Hajo Gies

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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 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heinz Gregor Gies in the RWTH Aachen University Archive
personal data
SURNAME Gies, Hajo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film and television director
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Ludenscheid