Jörg Bundschuh (producer)

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Jörg Bundschuh (born August 19, 1953 in Heidelberg ) is a German film producer , author and director .

biography

After attending high school and graduating from high school, he studied philosophy , literature and economics in Heidelberg / Mannheim , New York and Munich . During his studies, as a freelance radio writer and director, he wrote numerous cultural and scientific programs for various ARD broadcasters, including one-hour programs about the so-called “exile writers” who had to flee Germany during the Nazi dictatorship. This is how radio features about Siegfried Kracauer and Hermann Kesten were created . In 1979, Bundschuh completed his master's degree at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and began doing a doctorate on Siegfried Kracauer.

While still a student, he had started to write for several years as a freelance journalist and film critic for the Süddeutsche Zeitung and as an author for Die Weltwoche , Text + kritik and as a columnist for epd film . He founded in 1980 together with Christian Bauer , the Kick Film production in Munich. The first film was a one-hour TV documentary for ARD about the success of the so-called New German Cinema in the USA with the title Premiere in America . Since 1990 he has been the sole owner and managing director of Kick Film GmbH, which also had a branch in Los Angeles for five years in the 1990s .

Since 2006 his son Moritz Bundschuh has also been working as a producer and second managing director at Kick Film.

Movies

Bundschuh produced around 200 cinema, documentary and feature films as well as television documentaries, documentary series and television games , which as a rule are not commissioned productions but co-productions for the international market.

These include feature films such as the Golden Globe -nominated Children of the fencer ( The Fencer) , as between heaven and earth with Hannah Herzsprung , which originated in the US The way we are ( Quiet days in Holliwood) with Hilary Swank , Brandnacht with Bruno Ganz and Barbara Auer or the film The Most Beautiful Day in Life, which was awarded the Bavarian TV Prize for Best Comedy . But also cross-genre formats such as the docu-comedy Out of Edeka (Bavarian Documentary Prize: The Young Lion), the real satire Bavaria Blue with Alfred Edel and the documentary feature film Self-Description with Nina Hoss and Alexander Pschill .

The approximately 40 feature-length documentaries include Das Ei ist eine Gottesgabe ( Bavarian Film Prize ), Memory Books (Grand Prix URTI Monte Carlo ), Villa Air Bel (Hugo Award, Chicago Int. Film Festival) , Kriegskinder ( Emmy Award ), and Schneeweiss -Rosenrot ( Grimme Prize ) and Merciless (Discovery Channel Award).

Bundschuh produced 14 films with Georg Stefan Troller , including the Hollywood Profile television series with portraits of Woody Allen , Andy García , Kirk Douglas , John Malkovich , Isabella Rossellini and Lauren Hutton . In addition, the autobiographical documentary film Self-Description and the documentary films Days and Nights in Paris with Juliette Gréco and Catherine Deneuve , Amok, Liebe in Hollywood with, among others, Dino De Laurentiis , Sydney Pollack , Charlton Heston , Mord aus Liebe with Bubi Scholz and Ingrid van Bergen and Among Germans with Günter Grass , Heiner Müller , Doris Dörrie and Marcel Reich-Ranicki , among others.

With the film critic of the Süddeutsche Zeitung, Peter Buchka, who died in 1989, he realized the ten-part portrait series The Directors of New German Film with Wim Wenders , Alexander Kluge , Volker Schlöndorff , Peter Lilienthal , Reinhard Hauff , Percy Adlon , Edgar Reitz , Werner Herzog , Rainer Werner Fassbinder , Margarethe von Trotta .

Other directors that Jörg Bundschuh worked with were Michael Althen , Jo Baier , Markus Fischer , Peter Goedel , Corinna Belz , Regina Schilling , Andrea Schramm , Konstantin Faigle , Thomas Palzer , Mechthild Gaßner , Klaus Härö , Luigi Falorni and Tanel Toom .

One focus of Jörg Bundschuh and his Kick Film productions is music films . This resulted in full-length documentaries (also under his direction) about JJ Cale , John Lee Hooker ( That`s My Story ), Klaus Voormann ( All You Need is Klaus) and the film composer series Music by.

He produced portrait films about personalities from art and culture and numerous travel and documentary films. In the area of ​​current affairs, economics, politics and history, numerous Arte themed evenings were created.

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Awards

Emmy Award, Golden Globe Nomination, Oscar Shortlist: Best Foreign-Language Film, Bavarian Film Prize, Bavarian Television Prize, Bavarian Documentary Film Prize: Der Junge Löwe, Peace Prize of German Films: The Bridge, Adolf Grimme Prize, Austrian Film Prize: The Golden Romy , Finnish Film Award: Best Film, Black Nights Film Festival Tallinn: Best Film, Film Festival Arras: Audience Award, Bozen Film Festival: Audience Award, FIDEM Montreal: Audience Award, Mexico International Film Festival: Silver Palm, Grand Prix Graz, FIPA Biarritz: Prix ​​des Jeunes Europèenes, Filmfestival Montreal: Prix Micheline Vaillancourt, Monte Carlo: Grand Prix for Author's Documentaries, Filmfestival Malaga: Best Picture, Gdansk Filmfestival: Main Award, LiteraVision Award, Axel-Springer Award, Discovery Channel Award, FIFA-Festival Montreal: Award for Best Portrait of an Artist, Malaga Film Festival: Best Picture, Buenos Aires Film Festival: Golden Kite for Best Children's Feature, Chicago Int . Film Festival: Hugo Award

Filmography (selection)

