Jörn Röver

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left Jörn Röver with Ivo Nörenberg and Oliver Goetzl (2009)

Jörn Röver (born September 17, 1965 in Düsseldorf ) is a German producer and author of nature films for television and cinema, managing director of Doclights GmbH and operator of the video-on-demand platform Tierwelt live .

Life

Röver grew up in Düsseldorf, Cologne and Neuss. He studied biology at the Justus Liebig University in Gießen and at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. After completing his diploma (majoring in zoology and ecology), he completed the 32nd compact class at the German School of Journalism (DJS) in Munich. In addition to his training, he wrote articles for the Süddeutsche Zeitung and the Stuttgarter Zeitung. From 1995 to 2001 he worked at ZDF in Mainz as an author and director for the programs “Praxis - Das Gesundheitsmagazin”, “Aktion Mensch” and “tele zoo”. For his tele zoo contribution "Grube Messel" he received the Hans-Hass-Prize of the Biovision Festival in Düsseldorf. From 1997 he was a permanent author and editor for “tele zoo” (moderation: Nina Ruge) and the primetime animal film series Naturzeit. During this time he supervised and edited over 100 animal films. In 2000 his production "Moa - The Secret of the Giant Birds" (script and direction) and "Die Nacht der Tierfilmer" (book and moderation) ran. Since 1998 he has also created German versions for the ZDF series “Wonderful World” (moderation: Hanns Joachim Friedrichs). In 2001 Jörn Röver took over the management of the NDR Naturfilm in the Hamburg studio and produced the films for the "Tierwelten" series on the NDR and the expeditions into the animal kingdom for Das Erste. In 2010 he became managing director of the newly founded Doclights GmbH. In addition to the TV business, Jörn Röver also develops nature films for the cinema - as a producer and sometimes as an author. These include u. a. "Knut and his friends", "Serengeti", "Russia", "The green wonder - our forest" and "The North Sea - our sea".

2013–2015 Jörn Röver was the initiator and publisher of the nature magazine “Tierwelt live” in the publishing house Inspiring Network. Since 2015 he has been responsible for a video app for Smart TV under the same brand. He has been the publisher of the online VoD platform Tierwelt live since September 2017. Jörn Röver lives in Hamburg, is married and has two children.

In 2016, Röver was a jury member at the Wildscreen Festival, an international festival that honors the best animal and nature films with the Panda Award.

Filmography (selection)

As a writer and director:

