Jan Tenhaven

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Jan Tenhaven (* 1969 in Essen ) is a German documentary film director, television journalist and lecturer.

Life and work

Tenhaven has been working in Berlin and Leipzig since 2001 as an author and director of reports, documentaries and documentaries. Before that he worked as a news reporter and from 1998 to 2001 as a freelance television correspondent in London .

In 2010 he completed his first feature documentary, Herbstgold, about five very old athletes from all over Europe. For this film Jan Tenhaven u. a. the Filmmakers Award 2010 at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, where the film also had its international premiere, the Grand Prize Of The Jury at the Guangzhou International Documentary Festival, and the IDFA DOC U Award , the prize of the youth jury at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam .

For his television documentary The War in me about late war traumas (Co-Author: Jochen dirt) he was awarded the Media Prize for Science Journalism in 2009 the DGPPN excellent.

His documentary The Silicon Valley Revolution about the beginnings of the personal computer was awarded the Audience Award at the Berlin & Beyond Film Festival 2017 in San Francisco , won the Journalist Award for Informatics 2017 of the Saarland University and was published in August 2018 by Thomas Kerstan , editor of the weekly newspaper The time included in the "modern canon of a hundred masterpieces".

Together with Axel Friedrich, Jan Tenhaven developed the zoo docu soap Elefant, Tiger & Co. for Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk in 2003 , which became the model for other zoo soaps.

Jan Tenhaven is a member of the Documentary Film Working Group (AG Dok) and the German Academy for Television (DAfF), where he is currently chairman of the Documentary Film Section.

Filmography (selection)

  • 2019 Lilos Lachen - The amazing life of Liselotte Pulver , documentary film, NDR / ARD, 60 min.
  • 2017 The Silicon Valley Revolution - How a few freaks changed the world , documentary, WDR / ARD / ARTE, 90 min.
  • 2017 This colorful Germany - About courage after fleeing , documentary, SWR / RBB / ARD, 90 min. (Overall direction)
  • 2015 Berlin and Brandenburg from above , documentation, RBB, 90 min.
  • 2014 Pretty Ugly - Everyone can be beautiful! , Documentation, ARTE, 52 min.
  • 2013 Make Love , documentary series, MDR / SWR, 5x45 min. (Editor)
  • 2013 Egypt's sunken port city - a myth emerges , documentary, ARTE, 52 min.
  • 2013 The Chocolate Hunters - Cocoa Cultivation in Ecuador , report, ZDF, 30 min.
  • 2012 Three colors of green - rough Ireland , documentary, ARTE, 45 min.
  • 2013 Three colors of green - fertile Ireland , documentary, ARTE, 45 min.
  • 2013 Three colors of green - Gentle Ireland , documentary, ARTE, 45 min.
  • 2010 Herbstgold , feature documentary, 94 min.
  • 2009 Attack on the senses - How we consumers are seduced , documentary, ARD, 45 min.
  • 2008 The War Inside Me - The Dormant Trauma , report, MDR, 30 min.
  • 1999 The poorest pay the bill - A debt relief for the developing world , report, WDR, 30 min.
  • 1995 Five years of adventure - around the world by bike , report, MDR, 30 min.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Berlin & Beyond Film Festival / Goethe Institute San Francisco: AWARDS OF THE FESTIVAL. Accessed August 22, 2018 (English).
  2. ↑ Host and winner of the Journalistenpreis Informatik 2017 . Competence Center for Computer Science Saarland. Retrieved May 17, 2019.
  3. ↑ Thomas Kerstan: What you need to know today . In: Jutta Allmendinger, Zanny Minton Beddoes, Florian Illies, Josef Joffe, René Obermann (eds.): DIE ZEIT . No. 34/2018 . Zeitverlag Gerd Bucerius, August 16, 2018, ISSN  0044-2070 , p. 1, 56 . See also Th. Kerstan: What our children need to know. A canon for the 21st century. Hamburg 2018. pp. 240–242.
  4. ^ Members - AG DOK. Retrieved March 27, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Academy | German Academy for Television. Retrieved March 27, 2020 .
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BRIEF DESCRIPTION German documentary film director, television journalist and lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH 1969
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