Jan Peter (director)

Jan Peter (born November 20, 1968 in Merseburg ) is a German film director , screenwriter , television producer and showrunner , who has occasionally appeared as an opera director . His best-known works include the documentary drama series War of Dreams and 14 - Diaries of the First World War , the documentary feature films Friedrich - Ein deutscher König , the docudrama The Secret Inquisition and the documentary film Der Rebell .

Live and act

Jan Peter grew up in Merseburg . At the age of 16 he founded a band at his EOS “Ernst Haeckel” that played for two years under the name “At Your Own Risk” in and around the city. Peter later founded a band together with the Leipzig guitarist Peter Felix Liebe, which achieved cult status in Leipzig in the early 1990s under the name "H-Milch aus Bagdad".

At the end of the 1980s, Peter got involved in various church groups in Leipzig and Merseburg for a change in the politics of the GDR . Among other things, he was active for several years in the young community of Merseburg of the city youth pastor Lothar König . During the Monday demonstrations in Leipzig he became a co-editor of the leaflets of the New Forum . In January 1990 he got involved as co-founder and editor-in-chief of the first independent GDR weekly DAZ (Die Andere Zeitung), which reported on politics, economics, culture and social affairs. The Leipzig city magazine Kreuzer developed from the original DAZ cultural supplement, and Jan Peter was also responsible for its co-editor in the early years.

In 1993 he founded the Leipzig production company LE Vision together with Yury Winterberg and Katja Herr . Under their sponsorship a feature film and numerous, in some cases award-winning documentaries and docudramas, which Jan Peter directed or in which he was involved as a scriptwriter or producer. The subject of the work was not only political and social, but also scientific and historical topics. In February 2011, the LE Vision shut down after almost eighteen years of work.

In 2002 Jan Peter became one of the founders of the Richard Wagner Society Leipzig 2013 .

In May 2015, Peter founded the company Fortis Imaginatio together with the Berlin economics professor Michael Faustino Bauer for the development, co-production and marketing of materials and media formats.

Peter's work is characterized by the crossing of common boundaries between the formats of documentary , feature film and animation film . With projects like u. a. My Childhood (documentary animation), Friedrich - A German King (documentary feature film) and 14 - Diaries of the First World War (documentary drama series) he developed his own hybrid design language together with the film editor and graphic artist Susanne Schiebler .

In addition to his activities as a writer and director, Peter is increasingly working as a showrunner, for example in the two documentary drama series "14" and "18".

Jan Peter lives in Leipzig.

Feature films

• 1999: Over the Rainbow - Longing is a drug

Documentary feature films

• 2011: Friedrich - A German King

Documentary drama series

• 2014: 14 - Diaries of the First World War (8 × 52 minutes, or 4 × 45 minutes)
• 2014: Great War Diaries (3 × 60 minutes)
• 2014: 14 War Stories (8 × 52 minutes)
• 2018: War of Dreams (8 × 52 minutes, or 3 × 90 minutes)

Documentaries

• 1997: New people from Schreiner's spirit (90 minutes)
• 1999: Rising of the Dreamers: Three Days in August 1989 (30 minutes)
• 2000: The Power of the Hour: A History of Timekeeping (60 minutes)
• 2001: After Hitler. Radical right arming (3 × 45 minutes)
• 2003: Beautiful New Man - Genetic Research in the 21st Century (90 minutes)
• 2005: the rebel. Terrorist Psychogram (94 minutes)
• 2007: Abandoned Homeland / Our Homeland (MDR, 60 minutes, or 3 × 30 minutes)
• 2009: My Germany (3 × 45 minutes)
• 2009: The fall of the wall (45 minutes)
• 2010: Ernst Reuter - A Torn Life (45 minutes)
• 2010: Back then after the GDR (6 × 45 minutes) - series directing
• 2010: My Unity - Fates in United Germany (90 or 45 minutes) - Director / Co-Author
• 2010: When we were children - Grew up in the GDR (45 minutes)
• 2012: Children of the East. Animated documentation (3 × 45 minutes)
• 2015: The pontiff's secret mission - The Vatican during the Cold War (2 × 52 minutes and 1x90 minutes)

Docudramas

• 2002: The Secret Inquisition (3 × 45 minutes)
• 2004: Witches - Magic, Myths and the Truth (3 × 45 minutes)
• 2005: Mätressen - The secret power of women (3 × 45 minutes)
• 2006: Savonarola - The Black Prophet (45 minutes)
• 2008: Empire of the Popes (3 × 45 minutes) - Direction fiction and overall direction part 2

Audio books

• 2008: The Illuminati - In Search of World Domination
• 2008: The Rosicrucians - In Search of the Last Secret
• 2008: The Templars - The Secret of Christ's Poor Knighthood from the Temple of Solomon
• 2008: Opus Dei - The 'Work of God' between Holiness and Santa Mafia

