Cihan Inan

Cihan Inan (born January 20, 1969 in Burgdorf ) is a Turkish - Swiss theater and film director , screenwriter and dramaturge.

Life

Cihan Inan was born in Switzerland as the third of five children to Turkish guest workers . While studying philosophy and German at the University of Bern , he worked as a projectionist in Bern cinemas and also as a film and theater critic. After completing his studies, he worked for two years as an assistant director at the Freiburg Theater , before doing his first directing work at the Freiburg Theater in 1999. From 2000 he was in-house director at the Freiburg Theater for two years. In 2002 he decided to make a film of Nick Cave's novel "And the donkey saw the angel". This undertaking was implemented in Turkey in 2003 at its own expense and with many private funds. In the same year the filmed footage was stolen and disappeared. After this setback, he began working on the script for “ 180 ° - When Your World Suddenly Turns Upside Down ” and in 2009 with the production company C-Films . 180 ° was released in Swiss cinemas on September 30, 2010. In the 2011/2012 season he was chief dramaturge at Theater Neumarkt. Since 2012 he has been working on his film projects with various film production companies. He has been acting director at the Konzert Theater Bern since the 2017/18 season. His second film Zone Rouge was released in Swiss cinemas on September 30, 2018 .

Cihan Inan lives in Berlin and Bern .

Filmography

• 2010: 180 ° - When your world suddenly turns upside down (feature film)
• 2011: Tatort - Wishful Thinking (TV, 2nd director)
• 2012: Tatort - Scalpel (TV, 2nd director)
• 2013: Strength 6 (TV, 2nd director)
• 2014: Tatort - Between Two Worlds (TV, 2nd director)
• 2018: Zone Rouge (Director & Screenplay Feature Film)

theatre

• 1998: L'amant by Marguerite Duras at the Freiburg Theater
• 1999: Let's talk about sex (based on Linda Williams Hardcore: about pornographic films ) at the Freiburg Theater
• 1999: Rat hunt by Peter Turrini at the Freiburg Theater
• 2000: Close to Patrick Marber at the Freiburg Theater
• 2000: Greed by Sarah Kane at the Freiburg Theater
• 2001: Ancient Lights by Shelagh Stephenson at the Freiburg Theater, German-language premiere
• 2001: Woyzeck by Georg Büchner at the Freiburg Theater
• 2002: Parasites by Marius von Mayenburg at the Stadttheater Bern , Swiss premiere
• 2003: Peanuts by Fausto Paravidino at the Schauspielhaus Graz , Austrian premiere
• 2004: The Baroness and the Pig by Michael McKenzie at the Wallgraben-Theater
• 2005: The view of things based on a poem by Jürg Halter , a poetic multimedia installation in the Razzia cinema , Zurich, world premiere
• 2016: Lunar circle runner by Jürg Halter at the Konzert Theater Bern , world premiere
• 2017: Penthesilea by Heinrich von Kleist at the Konzert Theater Bern
• 2018: Beresina based on a film by Daniel Schmid and the script by Martin Suter at the Konzert Theater Bern , world premiere
• 2019: The great dictator based on a film by Charlie Chaplin at the Konzert Theater Bern , German-language premiere

Web links

• Cihan Inan in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• CV ( Memento from September 10, 2006 in the Internet Archive )

supporting documents

1. ↑ Cihan Inan remains acting director in Bern: Return with Vision , Nachtkritik.de of September 14, 2018, accessed September 16, 2018
2. ↑ Zone Rouge , Switzerland, September 2018, 90 min. , Swissfilms.ch, accessed May 27, 2019