Holger Mandel

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Holger Mandel (born July 15, 1966 in Berlin ) is a German film director, actor and producer.

Live and act

Holger Mandel was born in Berlin as the second child of the lawyer Joachim Mandel and the nurse Irene Mandel. After finishing school, he completed an apprenticeship as a commercial clerk for foreign trade until 1985. In addition, from 1982 to 1984 he studied painting and graphics at the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art . Mandel's childhood was shaped by an early fascination for filmmaking. As a teenager he experimented with cine film . In 1984, while still training, he made his first silent film : »The Death of Halpin Frayser« based on a short story by Ambrose Bierce . In 1989 the first sound film followed : » The Judge and the Devil «. The model was the fairy tale of the same name by Ludwig Bechstein . 1994 was co-founder of almond Schaubühne Lindenfels (Leipzig) and the first director of the arthouse cinemas .

Mandel's main theme is the search for the intermediate worlds, the romantic and at the same time distant exploration of the afterlife . Not just of life after death in the trivial sense, but of the dazzling, unheard-of, fascinating of a distant world that has to exist very close to us. His film adaptations of well-known works by the Polish writer Stefan Grabiński , "the Polish Poe" (Szamota's lover, Ultima Thule ) are particularly well known . Mandel's work is represented at numerous international festivals.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1984: The Death of Halpin Frayser (N8 film based on Ambrose Bierce)
  • 1989: The Judge and the Devil (16 mm sound film based on the fairy tale by Ludwig Bechstein)
  • 1990: An aptitude test for directing at the HFF Babelsberg (video documentary film)
  • 1998: Szamotas Geliebte (35 mm short film based on a novella by Stefan Grabiński , funded by the Kuratorium Junge deutscher Film and the Filmboard Berlin-Brandenburg. Cinematography by Jürgen Jürges )
  • 1999: Ultima Thule (35mm short film based on a novella by Stefan Grabiński,)
  • 2002: abysses (mini-DV production as part of the music / video project "ELEMENTS" ( Trip - Remix Your Experience ) by Frank Otto , Hamburg, produced by filmlounge GmbH)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ulrike-Ebba Countess von Sparr: Holger Mandel, filmmaker. Greetings from the beyond. In: RAUMK - KULTURZEITUNG FÜR KARLSRUHE and REGION / accessed January 28, 2013
  2. ↑ cf. Berndt, Sven: Review of 'Ultima Thule' Splatting Image No. 51, September 2002, p. 41
  3. ↑ Both films are presented on the website of the Grabiński translator Miroslaw Lipinski, New York
  4. ↑ cf. among others: La maîtresse de Szamota. Annotated program announcement. In: ARTE Magazine n ° 13 (24 mars - 30 mars 2001), p. 17 (PDF; 1.4 MB)
  5. ↑ Detailed information on staff and members
  6. ↑ http://www.latarnia.com/szamotas_mistress_holger_mandel_2.htm
  7. ↑ Article and conversation / interview with cameraman, image editor and director: “Complicated and fiddly” in the trade journal Film & TV Kameramann , vol. 49. No. 6, 2000, pp. 100–7
  8. ↑ Photos from the shooting of "Ultima Thule"
  9. ^ Ultima thule on the FBW site, accessed on January 28, 2013
  10. ↑ Two thousand and one film dictionary , accessed on January 31, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Almond, Holger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film director, actor and producer
DATE OF BIRTH July 15, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin