Hans-Christian Schmid

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Hans-Christian Schmid while filming What remains (2011)

Hans-Christian Schmid (born August 19, 1965 in Altötting ) is a German film director , screenwriter and film producer .

Life

Hans-Christian Schmid attended the König-Karlmann-Gymnasium in Altötting, where he also obtained his Abitur. He studied documentary film at the University of Television and Film Munich and finished his studies with his thesis in 1992 . As part of his studies, he shot Sekt or Selters , a documentary about addicted slot machine players, the short film Das lachende Gewitter , and the documentary Die Mechanik des Wunders , which deals with the contradiction between belief and commerce in his hometown Altötting.

Hans-Christian Schmid has been working together for many years with the producers Jakob Claussen and Thomas Wöbke: Heaven and Hell , a television play about an inner-church sect, Nach Fünf im Urwald , Schmid's cinema debut, as well as the later films 23 - Nothing is as it seems , Crazy and Lights were produced by Claussen and Wöbke.

With After Five in the Forest Primeval collaboration with the writer and director began Michael Gutmann , which continued with a number of other common scenarios. In addition to Michael Gutmann's directorial work, he made the feature film 23 - Nothing is as it seems , a year later the novel Crazy , and in 2003 the episode film Lights , which premiered in the 2003 Berlinale competition .

In 2004 Hans-Christian Schmid founded the production company 23/5, with which he first realized the feature film Requiem based on a script by Bernd Lange . Requiem premiered in the competition at the Berlinale in 2006 and won, among other things, the German Film Prize 2006 in silver in the Best Film category . With Requiem he ties in with his early work Heaven and Hell . This too had already dealt with the psychological pitfalls of an extremely lived Catholicism . This time the authentic possession case of Anneliese Michel from Klingenberg am Main and the decision to carry out an exorcism from the 1970s are recreated.

The second production under the umbrella of 23/5 was Robert Thalheim's feature film At the end of the day tourists come . Filmed in Poland in autumn 2006, the film premiered in 2007 in the series "Un Certain Regard" in Cannes .

From 2007 to 2009 Schmid directed both the documentary The Wondrous World of Washing Power (based on an award-winning report by Renate Meinhof ) and the feature film Sturm , for which Bernd Lange and Hans-Christian Schmid wrote the script. Sturm tells the story of the conviction of a former Yugoslav military at the International Criminal Court in The Hague and competed in the competition at the 59th Berlinale . For Sturm , Schmid was awarded the silver film prize for the best film at the 2010 German Film Prize (together with Britta Knöller ) and was nominated in the categories of director and screenplay (together with Bernd Lange).

In 2012 Schmid received his fourth invitation to the Berlinale competition for his feature film What remains , for which Bernd Lange wrote the film script again. The film is about a family get-together where a couple and their adult children meet and are confronted with unspoken truths.

In 2016, the shooting of his eight-part crime series The Disappearance took place in Bavaria, the Czech Republic and Berlin. The world premiere took place in 2017 at the Munich Film Festival . As a producer, assisted Schmid in film production 23/5 2017, the feature film project Atlas , directed by David Nawrath , which after its premiere at the Int. Hofer Filmtage 2018 came to the cinema in April 2019. Together with Bernd Lange he wrote the script for the television film "Polizeiruf 110 - Der Fall Sikorska", which was realized in 2018 (Director: Stefan Kornatz, Production: 23/5 Filmproduktion on behalf of the RBB).

Schmid has been a guest lecturer at the HFF Munich , the Film Academy Ludwigsburg , the Art Academy for Media in Cologne and the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (DFFB) .

In 2003 he was one of the founding members of the German Film Academy . He is also a member of the Academy of Arts.

Filmography

Awards

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Brief description of the nominated articles medientage.org
  2. ^ SWR cinema coproduction in the competition at the Berlinale at presseportal.de, January 9, 2012 (accessed January 9, 2012).
personal data
SURNAME Schmid, Hans-Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH August 19, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Altötting