Jakob Ziemnicki

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Jakob "Kuba" Ziemnicki (* 1975 in Gdansk , Poland) is a German-Polish film director and screenwriter.

Life

Shortly before the proclamation of martial law, Ziemnicki's family emigrated to Germany. Since 1980 Jakob Ziemnicki grew up in Cologne, where he discovered his enthusiasm for film. Together with Philipp Stennert , he began to make short films during school days at the Kreuzgasse grammar school . In 1998 the first feature film "Dark" followed. For 10,000 DM he shot a 90-minute feature film together with Philipp Stennert and Sascha Verhey, which was shown at the Fantasy Film Festival, among other places.

From 1998 to 2004 Jakob Ziemnicki studied film directing and screenwriting at the Baden-Württemberg Film Academy . It was there that the films "The ball is damned round", "Et kütt wie et kütt" and "Tompson Music" were made. "Tompson Music" based on the short story "Hunter Tompson Music" from "Summer House Later" by Judith Hermann was his diploma film. He was nominated for the First Steps Award and the Prix Europa in 2004. It was also the first film adaptation of a short story by Judith Hermann.

In addition to scripts and material developments, Ziemnicki made an episode of the feature film May 1st - Heroes at Work . The film premiered at the Berlinale in 2008 as the opening film of the Perspektive Deutsches Kino and was then shown in German cinemas.

In 2010, Ziemnicki shot his film Polish Easter , a German-Polish tragic comedy. Henry Hübchen , Grażyna Szapołowska , Adrian Topol , Paraschiva Dragus, Barbara Wysocka, Waléra Kanischtscheff and Leonie Brandis play the leading roles . The co-producer was ZDF - Das kleine Fernsehspiel, funded by the FFA, the DFF and the Hamburg & Schleswig-Holstein Film Fund. The film premiered in 2011 in the competition of the Max Ophüls Prize film festival in Saarbrücken with great success. It will then start in cinemas nationwide on May 12th. With 20 copies it reached around 50,000 cinema-goers and is therefore considered a respectable success. In November 2011 the DVD was released, on which you can find numerous bonus material, such as deleted scenes, an audio commentary with Henry Hübchen and Jakob Ziemnicki, outtakes and the like. a.

In 2015 he shot the first episode of the new German-Polish RBB - Polizeirufes 110: Grenzgänger , which is now set in Frankfurt (Oder) / Słubice . The film was made in close cooperation with Polish television TVP1. A German-Polish ensemble worked in front of the camera. Including: Maria Simon , Lucas Gregorowicz , Danuta Stenka , Manfred Zapatka , Christoph Luser , Barbara Wysocka , Nilam Farooq , Husam Chadat , Robert Gonera and others

The film premiered as the opening film of the 25th Cottbus Film Festival . In doing so, the festival wanted to highlight the special features of this German-Polish collaboration.

The film was broadcast almost simultaneously in Germany and Poland on December 20, 2015. This has never happened in the history of either country. The audience quota this. and across the Oder was very good. With 7.51 million viewers and a market share of 21.4%, Grenzgänger was one of the most successful police calls in 2015. In Poland, 1.8 million viewers saw the film with a market share of 13.8%.

Polizeiruf 110 followed in 2017 : The best for my child , the fourth case by Lenski and Raczek. Again he wrote the script (together with Elke Rössler) and directed it. In addition to Maria Simon and Lucas Gregorowicz , Katharina Heyer , Tobias Oertel and the two Polish cinema stars Agnieszka Grochowska and Piotr Stramowski also played the leading roles. The film received extremely positive reviews.

The first broadcast of Das Beste für mein Kind on December 3, 2017, was seen by 7.68 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 20.8% for Das Erste.

In 2019 Ziemnicki wrote and directed the film "Angel of Death". The film is based on the novel Walküre by Craig Russell and is the fifth film adaptation of the stories about Detective Inspector Jan Fabel, played by Peter Lohmeyer . Other actors are Ina Paule Klink , Anne Ratte-Polle , Julia Richter , Manfred Zapatka , Stephanie Japp , Proschat Madani , Hans Löw and others.

The film was shot in Hamburg in spring 2019. It will be broadcast on ARD on December 15, 2019.

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SURNAME Ziemnicki, Jakob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ziemnicki, Cuba (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Polish director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Gdansk , Poland