Johannes Schmid (director)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Johannes Schmid (born October 23, 1973 in Vilsbiburg ) is a German film director , theater director , opera director and screenwriter .

Life

Schmid studied theater and film studies, German, art history and musicology in Erlangen and Munich. After completing his studies, he directed his first short films from 1996 , as well as over 45 spoken and musical theater pieces a. a. at the Bayerisches Staatsschauspiel , at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein , the Dortmund Opera, the Konstanz Theater , the Salzburg Festival, the Teatro alla Scala, the Bonn Opera, the Malmö City Theater, the Landshut Kammerspiele, the Sankt Gallen Theater, the Mannheim Nationaltheater and on the Schauburg in Munich. In 2000, together with Philipp Budweg , he founded the film production company “simple and poignant”, from which in 2011 “ Favorite Film GmbH ” emerged. For the production from the depths of space by Gil Mehmert Schmid was at the Bavarian Film Award in 2004 with the price of the collecting society for rights of use of cinematographic works excellent (VGF) for best young producer.

In 2006/2007 Schmid, who has received several awards for his short films, shot with Stupid Mütze! his first full-length feature film as a director. The film received numerous awards at national and international festivals. His second feature film followed in 2010, the German-Polish production Winter Daughter , which was released in October 2011 and was awarded the German Film Prize in 2012 in the “Best Children's Film” category.

In the fall of 2014, shooting began on his third film, the love drama Agnes based on the novel by Peter Stamm . The film celebrated its world premiere at the International Film Festival in Palm Springs and was released in German cinemas on June 2, 2016.

Film direction

  • 1996: Star Train (short film, also screenplay)
  • 1998: Half-three (short film, also screenplay)
  • 2002: Merle (short film, also screenplay)
  • 2001: wing fish (short film, also screenplay)
  • 2007: stupid hat! (Feature film, also screenplay, also production)
  • 2011: Winter Daughter (feature film)
  • 2016: Agnes (feature film, also screenplay)

Theater productions (selection)

  • 2001: Tonight: Lola Blau , musical by Georg Kreisler, small theater - Kammerspiele Landshut
  • 2003: Don Gil from the green pants of Tirso de Molina, KULTURmobil of the district of Lower Bavaria
  • 2004: Baby Talk , musical by Peter Lund / Thomas Zaufke, Teamtheater Comedy Munich
  • 2005: Don Pasquale , opera by Gaetano Donizetti, Pasinger Fabrik - Munich's smallest opera house
  • 2006: The troll child according to Selma Lagerlöf, Schauburg Munich
  • 2007: Shockheaded Peter , Junk Opera by McDermott / Crouch / Jacques, Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern
  • 2007: An Odyssey after Homer by Ad de Bont, Schauburg Munich
  • 2008: Still life in a ditch by Fausto Paravidino, Bayerisches Staatsschauspiel
  • 2008: The trial based on the novel by Franz Kafka, Theater Konstanz
  • 2009: Don Quixote from the Mancha to Cervantes, Bavarian State Theater
  • 2010: Jakob von Gunten , chamber opera by Benjamin Schweitzer based on Robert Walser, Theater Sankt Gallen
  • 2011: Iceberg to Sicily , chamber opera by Kurt Schwertsik based on FK Waechter, Junge Oper Nationaltheater Mannheim
  • 2011: Around the world in 80 days by Pavel Kohout, Theater Konstanz
  • 2012: The Fairy Queen , Semi-Opera by Henry Purcell, Theater Sankt Gallen
  • 2012: Beatrice Cenci , opera by Berthold Goldschmidt , Oper Dortmund
  • 2013: nothing. What is important in life , based on the novel by Janne Teller, Theater Münster
  • 2013: The Abduction from the Seraglio for Children , Salzburg Festival, 2016 also Teatro alla Scala Milan
  • 2013: Anatevka - Fiddler on the Roof , musical by Jerry Bock and Joseph Stein, Oper Dortmund
  • 2014: From the girl who didn't want to sleep , opera by Marius Felix Lange , Deutsche Oper am Rhein, 2015 also Oper Dortmund, 2016 also Oper Bonn
  • 2015: Abduction from the Seraglio , Singspiel by WA Mozart, Theater Sankt Gallen
  • 2015: Ronja the robber's daughter , opera by Jörn Arnecke , Deutsche Oper am Rhein, 2016 also Oper Dortmund, 2017 also Oper Bonn
  • 2016: The Snow Queen , opera by Marius Felix Lange , Deutsche Oper am Rhein, 2018 also Oper Dortmund, 2019 also Oper Bonn
  • 2016: Käpt'n Bone, children's opera based on Rossini's “Italian in Algiers”, Festspielhaus Baden-Baden
  • 2018: La Juive , opera by Jacques Fromental Halévy , downtown Konstanz ( Südwestdeutsche Philharmonie )
  • 2018: The Vampire , opera by Heinrich Marschner , Läcko Slott Opera Sweden
  • 2018: Paranoid Park based on the novel by Blake Nelson , Malmö Stadsteater Sweden

Awards (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.moviepilot.de/movies/agnes--2?filter=all
personal data
SURNAME Schmid, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German director, screenwriter and film producer
DATE OF BIRTH 23rd October 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Vilsbiburg