Jens Becker (director)
Jens Becker (born April 14, 1963 in Berlin ) is a German screenwriter and director . Since 2004 he has been teaching "Konrad Wolf" in Potsdam as a professor for screenplay at the Babelsberg Film University .
Life
From 1986 to 1991 he studied directing at the Konrad Wolf Academy for Film and Television in Potsdam. His diploma film Greenland was submitted for the 1991 Student Oscar. Since 1992 he has been working as a freelance writer and director. In 1993/1994 he received a scholarship from the Akademie der Künste (Berlin) with Wim Wenders .
He writes and directs feature films and makes documentaries. From 1998 to 2000 he taught screenwriting at the Humboldt University in Berlin , and since 2004 he has been professor for screenwriting at the Babelsberg Konrad Wolf Film University . In addition to his film work, he also writes non-fiction books.
In his work DVD Figures and Characters he develops an old type theory, the Enneagram , as a working tool for the creators of characters (authors, actors, directors).
He took part in the Berlinale and film festivals in Montreal , Tokyo , Kraków , Belgrade and Hof, as well as the Prix Europa and the Max-Ophüls-Preis Saarbrücken .
Becker lives in Berlin and was married to the actress Nadja Engel .
Filmography
- 1991: Greenland (feature film, diploma film, screenplay and director)
- 1993: Adamski (feature film, screenplay and director)
- 1994: Katrin and Wladimir (feature film, director)
- 1994: The Dreams Afterwards - An East German Forgets the Entire Turning Year (Documentary, Screenplay and Director)
- 1995: secret or what ?! (Series, several episodes as the author)
- 1996: Tatort - Death in a Jaguar (Series, Director)
- 1997: Kurklinik Rosenau (series, several episodes as author)
- 1998: Like out of the blue (documentary, together with Birgit Gebhardt)
- 2002: Executioner - Death Has a Face (feature documentary)
- 2003: State of Emergency (documentary)
- 2001–2007: Macius (children's animation series, several episodes as an author)
- 2007: War in the Arctic (two-part documentary, together with Ralf Daubitz)
- 2009: The End of the Politburo (Documentation, together with Thomas Grimm)
- 2010: Berliner Rand (documentary film)
- 2011: 20 × Brandenburg (documentary, part Die Spreewaldgräfin )
- 2013: Total Silence (screenplay)
- 2015: Erich Mielke - Master of Fear (docudrama, screenplay and direction, together with Maarten van der Duin)
- 2016: Nelly's Adventure (children's feature film , script with Uta Kolano, directed by Dominik Wessely)
- 2018: 1918 Uprising of the Sailors (docudrama, screenplay and director)
Non-fiction
- with Gunnar Dedio : The last executioners. Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2002, ISBN 978-3-360-00969-2 .
- Short circuit. Schwartzkopff, Berlin 2005, ISBN 978-3-937738-30-7 .
- Figures and Characters. Vistas, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-89158-565-8 .
- "Script-Tool Enneagramm 2.0", Epubli 2014, Ebook, ISBN 978-3-8442-8510-9 .
- "Script-Tool Enneagram 2.0", Epubli 2014, Ebook (English), ISBN 978-3-8442-8513-0 .
- "The script tool", Vistas, Leipzig 2019, ISBN 978-3-89158-649-5 .
Prices
- 1994: Art Prize Berlin Award of the Academy of the Arts
- 1994: Prize of the jury of the Max Ophüls Prize (for Adamski )
- 1999: Nomination for the Prix Europa (for How out of the blue )
- 2001: Nomination for the Willy Brandt Prize (for executioners - Death has a face )
- 2003: Thuringia Journalist Prize (for The Candles of Erfurt , State of Emergency and Short Circuit )
- 2011: Adolf Grimme Prize (for 20x Brandenburg )
- 2016: Gryphon Award (Best Film) in the ELEMENTS + 10 competition series, 46th Giffoni Film Festival (for Nelly's Adventure )
- 2018: Audience Choice Award, 3rd Cinemare Ocean Film Festival Kiel (for 1918 Uprising of the Sailors )
Web links
- Jens Becker in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Literature by and about Jens Becker in the catalog of the German National Library
- Short biography and reviews of works by Jens Becker at perlentaucher.de
- Jens Becker in the Association of German Scriptwriters
- Jens Becker at the Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF
- Jens Becker at Crew United
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Becker, Jens |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German screenwriter and director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 14, 1963 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |