Dror Zahavi

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Dror Zahavi and Carolyn Genzkow at the Grimme Awards 2011

Dror Zahavi ( Hebrew דרור זהבי; *  February 6, 1959 in Tel Aviv ) is an Israeli film director who works primarily for German television.

Life

Zahavi grew up in a poorer area in the south of Tel Aviv. In 1982 he went to the GDR , where a scholarship enabled him to study directing at the Konrad Wolf Academy of Film and Television in Potsdam-Babelsberg . His graduation film Alexander Penn - I want to be in everything was nominated for a student Oscar in 1988 . After graduating, Zahavi worked as a film critic in Israel. First during the fall of the Wall in 1989 and then finally in 1991, he returned to Berlin , where he has lived ever since. After numerous television works, he released his first film Alles für mein Vater ( Everything for My Father) , which thematized the conflict between Israel and Palestine.

His daughter Lili Zahavi works as an actress.

Filmography

Awards

literature

  • Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann: Transitions: Passages through a German-Israeli film history. Neofelis, Berlin 2014 ISBN 3943414515 , with chap. about Zahavi

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Dror Zahavi in the Munzinger archive , accessed on March 7, 2013 ( beginning of article freely available)
  2. ^ Anna Kemper : Dror Zahavi - Tatort Tel Aviv. In: Jüdische Allgemeine, January 22, 2009, accessed March 7, 2013