As an editor

  • tele zoo
  • Nature time
  • Wildlife live

As a producer / partially author

  • 2002: The Secret of the Salamander (Direction: Jan Haft and Christian Roth)
  • 2003: Animals of the Devil (Director: Steve Nicholls)
  • 2003: Andalusia (first NDR nature film production in HDTV, directed by Jan Haft)
  • 2004: wolves! Back in Germany (first wild shots of wolves in Germany, director: Holger Vogt)
  • 2004: The Bear Man (by and with Andreas Kieling)
  • 2004: The species hunter from the Amazon (first recordings of the giant pennywort, director: Lothar Frenz)
  • 2004: The White Diamond (Director: Werner Herzog)
  • 2005: Wilde Heimat (4 episodes, author: Jörn Röver, music: Kolja Erdmann with the NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover, a co-production of NDR Naturfilm with WDR and ORF)
  • 2006: Finland - bears, elks, giant marten (director: Oliver Goetzl, a co-production of NDR Naturfilm with BBC, National Geographic and Animal Planet)
  • 2005: The Sacred Animals of the Pharaohs (Director: Michael Sutor)
  • 2005: The Ukraine (with ESC winner Ruslana, director: Rainer Bergomaz)
  • 2005: In the depths of the Amazon (a co-production by NDR Naturfilm with BBC, moderation: Florian Graner)
  • 2006: Die Wiese (Director: Jan Haft, a co-production of NDR Naturfilm with Arte and ORF)
  • 2006: Adventure Yukon (3 episodes by and with Andreas Kieling, a co-production of NDR Naturfilm with ORF, Arte, National Geographic)
  • 2006: Adventure Ocean (3 episodes, moderation: Thomas Behrend and Birgit Peters)
  • 2006: The largest waterfalls on earth - Iguaçu World Wonder (by Christian Baumeister, a co-production of NDR Naturfilm with BBC and ORF)
  • 2007: The Baltic Sea (2 episodes, directed by Thomas Willers, a co-production by NDR Naturfilm with Arte)
  • 2007: Adventure North Sea (3 episodes, moderation: Florian Graner and Natalie Tesche-Riccardi)
  • 2007: In the Depths of the Pacific (2 episodes, moderation: Florian Graner, a co-production by NDR Naturfilm with BBC)
  • 2008: Wild Turkey (2 episodes, director: Jan Haft, a co-production by NDR Naturfilm with Arte and ORF)
  • 2008: Leopard, Seebär & Co (Zoo series about Hagenbeck Zoo for ARD)
  • 2008: Knut and his friends (feature film, a co-production with DOKfilm)
  • 2008: Wildes Russland (7 episodes, series author Henry Mix, a co-production of NDR Naturfilm with WDR, National Geographic, Animal Planet, S4C, Channel One Russia)
  • 2009: Mythos Wald (2 episodes, director: Jan Haft, a co-production by NDR Naturfilm with Arte, ORF, WNET, National Geographic)
  • 2009: Helgoland - Insel im Sturm (Direction: Robert Morgenstern)
  • 2009: Bama, the gorilla man (first recordings of Cross-River Gorillas, director: Ernst Sasse)
  • 2009: The Green Belt (Director: Neil Rettig, a co-production of NDR Naturfilm with BBC, WDR, S4C, National Geographic, Animal Planet)
  • 2009: Expedition New Guinea (2 episodes, director: Lothar Frenz, moderation: Ulla Lohmann, a co-production by NDR Naturfilm with BBC)
  • 2009: Sprinter der Ozeane (Director: Rick Rosenthal, a co-production of NDR Naturfilm with WDR and National Geographic)
  • 2010: The farm of the wild animals (cinema adaptation of the Looksfilm, a co-production of NDR and WDR)
  • 2010: Expedition Himalaja (3 episodes, a co-production by NDR Naturfilm with BBC and National Geographic, moderation: Henry Mix)
  • 2010: Wildes Japan (2 episodes, directors: Jens Westphalen, Thoralf Grospitz, a co-production of NDR Naturfilm with Arte, ORF, National Geographic, Animal Planet)
  • 2010: Serengeti (feature film, a co-production of NDR Naturfilm and Universum, director: Reinhard Radke, speaker: Hardy Krüger jr.)
  • 2011: Russia - In the realm of tigers, bears and volcanoes (film, also author, speaker: Siegfried Rauch)
  • 2011: Wildes Scandinavia (7 episodes, directors: Jan Haft, Oliver Goetzl, Uwe Anders, Tobias Mennle, Heiko De Groot, a co-production of NDR Naturfilm with National Geographic, Animal Planet, S4C, ORF, Arte, SVT)
  • 2011: Wildes Deutschland (ongoing series since 2011, also other ARD stations)
  • 2012: The Green Wonder - Our Forest (feature film, also co-author, director: Jan Haft, speaker: Benno Fürmann)
  • 2012: Hero from the Jungle Book - The Sloth Bear (Director: Oliver Goetzl, a co-production of NDR Naturfilm with BBC, Arte, ORF, National Geographic)
  • 2012: Jaguar (Director: Christian Baumeister, a co-production of NDR Naturfilm with Arte, National Geographic, Terra Mater)
  • 2012: Puma (Director: Uwe Müller, a co-production of NDR Naturfilm with Arte, National Geographic, Terra Mater)
  • 2013: The North Sea - Our Sea (2014, also author, speaker: Axel Prahl)
  • 2013: The return of the predators (2 episodes, director: Holger Vogt, moderation: Tim Berendonk)
  • 2013: Wilder Rhein (2 episodes, director: Jan Haft, a co-production of NDR Naturfilm with WDR)
  • 2013: Mississippi (2 episodes, a co-production of NDR Naturfilm with National Geographic)
  • 2013: Geheime Welten (a co-production of NDR Naturfilm with BBC)
  • 2014: Amazonia (Thierry Ragobert's movie, only author of the German version)
  • 2014: Unknown depths (2 episodes, director: Florian Kopfmüller, a co-production by NDR Naturfilm with Arte and Terra Mater)
  • 2014: Secrets in the Garden (2 episodes, director: Jan Haft, a co-production by NDR Naturfilm with Arte and ORF)
  • 2014: Mythos Kongo (3 episodes, director: Thomas Behrend, a co-production of NDR Naturfilm with WDR, Arte, ORF, National Geographic)
  • 2014: The Greater Caucasus (Director: Henry Mix, a co-production of NDR Naturfilm with WDR, Terra Mater, Channel One)
  • 2015: Wildes Australien (5 episodes, a co-production by NDR Naturfilm with Arte, Terra Mater, National Geographic)
  • 2015: Planet Germany (movie, a co-production of Doclights with Group 5)
  • 2015: Atlantik (3 episodes, a co-production by NDR Naturfilm with WDR and the BBC)
  • 2015: Mythos Nil (2 episodes, a co-production by NDR Naturfilm with WDR and Terra Mater)
  • 2016: America's natural wonders (9 episodes, a co-production of NDR Naturfilm with National Geographic US, Arte, ORF)
  • 2016: Myth Amur (2 episodes, a co-production by NDR Naturfilm with WDR and Terra Mater)
  • 2016/2017: Auf Leben und Tod (English title "The Hunt", director: Alastair Fothergill, 7 episodes, a co-production by NDR Naturfilm with BBC, WDR, BR, BBC America)
  • 2017: Wildes New Zealand (3 episodes, directed by Robert Morgenstern, a co-production by NDR Naturfilm with BBC, Arte, ORF, National Geographic)
  • 2017: Wild South Africa (4 episodes, a co-production by NDR Naturfilm with BR, RBB, Terra Mater, National Geographic)
  • 2017: Heinz Sielmann - The animal film legend turns 100 (Director: Michael Sutor)
  • 2017: Ethiopia's wild wolves (Director: Yann Sochaczewski, a co-production of Altay Film with NDR Naturfilm for France 5, Terra Mater, YLE, SVT, NRK)
  • 2017: Myth Galapagos (2 episodes, a co-production by NDR Naturfilm with RBB, Terra Mater, Curiosity Stream)

