Hayo Friday

Hayo Freitag (born November 19, 1950 in Wilhelmshaven ) is a German designer, animator, producer, writer and director of cartoons.

After graduating from high school, Freitag studied art and philosophy in Hamburg. During his studies he founded the small publishing house "Cartoon-AG" with artist friends. As an author and illustrator of jointly created picture books, political-satirical works and volumes of poetry, he published, among others: Das Thier-Buch (with Michael Herzog, 1975), Das Häschenbuch (1976), Kunst der Retouche und Tach, Mao (with Helga Eibl, 1977 ), Heim zum Reim (with Jürgen Heer, 1978).

Then he turned to animation and produced short films , some of which have won national and international awards. For example his work Mein Bruder (co-producer: Jürgen Heer), which won the German Short Film Award and the award for best animated film in 1986 at the Animafest Zagreb - World Festival of Animated Films and from the New York Museum of Modern Art in its presentation "Best Animation " has been recorded. The in-house production Das Pflaumenhuhn (co-producer: Michael Schaack) received the Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation Prize in 1997 .

In addition to the production of advertising films for TV and cinema, Freitag developed animated film series for television ( Loggerheads , Max & Moritz〈Erich Kästner TV Prize〉, Pigs Next Door〈pigs next door , Emil (Children's TV Prize) 2001〉 and others) and movies ( Werner 1 and 4, Felidae ). He made his feature film debut as a director and production designer in 1999 with Walter Moers ' Käpt'n Blaubär - The Film , which won the German Film Prize in 2000 . His full-length film The Three Robbers, which was completed in 2007, based on the picture book of the same name by Tomi Ungerer , was not only awarded the "Rating: Particularly Valuable" award from the Wiesbaden film evaluation agency, including the audience awards at the film festivals in Hamburg ( Filmfest Hamburg 2007), Paris ( Mon Premier Festival 2008), Bordeaux ( Les Nuits Magiques 2007), Vizille ( Festival du Film pour Enfants 2008), Belgium ( Open Doek 2008) and Annecy ( Festival d'Animation Annecy 2008). The three robbers were chosen as the best full-length film at the international animation festival in Bucharest ( anim'est 2008) . The children's jury at the international children's film festival in Poznań, Poland ( Alekino 2008) and the international jury at the animation film festival in Bilbao ( Animabasauri 2009) also voted the film the best full-length film. In South Korea ( Chungmuro ​​International Film Festival in Seoul 2009 ) The Three Robbers won as best animated film.

Hayo Freitag is a founding member of the German Film Academy .

Web links

• Hayo Freitag in the Internet Movie Database (English)