo and with Robby Müller as the second cameraman in Bis ans Ende der Welt . From 1988 to 1994 he studied at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (DFFB) together with Christian Petzold and other representatives of the later Berlin School .

In 1988 Neuenfels founded the production company Giselafilms and has since produced over a dozen theater and opera films, as well as documentaries, short films and feature films. His first work as an independent visual designer after the company was founded was the 1988 film Europa and the second apple directed by his father Hans Neuenfels. In 1992 he received the special jury prize at the Max Ophüls Film Festival for the film Die fiegen Kinder , for which he also acted as a producer .

Since 1996 he has been teaching image design at numerous film academies , such as the Baden-Württemberg Film Academy , the German Film and Television Academy Berlin , the HFF Munich , the Babelsberg Film University and the Hamburg Media School .

Neuenfels has already been nominated several times for the German Camera Prize and received the award for your best years (2000) and Lost Killers (2001), as well as for home video (2011). After he was nominated for the German Film Prize in 2007 with Die Fälscher , he won the German Film Prize in the category Best Cinematography / Image Creation the following year with Maria Schrader's bestselling film Liebesleben after the Bavarian Film Prize . Neuenfels was also responsible for the image design of Stefan Ruzowitzky's film The Counterfeiters , which won the 2008 Oscar for Best Foreign Film .

In 2013 he was honored for the sixth time at the German Camera Prize for his work, this time for the feature film The Weekend by director Nina Grosse . In 2017 he was awarded a Romy for his image design of the action thriller Hell - Inferno . In 2018 the refugee thriller Styx , which director Wolfgang Fischer , producer Marcos Kantis and Benedict Neuenfels realized almost exclusively in the Maltese-Libyan Sea in autumn 2017 after several years of preparation, received worldwide resonance and received multiple awards, including the German Human Rights Film Prize 2018 and the German Film Prize in Silver 2019. Neuenfels also received the Bavarian Film Prize and the German Film Prize 2019 for his work on STYX. In 2019 he was awarded the German Camera Prize for the 7th time , this time with the honorary award for his entire work.

Benedict Neuenfels is a member of the German Film Academy , the Academy of Austrian Films , and the European Film Academy .

Filmography (selection)

Awards

Web links

Commons : Benedict Neuenfels  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Benedict Neuenfels. In: filmportal.de . German Film Institute , accessed April 1, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Benedict Neuenfels. In: deutsche-filmakademie.de. German Film Academy , accessed on March 11, 2019 .
  3. ^ Members. Academy of Austrian Films , accessed on April 1, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Benedict Neuenfels. European Film Academy , accessed April 1, 2019 .
  5. ↑ 2011 Awards and honorary David Cameras ( Memento of the original from April 12, 2012 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. , accessed December 2, 2011 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wjff.pl
  6. ↑ 29th International Film Festival Emden-Norderney - SUPA MODO wins the SCORE Bernhard Wicki Prize at the 29th International Film Festival Emden-Norderney . Article dated June 11, 2018, accessed August 7, 2018.
  7. ^ Valletta Film Festival 2018 - List of Winners . Retrieved August 7, 2018.
  8. ↑ German Camera Prize 2019 honors Benedict Neuenfels . Article dated April 2, 2019, accessed April 5, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Neuenfels, Benedict
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cameraman
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Bern