Jürgen Haase (producer)

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Jürgen Haase 2014 in Berlin

Jürgen Haase (born March 8, 1945 in Berlin ) is a German film producer , director and author . He was chairman of the management board of Tellux Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH and managing director of Progress Film-Verleih GmbH .

Life

Haase studied at the Berlin Film Academy and then worked as a writer and director for TV plays for ARD and ZDF. In 1983 he took over the management of Provobis - Gesellschaft für Film und Fernsehen mbH , which he held until 2007. Since 1994 he has been a partner and managing director of Tellux Beteiligungsgesellschaft. In 1997 he took over the management of the traditional company Progress Film-Verleih GmbH . From 2002 to 2010 he was Chairman of the Management Board of Tellux Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH. From 1996 he taught at various universities in Germany and abroad, for example at the Potsdam University of Film and Television , at the FAMU in Prague and at the Magdeburg University of Applied Sciences. Since 2003 he has been managing director of the non-profit Wilhelm Fraenger Institute Berlin, Society for the Promotion of Education and Culture. The Wilhelm Fraenger Institute organizes events for political and cultural education and supports cultural projects with socio-political relevance. This includes exhibitions, film series, cultural events, publications or media projects. The focus is on the recent German past and the creation of a common Europe of cultural values.

Haase is chairman of the supervisory board of "PROGRESS Film-Verleih" and works as an independent film producer. In 2007 he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany for his services to German culture. In 2015 Haase was awarded the Cavalier's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland for outstanding services to German-Polish cooperation in culture and education.

In addition to award-winning films such as Das Spinnennetz (1989), Mario and the Magician (1994), Operation Rubikon (2002), Nikolaikirche (1995) and Feuerreiter (1998), Haase has also produced SFB and mdr contributions for Tatort for years , and recently also current fairy tale films after the Brothers Grimm. In 2004 and 2006 he was the producer of Volker Schlöndorff's award-winning films The Ninth Day and Strajk - The Heroine of Danzig . His productions received an Oscar nomination, German film prizes, Bavarian film prizes, the Peace Prize of German Films and the Movieguide Awards Los Angeles. Since the mid-1980s he has also worked as an author and editor of numerous books accompanying film projects with political and historical relevance.

Directorial work

Haase himself directed his children's film Gülibik , which was produced together with the NDR from 1982 to 1984, and was also a co-author. The film won several awards, for example during the 1984 Berlinale. Haase presented another directorial work with Eine Liebe in Istanbul (1990). In 2005 he was the author, director and producer of the documentary With the Eyes of the Soul. I wanted to become a street singer and emperor through the Austrian painter Ernst Fuchs . In 2009 he portrayed the film composer and jazz musician Günther Fischer in résumés for MDR . Günther Fischer - From Zwickau into the world . In 2011 he directed the MDR documentary A Vision Lives - The Weimar Triangle.

Filmography (producer)

Publications

Jury memberships

  • 2000 International Children's Film Festival in Zlin, Czech Republic
  • since 2004 member of the German Film Academy
  • 2005 International film festival “go east” in Wiesbaden
  • since 2006 member of the European Film Academy
  • 2007 Almaty International Film Festival, Kazakhstan

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Description of the film ( memento of February 18, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) at Progress Film-Verleih

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Audio interviews
Additional information
personal data
SURNAME Haase, Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film producer, director and author
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin