Dominik Graf

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Dominik Graf (2011)

Dominik Graf (born September 6, 1952 in Munich ) is a German film and television director .

Life

The son of the actor couple Robert Graf and Selma Urfer attended the Max-Gymnasium in Munich and from 1969 to 1972 the boarding school Stein an der Traun , where he graduated from high school. From 1972 to 1974 he studied German and musicology in Munich. In 1974 he moved to the University of Television and Film Munich . Since then he has worked as an actor, screenwriter and above all as a director. From the beginning he also worked for television. In 2012 he won the Grimme Prize for the tenth time , making him the most frequently awarded winner of this television prize.

In his films, Graf often orientated himself towards American genre cinema and tried to transfer it to German conditions. Graf is considered a great film lover and occasionally writes about film topics in various newspapers. Dominik Graf composed the film music for some of his films with his school friend Helmut Spanner . After Der Felsen (2002), Graf's historical film The Beloved Sisters, about Friedrich Schiller's love triangle with Charlotte von Lengefeld and her sister Caroline, was invited to the Berlinale competition in 2014 . A year later he received a nomination for the German Film Prize for his directorial work .

In 2003 Dominik Graf was one of the founding members of the German Film Academy . Since 2004 he has been professor of feature film directing at the International Film School in Cologne and was made an honorary professor in 2005. He has been a member of the Academy of Arts in Berlin since 1994 and of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts in Munich since 2012 . The film director has also been a member of the jury of the Michael Althen Prize for Criticism since it was founded in 2012.

He was married to the German-American screenwriter and director Sherry Hormann (one daughter) and was in a relationship with the actress Adelheid Arndt . Graf is the partner of the director and Oscar winner Caroline Link and has a daughter with her (* 2002). He dedicated the essay film The Whisper in the Mountain of Things to his father .

Filmography (selection)

