Bernhard Jasper

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Bernhard Jasper (born November 18, 1972 in Tiengen am Hochrhein , Baden-Württemberg ) is a German cameraman .

Life

Bernhard Jasper studied from 1995 to 2001 at the Film Academy Baden-Württemberg . At the same time, he has already made commercials and music videos. In his senior year, the two television films The Big City Sheriffs and A Yeti to Fall in Love with, with him as the main cameraman, appeared. For the latter, he was nominated for the German Camera Prize in 2002. When he was awarded the German Television Prize in 2006 , he was nominated for Best Cinematography for his work on My Crazy Turkish Wedding .

But Jasper has long since made a name for himself as an excellent visual designer in the cinema since he made his debut in 2004 with Carsten Fiebeler's east-west comedy Kleinruppin Forever . In 2006 the first international movie followed, the thriller Open Water 2 and the German comedies Morgen, ihr Luschen! , Der Ausbilder-Schmidt-Film and Salami Aleikum (both 2009). Jasper was then responsible for the camera in the teen musical Rock it! , the teen adventure Vorstadtkrokodile 3 and the Canadian, South African, German co-production Geliebtes Leben ( Life, Above All ) , a moving AIDS drama by Oliver Schmitz that won numerous international prizes and made it onto the 2011 Oscar shortlist Has. Other major cinema projects in 2011 were the film adaptation of the youth book Five Friends and Matthias Schweighöfer's directorial debut What a Man . With Matthias Schweighofer Jasper worked subsequently also successful at the circuit maker , Fatherhood and The Nanny together.

In 2016, Florian David Fitz's film The Geilste Tag was released in cinemas, in which Fitz acts as a director and as the main actor alongside Matthias Schweighöfer. With over 1.7 million viewers, Der Geilste Tag is one of the most successful films of the 2016 cinema year.

For the first German Amazon series “ You Are Wanted ”, Bernhard Jasper is not only responsible for the camera, but together with Matthias Schweighöfer also for the direction. Matthias Schweighöfer, Alexandra Maria Lara and Karoline Herfurth play in the six-part thriller series .

The second season of this series was also realized in this constellation.     

In his private life Jasper has a daughter (* 2016) with his partner Luise Bähr . Bernhard Jasper is the brother of extreme mountaineer Robert Jasper .

Filmography (selection)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fox: Press bookletschlussmacher , 2012, p. 18: "Bernhard Jasper was born in 1972 in Tiengen am Hochrhein"
personal data
SURNAME Jasper, Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cameraman
DATE OF BIRTH November 18, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Tiengen am Hochrhein , Baden-Württemberg, Germany