Herbert Schwering

The logo of Schwering's production company

Herbert Schwering (born February 10, 1959 in Epe , Germany ) is a German film producer.

Life

From 1985 Schwering became involved in the Filmwerkstatt Münster , where he was managing director from 1994 to 1997. He directed the short film festival Filmzwerge in 1988 and 1990 and organized numerous workshops and film series with international directors, among others. a. Carlos Saura , Elem Klimov and Peter Greenaway . He worked for WDR in the early 1990s as a freelancer. In 1993 he founded his own production company Icon Film ; In 2007 it was renamed COIN FILM ( Cologne Independent ). From 1998 to 2003 he taught at the Art Academy for Media in Cologne in the field of creative production .

In 2000 he was the producer of the documentary film "Milk and Honey from Rotfront" about the village of Rot-Front in Kyrgyzstan , which was nominated in 2001 for the German Film Prize. Herbert Schwering became known with Almut Getto's multiple award-winning film “ Fickende Fisch ” (2002), the story of the HIV-positive youth Jan and his love for Nina, who was the same age. The film “Lost and Found” was the opening film of the Forum of the Berlinale in 2005, in the same year it was represented with four other productions at the Berlinale (“Saratan”, “Karlchens Parade”, “Bruno S.”, “Crash Test Dummies "). In 2008, his feature film productions “Love and other crimes” (directed by Stefan Arsenijević ) and “The Visitor” (directed by Lola Randl ) were in the program of the Berlinale, and his co-production “Tokyo!” (Directed by Michel Gondry , Leos Carrax and Bong Joon) Hu ) was shown in the Un Certain Regard series of the Cannes Film Festival , “It's still up there” (director: Nanouk Leopold ) was the opening film of the Panorama Special section at the 2013 Berlinale . The documentary film "Iraqi Odyssey" (D .: Samir), which Switzerland proposed for an Oscar, premiered in Toronto (TIFF) in 2014 and was shown in the Panorama of the Berlinale in 2015 . In 2017 the documentary “Mr. Gay Syria ”(R .: Ayse Toprak), which was partly financed by a crowdfunding campaign, premiered at the Sheffield DocFest, and the film “ Do you sometimes feel burned out and empty? ” By director Lola Randl was at the film festival for the first time To see Munich. In 2019 his documentary production "It could have been worse - Mario Adorf" (R.:Dominik Wessely) , a portrait of the actor Mario Adorf , was shown at the Berlinale (Berlinale Spezial). His new co-production with director Samir "Baghdad in my shadow" premiered at the Locarno Film Festival in August 2019, the film celebrated its German premiere at the Hof International Film Festival 2019.

Schwering is on the board of the Film- und Medienverband NRW as well as a member of the German Film Academy , the European Film Academy and the European producers ' association Atéliers du Cinéma Européen . Since 2018 he has been a member of the media commission of the State Media Authority in North Rhine-Westphalia .

Filmography

Producer, author

• 2001: Das Weiße Rauschen (Producer KHM) ( The White Sound ), feature film
• 2001: Love black and white, (D .: Britta Wandaogo), TV documentary
• 2001: Everything for the dog (D .: Birgit Lehmann), short film
• 2001: Milk and Honey from Rotfront (D .: Hans-Erich Viet), documentary film
• 2002: Fickende Fisch ( Do Fish Do It? / Fucking Fish ) (R .: Almut Getto), feature film
• 2003: The Wandaogo family's crocodiles (D .: Britta Wandaogo), documentary film
• 2003: Bruno S. - The Stranger is Death (R .: Miron Zownir), documentary film
• 2003: Karlchens Parade (R .: Michael Ester), short film
• 2003: Love white-black (D .: Britta Wandaogo), TV documentary
• 2004: Have you ever been in love with me? (R .: Douglas Wolfsperger ), documentary film
• 2005: Lost and Found (R .: Christi Mungiu, Jasmila Zbanich, Kornel Mundrucio and others), omnibus feature film
• 2005: Crash Test Dummies (R .: Jörg Kalt), feature film
• 2005: What do you live? (R .: Bettina Braun), documentary film
• 2005: Saratan (D .: Ernest Abdyschaparov), feature film
• 2005: Feel-good weekend (R .: Lola Randl), short film
• 2006: Sofageflüster, TV mini-documentary series, 25 episodes
• 2006: Girls' stories - Markéta Raketa (R .: Kristina in der Schmitten), TV documentary series
• 2007: The Conspiracy Women (D .: Paul Meyer), documentary film
• 2007: Lost in Liberia (R .: Luzia Schmid), documentary film
• 2008: The loyalty tester - special order love (D .: Markus Bräutigam), TV feature film
• 2008: Love and Other Crimes (R .: Stefan Arsenijevic), feature film
• 2008: The visitor ( Days in between ) (R .: Lola Randl), feature film
• 2008: Tokyo! (D .: Michel Gondry, LEos Carrax, Bong Joon Ho), feature film
• 2009: Germany sucks! (D: Hans-Erich Viet), documentary film
• 2009: Il Giardinao (R.:Michael Ester), short film
• 2010: Brownian Movement (R .: Nanouk Leopold), feature film
• 2011: Take Two (R .: Nadejda Koseva), short film
• 2012: The dragonfly and the rhinoceros (R .: Lola Randl), feature film
• 2013: It's quiet upstairs, It's all so quiet (R .: Nanouk Leopold), feature film
• 2014: The Invention of Love (D: Lola Randl), feature film
• 2014: Supernova (D: Tamar van den Dop ), feature film
• 2015: The little ones and the bad ones (D: Markus Sehr ), feature film
• 2015: Iraqi Odyssey (D: Samir ), documentary film
• 2015: Nena (D: Saskia Diesing ), feature film
• 2015: The Kuaför from Keupstrasse (D: Andreas Maus ), documentary
• 2017: Cobain (film) (D: Nanouk Leopold ), feature film
• 2017: Mr. Gay Syria (D: Ayse Toprak ), documentary film
• 2017: Do you sometimes feel burned out and empty (D: Lola Randl ), feature film
• 2019: It could have been worse - Mario Adorf (D: Dominik Wessely ), documentary
• 2019: Baghdad in my shadow (D: Samir ), feature film

Web links

• Herbert Schwering in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Herbert Schwering at filmportal.de