Christoph Silver

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Christopher "Chris" Silver (* 26. April 1971 in Berlin as Christoph Schuenke ) is a German author , who in the United States lives. In addition to his work on German and English language scripts, he has also appeared in the film business as a producer and director .

Life

Christoph Silber spent his young years in Berlin. He grew up bilingual. His mother is a German philosopher and literary translator, his foster father was an English-German theater dramaturge and Shakespeare translator.

Silber worked as a musician, translator and freelance journalist. He translated American books on film and screenplays for German book publishers, a. a. Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction . In 1995 he wrote an adaptation of Puccini's Tosca for the theater for the Vienna Burgtheater . This led to further work for the theater and contacts in the film business.

Since the beginning of 2008, Silber has lived mainly in the USA, the home country of his wife, who died in 2013. In 2010, Silber wrote and produced the film My Last Day Without You with Nicole Beharie and Ken Duken together with the New York filmmaker Stefan Schaefer . In 2012 he moved to Los Angeles, where he worked as a freelance screenwriter and filmmaker and was temporarily adjunct professor of screenwriting at La Sierra University .

Silver was involved in the making of award-winning films like Goodbye, Lenin! , Nordwand and Ich bin Dann Mal Weg involved and worked on cinema hits for young viewers such as Teufelskicker and the Hanni & Nanni films.

Silber processed his experiences with the illness and the death of his wife in his novel Wolke unterm Dach , which will be published in 2021 , on the basis of which a feature film of the same name will be released in German cinemas that same year.

honors and awards

With Thorsten Wettcke , he won the Adolf Grimme Audience Award in 2009 , the Romy in 2012 and an International Emmy in 2013.

In 2011, the New York Vilcek Foundation honored silver as part of its AIFP program at the Hawaii International Film Festival as "an immigrant filmmaker ... whose creative spirit enlivens and inspires American cinema."

Filmography

movie theater

  • 2001: Brooklyn Bridge (screenwriter)
  • 2001: Julietta (screenwriter)
  • 2003: Good Bye, Lenin! (Collaboration on the script)
  • 2004: The Ring Thing (also co-producer)
  • 2006: Eiswind (short film, also director)
  • 2006: Pilots (screenwriter)
  • 2007: Arranged (script consultant)
  • 2007: Mrs. Ratcliffe's Revolution (Screenwriter)
  • 2008: My Mother's Tears (Screenwriter)
  • 2009: The Albanian (screenwriter)
  • 2009: North Face (screenwriter)
  • 2010: Teufelskicker (screenwriter)
  • 2010: Goethe! (Script consultant)
  • 2011: My Last Day Without You (also producer)
  • 2012: Hanni & Nanni 2 (screenwriter)
  • 2013: Hanni & Nanni 3 (screenwriter)
  • 2014: Banklady (screenwriter)
  • 2015: Azure (short film, also director)
  • 2015: The Trapp Family - A Life for Music (screenwriter)
  • 2017: I'll be gone then (screenwriter)
  • 2021: Cloud Under the Roof (Author, Story)

watch TV

Awards and nominations

  • 2002: Brooklyn Film Festival, Best Picture for Julietta
  • 2007: Brooklyn Film Festival, Best Film for Arranged
  • 2009: Prize of the German Film Critics , Best Screenplay for North Face
  • 2009: Golden Camera , nomination for Best Film for Tatort: ​​On the Sunny Side
  • 2009: Civis Media Prize , nomination for Tatort: ​​On the sunny side
  • 2009: Adolf Grimme Prize , Audience Prize for Tatort: ​​On the Sunny Side
  • 2011: Max Ophüls Prize , Best Film for Der Albaner
  • 2011: Brooklyn Film Festival, Best Producer for My Last Day Without You
  • 2011: Hawaii Int'l Film Festival: AIFP Honorary Award from the Vilcek Foundation
  • 2011: Hamburger Filmfest , nomination for the producer's award in the “16: 9” section for Das Wunder von Kärnten
  • 2012: Black Reel Awards : Best Independent Film for My Last Day Without You
  • 2012: Black Reel Awards: Nomination for Best Original Song for My Last Day Without You
  • 2012: Romy : Best screenplay for TV film for Das Wunder von Kärnten
  • 2012: Goldener Spatz : Best Children's Film for Hanni & Nanni 2
  • 2013: Adolf Grimme Prize : Nomination for The Miracle of Carinthia
  • 2013: Montblanc Script Award: Nomination Banklady
  • 2013: International Emmy : Best TV Film The Miracle of Carinthia
  • 2016: Munich Film Festival: Best TV film The Dasslers

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Beyond Black & White My Last Day Without You Creator loses wife . Retrieved February 15, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Silver, Christoph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schuenke, Christoph (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author
DATE OF BIRTH April 26, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin