Jean Boué

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Jean Boué (* 1961 in Hamburg ) is a German author, director and film producer of documentaries. He has Huguenot roots and now lives with his family in the Prignitz in Brandenburg .

Life

Boué studied business administration, art history and African studies in Hamburg. Since 1989 he has worked as a writer, director and producer of documentaries, mainly for ARD, ZDF and ARTE.

In the mid-1980s, Jean Boué traveled through the Comecon states as a traveling salesman. In Bulgaria he fell in love with the country and the people. At the Red Cross Film Festival in the Bulgarian port city of Varna, he met filmmakers from Eastern Europe, including the film author Angel Wagenstein . Boué's impressions of Eastern Europe before the fall of the Wall left a strong mark on him and his work.

In the early 1990s, Boué worked as a freelancer in the editorial team of the satirical program Extra Drei at NDR . Here he met the documentary filmmaker Klaus Wildenhahn , who was editor of the documentary film series The Documentary View and Moments at NDR. He inspired Boué to realize his first own 16mm short films at NDR.

In the 1990s, films were made about the fall of the Berlin Wall and the disappearance of the Iron Curtain. Boué dealt with the consequences of the new circumstances in Welcome to Germany , Shortly Before Germany and Germany on the Bus . He recorded the changes in Eastern Europe, especially using the example of Bulgaria. In his first long documentary film In Spain is getting browner , the audience is confronted in a tragicomic manner with the desperation of people in view of their new realities of life. Together with the Bulgarian filmmaker Georgi "Jacky" Stoev, Jean Boué accompanied the return of the Bulgarian King Simeon I to his homeland in 1996 after 50 years of exile.

In 2000 Boué started the production company JABfilm. Numerous documentary film portraits of well-known personalities were created for the ARTE series Ma Vie / Mein Leben , including Richard Branson, Niki Lauda, ​​Joe Jackson, Fritz Stern, Cornelia Funke and Iggy Pop. In 2011, Jean Boué founded the production company Docdays Productions together with Antje Boehmert and Christian Popp in Berlin, where he worked as managing director and partner until 2017.

Musically, the work of Jean Boué permeates the music of the composer Hans-Jörn Brandenburg , with whom he has been working since 1990.

Boué was a DEFA scholar and cross-border commuter from the Robert Bosch Foundation .

He has been a lecturer at the Babelsberg Konrad Wolf Film University since 2013. He is also a member of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Dokumentarfilm and the European Documentary Network. Many of his films have been shown at festivals and broadcast internationally. Boué has received several awards for his work, including the Grimme Prize and the Civis Prize for his documentary Refugee 11.

Films (selection)

