Carl Gerber

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Carl Gerber (born August 14, 1985 in Mainz ) is a German screenwriter .

Live and act

After his community service completed an internship at the Gerber Synchronista Transportation Company FFS Film & TV sync and worked as a manager involved and equipment assistant at several film productions. In 2006 he successfully applied to the Film Academy Baden-Württemberg in Ludwigsburg and the Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf for the scriptwriting course. He decided to study at the Ludwigsburg Film Academy and began studying in 2007. During his studies he wrote scripts for several short films, one of which was nominated for the German Short Film Award. He graduated in 2013.

He celebrated his film debut with the feature film 24 weeks , for which he wrote the script together with director Anne Zohra Berrached . 24 weeks was nominated in four categories for the German Film Award.

Filmography (selection)

  • 2008: arbitrariness (short film)
  • 2010: Am Sonnenberg (short film)
  • 2011: Syncope (short film)
  • 2014: Little Brothers (short film)
  • 2016: 24 weeks
  • 2019: The Specialists - In the Name of the Victims (TV series, episode 4.05: desertion)

Awards (selection)

German Short Film Award 2011

  • Nomination in the category of feature films with a running time of more than 7 to 30 minutes for syncope

German Film Award 2017

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. David Ruf: Presentation of the workshop team: Carl Gerber - SPEAK SYRIA - A film about people fleeing the war. In: startnext.com. Retrieved July 26, 2020 .
  2. Nominations 2011. In: deutscher-kurzfilmpreis.de. Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, accessed on July 26, 2020 .