Charly Weller
Charly Weller (born October 9, 1951 in Marburg ) is a German director , author , musician and photographer .
Career
After his youth in Giessen and Wetzlar , Weller worked as a photographer in Paris after graduating from high school. During his law, theology and journalism studies at the Free University of Berlin , he gained his first experience as a co-author and video cameraman of the ZDF documentary Four Weeks Without Television (awarded the Adolf Grimme Prize 1975). In the early 1980s Weller worked as assistant director under Peter Fleischmann, followed by his first own productions such as Wetzlar ist nicht Washington ( Kleines Fernsehspiel , ZDF), Der Kinzler , a short film about the Wetzlar original "Hakim Rex Aquarillo" and The Only Forgotten Take of Casablanca . This short film was awarded the Prix du Jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1983 .
Charly Weller had his breakthrough with the drama Schlammbeißer (awarded the Max-Ophüls-Förderpreis 1991) and with Doberstein , a television film by ZDF (1993) with Hannelore Elsner and André Hennicke. This was followed by around 50 productions a. a. for the television series A Case for Two , On Axis , In the Name of the Law and Die Kommissarin (again with Hannelore Elsner). In addition, Weller continued to carry out low-budget film projects such as www.vermisst-auf-dem-oktoberfest.de and was involved in various theater productions in Frankfurt and Munich. He made his novel debut in 2014 with Eulenkopf , who was nominated for the Friedrich Glauser Prize in 2015. The novel Finsterloh followed in 2015 .
Today Weller is managing director of the Gießen-based Mittelhessen TV GmbH and is active as a musician in the band Zuckerstein .
Since 2017 he has also worked as a lecturer for the Technical University of Central Hesse.
Works
Novels
- 2014 : owl head . KBV, ISBN 978-3-95441-197-9
- 2015: Finsterloh . KBV, ISBN 978-3-95441-259-4
- 2016: the king of cats. KBV, ISBN 978-3-95441-323-2
- 2017: Dead Wind . KBV, ISBN 978-3-95441-388-1
- 2018: Bonames. KBV, ISBN 978-3-95441-434-5
Movies
- 1974: Short film Der Kinzler
- 1975: TV documentary Four Weeks Without TV
- 1979: Documentary video film Rucksackberliner
- 1981: Small television game ZDF Wetzlar is not Washington
- 1990: No-budget feature film Schlammbeisser
- 1992: Big TV game ZDF Doberstein
Music CD
- 2008: Waselebe with the Zuckerstein group
Prizes and awards
- 1975: Adolf Grimme Prize for the documentary Four Weeks Without Television
- 1983: Prix du Jury at the Cannes International Film Festival for his short film The Only Forgotten Take of Casablanca
- 1983: Golden Chaplin shoe at the Figueira da Foz International Film Festival for his short film The Only Forgotten Take of Casablanca
- 1991: Max-Ophüls-Förderpreis for his first feature film Schlammbeisser
- 2015: Nomination for the Friedrich Glauser Prize for his crime debut Eulenkopf
Web links
- Charly Weller in the Internet Movie Database (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Weller, Charly |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German director, author, musician and photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 9, 1951 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Marburg |