Jakob Schmidt (director)

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Jakob Schmidt (2017)

Jakob Schmidt (born May 22, 1989 in Würzburg ) is a German documentary and feature film director.

life and work

Schmidt studied directing at the Potsdam Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf . After graduating, he was a master student under Andreas Kleinert until 2017 . His thesis “ Between the Chairs ” received several awards and was shown in 2017 as one of the most popular documentaries in German cinemas. The film follows three young teachers by their education in the clerkship and critically with the state education system apart. During his studies, he also made short films that were awarded prizes at film festivals and broadcast on television:

In the coming-of-age drama “Hungry”, Liv Lisa Fries plays a student who convinces those around her that she suffers from a deadly disease. The sudden attention becomes a dangerous addiction that can no longer be controlled. It was first broadcast in 2015 on Arte.

In the family thriller “Gewitterzellen”, Jenny Schily plays a mother who is confronted with a repressed past: one evening she faces her 16-year-old son (Peter Bulkowski), whom she left when she was a baby. A fragile house of cards threatens to collapse. The first broadcast took place in 2015 on rbb television.

In the short documentary "517 Füwatown" Schmidt accompanies the suburban hacker Romano, a reluctant young father who believes he has to choose between the dream of a career as a musician and a life as a henpecked hero. The film received, among other things, the main prize of the WDR Award “short & beautiful” as well as the young talent award of the Flensburg Short Film Festival. It ran at over 50 film festivals worldwide and was broadcast on 3Sat, rbb, BR, WDR and ZDFInfo, among others.

"I would rather be a murderer" shows the desperate search of a convicted Berlin sex offender back into society after ten years behind bars. The film premiered in the international competition of the documentary film festival Visions du réel , Nyon.

Schmidt also works as a freelance journalist. He is the father of a son and a daughter and lives in Berlin.

Filmography

  • 2010: I'd rather be a murderer (documentary)
  • 2011: 517 Füwatown (documentary)
  • 2012: Gluttonous (fictional)
  • 2015: thunderstorm cells (fictional)
  • 2016: Between the Chairs (documentary)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf | Students. Retrieved October 24, 2017 (German).
  2. ↑ ZDF / The small television game at the 59th DOK Leipzig successful / Jakob Schmidt's documentary “Between the chairs” received four awards / Note the correction in the 4th paragraph: “Between the chairs” . In: presseportal.de . ( presseportal.de [accessed October 24, 2017]).
  3. ^ "Nimmersatt" by Jakob Schmidt. Retrieved October 24, 2017 .
  4. ↑ programm.ARD.de - ARD Play-Out-Center Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany: thunderstorm cells. Retrieved October 24, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf | Movies | 517 Fuwatown. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 25, 2017 ; accessed on October 24, 2017 (German). 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.filmuniversitaet.de
  6. ↑ German Films: GERMAN DOCS IN NYON 2011. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 25, 2017 ; accessed on October 24, 2017 (English). 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.german-films.de
personal data
SURNAME Schmidt, Jakob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German documentary and feature film director
DATE OF BIRTH May 22, 1989
PLACE OF BIRTH Wurzburg