  • 1980: Premiere in America (producer and director *)
  • 1981: The cinema of the future has already begun (producer and director *)
  • 1982: Everyone has their own show (producer and director *)
  • 1983: Fellini and Cinecitta (producer)
  • 1984: Deja Vu - Life is an illusion (producer and director *)
  • 1985: Humor Is Serious (Producer *)
  • 1986: There must be a way out (producer *)
  • * together with Christian Bauer
  • 1987: Villa Air Bel (producer and director)
  • 1988: Seefahrer (producer and director)
  • 1988: Wanted: Monika Ertl (producer)
  • 1989: Music by: Miklós Rózsa (producer and director)
  • 1990: The pianist Maria Joao Pires (producer)
  • 1991: Schneeweiss - Rosenrot: The Heavenly Twins (producer)
  • 1992: Trip to Tunis (producer)
  • 1993: The egg is a goddamn gift (producer)
  • 1994: Among Germans (producer)
  • 1995: Quiet Days in Hollywood (producer)
  • 1996: The most beautiful day in life (producer)
  • 1997: Love in Hollywood (producer)
  • 1998: Demonic Screen (producer)
  • 1999: Escape into the Jungle (producer)
  • 2000: John Lee Hooker: That's My Story (producer and director)
  • 2001: self-description (producer)
  • 2002: Out of Edeka (producer)
  • 2003: Paradise on Earth (producer)
  • 2004: Germany versus German (producer)
  • 2005: To Tulsa And Back (producer and director)
  • 2006: Eileen Gray - invitation to travel (producer and director)
  • 2007: Memory Books (producer)
  • 2008: Mozart in China (producer)
  • 2009: Good Bye Tibet (Producer)
  • 2010: All You Need Is Klaus (producer and director)
  • 2011: Between Heaven and Earth (producer)
  • 2012: Islamic Economics (producer)
  • 2013: Seven days in September (producer)
  • 2014: Haindling (producer)
  • 2014: Traitor Children (Producer)
  • 2015: The Fencer (Producer)
  • 2015: Only New Orleans (producer)
  • 2016: The Strange Sound of Happiness (Producer)
  • 2016: The Good Enemies (Producer)
  • 2017: Great Opera (producer)
  • 2017: The Spy’s Daughter (Producer)
  • 2018: The Birth of the Leopard (Producer)
  • 2018: Who 4 Are (Producer)
  • 2019: Who Owns the Sea? (Producer)
  • 2019: World Religion Wagner (producer)
  • 2020: Gateway 6 (producer)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jörg Bundschuh. Retrieved May 7, 2020 .
  2. ↑ KickFilm.com is under construction. Retrieved May 7, 2020 .
  3. ^ Villa Air Bel - Varian Fry in Marseille 1940/41. Retrieved May 7, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Navigator. Retrieved May 7, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Wanted: Monika Ertl. Retrieved May 7, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Snow-white rose red. Retrieved May 7, 2020 .
  7. ^ Trip to Tunis, TV film, 1992 | Crew United. Retrieved May 7, 2020 .
  8. ↑ The egg is a shitty gift from God, documentary film, 1992 | Crew United. Retrieved May 7, 2020 .
  9. ^ Under Germans, Documentary, 1994 | Crew United. Retrieved May 7, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Quiet Days in Hollywood. Retrieved May 7, 2020 .
  11. ↑ The most beautiful day in life, TV movie, 1995 | Crew United. Retrieved May 7, 2020 .
  12. ↑ Love in Hollywood. Retrieved May 7, 2020 .
  13. ^ Demonic screen - The German film of the twenties, documentary, 1998 | Crew United. Retrieved May 7, 2020 .
  14. ^ Escape into the Jungle, Documentary, 1999 | Crew United. Retrieved May 7, 2020 .
  15. ↑ John Lee Hooker: That's My Story. Retrieved May 7, 2020 .
  16. ↑ Self-description, documentary, 2001 | Crew United. Retrieved May 7, 2020 .
  17. ^ Out of Edeka, documentary film, 2000-2001 | Crew United. Retrieved May 7, 2020 .
  18. ↑ Paradise on Earth, Documentary, 2003 | Crew United. Retrieved May 7, 2020 .
  19. ↑ Germany against German, documentary film, 2005 | Crew United. Retrieved May 7, 2020 .
  20. ↑ To Tulsa and Back: On Tour with JJ Cale. Retrieved May 7, 2020 .
  21. ↑ Eileen Gray - Invitation to Travel. Retrieved May 7, 2020 .
  22. ↑ Memory Books - So that you never forget me ... Retrieved May 7, 2020 .
  23. ^ Mozart in China, feature film, 2007 | Crew United. Retrieved May 7, 2020 .
  24. ^ Goodbye Tibet, documentary, 2009 | Crew United. Retrieved May 7, 2020 .
  25. ↑ All You Need Is Klaus. Retrieved May 7, 2020 .
  26. ↑ As between heaven and earth. Retrieved May 7, 2020 .
  27. ↑ Islamic Economics, Document Section, 2010 | Crew United. Retrieved May 7, 2020 .
  28. ↑ 7 days in September. Retrieved May 7, 2020 .
  29. ↑ Haindling - and in general ... Accessed May 7, 2020 .
  30. ↑ Traitor Children - The Daughters and Sons of Resistance, Documentary, 2014 | Crew United. Retrieved May 7, 2020 .
  31. ↑ The Fencer. Retrieved May 7, 2020 .
  32. ^ Only New Orleans, Documentary, 2015 | Crew United. Retrieved May 7, 2020 .
  33. ^ The strange sound of happiness. Retrieved May 7, 2020 .
  34. ↑ The Good Enemies - My Father, the Red Orchestra and I, feature documentary, 2015-2017 | Crew United. Retrieved May 7, 2020 .
  35. ↑ Great Opera, documentary film, 2015-2017 | Crew United. Retrieved May 7, 2020 .
  36. ↑ The Spy's Daughter, feature documentary, 2018-2019 | Crew United. Retrieved May 7, 2020 .
  37. ↑ The Birth of the Leopard, Documentary, 2018-2019 | Crew United. Retrieved May 7, 2020 .
  38. ↑ Who 4 Are, Documentary, 2018-2019 | Crew United. Retrieved May 7, 2020 .
  39. ↑ Ocean Grabbing - The New Sea Order, Documentary, 2018-2019 | Crew United. Retrieved May 7, 2020 .
  40. ↑ World Religion Wagner, feature documentary, 2020-2021 | Crew United. Retrieved May 7, 2020 .
  41. ↑ Gateway 6. Accessed May 7, 2020 .
  42. ↑ With Kick Film (Sorted by Popularity Ascending). Retrieved May 7, 2020 .
  43. ↑ IMDB: Jörg Bundschuh. Retrieved May 7, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Bundschuh, Jörg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film producer, writer and director
DATE OF BIRTH 19th August 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidelberg