Fritz Schumann (journalist)

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Fritz Schumann (born December 30, 1987 in Berlin ) is a German journalist , director and author . He specializes in the country of Japan .

Life

Fritz Schumann was born on December 30, 1987 in East Berlin, the son of the journalist and publisher Frank Schumann and the educator Helga Schumann. Between 2000 and 2007 he attended the John-Lennon-Gymnasium in Berlin-Mitte , where he founded the JLG film festival and organized it until 2008.

journalism

From 2007 he worked as a freelance author and photographer for the youth website of the Berliner Zeitung . Between July 2009 and July 2010 Fritz Schumann lived on a working holiday visa in Tokyo , Japan and worked from there as a freelance foreign correspondent a. a. for the Berliner Zeitung and the manga magazine Daisuki . In the following years he visited the country at least once a year for research. In 2011 he began to study photojournalism and documentary photography at the University of Hanover . Between 2013 and 2014 he spent two semesters at Hiroshima City University. He completed his studies in Hanover in January 2018 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts .

His contributions from Japan have appeared in Spiegel, National Geographic and Stern, among others, have been shown on television and shown at international film festivals. For his research on the poison gas factory on the island of Ōkunoshima , he received a grant from the Robert Bosch Foundation and the Berlin Literary Colloquium in 2018 as part of the “Grenzgänger” program. Fritz Schumann lives and works in Berlin.

"In the valley of the dolls"

In November 2013, Fritz Schumann traveled to the village of Nagoro in Tokushima Prefecture , which was known locally as the “ Puppet Village ” or “Village of Scarecrows”. He produced a short documentary film about the doll maker Ayano Tsukimi, which he posted online in April 2014 and which then went viral. It was the first post about Nagoro outside of Japan, and the media reports it triggered led to an increase in overseas tourism in the area. Fritz Schumann was interviewed several times by Japanese television, as well as by BBC Radio and Deutschlandradio. In the same year “In the Valley of the Puppets” was awarded the dpa Newstalent.

At the end of the 30 year long heisei era and the beginning of the reiwa era , the Japanese broadcaster NHK broadcast a special program. a. the topic was: “How foreigners shaped the heisei era.” The film “In the Valley of the Puppets” and the interview with Fritz Schumann were cited as examples of the lasting change in Japan by foreigners in the last 30 years.

Movies

  • 2014 Valley of the Dolls (eng. Valley of Dolls ) (6.30min) Short Documentary
  • 2014 Houshi (12.08min), documentary short film
  • 2015 Aus Licht und Stahl ( A Story of Ink & Steel ) (10.00min), documentary short film
  • 2016 Generation Refugee ( seeds on Stone ) (10.00min), documentary short film
  • 2018 Über den Berg ( Eng.Mountain Monks ) (10.00min), documentary short film
  • 2019 Okunoshima - Japan's poison (. Closely Japan's Poison ) (30.00min) Short Documentary

Books

author

Participation

Awards

  • College Photographer of the Year - Bronze for Mountain Monks , 2018
  • German Human Rights Film Award - nominated for “Generation Refugee” 2016
  • Aktion Deutschland Hilft - young talent journalism competition, finalist, 2016
  • dpa-Newstalent - young talent journalism competition, 1st place , November 2014
  • PlusPunkt Kultur - Award for the 'JLG-Filmfest' project , January 2009

