Dominik Graf
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)
- 1975: Carla's letters
- 1977: The Girls' War (Actor)
- 1979: The precious guest
- 1980: Family Day
- 1982: the second face
- 1983: Köberle is coming (TV series, 6 episodes)
- 1984: hit
- 1985: three against three
- 1985–1993: The Investigator (TV series, several episodes)
- 1986: Tatort - Black Weekend
- 1988: the cat
- 1988: At Thea
- 1989: tiger, lion, panther
- 1990: player
- 1993: Morlock - The entanglement
- 1994: The winners
- 1995: crime scene - Ms. Bu laughs
- 1996: Sperling - Sparrow and the hole in the wall
- 1996: trip to Weimar
- 1996: Irren is male (as a performer)
- 1997: I think of Germany ... - The whisper in the mountain of things (documentary)
- 1997: The Scorpion
- 1997: Doctor Knock
- 1998: Sparrow - Sparrow and the Burning Arm
- 1998: your best years
- 1999: bitter innocence
- 2000: Munich - Secrets of a City
- 2002: the rock
- 2002: Friends of Friends
- 2002: Hotte in paradise
- 2004: Cold spring
- 2004: Police call 110 - The scarlet angel
- 2005: The Red Cockatoo
- 2006: A city is blackmailed
- 2006: Police call 110 - He should be dead
- 2007: The vow
- 2008: Commissioner South and the air guitarist
- 2009: Germany 09 - The path we will not go together
- 2010: In the face of crime
- 2011: Dreileben - Don't follow me
- 2011: Police call 110 - Cassandra's warning
- 2011: The invisible girl
- 2012: Avalanches of Memory (documentary)
- 2013: Tatort - From the depths of time
- 2014: The beloved sisters
- 2014: Let there be a city! 50 years of the Grimme Prize in Marl (documentary film)
- 2014: The rich corpses. A Starnberg thriller
- 2014: Police call 110 - Smoke on the Water
- 2015: What does end mean here? The film critic Michael Althen (documentary)
- 2016: Verfluchte Liebe German Film (documentary; with Johannes F. Sievert )
- 2016: Target investigators - Escape to the Carpathian Mountains
- 2016: In the evening of all days
- 2017: Tatort - The Red Shadow
- 2017: Philip Rosenthal - The Entrepreneur Who Didn't Believe in Capitalism (documentary; with Martin Gressmann)
- 2019: Hanne (TV movie)
- 2019: Polizeiruf 110 - The lie we call the future
Awards
- 1980: Bavarian Film Prize in the category of young directors for Der kostbare Gast , his thesis at the film school
- 1983: Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival : Special award for The Second Face
- 1988: Filmband in Gold (director) for The Cat
- 1989: TV film award from the German Academy of Performing Arts for tiger, lion, panther
- 1993: Golden gong for Morlock - The entanglement
- 1995: Golden gong for crime scene - Ms. Bu laughs
- 1997: Adolf Grimme Prize for Sperling and the Hole in the Wall (together with Benedict Neuenfels )
- 1998: Bavarian Television Award, special award for the television films The Scorpion , Dr. Knock and The Whisper in the Mountain of Things
- 1998: Adolf Grimme Prize for Doctor Knock
- 1998: Telestar for The Scorpion
- 1998: Television film award from the German Academy of Performing Arts for The Scorpion
- 1999: Television film award from the German Academy of Performing Arts for Sperling and the Burning Arm
- 1999: Adolf Grimme Prize for Thinking of Germany ... - The whisper in the mountain of things
- 2003: Adolf Grimme Prize for Friends of Friends
- 2003: Film Prize of the City of Hof
- 2004: German television award for Cold Spring
- 2004: Hans Abich Prize for special services in the field of television film
- 2005: DIVA Award - Best Director of the Year (Jury Prize)
- 2006: Adolf Grimme Prize with gold for Polizeiruf 110 - The Scarlet Angel
- 2007: Best Director Award for The Red Cockatoo at the Madrid Móstoles International Film Festival
- 2007: Adolf Grimme Prize for Polizeiruf 110 - He should be dead
- 2007: Television film award from the German Academy of Performing Arts: Special award for directing a city is blackmailed
- 2008: Adolf Grimme Prize for One City is blackmailed
- 2008: Film Art Prize for The Vow at the Festival of German Films
- 2010: Adolf Grimme Prize for Commissioner South and the air guitarist
- 2010: Schwabing Art Prize
- 2010: Star on the Boulevard of Stars in Berlin
- 2011: Grimme Prize for In the Face of Crime
- 2011: Bavarian TV Prize for In the Face of Crime
- 2011: German Director Award Metropolis in the category Best Director of TV Series for In the Face of Crime
- 2012: Special Grimme Prize for three lives
- 2012: Hamburg detective award for Polizeiruf 110 - Cassandra's warning
- 2014: LiteraVision - Television Prize of the City of Munich for Avalanches of Memory. A film about Oliver Storz.
- 2014: Prize of the German Academy for Television in the documentary film category for the essay film Let there be a city! together with Martin Farkas
Fonts
- Dominik Graf: Disturbance in the cinema. The director of Die Sieger in conversation with Stefan Stosch about working on the film. Wehrhahn Verlag , Laatzen 1998, 47 pages, ISBN 3-932324-51-X
- Dominik Graf: Sleeps a song in all things . Texts about the film. Ed. And with a foreword by Michael Althen . Alexander Verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-89581-210-1
- Dominik Graf: In the face of crime . TV work using the example of a TV series. Edited by Johannes F. Sievert . Alexander Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-89581-221-7
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
- Dominik Graf in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Dominik Graf at filmportal.de
- Dominik Graf at Crew United
- Fighter in the system - an interview with Dominik Graf. Video interview at Cargo , November 2008
- Yearning for Genre: The Films of Dominik Graf . Essay by Marco Abel (English)
- I Build a Jigsaw Puzzle of a Dream-Germany: An Interview with German Filmmaker Dominik Graf , Senses of Cinema Nr. 55 (English)
- In the middle of the hurricane. Interview with Dominik Graf on critic.de
- And suddenly reality ... workshop discussion between Dominik Graf and Marcus Stiglegger
- Dominik Graf. Werkschau and carte blanche in the Austrian Film Museum
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dominik Graf holds the record ( Memento from March 13, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger , March 10, 2010.
- ^ Claudius Seidl: The Michael Althen Prize for Criticism 2016. ( Memento from July 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), FAZ, May 14, 2016.
- ^ Winner of the Madrid Móstoles International Film Festival 2007 ( Memento from January 23, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ).
- ↑ 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 | |
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SURNAME | Graf, Dominik |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German film and television director and screenwriter |
DATE OF BIRTH | September 6, 1952 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |