Jan Martin Scharf
Jan Martin Scharf (* 1974 in Cologne ) is a multiple award-winning German director and screenwriter .
Life
education
Scharf studied at the New York Film Academy in 1996 , then from 1998 to 2004 at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne . In 2001 he received a scholarship from the Munich Script Workshop . His diploma film Truth or Dare (co-director: Arne Nolting ) received the Student Jury Prize at the Max Ophüls Film Festival and a Silver Zenith for best debut film at the Montreal World Film Festival . He also received a nomination for the First Steps Award .
Career
In the following years, Scharf wrote scripts for series such as SOKO Cologne , Wilsberg , The Last Bull and Alarm for Cobra 11 - Die Autobahnpolizei . At the end of 2013 he began shooting his first feature film, Dessau Dancers .
Together with Arne Nolting, he wrote the script for the series Club der rote Bänder , which ran very successfully on VOX at the end of 2015 and was awarded the German TV Prize and the Grimme Prize in 2016.
Filmography (selection)
- 2001–2015: Wilsberg (four episodes)
- 2001-2015: Alarm for Cobra 11 - The Autobahn Police (13 episodes)
- 2002: Friday night
- 2005: Truth or Dare
- 2008: Dekker & Adi - Who brakes loses!
- 2009–2010: SOKO Cologne (two episodes)
- 2010: A case for thimble
- 2010-2014: The Last Bull (seven episodes)
- 2011-2013: IK1 - tourists in danger (five episodes)
- 2014: The prison doctor (an episode)
- 2014: Last Trace Berlin (one episode)
- 2014: Dessau Dancers
- 2014: Friesland - Murderous tides
- 2015: Friesland - family secrets
- 2015: Weinberg (six episodes)
- 2015–2017: Club of the Red Ribbons
- 2015: Betty's diagnosis (an episode)
- 2018: Tatort: Everything You Say
- 2019: Tatort: On, on and on
- 2019: Club of the Red Ribbons - How it all began
- 2019: Fathers alone at home: Gerd
- 2019: Fathers at home alone: Mark
Awards
- 2002: German university film award in gold for Friday night
- 2004: Studio Hamburg, young talent award in the category of best feature film for truth or dare
- 2004: Silver Zenith at the Montreal World Film Festival for Truth or Dare
- 2004: Best First Feature in San Jose, USA for Truth or Dare
- 2004: Nomination for the First Steps Award for Truth or Dare
- 2004: Film Festival Max Ophüls Prize of the Youth Jury for Truth or Dare
- 2005: EBU Prix Genéve d'Europe for the script for Spanner
- 2012: German television award for Der letzte Bulle as part of the team of authors
- 2015: Premio "Enfants terribles" of the 53rd Int. Gijón Film Festival for Dessau Dancers
- 2015: Filmkunstpreis Sachsen-Anhalt “Best Young Actor” to Gordon Kämmerer in Dessau Dancers
- 2015: Nomination of the New German Cinema Award, Munich Film Festival for "Dessau Dancers"
- 2016: Grimme Prize for Club of the Red Ribbons
- 2016: Grimme Prize for Weinberg
- 2016: German television award for Club of the Red Ribbons
- 2016: Nomination for the German Television Award for Weinberg
- 2016: Robert Geisendörfer Prize (author, children's television prize: Club of the Red Ribbons )
Web links
- Jan Martin Scharf in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official website
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Jan Martin Scharf on filmportal.de . Retrieved January 30, 2016.
- ↑ Jan Martin Scharf on firststeps.de. Retrieved January 30, 2016.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sharp, Jan Martin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German director and screenwriter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1974 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cologne |