Gunnar Dedio

Gunnar Dedio (born November 16, 1969 in Rostock ) is a German film producer and media entrepreneur . He is the founder and managing director of the film production company LOOKSfilm .

Life

Gunnar Dedio grew up in Rostock and attended the 35th POS Albin Köbis as well as the Herder Oberschule , which taught Russian, English and French intensively. As a long-time student of Peter Heidrich , Dedio enjoyed a cosmopolitan upbringing and was interested in psychology and history from an early age . After the fall of the wall, Dedio moved to France, where he studied modern literature at the University of Avignon . During this time he met Fernand Meyssonnier, France's last executioner, in 1992 . Fascinated by its history, the documentary film Hangman - Death Has a Face (2001) and the book The Last Hangman (2002) were made.

Dedio, who initially worked for German newspaper publishers during his studies , founded his own newspaper publisher in 1994 and the film production company LOOKSfilm in Rostock in 1995. LOOKSfilm is now represented in Leipzig , Berlin and Hanover and produces series and feature films for VoD platforms, cinema and television.

In parallel to his work as a producer and managing director, Dedio conducted his executive training at INSEAD , IMD and MIT . At INSEAD he studied with Manfred FR Kets de Vries, Roger Lehman and Eric van der Loo and completed the Executive Master in Consulting and Coaching for Change (EMCCC Wave 21) in 2016 .

Dedio regularly teaches film production at the Hanover University of Applied Sciences in the TV journalism master’s course, Mittweida University and other universities .

producer

With its production company LOOKSfilm, Dedio specializes in international co-productions on historical topics . From the beginning he worked closely with the French broadcasters Arte , Les Films d'Ici, Teleimages, Lagardère , ZADIG and other French broadcasters and producers.

In 2008, his production company established its own archive department, which, in addition to research and rights trading, was responsible for the distribution of British Pathé from 2011 to 2016 .

Dedio became internationally known with the documentary series Back then in the GDR (2004), for which he received the Adolf Grimme Prize in 2005 .

In 2011 LOOKSfilm produced the documentary drama series 14 - Diaries of the First World War (2014) developed by Dedio and director Jan Peter . It is the first German series for which Netflix US acquired the license rights. For this series production, Dedio also initiated a multimedia cooperation with museums , publishers and online media .

In 2014 Dedio produced the first historical documentary series about the First World War for children Little Hands in the Great War (2014), the continuation of which Der Krieg und Ich (2019) was awarded the Golden Sparrow 2018.

War of Dreams (2018), the sequel to 14 diaries of the First World War , was also developed by Dedio and Jan Peter and produced under the responsibility of LOOKSfilm. The series about the interwar period was created in collaboration with 23 international broadcasters and was first broadcast on Arte in September 2018. It was part of the transnational project Clash of Futures , which was devoted to the interwar period internationally and across all media. InDecember 2018, Rolling Stone voted the series among the top ten most popular German series of all time.

In addition to documentaries, Dedio has been producing feature films since 2010, such as the multi-award-winning co-productions Michael Kohlhaas (2013) with Mads Mikkelsen and Bruno Ganz , Licht (2017) with Maria Dragus and Devid Striesow and Die Sanfte by Sergei Loznitsa .

The The Cuba Libre Story (2016), Age of Tanks (2017), and Bobby Kennedy for President (2018) are other productions and co-productions by Dedio in collaboration with Netflix.

Filmography

• 2001: Executioner - Death has a face (documentary, director: Jens Becker )
• 2003: Genesis II et l'homme créa la nature (documentary series, director: Frédéric Lepage)
• 2003: Checkmate (documentary, winner of Romy : "Special Jury Prize")
• 2004: Back then in the GDR (documentary series, awarded the Grimme Prize 2005)
• 2004: From the pedestals (documentary series, directors including Piotr Trzaskalski , Alice Nellis, Peter Kerekes, Ferenc Török )
• 2006: Napoleon and the Germans (documentary series)
• 2007: Then after the war (documentary series)
• 2007: Hitler & Mussolini (documentary)
• 2008: Back then in East Prussia (documentary series)
• 2008: Hitler & Stalin - Portrait of Enmity (Documentary)
• 2008: On the Road in America (documentary series)
• 2008: Of sharks and people (documentary series, director: Dirk Steffens )
• 2009: A dream in strawberry foil - Comrade Couture (documentary)
• 2010: Molotow (documentary, director: Ullrich H. Kasten )
• 2010: Back then after the GDR (documentary series)
• 2010: The Wild Farm (documentary)
• 2010: Mein Germany (Documentation)
• 2010: Out and about in South Africa (documentary series)
• 2011: Churchill's betrayal of Poland (documentation)
• 2011: The Wall as a Secret Matter - The History of a German Border (Documentary)
• 2012: Hindenburg - The man who brought Hitler to power (documentary, director: Christoph Weinert)
• 2012: Lenin - Drama of a Dictator (Documentary, Director: Ullrich Kasten)
• 2013: Michael Kohlhaas (feature film, director: Arnaud des Pallières ), awarded the César 2014 for Best Music and Best Sound
• 2013: Fascination Fireworks (Documentation)
• 2013: Michel Petrucciani - Body and Soul (documentary, director: Michael Radford )
• 2013: The Emperor's Last Dance (Documentation, Author: Daniel Schönpflug, Director: Florian Huber)
• 2014: 14 - Diaries of the First World War (documentary drama series, director: Jan Peter )
• 2014: Little Hands in the Great War (drama series for children, director: Matthias Zirzow)
• 2014: At War (3D documentary film, director: Niko Vialkowitsch)
• 2014: The Truth About the Holocaust (documentary series, director: William Karel )
• 2015:  Erich Mielke - Master of Fear  (documentary, director: Jens Becker, Maarten van der Duin)
• 2016:  Secret Cuba  (documentary series, directors / authors: Emmanuel Amara,  Kai Christiansen , Florian Dedio)
• 2016: My friend Rockefeller (documentary, director / author: Steffi Kammerer)
• 2017: The gentle (feature film, director:  Sergei Loznitsa ), in the main competition of the  Cannes International Film Festival 2017
• 2017: The Dream of the New World (four-part documentary drama series, director:  Kai Christiansen )
• 2017: Kollwitz - A life in passion (Documentation, Director: Henrike Sandner, Yury Winterberg )
• 2017: Light (feature film, director: Barbara Albert )
• 2017: tanks! (Documentary series, director: Florian Dedio)
• 2018: Bobby Kennedy for President (Documentary, Director: Dawn Porter )
• 2018: The Iron Age - To Love and Die in the Thirty Years' War (documentary drama series, director: Philippe Bérenger)
• 2018: War of Dreams (documentary drama series, director: Jan Peter )
• 2019: The War and Me (multi-part story for children and young people, director: Matthias Zirzow)

Non-fiction

• Gunnar Dedio, Jens Becker: The last executioners. Das Neue Berlin , Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-360-00969-X .
• Gunnar and Florian Dedio: 14 - Diaries of the First World War: Color photographs and notes from a world in decline. Foreword by Peter Englund. Bucher Verlag / BBC Books, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-7658-2041-0 .
• Gunnar Dedio, Birgit Rasch: Me. Erich Mielke. The book for the movie. Sutton Verlag , Erfurt 2015, ISBN 978-3-95400-555-0 .

