Didi Danquart

Didi Danquart (born March 1, 1955 in Singen am Hohentwiel ) is a German director , screenwriter and film producer .

Life

Didi Danquart trained as a technical draftsman and studied psychology and sociology in Freiburg from 1979 to 1983 . In 1978 he had already co-founded the Freiburg media workshop there. In 1991, the collective for the documentary was The Pannwitzblick among others, the price of the German Film Critics Award. With Bohai, Bohau , Danquart switched to fictional storytelling. The film thematizes in a semi-documentary way the conflict over the construction of the B 31 Ost, a bypass road in Freiburg. This was also the last film work by Thomas Strittmatter , who wrote the screenplay. Danquart's film Viehjud Levi, based on the play of the same name by Strittmatters, received the Caligari Film Prize in the Forum of the Berlin International Film Festival and the Mayor of Jerusalem's Prize . In August 2002 Danquart founded their own production company noirfilm together with Boris Michalski in Karlsruhe .

From 1982 to 1989 Danquart was a lecturer in video and documentary film at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (DFFB) . From 2001 to 2006 he held a chair for artistic film at the State University for Design in Karlsruhe . Since 2009 Danquart has held the chair for feature film directing at the Art Academy for Media (KHM) in Cologne.

Didi Danquart is married to the actress Anna Stieblich and lives in Berlin. With her he has a son. His twin brother Pepe Danquart is also a director.

Filmography (selection)

Director

• 1991: The Pannwitzblick (documentary film)
• 1994: gangrene - 17 days in Sarajevo (documentary)
• 1995: Bohai, Bohau
• 1999: Viehjud Levi
• 2000: Tatort - The Black Knight
• 2003: Tatort - Die more beautifully
• 2005: The Bibelfactory (documentary film)
• 2006: offset
• 2009: Tatort - In the wake of evil
• 2010–2012: SOKO Stuttgart (several episodes)
• 2011: bitter cherries
• 2013: the last word
• 2015: The inaugural lecture. Scenic drama. After the play The List of Unwanted People by Gerhard Zahner .
• 2016 Goster (fusion of real and animated films) based on a novella by Gerd Zahner

Screenwriter

• 1991: The Pannwitzblick; author
• 1994: gangrene; author
• 1999: Viehjud Levi; author
• 2000: fear in the stomach; author
• 2002: Giordano's order; Cooperation
• 2003: Tatort - Beautiful dying ; Cooperation
• 2006: offset; Co-author

producer

• 2008: Night before your eyes

Working as a theater director

• 2000: Ritter, Dene, Voss; Theater Freiburg , Thomas Bernhard
• 2001: Beast on the Moon; Hamburger Kammerspiele , R. Kalinofski.
• 2003: hooded people; Theater Freiburg , Ilan Hatsor.
• 2004: The end of civilization; Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe , GF Walker
• 2014: The Unwanted List; University of Konstanz , Gerhard Zahner
• 2018: Of Mice and Humans ; Theater Konstanz , John Steinbeck

Web links

• Didi Danquart in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Didi Danquart at filmportal.de
• Didi Danquart's website