Awards

Star by Dominik Graf on the Boulevard der Stars in Berlin

Fonts

literature

  • Peer Moritz: “Dominik Graf. With an essay by Peter Körte ”, in: CineGraph , vol. 18. (1991), edition text + kritik
  • Norbert Grob : "Dominik Graf", in: Thomas Koebner (Ed.): Film directors. Biographies, descriptions of works, filmographies, 3rd, updated and expanded edition. Reclam, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-15-010662-4 , pp. 287–290 (with references)
  • Felix Lenz: “Contradiction in Movement - on Dominik Graf's film work”, in: Moment - Marburger Hefte zur Medienwissenschaft No. 47 - Movements in the Latest German Film, Marburg 2010, pp. 6–35
  • Andreas Kilb: “The German cinema thriller does not take place. Notes on the state of affairs ”, in: Rainer Rother, Julia Pattis (Ed.), Die Lust am Genre. Criminal stories from Germany, Berlin, 2011, pp. 100–106
  • Britta Hartmann: “Berlin is paradise. Staging of the city in Dominik Graf's In the Face of Crime and Thomas Arslan's In the Shadow ”, in: Rainer Rother, Julia Pattis (ed.), Die Lust am Genre. Criminal stories from Germany, Berlin, 2011, pp. 169–186
  • Michael Wedel, Chris Wahl, Marco Abel, Jesco Jockenhövel (eds.): In the face of television, edition text + kritik, Munich 2012
  • Chris Wahl: “Dominik Graf's career as a filmmaker between cinema and television. An introduction ”, in: Michael Wedel, Chris Wahl, Marco Abel / Jesco Jockenhövel (eds.), In the face of television, edition text + kritik, Munich 2012, pp. 32–59
  • Judith Früh: “'Ridiculous little sensitist'. Dominik Graf at the HFF Munich ”, in: In the face of television, Michael Wedel, Chris Wahl, Marco Abel, Jesco Jockenhövel (eds.), Edition text + kritik, Munich 2012, pp. 60–77
  • Marco Abel: “Longing for the genre. Die Sieger von Dominik Graf ”, in: Michael Wedel, Chris Wahl, Marco Abel / Jesco Jockenhövel (eds.): In the face of television, edition text + kritik, Munich 2012, pp. 78-104
  • Sarah Kordecki: “The invisible girl as the 'ultimate homeland film'? From landscape thrillers, homeland comedies and provincial dramas ”, in: Im Visicht des Fernssehen, Michael Wedel / Chris Wahl / Marco Abel / Jesco Jockenhövel (eds.), Edition text + kritik, Munich 2012, pp. 105–125
  • Jesco Jockenhövel: “From Morlocks and Kakadus. German-German Social Policy in Dominik Graf's Films ”, in: Michael Wedel / Chris Wahl / Marco Abel / Jesco Jockenhövel (eds.), In the face of television, edition text + kritik, Munich 2012, pp. 125–142
  • Micheala Krützen: "Der Fahnder, seen in 2011", in: Michael Wedel / Chris Wahl / Marco Abel / Jesco Jockenhövel (eds.), In the face of television, edition text + kritik, Munich 2012, pp. 143–155
  • Felix Lenz: "Primitive elements and milieu - the coming-of-age films by Dominik Graf", in: In the face of television, Michael Wedel / Chris Wahl / Marco Abel (eds.), Edition text + kritik, Munich 2012, 156 -180
  • Julian Hanich: “The boy's sore anger. About the motif of the father-son conflict in Dominik Graf's Der Skorpion ", in: Imendesicht des Fernssehen, Michael Wedel / Chris Wahl / Marco Abel / Jesco Jockenhövel (eds.), Edition text + kritik, Munich 2012, p. 181 -199
  • Daniel Eschkötter: “Out of composure. Three company family melodramas: Bitter Innocence, Your Best Years, Cold Spring “, in: In the face of television, Michael Wedel / Chris Wahl / Marco Abel / Jesco Jockenhövel (eds.), Edition text + kritik, Munich 2012, p 200-214
  • Brad Prager: “Opponents and inner demons. Domink Grafs In the face of crime ", in: In the face of television, Michael Wedel / Chris Wahl / Marco Abel / Jesco Jockenhövel (eds.), Edition text + kritik, Munich 2012, pp. 215-238
  • Chris Wahl: “Stylistic patterns in Dominik Graf's films. Off-commentary, intermediate image, freeze frame and transparent reflection ”, in: In the face of television, Michael Wedel / Chris Wahl / Marco Abel / Jesco Jockenhövel (eds.), Edition text + kritik, Munich 2012, pp. 238–266
  • Tobias Ebbrecht: “History in transit. At Thea or: Places that aim into the past “, in: In the face of television, Michael Wedel / Chris Wahl / Marco Abel / Jesco Jockenhövel (eds.), Edition text + kritik, Munich 2012, pp. 267–283
  • Laura Frahm: “Urban archeology. Cartography and history in The Whispers in the Mountain of Things and Munich - Secrets of a City “, in: In the face of television, Michael Wedel / Chris Wahl / Marco Abel / Jesco Jockenhövel (eds.), Edition text + kritik, Munich 2012, p 284-302
  • Jaimey Fisher: “'The Honesty of the City'. Scaling in Dominik Grafs and Martin Gressman's The Path We Don't Tread Together ”, in: In the face of television, Michael Wedel / Chris Wahl / Marco Abel / Jesco Jockenhövel (eds.), Edition text + kritik, Munich 2012, p. 303-315
  • Felix Lenz: “From euphoric present to reflected past. Elements of the city symphonies of the Weimar period and their modern twins ”, in: Popular culture, mass media, avant-garde 1919–1933, Jessica Nitsche / Nadine Werner (eds.), Fink, Munich 2012, pp. 351–371
  • Felix Lenz: "Dominik Graf's Don't follow me, or the power of the past", in: German Studies Review, Volume 36, No. 4, The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2013
  • Christoph Huber, Olaf Möller: Dominik Graf (= FilmmuseumSynemaPublikationen Volume 18). SYNEMA - Society for Film and Media, Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-901644-48-1 .
  • Jörn Glasenapp (Ed.): Film Concepts Vol. 38 - Dominik Graf, edition text + kritik, Munich 2015
  • Lisa Gotto : "Cinematic sensitivities: The whisper in the mountain of things", in: Dominik Graf (= Film Concepts 38), Ed. Jörn Glasenapp, Munich: edition text + kritik 2015, pp. 63–77.

documentary

  • Dominik Graf. TV documentary, Germany, 2010, 43 min., Director: Felix von Boehm, production: ZDF , Arte

Web links

Commons : Dominik Graf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dominik Graf holds the record ( Memento from March 13, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger , March 10, 2010.
  2. ^ Claudius Seidl: The Michael Althen Prize for Criticism 2016. ( Memento from July 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), FAZ, May 14, 2016.
  3. ^ Winner of the Madrid Móstoles International Film Festival 2007 ( Memento from January 23, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ).
  4. ↑ Christian Buß: Grimme documentary by Dominik Graf: City in ruins, TV in ruins . In: Spiegel Online . April 3, 2014 ( spiegel.de [accessed July 18, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Graf, Dominik
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film and television director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH September 6, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich