Hajo Gies
Hajo Gies (born March 16, 1945 in Lüdenscheid ) is a German film and television director .
biography
Hajo Gies studied sociology in Frankfurt am Main from 1965 to 1968 with Theodor W. Adorno . From 1968 he started studying together with Wim Wenders at the newly founded University for Television and Film in Munich . From the mid-1970s he started as a director of television films , in particular the ARD - crime scene , a name. Together with Bernd Schwamm , Gies created the cult figure Horst Schimanski . From 1981 on, he staged Götz George in this role in a total of fifteen crime scenes and films in the Schimanski series. Because of their great popularity, two of these films, Tooth for a Teeth and Zabou , opened in theaters and were later shown on television. For the Tatort episode Moltke Gies was awarded the Adolf Grimme Prize with gold in 1989. In 1992 he and George received the Bavarian TV Prize for The Schimanski Case . In addition to thrillers, Gies also staged comedic material, such as Alpenglow , Love Moves Mountains - Alpenglow II or A Sack of Money .
Hajo Gies' father was the media pedagogue and university professor Heinz Gies, who died in 2008. His younger brother Martin Gies is a screenwriter and also a director. He worked with him, among other things, on the crime scene The girl across the street . In 2005 Gies married his longtime partner, the actress Brigitte Janner . The couple lives in Hamburg-Uhlenhorst .
Filmography
- 1972: Nocturno
- 1976: Lauenstadt inspection - Two survivors (TV series)
- 1976: Ilse is gone
- 1977: Tatort - The girl across the street
- 1978: Tatort - The delicatessen dealer
- 1978: Sultry days
- 1981: Tatort - Duisburg-Ruhrort
- 1981: Beate and Mareile
- 1982: Tatort - The Invisible Adversary
- 1982: Tatort - cuddly toys
- 1983: Rest easy, Bruno
- 1984: crime scene - wake
- 1984: crime scene - two kinds of blood
- 1985: Tooth for a tooth ( cinema - offshoot of the crime scene series)
- 1985: Tatort - double game
- 1987: Zabou (cinema offshoot of the Tatort series)
- 1988: Tatort - Broken Flowers
- 1988: Tatort - Moltke
- 1988: the dream car
- 1990: Tassilo - A Case For Itself (TV series)
- 1991: Tatort - The Schimanski case
- 1992: A case for two - money does not expire
- 1992: Vogel and Osiander
- 1993: Alarm in Sköldgatan ( Brandbilen som försvann )
- 1993: Mouse and Cat
- 1994: The dead of Amelung
- 1997: Schimanski - Hard at the limit
- 1997: Schimanski - blood brothers
- 1997: The Red Jackal
- 1998: Schimanski - rat nest
- 1999: Schimanski - longing
- 1999: Tatort - Scrooge's grandson
- 1999: The murderer's handwriting
- 2000: My daughter's trail
- 2001: Cash laughs
- 2002: A sack full of money
- 2003: Crime scene - Little Red Riding Hood
- 2003: Tatort - Atlantis
- 2003: Alpenglow
- 2003: Christmas in September
- 2004: Tatort - Offside
- 2004: An angel named Hans-Dieter
- 2004: The job of his life 2 - Back in office
- 2004: men of dangerous age
- 2005: Marry my wife
- 2005: Alpenglow two - love moves mountains
- 2005: The nun and the commissioner
- 2006: Tatort - blood writing
- 2006: Colorful candies
- 2007: Tatort - The Trap
- 2007: homesickness for over there
- 2008: Tatort - Hopeless
- 2008: Police call 110 - milkweed
- 2009: Tatort - Wrong Life
- 2009: The divine Sophie
- 2010: The Bull and the Country Egg - Deadly Homesickness
- 2011: The divine Sophie - The foundling
- 2012: To the cuckoo with love
- 2012: Murder in good company - the death of sin
Awards
- 1989: Adolf Grimme Prize with gold for Tatort : Moltke (together with Götz George and Eberhard Feik )
- 1992: Bavarian TV Prize for Tatort: The Schimanski Case
Web links
- Hajo Gies in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Hajo Gies: "Lüdenscheid was a bit of a comedy" . Interview with the inventor of "Tatort" commissioner Horst Schimanski , published on October 11, 2015 (accessed on March 8, 2019)
Individual evidence
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Gies, Hajo |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German film and television director |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 16, 1945 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Ludenscheid |