Christian Schwochow

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Christian Schwochow, German Television Award 2019

Christian Schwochow (born September 23, 1978 in Bergen auf Rügen ) is a German film director and screenwriter .

Life

Christian Schwochow grew up in Leipzig and East Berlin , and since 1990 in Hanover . As a child he starred in many radio plays of the broadcast of the GDR with. As a teenager, he became the publisher and editor-in-chief of the Lower Saxony youth magazine Shot! . After graduating from high school (1998) he worked as an author , speaker and reporter for various broadcasting companies . From 2002 to 2008 studied Schwochow at the Film Academy Baden-Wuerttemberg film direction with a focus on Scenic Film ; the feature film Novemberkind was his graduation film.

He wrote the scripts for his two feature films Marta and the Flying Grandfather and November Child together with his mother, the writer and director Heide Schwochow . This is how the script for Die Insichtbare (2011) came about , in which a silent drama student (played by the Danish Stine Fischer Christensen ) is driven to the brink of the abyss by the need to succeed and the family burden with a disabled sister. The two-part TV series Der Turm, based on the novel of the same name by Uwe Tellkamp , brought Christian Schwochow the 2013 Grimme Prize . His feature film West premiered on August 25, 2013 at the Canadian World Film Festival in Montreal , where it received the FIPRESCI award from the film critics and journalists association. Jördis Triebel , the main actress in the film, was named “Best Actress” at the festival.

On November 9, 2013 Christian Schwochow celebrated his premiere as a theater director with the staging of Lot Vekemans ' Gift at the Deutsches Theater Berlin . In 2017, Samuel Beckett's Happy Days , directed by Schwochow, premiered at the Deutsches Theater Berlin.

The journalist Stefan Aust and the producer Gabriela Sperl filmed the story of the NSU terror cell as a three-part TV series for ARD . The three films tell from the perspective of the perpetrators, victims and investigators. Schwochow directed the first part of the trilogy The perpetrators - Today is not all days (2016). In 2016, the film Paula about the painter Paula Modersohn-Becker was released in cinemas.

Christian Schwochow lives in Berlin, is married and has two daughters (* 2011) and (* 2017). He is a member of the German and European Film Academy as well as the German Academy of Performing Arts .

Filmography (selection)

Theater productions

Awards

Web links

Commons : Christian Schwochow  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bartlitz, Tamara ( ddp Basisdienst): Christian Schwochow is shooting his second feature film in Berlin - Danish Stine Fischer Christensen plays "The Invisible" . August 18, 2010, 12:08 PM GMT (accessed via LexisNexis Economy ).
  2. ↑ News from the right-wing underworld - ARD filmed the history of the NSU. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. February 20, 2014, accessed February 25, 2014 .
  3. ↑ Schwochow-does-not-want-to-be-reduced-to-GDR-films.html . Berliner Morgenpost, November 2, 2013
  4. ^ Christian Schwochow. German Film Academy , accessed April 1, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Members. The European Film Academy, accessed April 1, 2019 .
  6. ^ Members. German Academy of Performing Arts, accessed on March 31, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Prize Winner Hessian Film and Cinema Prize 2018 . Retrieved October 13, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Schwochow, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film director
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Mountains on Rügen