Jan Schütte
Jan Schütte (born June 26, 1957 in Mannheim ) is a German film director .
Life
Jan Schütte studied literature , philosophy and art history at the universities of Tübingen , Zurich and Hamburg and began his career as a filmmaker with documentaries. He made his first, multi-award-winning feature film Drachenfutter in 1987.
Schütte's feature films had their premieres at the festivals in Venice ( Drachenfutter , Winckelmanns Reisen , Old Love ), Cannes ( Goodbye America and Farewell. Brecht's last summer ), Locarno ( Fette Welt ) and San Sebastian ( SuperTex ).
Together with Peter Sehr , Schütte founded the German branch of the Atelier Ludwigsburg-Paris post-graduate program of the Baden-Württemberg Film Academy and La Fémis Paris , which he headed with Sehr until autumn 2010. From 2010 to 2014 he was director of the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (DFFB). During this time, successful films such as Oh Boy by Jan-Ole Gerster , The Strange Kitten by Ramon Zürcher, The Samurai , Come and Play by Daria Belova and The Letter by Dorotey Drumewa were made. Under his leadership, the DFFB developed close cooperation with internationally renowned universities such as Columbia University in New York , CalArts in Los Angeles , the London International Film School , La Fémis in Paris and FAMU in Prague .
From 2014 to 2017 Jan Schütte was Dean of the Conservatory of the American Film Institute (AFI) in Los Angeles. In August 2016, representatives of the AFI faculty called for Schüttes to be dismissed because he had lost the trust and support of the employees. Several teachers had previously submitted their resignation because of Schütte's leadership style and teaching methods.
Schütte is a member of the Academy of the Arts in Berlin and the European Film Academy and the German Film Academy .
He lives with his wife Christina Countess Szápáry, the former head of protocol at the Berlinale , in Los Angeles and Berlin.
Awards
Jan Schütte was Artist in Residence at Dartmouth College in 2000 and 2008 and Visiting Professor at Harvard University in 2005/06 and 2009/10 .
He has been awarded the German Critics' Prize , the Adolf Grimme Prize and the German Film Prize, among others . His work has also received international recognition, including the Prix Francois Truffaut, the Premio Cinecritica Italia and the Prix Unesco.
Filmography
- 1982 - Ugge Bärtle - Sculptor , documentary film about the Tübingen sculptor Ugge Bärtle
- 1983 - Nowhere was there anything except here , documentary about the Mössing general strike of 1933
- 1984 - Actually, I wanted to go to America , to make a documentary
- 1985 - Dragon Food , documentary
- 1987 - Drachenfutter , feature film with Bhasker Patel, Ulrich Wildgruber and Wolf-Dietrich Sprenger
- 1988 - Lost in America. Observations in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn and New York , documentary
- 1990 - Winckelmanns Reisen , feature film with Wolf-Dietrich Sprenger, Susanne Lothar , Axel Milberg and Traugott Buhre
- 1991 - To Patagonia , essay film based on the book by Bruce Chatwin , speaker: Ulrich Wildgruber
- 1994 - Goodbye America , feature film with Otto Tausig , Jakov Bodo, Aleksander Bardini , Christa Berndl , Zofia Merle, George Tabori
- 1995 - A journey into the heart of Vienna , essay film based on the book by Gerhard Roth
- 1998 - Fette Welt , feature film with Jürgen Vogel , Sibylle Canonica , Lars Rudolph , Thomas Thieme
- 2000 - farewell. Brecht's last summer with Josef Bierbichler as Bertolt Brecht and Monika Bleibtreu as Helene Weigel , music: John Cale
- 2002 - Medicopter 117 - No risk no fun
- 2003 - SuperTex , feature film based on the novel by Leon de Winter with Jan Decleir , Stephen Mangan and Maureen Lipman, music: Zbigniew Preisner
- 2005 - Our fifties , 6-part documentary, ARD
- 2007 - Love Comes Lately (also: See you later Max! Love comes, love goes ) Feature film based on Isaac Bashevis Singer with Otto Tausig , Rhea Perlman and Barbara Hershey
- 2010 - Persecuted , episode of the Bloch television series with Dieter Pfaff and Victoria Trauttmansdorff
Individual evidence
- ^ Gene Maddaus: AFI Faculty Calls for Firing of Dean Jan Schuette . In: Variety of 23 August 2016
- ↑ Hanns-Georg Rodek: Always trouble with this German. In: Welt.de. September 8, 2016, accessed February 9, 2017 .
- ^ Gene Maddaus: AFI Faculty Votes 'No Confidence' in Dean as Some Resign in Protest . In: Variety of August 22, 2016
- ^ "The Berlinale Diplomat" , Tagesspiegel from February 9, 2009, accessed on November 13, 2012
Web links
- Jan Schütte website
- Literature by and about Jan Schütte in the catalog of the German National Library
- Jan Schütte in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Jan Schütte retrospective at the 5th Oldenburg Film Festival 1997 / short portrait
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Schütte, Jan |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German film director |
DATE OF BIRTH | June 26, 1957 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Mannheim |