Jakob Lass

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Jakob Lass (* 1981 in Munich ) is a German film director and screenwriter . His largely improvised films are assigned to the Berlin Flow or German Mumblecore movement . Jakob Lass' film Love Steaks won the New German Cinema Award in all four categories at the Munich Film Festival in 2013 .

Working method

Jakob Lass consciously only works with a very reduced script. According to Lass, the "dramaturgical skeleton" gets by without written dialogue. The shoot should remain an open, inspired process that leaves as much space as possible for improvisation and the unexpected. This technique should produce a particularly authentic drama and enable the team to react flexibly to situations. The director orients himself to the methods of documentary film and attaches particular importance to editing as a “sculpting”, creative process. Close teamwork plays a special role in this way of working. Lass and his colleagues developed their own set of rules for this purpose: FOGMA tries to promote one's own creativity through self-imposed rules. The name is ironically based on the Danish movement Dogma 95 .

Jakob Lass often worked with the same “crew” that includes actors Lana Cooper and Franz Rogowski and cameraman Timon Schaeppi.

Career

As a teenager, Jakob Lass persuaded a friend to buy a camera from his heir and made experimental films with his brother Tom Lass . At the age of 17 he finished school and trained as an actor. He then worked at the theater for several years. After being rejected by all German film schools for over four years, Jakob Lass began studying directing at the renowned Babelsberg Konrad Wolf Film University in Potsdam . While still studying in the local media city Babelsberg , he shot his first two feature films Frontalwatte and Love Steaks , contrary to all specifications .

The film Love Steaks was largely improvised and tells a love story between two hotel employees. In addition to three actors, only employees of a hotel in Ahrenshoop on the Baltic Sea appear in the film . Although it was produced without funding and without a broadcaster, Love Steaks was discovered by the Munich Film Festival in 2013 and awarded the New German Cinema Award in all four categories. The film then won the prestigious Max Ophüls Prize in 2014 and was nominated for the German Film Prize in the Best Film category. Love Steaks was praised by the critics as a trailblazer for a new, young German cinema style. Together with producers Ines Schiller and Golo Schultz, Jakob Lass decided to distribute the film himself in 2014 and wanted to release Love Steaks in cinemas and on the Internet at the same time. Although the cinemas were supposed to share in the proceeds from the Internet, the project was stopped. The idea and the ban sparked a controversial debate in the German film industry.

Jakob Lass' third feature film, Tiger Girl , is set in a security service environment and tells of the escalating friendship between two young women. The film premiered at the 67th Berlinale and was shown in German cinemas from April 2017.

His interpretation of Tino Hanekamp's novel So Was von da appeared in late 2017 and is "... possibly the first improvised adaptation of a novel of all time."

Under the Lass Bros label , Jakob Lass and his brother Tom Lass organize events and workshops for filmmakers, such as the annual Nature Camp in Brandenburg.

The director is a member of the German Film Academy and lives and works in Berlin .

Filmography (selection)

Awards

Web links

Commons : Jakob Lass  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Films without scripts: New trend in German cinema - WELT. Retrieved February 3, 2017 .
  2. ^ Wenke Husmann: German Mumblecore: Improvisation is half life . In: The time . February 6, 2015, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed February 3, 2017]).
  3. ↑ New German Cinema Award - Munich Film Festival. Retrieved February 3, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Kaspar Heinrich: Director Jakob Lass: "This dreary cinema annoys me" . In: The time . May 9, 2014, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed February 3, 2017]).
  5. ^ SPIEGEL ONLINE, Hamburg Germany: exceptional film "Love Steaks": Direct and feverish - SPIEGEL ONLINE - Culture. Retrieved February 3, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Interview: The camera as a protagonist? | Topics | filmportal.de. Retrieved February 3, 2017 .
  7. ↑ FOGMA- WTF? Retrieved February 3, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Timon Schaeppi Cinematographer. Retrieved February 3, 2017 .
  9. ↑ lassbros. Retrieved February 3, 2017 .
  10. ^ Profile - Always against the curriculum . In: Deutschlandradio Kultur . ( deutschlandradiokultur.de [accessed on February 3, 2017]).
  11. ↑ Kaspar Heinrich: Director Jakob Lass: "This dreary cinema annoys me" . In: The time . May 9, 2014, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed February 3, 2017]).
  12. ↑ Kaspar Heinrich: Director Jakob Lass: "This dreary cinema annoys me" . In: The time . May 9, 2014, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed February 3, 2017]).
  13. ↑ New German Cinema Award - Munich Film Festival. Retrieved February 3, 2017 .
  14. ↑ Max Ophüls Prize | Film Festival Max Ophüls Prize. Retrieved February 3, 2017 .
  15. ↑ www.deutscher-filmpreis.de/preisträger. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on February 3, 2017 ; Retrieved February 3, 2014 . 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.deutscher-filmpreis.de
  16. ^ Wenke Husmann: German Mumblecore: Improvisation is half life . In: The time . February 6, 2015, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed February 3, 2017]).
  17. ↑ Love Steaks - German film revolution in slow motion . In: moviepilot.de . April 19, 2014 ( moviepilot.de [accessed February 3, 2017]).
  18. ↑ | Berlinale | Programs | Programs - Tiger Girl. Retrieved February 3, 2017 .
  19. ↑ About the film - Something from there . In: Something from there . ( sowasvondafilm.de [accessed February 3, 2017]).
  20. ↑ Jakob Lass. In: deutsche-filmakademie.de. German Film Academy , accessed on April 9, 2019 .
  21. ↑ Max Ophüls Prize: LOVE STEAKS ( Memento of the original from June 10, 2016 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.max-ophuels-preis.de
  22. ^ German Film Prize 2014. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on February 3, 2017 ; Retrieved February 3, 2017 . 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.deutscher-filmpreis.de
  23. ↑ New German Cinema Award - Munich Film Festival. Retrieved February 3, 2017 .
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BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich