Elmar Fischer (director)

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Elmar Fischer (left, with producer Nicole Swidler) at the premiere of the WDR television film Unterm Radar in Cologne, 2015

Elmar Fischer (born September 26, 1968 in Geilenkirchen ) is a German film director and screenwriter .

Life

Growing up in Geilenkirchen near Aachen in the Rhineland, Fischer completed his Abitur in 1988 at the Cusanus Gymnasium Erkelenz . During and shortly after his school days he worked as a freelancer for several local newspapers.

After graduating from high school, Fischer studied journalism at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich from 1989 to 1994 and completed an apprenticeship at the German School of Journalism in Munich from 1989 to 1993 .

Since 1992, Fischer has worked for various public and private television stations. For a while for RTL from Hollywood, shot a report for SAT1 in the war zone of the former Yugoslavia and created travel reports from the South Seas for VOX . In 1995 he founded the "here and now television production" with cameraman Norman Vaclavik.

After leaving the "here and now television production" in 2000, Fischer took over the development of a film series for Jetzt , the youth magazine of the Süddeutsche Zeitung, as a producer . Two films were made under the label “Jetzt: film” under the direction of Marco Kreuzpaintner and Lars Kraume , which premiered at the Munich Film Festival in 2002 . Kraumes film Kismet - Würfel dein Leben came into German cinemas in 2005.

Together with Tobias Kniebe , Fischer wrote the script for his first full-length feature film, Stranger Friend . The film was shown at film festivals around the world and won prizes, including the First Steps Award 2003. In the years that followed, Fischer directed television films and, as a director, was jointly responsible for the concept and implementation of the first two Tatort episodes in Stuttgart with Richy Müller .

Many of his films address current political events and question social, political or even economic mechanisms.

His political thriller Unterm Radar (2015), which illuminates an unbridled police and surveillance state, received the gold medal “as the best TV film worldwide” at the New York Festival World's Best TV & Films in 2016. Leading actress Christiane Paul was awarded an International Emmy .

He has been married to actress Mina Tander since 2011 .

Filmography

Nominations and Awards

  • Nomination for the Adolf Grimme Prize 2016 for Unterm Radar
  • Gold Medal, New York Festival World`s Best TV & Films 2016 for Unterm Radar
  • Hamburg Crime Award 2016 for Unterm Radar
  • Nomination Jupiter Award - Best TV Film 2016 for Unterm Radar
  • Nomination for the audience award at the Baden-Baden TV Film Festival 2015, Unterm Radar
  • Nominated for the Prix Europa 2015 for Unterm Radar
  • Nominated at the Cologne Conference - 2015 for Unterm Radar
  • Nominated for the German Audio Film Award 2013 for Bloch: Der Fremde
  • Nominated at the New York Festival World`s Best TV & Films 2015 for Im Dschungel
  • 1st prize in the international competition at the Terra de Siena Film Festival, Italy 2005 for Stranger Friend
  • Audience Award, 14th FilmKunstfest Schwerin 2004 for Fremder Freund
  • First Steps Best full-length debut film 2003 for Fremder Freund
  • Winner of the Digital Vision Award, b.film Festival Berlin nomination as "Best Film" 2003
  • Nomination for the German Film Award 2003 for Stranger Friends
  • Nomination Kingfisher Award at Liffe Internat. Ljubljana Film Festival 2003 for Stranger Friends
  • Audience Award of the Film Festival of the German Cinema Mainz 2003 for Stranger Friend

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Labor dispute with open pants . Spiegel online, October 6, 2010.
  2. ↑ Henning Peitsmeier: Works council, you're better off. In: FAZ.net . October 6, 2010, accessed October 13, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Fischer, Elmar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German director
DATE OF BIRTH 26th September 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Geilenkirchen