Dirk Michael Häger

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Dirk Michael Häger (born June 14, 1966 in Wuppertal ) is a German screenwriter , film producer , actor and director .

Life

Dirk Michael Häger, grew up in Wuppertal and attended high school there. In addition to studying to be a teacher (English and German) in Wuppertal and Düsseldorf , he founded the New Wuppertaler Theater ("neue wuTh") in 1992, where he played, staged and was director until 1996. From 2000 onwards, Häger worked as a creative director in advertising and event marketing, until in 2004 he turned to the film sector. Since then he has been developing film and television material and made his feature film debut as an author and producer in 2013 with King Ping - Tappen Tödchen . Häger currently lives in Hanover , where he was the managing partner of REX Film Produktion GmbH until 2019. In 2019 he left REX Film and founded Black and Honey Pictures GmbH in the same year. As CEO, he leads Black and Honey Pictures in Hanover.

Movie

In the mid-2000s, Häger initiated the 35-W-Filminitiative Wuppertal with the aim of establishing Wuppertal as a location for filming and film production. While on the board, he met Christoph Schmidt, with whom he founded REX Film Produktion in 2011. In 2013 they managed to generate 360,000 euros through crowdfunding , sponsorship and product placements for their debut film King Ping - Tappen Tödchen after a lack of funding . In order to still be able to realize the film with a calculated total budget of 1.4 million euros, Häger and Schmidt developed the idea of ​​producing the film as a collective. So all involved agreed to work for a significantly lower daily fee, but to share in the profit in return. King Ping was Häger's debut as a screenwriter and producer . He also took over directing the post-production after filming was over .

music

Soon after finishing school, Häger gave up his ambitions as a musician in favor of acting. He is still active as a DJ today, from 2001 onwards in Katy Karrenbauer's Wuppertaler Kitchen Klub , and since 2004 he has been playing in the field of world music .

theatre

At the end of the 1980s, Häger played in the independent theater scene in Wuppertal, where he met Christoph Maria Herbst . Häger switched to the theater in Cronenberg , where Herbst, Joachim Kosack , later Axel Stein and Ronald Kukulies also played. In 1993, Häger staged The Police of Slawomir Mrozek with the Bambule Prison Theater . The use of pistols and sabers (albeit dummies) in a correctional facility caused a sensation . In the same year, on his initiative, the New Wuppertaler Theater (new wuTh) was founded, whose concept was to play not only conventional venues but also, above all, unusual places of Wuppertal industrial culture. In one of the last productions, the comedy India (director: Hans Werner Otto, premiere: December 2000) by Josef Hader and Alfred Dorfer , Häger played the role of gastronomy tester Bösel, most recently in 2011 at the Schauspielhaus (Wuppertal) .

Filmography (selection)

  • 2008: Liebhaben (short film: co-author)
  • 2013: King Ping - Tap Tappen Tödchen (Cinema: Screenplay, Co-Director, Production)
  • 2016: Böser Wohnen - Die Mörder WG (series teaser: screenplay, direction, production)
  • 2020: Die Mordapostel (Teaser Pilot Episode: Screenplay, Director, Production)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Black and Honey Pictures GmbH, Hanover. Retrieved July 18, 2020 .
  2. ↑ diestadtzeitung.de: What makes for really "King Ping" producer Michael Dirk Häger?
personal data
SURNAME Häger, Dirk Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German screenwriter, film producer, actor and director
DATE OF BIRTH June 14, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Wuppertal