  • 2019: The Unheard of (Script & Director)
  • 2018: Alcohol Children (Script & Director)
  • 2017: Refugee 11 (Script & Direction)
  • 2017: This colorful Germany (co-author)
  • 2016: Ebola - survive the virus (producer)
  • 2016: Forbidden Vegetables (script & direction)
  • 2015: The main thing is work (script & direction)
  • 2014: My name is Khadija  (producer)
  • 2014: Die Prignitz is alive (co-author & director)
  • 2013: Adamshoffnung 112 (Writer & Director)
  • 2013: Siberia, my grandfather & I (co-author)
  • 2012: No quiet place in Kibera (script & direction)
  • 2012: Call me Iggy (script & direction)
  • 2012: Adventure train station (script & direction)
  • 2011: Mads Mikkelsen - My Life (Script & Director)
  • 2011: The Selling Gun (Script & Director)
  • 2011: Potsdamer Strasse (script & direction)
  • 2011: Always after coal (producer)
  • 2010: With without reading (script & direction)
  • 2010: Heiner Geißler - My Life (book & direction)
  • 2010: Simply unstoppable (script & direction)
  • 2009: Basic course for heroes (producer)
  • 2009: Günter Wallraff - My Life (script & direction)
  • 2009: Joe Jackson - My Life (Writer & Director)
  • 2008: Kennzeichen Kohl (script & direction)
  • 2008: Pots on Wheels (producer)
  • 2007: Russia on the shelf (producer)
  • 2007: Cornelia Funke - My Life (Script & Director)
  • 2007: Dog love in Bulgarian (script & direction)
  • 2007: Peter Zadek - My Life (Script & Director)
  • 2007: Fritz Stern - My Life (Script & Director)
  • 2007: Niki Lauda - My Life (Script & Direction)
  • 2006: Die Welt-Klasse (script & direction)
  • 2006: Nestinari ( script & direction)
  • 2005: Ernst-August lets bid (script & direction)
  • 2004: Our daily air (script & direction)
  • 2004: The House of Commandments (script & direction)
  • 2004: Wim Duisenberg - my life (script & direction)
  • 2004: Ice bathers swim differently ( script & direction)
  • 2003: Our village should become more beautiful (script & direction)
  • 2003: Konstantin Wecker - My Life (Script & Direction)
  • 2002: Richard Branson - My Life (Writer & Director)
  • 2002: Tyler Brulé - My Life (Writer & Director)
  • 2001: Herr Klees, Herr Klinke & Herr Dikty ( script & direction)
  • 2001: Uwe Seeler - My Life (Script & Director)
  • 2001: Russenfaust ( script & direction)
  • 2000: Horse workshop (script & direction)
  • 2000: Comrade Maultier (script & direction)
  • 2000: Ion Tiriac - My Life (Writer & Director)
  • 1999: Bube, Dame & Tsatsiki (script & direction)
  • 1999: Neue Heimat Berlin (script & direction)
  • 1997: The End of the Song (script & direction)
  • 1997: Schützenfest (script & direction)
  • 1997: Heringstage (script & direction)
  • 1996: The Return of the Tsar (Writer & Director)
  • 1995: In Spain you get tanned (script & direction)
  • 1995: Der Blattmacher (book & director)
  • 1995: The wild wild west (script & direction)
  • 1994: Cold Peace - Winter in Moscow (book & director)
  • 1994: Great freedom in Kleinwaabs ( script & direction)
  • 1993: Germany on the bus (script & direction)
  • 1993: Shortly before Germany (script & direction)
  • 1993: Neuschwanstein. (Script & direction)
  • 1992: Welcome to Germany (script & direction)
  • 1992: 1 minute (script & direction)
  • 1992: We here, those there (script & direction)
  • 1991: neighbor good, all good (script & direction)
  • 1991: Inside and outside (script & direction)
  • 1990: Bet on victory (script & direction)

Awards

  • 2018: European CIVIS-Media Award for Refugee 11
  • 2017: NRW Media & Integration Prize for Refugee 11
  • 2017: Adolf-Grimme Prize for the production of Ebola. Survive the virus
  • 2015: Nomination for the Adolf Grimme Prize for the production of 18+ / My name is Khadija
  • 2011: Adolf Grimme Prize for 20x Brandenburg - With without reading
  • 2008: Nomination of the Rias Prize for Fritz Stern - my life
  • 2007: German CIVIS Prize for Die Welt-Klasse
  • 2002: Nomination of the Adolf Grimme Prize for Mr. Klees, Mr. Klinke & Mr. Dikty
  • 2002: Nomination of the German Camera Prize for Mr. Klees, Mr. Klinke & Mr. Dikty
  • 2001: nomination for the silver horse for horse workshop
  • 1997: Nomination of the Adolf Grimme Prize for the Schützenfest and Heringstage
  • 1994: Nomination of the Adolf Grimme Prize for Welcome to Germany
  • 1994: Prix ITB for Neuschwanstein

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Short bio NDR
  2. ↑ CIVIS media award for WDR 5 radio feature and TV documentation. June 7, 2018, accessed October 31, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Boué, Jean
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German producer, author and filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg