Eric Friedler
Eric Friedler (born June 20, 1971 in Sydney , Australia ) is a German-Australian television journalist , director , reporter and book author. He has received several international awards for his documentaries and documentary plays; its features and films are sometimes considered "television classics".
Life
After graduating from high school in Cologne, Eric Friedler volunteered for " construction " in the USA and worked there for various radio stations and print media. Prior to joining 2002 NDR Friedler worked for several years as an editor and reporter for the political magazine report of SWR . Since then he has developed and supervised numerous documentaries, feature films and television films for ARD . The first crime scene in Hamburg, which he helped to develop, with Mehmet Kurtuluş as a Turkish-born detective, received the Grimme Audience Award in 2009 .
Since 2011 he has been head of the special projects department in the Culture & Documentation program area at NDR as the successor to Horst Königstein . In addition, he published the books witnesses from the death zone: The Jewish Sonderkommando in Auschwitz and, together with Peter Loewy, the cookbook Bagels . Friedler has received numerous international and national awards as a director and screenwriter for his productions and films, including the German Television Prize and the Hanns-Joachim-Friedrichs Prize . In 2016 Eric Friedler was awarded the Armenian State Prize for his film Aghet - Ein Genocide . Aghet (Armenian: the catastrophe) addresses the genocide of the Armenians in 1915/16.
reception
According to the FAZ journalist Franz Josef Görtz, Friedler is undoubtedly one of the most excellent of the “political documentarists in this country [...].” Görtz attests to him “political courage and courageous aggressiveness”.
Filmography (selection)
- 1995 : The partisan
- 1997 : Foreign worlds in the heart
- 1997 : Fear jumped too (ARD documentary)
- 1998 : Bloody prey. The SS looted gold and the missing files (SWR documentation)
- 1999 : SS war criminal from the Allgäu (SWR report)
- 1999 : The Tribunal
- 2000 : File reference mass murder
- 2000 : mutilated
- 2000 : Witnesses from the death zone
- 2001 : Dr. Illegal - German doctorate for money
- 2001 : Full land, hungry children? - When the little ones line up for dinner. (SWR documentation)
- 2003 : Convoy to Death - The Americans and a Massacre in Afghanistan. (NDR report)
- 2004 : For Allah into death (ARD / NDR report)
- 2005 : The Kremlin - In the Heart of Russia (NDR documentary)
- 2007 : The Quandts' Silence
- 2009 : Berlin 36
- 2010 : Aghet - A Genocide
- 2011 : The Olympic intrigue
- 2012 : The fall - Honecker's end
- 2012 : A German Boxer (NDR Documentation)
- 2012 : Nothing but the truth - 30 years of Die Toten Hosen
- 2013 : The Voice of Peace - Abie Nathan's dream
- 2014 : The girl - What happened to Elisabeth K.? (ARD documentation)
- 2015 : The Clown (ARD Documentation)
- 2016 : Slaves of the gas chamber (ARD documentation)
- 2018 : Eskimo Limon - popsicle. Of winners and losers or the bittersweet story of a never-ending film production (NDR documentary)
- 2018 : It Must Schwing - The Blue Note story - the story of Francis Wolff and Alfred Lion and her jazz - record label Blue Note .
- 2020 : Wim Wenders - Desperado (together with Andreas Frege )
Awards and nominations (selection)
- 2000: Ekotop environmental award / best report
- 2003: Hanns Joachim Friedrichs Prize / Promotion Prize for TV Journalism
- 2003: Houston Film Festival / Gold Special Jury Award / Best Documentation
- 2003: SONY International Impact Award
- 2003: Rory Beck Award for hard News for Afghan Massacre: The Convoy of death
- 2005: Axel Springer Prize / 1st place for best report
- 2006: New York Film Festival / Best Documentation
- 2007: North German Film Award / Best Documentation
- 2008: German Television Award / Best Documentation
- 2008: Hanns Joachim Friedrichs Prize for TV Journalism
- 2008: Houston Film Festival / Platinum Award
- 2009: New York Film Festival / World Gold Medal / Best Documentation
- 2009: Grimme Audience Award / Tatort: On the sunny side
- 2010: German Television Award / Best Documentation
- 2011: Humanitarian Award, ARPA Film Festival, Los Angeles
- 2011: New York Film Festival / World Gold Medal / Best Documentation
- 2011: Grimme Prize / Best Documentation
- 2011: Robert Geisendörfer Prize in the television category (written and directed by Aghet - Ein Genölkermord )
- 2012: Golden Spectra
- 2013: Grimme Prize / A German Boxer
- 2014: Grimme Prize / The Voice of Peace.
- 2014: Grimme Audience Award / The Voice of Peace.
Web links
- Literature by and about Eric Friedler in the catalog of the German National Library
- Eric Friedler in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Franz Josef Görtz: Quality television: the most obsessed of all researchers . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . October 17, 2008.
- Award for Eric Friedler . Hanns Joachim Friedrich Prize. In: Der Spiegel . March 17, 2008.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Görtz: The most obsessed of all researchers. On Faz.net , accessed June 20, 2011.
- ↑ Arno Orzessek: A genocide . ARD documentary Aghet about the massacre of the Armenians. In: Deutschlandradio . April 10, 2010.
- ↑ Steffen Reiche: Aghet - The catastrophe ( Memento from January 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) . Film about the genocide of the Armenian people. In: Forward . April 8, 2010.
- ↑ Norddeutscher Rundfunk : The Olympia Intrige. The double life of Dora Ratjen.
- ^ NDR television : The fall. Honecker's end
- ^ Film page ( memento of July 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) at ARD television, accessed on January 7, 2014.
- ↑ Review by Michael Hanfeld in the FAZ of January 7, 2014, p. 31 ( The pirate who sailed under the peace flag )
- ^ Official website for the film, accessed September 26, 2018
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Friedler, Eric |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German television journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 20, 1971 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sydney , Australia |