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Fritz Schumann. Retrieved July 18, 2020 .
  2. ↑ KulturPort De Kultur-Magazin Hamburg: Short film festival “Jugendfrey 2009” in Babylon Berlin - Call for Entries - KulturPort.De ~ magazine for art and culture. Retrieved July 18, 2020 .
  3. ↑ RBB article about JLG Filmfest. Retrieved July 17, 2020 .
  4. ↑ First impressions without imprints. In: fotografritz / blog. August 5, 2009, accessed July 18, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Meanwhile in my mid-20s: mediocre means with a medium-term need to communicate. In: fotografritz / blog. December 30, 2011, accessed July 18, 2020 .
  6. ↑ " If necessary , la la la ..." In: fotografritz / blog. January 25, 2012, accessed July 18, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Interview with journalist Fritz Schumann. Retrieved July 18, 2020 .
  8. ↑ FREELENS Bachelor 2018 | 1. In: FREELENS. January 15, 2018, accessed July 18, 2020 .
  9. ↑ New photos in the GaF. Retrieved July 18, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Those who lie down in the mountains. Retrieved July 18, 2020 .
  11. ↑ In Japan's 'Valley of the Dolls' the Living Are Outnumbered 10 to October 1 , 2017, accessed on July 18, 2020 .
  12. ↑ Watch a 65-year-old girl bring a Japanese valley to life through dolls. December 19, 2014, accessed July 18, 2020 .
  13. ↑ ド イ ツ の テ レ ビ ： 名 頃 の か か し 村. Retrieved July 18, 2020 .
  14. ^ New York Japan CineFest 2016. Retrieved July 18, 2020 .
  15. ↑ 6th Annual Boston Japan Film Festival | MISTI. Retrieved July 18, 2020 .
  16. ↑ Ōkunoshima | 広 島 国際 映 画 祭 | HIFF. Retrieved July 18, 2020 (Japanese).
  17. ↑ Schumann, Fritz | Frontier workers. Retrieved July 18, 2020 .
  18. ↑ Making of: In the Valley of the Puppets. In: fotografritz / blog. November 15, 2014, accessed July 18, 2020 .
  19. ↑ Half a million clicks without breasts and budget. In: fotografritz / blog. November 23, 2014, accessed July 18, 2020 .
  20. ↑ Info-pdf with an overview of media reports. (PDF) Retrieved July 17, 2020 .
  21. ↑ JNTO - Japanese Tourism Authority: The mysterious life-sized dolls in a traditional Japanese village surrounded by a vast natural environment. Retrieved July 18, 2020 .
  22. ^ Fritz Schumann: "Morning Bird", Asahi TV about 'Valley of Dolls', June 2014. July 23, 2014, accessed on July 18, 2020 .
  23. ↑ Fritz Schumann: Asahi TV about Valley of Dolls, July 2014. July 14, 2014, accessed on July 18, 2020 .
  24. ^ BBC World Service - World Have Your Say, Towns with Few Children. Retrieved July 18, 2020 (UK English).
  25. ↑ Real Doll - from 27:04. Retrieved July 18, 2020 .
  26. ↑ a b DPA press portal: Excellent young journalists: dpa news talent 2014 has been decided. Retrieved July 18, 2020 .
  27. ↑ NHK 「ゆ く 時代 く る 時代」 MC に 爆笑 問題 、 ま ん じ ゅ う 大 帝国 も 出演 決定！ （4/30）. In: TITAN. Retrieved July 18, 2020 (Japanese).
  28. ↑ NHK about Nagoro January 2020. Retrieved July 18, 2020 .
  29. ↑ In the valley of the dolls. Retrieved July 18, 2020 .
  30. ^ Fritz Schumann: In the valley of the dolls. February 26, 2014, accessed July 18, 2020 .
  31. ↑ 1300 years in 12 minutes. Retrieved July 18, 2020 .
  32. ↑ Fritz Schumann: Houshi (German). December 18, 2014, accessed July 18, 2020 .
  33. ↑ Made of light and steel. Retrieved July 18, 2020 .
  34. ^ Fritz Schumann: From light and steel. May 18, 2015, accessed July 18, 2020 .
  35. ^ Fritz Schumann: Generation refugees. February 6, 2016, accessed July 18, 2020 .
  36. ↑ Yamabushi: The last mountain monks of Yamagata. Retrieved July 18, 2020 .
  37. ↑ Fritz Schumann: Over the mountain. January 16, 2019, accessed July 18, 2020 .
  38. ↑ Ōkunoshima | 広 島 国際 映 画 祭 | HIFF. Retrieved July 18, 2020 (Japanese).
  39. ↑ 74th College Photographer of the Year | Winning Images. Retrieved July 18, 2020 .
  40. ^ Fritz Schumann nominated for the German Human Rights Film Award: fotostudenten.de. Retrieved July 18, 2020 .
  41. ↑ Aktion Deutschland Hilft-Bündnis deutscher Aid Organizations: Generation Refugees: Anmehs Escape to Home - A report by Fritz Schumann. Retrieved July 18, 2020 .
  42. ↑ PlusPunkt CULTURE >>> Young commitment to culture in the new decade. Retrieved July 18, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Schumann, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and author
DATE OF BIRTH December 30, 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin