Dirk van den Berg

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Dirk van den Berg filming in the Saudi Arabian desert.
Dirk van den Berg (2013)

Dirk van den Berg , also Dirk K. van den Berg , (born May 10, 1966 in Hilden ) is a German film director , screenwriter and film producer .

Life

Dirk van den Berg completed his school education with the Abitur in 1984 and went to Italy a short time later. There he studied musicology (as a pianist ) at the La Sapienza University in Rome from 1984 to 1998 and media studies (in the field of dramaturgy ) from 1984 to 1989 . He completed his media studies with a Bachelor of Arts . He then studied directing and film production from 1989 to 1992 at the Italian National Academy for Film and Drama, the Accademia nazionale d'arte drammatica "Silvio D'Amico" in Rome, where he was the last student of Andrea Camilleri . He graduated with a master's degree .

Towards the end and after completing his studies in directing, he and the Russian author Vladimir Makanin wrote a series of scripts that dealt with the reality and the social, political and economic change in Russia after the dissolution of the Soviet Union . The pilot Russian Times (1991) was shot in Moscow . Van den Berg decided to learn the director's work from scratch and began, in addition to the artistic, a parallel career as first assistant director and line producer . From 1992 to 2010 van den Berg worked as a director, author, producer and project manager in film, television, theater and opera in Italy and other countries. He also worked as a freelancer , as u. a. as line producer , associate producer and producer.

He directed national and international film projects several times for German television films and then began to write and produce films. His first film as a producer for the Munich-based K5 Film was the US-German co-production Steel Trap , a thriller by the Mexican director Luis Cámara. Since the beginning of 2009 he has been working as a freelance producer again, as associate producer for the German-American co-production Generation 9/11 ; a cinema documentary based on the so-called "10 theses" by Jürgen Todenhöfer . Directed by Oscar winner Nigel Noble . Van den Berg turned a. a. most of the pictures created in the Orient themselves, such as in Syria , Jordan , Palestine and also in Afghanistan .

In 2011 Van den Berg founded the film production company OutreMer Film with the aim of developing projects with and for the Middle East , the Middle East and North Africa . The first film project of the Berlin-based company, which is also represented in Hamburg, was Seams of Desire , a documentary about the hidden sexuality of Arab women. The film has already been shot in Damascus (Syria) and Beirut ( Lebanon ), but had to be canceled due to the civil war. Since then, van den Berg has been responsible as a director and, with OutreMer Film, also as a producer for several documentaries and feature film projects. a. play in Saudi Arabia , Jordan, Syria, the Kashmir region and Ethiopia . After five years of research, in 2018 he realized the internationally produced investigative documentary Mecca 1979 - Big Bang of Terror] , which focuses on the occupation and the struggle for the al-Haram mosque in Mecca in November and December 1979 and on the causes and serious consequences of the event arrives as the first film. Building on this, van den Berg developed the follow-up project 1979 - Big Bang of the Present , an equally long documentary film that illuminates the events and protagonists (in particular Ayatollah Khomeini , Deng Xiaoping , Margaret Thatcher and Pope John Paul II) in 1979 with archival images that have largely never been seen. Similar to the historian Frank Bösch in his book Zeitenwende 1979 and Christian Caryl with Strange Rebels - 1979 and the Birth of the 20th Century , the film pursues the thesis that 1979 is the year of birth of the present.

Dirk van den Berg lives in Berlin.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1993: Russian Times (series), director
  • 1998: Il Cielo sotto il Deserto , director: Alberto Negrin , line producer
  • 2000: My daughter's trail , directed by Hajo Gies , Action Director
  • 2000: False Liebe (TV), director
  • 2003/04: Nicolao Dalle Pomarance (TV), documentary series, director
  • 2004: The Lives of the Saints , Directed by Jerry Ciccoritti , Action Director
  • 2004: Le Fugitif , Director: Andrea Manni , Line Producer (France)
  • 2005: The Grooming , directed by John Irvin , line producer
  • 2005: The Prey , directed by Curtis Radclyffe, line producer
  • 2006: The Holy Family , directed by Raffaele Mertes , Line Producer & Executive Producer Jordan
  • 2006: I, Don Giovanni , Director: Carlos Saura , Line Producer & Music Coordinator
  • 2007: Condemned , directed by Luis Cámara, executive producer K5 Film
  • 2009: Separation City , directed by Paul Middleditch, Line Producer Germany
  • 2010: Generation 9/11 , Director: Nigel Noble (Oscar 1982), Creative Producer & Executive Producer Middle East
  • 2011: Seams of Desire , producer and co-writer for OutreMer Film
  • 2012: Unfortunately a girl , director and producer, OutreMer Film
  • 2012: Das Kaschmirtal - Lake Dal , director, ARTE
  • 2014: Swinging Addis , director and producer, OutreMer Film
  • 2015, 2016: GUZO , series about the origins of music in Africa, director and producer, OutreMer Film and University of Music Franz Liszt Weimar
  • 2018: Mecca 1979 - Big Bang of Terror? , Director and co-producer, OutreMer Film, K2 Productions Paris, ARTE, NDR, WDR, RBB, HR, ORF, INA (Institut National de l'Audiovisuel), PBS International
  • 2019: 1979 - Big Bang of the Present, director and co-producer, OutreMer Film, K2 Productions Paris, ARTE, RBB, TVP, ORF, RTS, INA (Institut National de l'Audiovisuel), NewDocs

Awards

  • 1993: Best European Screenplay of the European SCRIPT Fund for project and script development, part of the MEDIA program of the European Union , for the script "OutreMer"

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Dirk van den Berg - director, author, producer. In: dasauge.de. Retrieved on February 10, 2020 (German, English, self-reported on the creative network dasauge.de).
  2. ↑ a b c d Mag. Dirk van den Berg. In: Kressköpfe . Retrieved February 10, 2020 (profile).
  3. ^ Mecca 1979. In: programm.ard.de. Retrieved February 10, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Heike Hupertz: Arte documentary "Mekka 1979": That was not the act of a single lunatic. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . August 21, 2018, accessed February 10, 2020 .
  5. ^ Frank Jürgens: "1979 - Big Bang of the Present" (Arte) - film about a special year. In: New Osnabrück Newspaper . December 10, 2019, accessed February 10, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Moritz Behrendt: Frank Bösch: "Turn of the Times 1979" - How the world of today began 40 years ago. In: Deutschlandfunk Kultur . January 26, 2019, accessed February 10, 2020 .
  7. ^ Ian Thomson, Strange Rebels: 1979 and the Birth of the 21st Century by Christian Caryl - review. In: The Guardian . July 7, 2013, accessed February 10, 2020 .
  8. ↑ TV tip: 1979 - Big Bang of the Present. In: Stern . December 10, 2019, archived from the original on October 19, 2019 ; accessed on January 2, 2020 .
  9. ↑ 1993: European Script Fund: Best European Screenplay for the Script "OutreMer"
personal data
SURNAME Berg, Dirk van den
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Berg, Dirk K. van den
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film director, screenwriter and film producer
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Hilden