Scripts

• 2009: Germans and Germans (45 minutes) - Director: Mira Thiel
• 2010: Back then after the GDR (book parts 1, 3 and 6) - together with Yury Winterberg
• 2010: The Germans - August the Strong and Love (45 minutes) - together with Yury Winterberg
• 2011: Friedrich - A German King (90 minutes) - together with Yury Winterberg
• 2012/13:14 - World War I Diaries - Author of episodes 2 and 8, lead author of episodes 3, 4, 5 and 7. Co-author of episodes 1 and 6
• 2014: Great War Diaries (3 × 60 minutes)
• 2015: PONTIFEX secret mission (2x52 minutes and 1x90 minutes) - together with Yury Winterberg
• 2018: War of Dreams (Clash of Futures) (8 × 52 minutes)

Opera

• 2019: The rise and fall of the city of Mahagonny by Kurt Weill / Bertolt Brecht at the Musiktheater im Revier , Gelsenkirchen

Substance development

• SOKO Leipzig on behalf of UFA Fiction together with Jörg Winger , Thomas Teubner and Yury Winterberg: general figure constellation, storylines and transfer of the original series to Leipzig

Shows

• Do you know the myth; Direction of the video installation within the anniversary show for the 111th anniversary of FC Schalke 04 in coproduction with the Musiktheater im Revier, music Dieter Falk and Heribert Feckler, libretto Ulf Schmidt, stage production Michaela Dicu.

DVD publications

• 2003: The Secret Inquisition
• 2005: mistresses
• 2006: After Hitler
• 2006: the rebel
• 2008: Witches
• 2010: Terra X Volume 13 - Empire of the Popes
• 2010: Back then after the GDR
• 2012: Friedrich - A German King
• 2012: Children of the East
• 2014: 14 - Diaries of the First World War
• 2014: Great War Diaries
• 2019: War of Dreams

Awards (selection)

Receive

• Bavarian television award
• Robert Geisendörfer Prize
• Civis Media Prize Documentation 2002
• Civis Media Prize Fiction 2019
• New York Festivals Award, World Gold Medal
• Platinum Award from the Houston International Film Festival, Houston Texas
• Grand Prix of the 12th Sevastopol International Documentary Film Festival
• Hans Klein Media Prize
• Sponsorship award from the Hanns Seidel Foundation
• Axel Springer Prize for young journalists

Nominated

• Grimmepreis
• German television award
• German-French Journalism Award 2015, 2019
• Prize of the German Academy for Television Best Screenplay for "War of Dreams"
• Banff World Media Festival Rockie Award
• Japan Prize (Contest for Educational Media) in the category "Continuing Education"

Web links

• Jan Peter in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Jan Peter - Vita. (PDF) Fortis Imaginatio, accessed January 6, 2020 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Jan Peter - Vita. (PDF) Fortis Imaginatio, accessed January 6, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Fortis Imaginatio. Retrieved January 6, 2020 . 
3. ^ Gunnar Dedio: "Producing History": Tasks and job description of the producer in the context of international media productions. (PDF) Hochschule Mittweida , February 4, 2015, p. 26 , accessed on January 6, 2020 . 
4. ↑ Over the Rainbow. kino.de , accessed on March 23, 2014 . 
5. ↑ http://www.looksfilm.tv/de/14-tagebucher-des-ersten-weltkriegs
6. ↑ http://www.looksfilm.tv/en/14-diaries-great-war
7. ↑ http://www.newsday.com/opinion/columnists/william-fbo-reilly/war-weary-europe-is-putty-to-putin-william-fbo-reilly-1.9935420
8. ↑ The Secret Inquisition on fernsehserien.de
9. ↑ "Project page: Do you know the myth"
10. ↑ 31st Robert Geisendörfer Prize for radio and television productions , accessed on February 22, 2019
11. ↑ Winners of the most important European media award CIVIS 2019
12. ↑ Winners 2015: New York Festival Wolrd's best TV & Films. New York Festivals International Awards Group, archived from the original on April 17, 2015 ; accessed on April 20, 2019 . 
13. ↑ Award List 2015: "Remi Award Winners 2015" ( Memento of the original from January 26, 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. 
14. ^ Message from nic: "Drama series receives Grand Prix of the 12th Sevastopol International Documentary Film Festival" , accessed on June 13, 2016
15. ↑ 55th Grimmepreis: Nominations 2019 , accessed on January 17, 2019
16. ↑ German Television Award : Nominees for the best multi-part documentary , accessed on October 6, 2014.
17. ^ Japan Prize Official Website. Retrieved November 27, 2014 .