Jens Schanze
Jens Schanze (* 1971 in Bonn ) is a German documentary filmmaker and film producer .
life and work
After completing his community service and beginning a forest science degree at the University of Munich , Schanze worked for a television production company. In 1994 he shot his first film in Bolivia for the environmental foundation “Conservation International”, a portrait of a group of Tacana indigenous people on the threshold between tradition and modernity. From 1995 to 2005 he studied documentary film and television journalism at the University of Television and Film in Munich. The first long film was made there in 1999, The Little Department Store, about a women's clothing store in Munich.
His first long documentary film, Otzenrather Sprung, shot with cameraman Börres Weiffenbach, about the relocation of several villages because of the Garzweiler II open- cast lignite mine in the Rhenish lignite mining area, earned him the Adolf Grimme Prize and the Bavarian Television Prize in 2002 . Six years later he visited the same people whose resettlement was now complete. This resulted in the film Otzenrath 3 ° colder .
In 2002 Jens Schanze founded the production company Mascha Film together with Judith Malek-Mahdavi in Munich , in which all of his films have been produced since then. The first Mascha Film production was the film Bread and Tones about a symphony orchestra in which 60 unemployed musicians play. The film received the 2004 Starter Film Prize from the City of Munich.
In Winterkinder - The Silent Generation , again with Weiffenbach at the camera, Schanze explored his grandfather's ties with the National Socialists and how family members dealt with the National Socialist past of their relatives and ancestors through interviews with his own family. The film service saw the film as "an unadorned and moving plea from the grandchildren for the courage that many German families still need to ask questions about the past."
His documentary Plug & Pray about the possibilities and consequences of computer technology and artificial intelligence, in which the computer pioneer Joseph Weizenbaum is the central figure, was awarded the Bavarian Film Prize 2010 , among others . American trade journal Variety called the film "a great conversation piece and a refreshingly open and unbiased study of scientists and their work."
In his film La buena vida - The good life , he tells the story of a Wayuu community in Colombia that has to give way to the El Cerrejón open-cast coal mine , one of the largest coal mines in the world. The film received numerous festival prizes and was also awarded the Bavarian Film Prize for best documentary film in January 2016.
Jens Schanze is a member of the German Film Academy and the European Film Academy and has been a professor for film and video design at the Deggendorf University of Technology since October 2014 . He is married and has two children.
Filmography
- 1994 San José - The moon is our light , documentary film, 44 minutes
- 1996 in A minor , essay film, 7 minutes
- 1998 Antonio , report, 7 minutes
- 1999 Das kleine Kaufhaus , documentary, 44 minutes
- 1999 conversation with cameraman Thomas Plenert , 38 minutes
- 2001 Otzenrather Sprung , documentary film, 63 minutes
- 2003 Bread and Tones , documentary film, 52 minutes
- 2005 Winter Children - The Silent Generation , documentary, 99 minutes
- 2007 Otzenrath 3 ° colder , documentary, 81 minutes
- 2010 Plug & Pray , documentary, 91 minutes
- 2013 At the right time in the right place , documentary, 44 minutes
- 2015 La buena vida - The good life , documentary, 97 minutes
Awards (selection)
- 2002 Adolf Grimme Prize for Otzenrather Sprung
- 2002 Bavarian TV Prize for Otzenrather Sprung
- 2002 Munich International Documentary Film Festival: Documentary Film Award for Otzenrather Sprung
- 2002 International Student Film Festival Sehsuchten Potsdam: Best documentary Otzenrather Sprung
- 2002 International Human Rights Film Festival Nuremberg: Jury Award for Otzenrather Sprung
- 2004 Starter Film Prize of the City of Munich for Bread and Tones
- 2005 Entrevues Festival du Film Belfort: Grand Prix du Jury for winter children
- 2005 Festival de Films de Montreal: Special Jury Mention for winter children
- 2006 One World International Film Festival of Human Rights, Prague: Best Director ( Winter Children )
- 2009 Phoenix Documentary Award of the Filmstiftung NRW for Otzenrath 3 ° colder
- 2010 Bavarian Film Award (best documentary) for Plug & Pray
- 2010 International Science Film Festival Paris: Grand Prix du Jury for Plug & Pray
- 2010 Mostra de Ciencia e Cinema La Coruña: Best Film Plug & Pray
- 2010 International Science Film Festival Athens: Science Communication Award for Plug & Pray
- 2011 AFO Olomouc: Best World Science Documentary Film Award for Plug & Pray
- 2015 Bavarian Film Award for La buena vida - The good life
- 2016 Gdańsk DocFilm Festival: Gate of Freedom Award (best film) for La buena vida - The good life
- 2016 Decalogue Film Prize of the Guardini Foundation for the 7th bid
- 2016 Ecological Film Tour Potsdam: Audience Award
- 2016 Golden Tree Film Festival: Best film for La buena vida - The good life
- 2017 Robert Geisendörfer Prize
Web links
- Jens Schanze in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Jens Schanze at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Filmdienst 24/05: "Winter Children"
- ↑ Variety, December 8, 2010: "Plug & Pray"
- ↑ LA BUENA VIDA successful at the Golden Tree Festival. Retrieved October 31, 2017 .
- ↑ Press release on the jury's decisions 2017. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on May 18, 2014 ; accessed on October 31, 2017 . 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.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schanze, Jens |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German documentary filmmaker and film producer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1971 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bonn , Germany |