Awards (selection)

The films for which Jörn Röver was responsible have received a total of over 300 prizes at national and international film festivals, including the Panda Award at the Wildscreen Festival in Bristol (2008, 2010 and 2012) and at the Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival in the USA ( 2009, 2011 and 2015). In 2017, the three-part series "Wild New Zealand" he produced was nominated for the German Camera Prize and the American Emmy Award, among others.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Producer and producer of NDR Naturfilm on the Expeditions into the Animal Kingdom website: https://www.ndr.de/fernsehen/sendung/expedUNGEN_ins_tierreich/wir_ueber_uns/Das-NDR-Naturfilm-Team,naturfilmwirueberuns100.html
  2. ↑ The Doclights GmbH team: http://www.doclights.de/de/das-team/
  3. ↑ Internet page for the film "Serengeti": http://serengeti-derfilm.de/
  4. ↑ Internet site for the film "Russia": http://russland-derfilm.de/
  5. ↑ Internet page for the film “The Green Wonder”: Archived copy ( memento of the original from August 24, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / dasgruenewunder-derfilm.de
  6. ↑ "Tierwelt live" video portal: www.tierwelt-live.de
  7. ↑ Wildscreen Festival - Final Jury ( Memento of the original from October 23, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wildscreen.org
  8. ↑ http://www.doclights.de/de/auslösungen-2015/
  9. ↑ http://www.deutscher-kamerapreis.de/preistrager/2017-2/nominierungen/kamera/?jahre=4428/
  10. ↑ http://www.emmys.com/sites/default/files/Downloads/69th-nominations-list-v4.pdf
personal data
SURNAME Röver, Jörn
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film and television producer and author
DATE OF BIRTH September 17, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf