Friedemann Fromm

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Friedemann Fromm (1st from right) at the location of the WDR / ARD television film "Momentversagen"

Friedemann Fromm (born March 26, 1963 in Stuttgart ) is a German film director and screenwriter .

life and work

After graduating from high school, Friedemann Fromm worked as an actor and director in a free theater group and trained in pantomime and physical theater. He also studied documentary film at the University of Television and Film Munich (HFF) and completed the master class with Krzysztof Kieślowski at the European Film Academy Amsterdam. He also trained as an actor with John Costopoulos at Actor's Studio New York. After completing his studies, he worked as a freelance director and author and taught directing as a lecturer at the Art Academy for Media in Cologne. His graduation film at the University of Television and Film Munich (HFF) in 1992 was the tragic comedy Free Play , for which he wrote the screenplay and directed.

Friedemann Fromm is, among other things, a screenwriter and director for the television series Tatort for Bayerischer Rundfunk . His first work Klassen-Kampf (1994) with Benno Fürmann and Axel Milberg on the subject of violence and xenophobia at a school left a lasting impression on the audience and critics. This was followed in 1996 by the Tatort episode Perfect Mind - Im Labyrinth , for which Friedemann Fromm's brother Christoph Fromm wrote the script.

In 1997, Fromm directed the psychological thriller Game for Your Life with Ben Becker and Heino Ferch (script co-author: Christian Jeltsch ). In 2001 the Tatort episode followed and behind it is New York (book: Friedrich Ani ) with Miroslav Nemec and Barbara Rudnik . From 2002 Friedemann Fromm directed the first three episodes of the award-winning ZDF crime series Unter Verdacht with Senta Berger . Fromm's three-part docu-drama Die Wölfe received major national and international awards.

Friedemann Fromm has headed the directing department at the Hamburg Media School since 2006 .

Filmography as a director (selection)

Awards

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Commons : Friedemann Fromm  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
personal data
SURNAME Fromm, Friedemann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart