Dirk Kummer
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Dirk Kummer (born September 29, 1966 in Hennigsdorf , GDR ) is a German director , screenwriter and actor .
Training and work
Kummer grew up first in Falkensee and from 1973 in East Berlin . His first role in 1979 as a 13-year-old in the two-parter My Father's tram of the television of the GDR . After graduating from high school in 1985, Kummer did three years of military service with the border troops . From 1989 to 1992 he was a master student of the East Berlin Academy of the Arts in the performing arts section. At the same time he learned in 1989 and 1990 as a guest at the HFF “Konrad Wolf” in Babelsberg , specializing in directing, and as a guest auditor at the state drama school “Ernst Busch” in Berlin .
He had his first major film role in one of the last DEFA productions Coming Out . In addition to his engagement as one of the main actors in the role of Matthias, he worked in this production as assistant to the director Heiner Carow . The premiere of the film took place on the evening of the fall of the Berlin Wall in the East Berlin Premiere kino International .
In 1992 Kummer went to Switzerland and took acting lessons there for a year at the Bern University of Music and Theater . From 1993 to 2002 he only worked sporadically as an actor and mainly as an assistant director for Konrad Sabrautzky , Richard Huber , Kaspar Heidelbach , Susanne Schneider , Anna Justice and Gunther Scholz, among others . In 2002 he received a scholarship from the Nuremberg Script Workshop and the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation .
Dirk Kummer has been working almost exclusively as a director and screenwriter since around 2003. After working in Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg and Berlin, he now lives in Brandenburg again.
The children's book “Alles nur aus Zuckersand” was published in 2019 for his multi-award-winning film Zuckersand . The audio book for this was read by Charly Hübner and voted audio book of the month for October by the German Academy for Children's and Young Adult Literature.
Filmography
Director
- 1999: Where to with the widows (also screenplay)
- 2003: Gender: female
- 2005: Charlotte and her men
- 2009: Nobody is lost
- 2010: Be a hero on Tuesdays
- 2017: Zuckersand (also screenplay)
- 2018: Old gang
- 2019: Gentlemen
- 2020: my wife's lover
- 2020: Waiting for a bus (TV series, 8 episodes)
actor
- 1979: My father's tram (TV)
- 1988: The Other Love (documentary)
- 1989: Coming out
- 1991: The misconduct
- 1992: Funeral of a Countess (TV movie)
- 1995: Citizen's Office (TV series, episode Das Wunschkind )
- 1998: One hundred years of Brecht
- 1998: AS (TV series, episode Last Bluff )
- 1999: The wedding cow
Awards
- 2003: Thomas Strittmatter Prize ( Baden-Württemberg Screenplay Prize ) for Zuckersand (working title Stille Post )
- 2005: Audience award at the Biberach Film Festival for Charlotte and her men
- 2017: Bernd Burgemeister television award at the Munich Film Festival for sugar sand
- 2017: 3sat audience award at the Baden-Baden television film festival for sugar sand
- 2018: Grimme Prize in the Fiction competition for sugar sand
- 2019: Best TV film (Hans W. Geissendörfer Award) at the Biberach Film Festival for men
- 2020: Nominated for the German Television Award in the categories “Best Comedy Series” and “Best Actor” for Waiting for a Bus
Web links
- Dirk Kummer in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Dirk Kummer's website
- Management Goldschmidt
- Dirk Kummer at Crew United
- Dirk Kummer - member of the German Film Academy
- More than a children's film : Interview with Dirk Kummer, winner of the Baden-Württemberg Screenplay Prize 2003 ( Memento from March 2, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
- "Waiting for a bus" - new series at rbb
Individual evidence
- ↑ Maren Niemeyer, Ulrich Clauss: How the GDR perished in the "Burgfrieden" , in: Die Welt , November 9, 1999
- ↑ rbb-online
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Grief, dirk |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German director and screenwriter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 29, 1966 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hennigsdorf , GDR |