Bernd Wilting

Bernd Wilting (* 1956 ) is a German documentary filmmaker , screenwriter , director and film producer .

Career

Wilting studied theater, film and television studies at the University of Cologne and from 1983 worked as a freelance journalist for Die Zeit , ARD and ZDF . From 1990 to 1992 he was a consultant for the Friedrich Ebert Foundation . In 1996 he founded the Cologne-based film production company Taglicht Media with Uli Veith .

Since 2011 he has been a member of the overall board of the documentary film section of the Alliance of German Producers - Film & Television .

Awards

The following films produced by Bernd Wilting have been nominated or awarded:

• 2015: Grimme Prize for "D files" (three-part documentary series, WDR / BR / MDR )
• 2015: Regino Prize for "D Files - The Failure of Post-War Justice" (Director: Christoph Weber)
• 2014: Emmy nomination ( “Outstanding Cinematography” ) for “Killer in the Caves” (camera: Roland Breitschuh , director: Dennis Wells)

Filmography (selection)

script

• 2002: World Elf - children and their love for football
• 2009: My childhood - on the border , WDR

Director

• 1998: People up close - Igor becomes Borussia
• 1998: ZDF Reiselust - Lanzarote , ZDF
• 1999: ZDF Reiselust - Provence , ZDF
• 1999: BVB whistled , Arte
• 2003: Storms for Germany
• 2009: My childhood - on the border , WDR
• 2011: the story - fatal race on Mt. Everest , Arte / ORF / WDR

producer

• 2005: Hermione's List - The Children of the Merciless Sisters , 3sat / WDR
• 2006: Black Starlets - The dream of great football
• 2008: Fräulein Stinnes drives around the world , WDR
• 2009: Ghosts of the 7th Cavalry
• 2013: Killer in the Caves
• 2011: Charlemagne , ARD - sponsored by MEDIA
• 2012: In focus - Europe without England , ZDF
• 2013: No Left Turn - Social Democracy in Europe , Arte
• 2014: File D - The Failure of Post-War Justice , ARD
• 2015: Universum History - Olympia 1936. The betrayed dream , ORF / PBS
• Greece: From the peaks to the sea , Arte

Publications

• with Dirk Bitzer: Storming for Germany: The History of German Football from 1933 to 1954 . Campus Verlag, 2003. ISBN 978-3593371917

Web links

• Bernd Wilting at Crew United
• Bernd Wilting at filmportal.de
• Bernd Wilting in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• MEDIA supports NRW television productions - Karl der Große and John Irving on TV , interview with Bernd Wilting about MEDIA film funding. In: Film- und Medienstiftung NRW : Film and Media. Information from NRW , edition 5/2011

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Fräulein Stinnes ... - cast / staff ( memento of the original from April 16, 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. . Retrieved April 16, 2017 
2. ↑ Producer Alliance : Documentary film producers set up sixth Producer Alliance section. “Quality journalism on television needs economically strong producers” , September 14, 2011
3. ↑ Grimme Institute : 51st Grimme Prize 2015 . Retrieved April 16, 2017
4. ^ Journalistenpreise.de: Winner: Regino Prize - 2015 . Retrieved April 10, 2017
5. ^ Crew united : Roland Breitschuh - Awards . Retrieved April 16, 2017
6. ↑ MEDIA supports NRW television productions - Karl der Große and John Irving on TV , interview with Bernd Wilting about MEDIA film funding. In: Film- und Medienstiftung NRW : Film and Media. Information from NRW , edition 5/2011