Awards (selection)

• 2019: The White Elephant (for The War and Me )
• 2019: nominated for the Grimme Prize (for war of dreams )
• 2018: Goldener Spatz (for Der Krieg and I )
• 2015: Prix Italia, Special Mention for International TV Coproduction (for 14 - Diaries of the First World War )
• 2014: Robert Geisendörfer Prize (for 14 diaries of the First World War )
• 2014: nominated for the German Television Award (for 14 diaries of the First World War )
• 2014: nominated for Japan Prize (Contest for educational Media) in the category "Continuing Education" (for 14-Diaries of the Great War )
• 2014: nominated for the Japan Prize (Contest for Educational Media) in the category "Youth" (for Small Hands in a Big War )
• 2005: Grimme Prize (for then in the GDR )
• 2004: Hans Klein Media Prize (for then in the GDR )
• 2003: Romy TV Award (for Checkmate - The superpowers behind the Rumanian revolution )
• 2000: Axel Springer Prize (for Fit for Jesus )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ grimme-preis.de: Gunnar Dedio. Retrieved March 11, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Helmut Ortner: The book of killing: About the death penalty . To Klampen Verlag , ISBN 978-3-86674-227-7 .
3. ↑ Gunnar Dedio on IMDb. Retrieved March 11, 2019 . 
4. ↑ insead.edu: Alumni Businesses. Retrieved March 11, 2019 . 
5. ↑ fipadoc.com: Schedule FIPADOC 2019. Retrieved March 11, 2019 . 
6. ↑ grimme-preis.de: 41st Grimme Prize 2005: Back then in the GDR. Retrieved March 11, 2019 . 
7. ↑ 14 - Diaries of the First World War: About the project. Retrieved March 11, 2019 . 
8. ↑ dokumentarfilm.info: "The War and Me" is deliberately aimed at children. Retrieved March 11, 2019 . 
9. ↑ goldenerspatz.de: The war and me: Anton. Retrieved March 11, 2019 . 
10. ↑ Carolin Ströbele: "The parallelism is scary" (interview with Gunnar Dedio). Retrieved March 11, 2019 . 
11. ^ War of Dreams: About the Project. Retrieved March 11, 2019 . 
12. ↑ Rolling Stone: Reader's Favorite . December 2018, p. 72 .
13. ↑ Andreas Kilb: The pain is deeper than the anger. September 15, 2013, accessed March 11, 2019 . 
14. ↑ Light (Mademoiselle Paradis). (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on February 7, 2019 ; accessed on March 11, 2019 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
15. ↑ The gentle one. Retrieved March 11, 2019 . 
16. ↑ The Cuba Libre Story on Netflix. Retrieved March 11, 2019 . 
17. ↑ Age of Tanks on Netflix. Retrieved March 11, 2019 . 
18. ↑ Bobby Kennedy for President on Netflix. Retrieved March 11, 2019 . 
19. ↑ New Germany feature section "Molotow" on arte. Retrieved January 2, 2015 . 
20. ^ Spiegel online culture President Hindenburg: Hitler's knowing enforcer. Retrieved January 2, 2015 . 
21. ↑ Tagesspiegel media poets and handlebars. Retrieved January 2, 2015 . 
22. ↑ Le CMB - Actualités - Center Marc Bloch. February 9, 2015, accessed February 11, 2019 . 
23. ↑ Berliner Zeitung Medien A polyphonic choir for the impossible. Retrieved January 2, 2015 . 
24. ↑ Children's Media Prize 2019: These winners could look forward to a WHITE ELEPHANT. Retrieved July 7, 2019 . 
25. ↑ War of Dreams (LOOKSfilm / IRIS Group / Les Films d'Ici / Fortis Imaginatio for SWR / NDR / WDR / RBB / ORF / CT / Toute l'histoire). Retrieved January 21, 2019 . 
26. ↑ KiKA: "Goldener Spatz" for SWR drama series "Der Krieg und Ich". Retrieved June 18, 2018 . 
27. ^ Robert Geisendörfer Prize Official Website. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on May 18, 2014 ; accessed on June 21, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
28. ^ German Television Award Official Website. Retrieved October 21, 2014 . 
29. ^ Japan Prize Official Website. Retrieved November 28, 2014 . 
30. ^ Japan Prize Official Website. Retrieved November 28, 2014 . 
31. ↑ Back then in the GDR (ARD / MDR / WDR). Retrieved January 21, 2019 . 

Web links

• Gunnar Dedio in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Homepage of LOOKSfilm