Kai Maria Steinkühler

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Kai Maria Steinkühler (born October 23, 1967 in Cologne ) is a German filmmaker, screenwriter, author and actor.

Life

Kai Maria Steinkühler studied Egyptology and African Studies, English and German Studies in Cologne. After a few years of freelance theater work, including at “CCQ” (director: Karin Beier ), he turned to writing and filmmaking. Together with the author and filmmaker Markus Mischkowski , he has been working on the Cologne Westend cycle since 1996 and directed the feature films Westend (2001) and White Knight (2015) with him .

Westend had its world premiere on October 24, 2001 at the 35th Hof International Film Festival and its international festival premiere on January 27, 2002 at the 31st International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR). The film was released in October 2003 under the title Westend - Money does not matter in German cinemas. The DVD edition was published in February 2006 by Edition Filmmuseum .

Kai Maria Steinkühler developed together with Markus Mischkowski in the films Waiting Loops (2010) and Wolkenheime (2012) his own concept of the documentary film, in which the actors mix improvised storytelling and experience with role specifications in a documentary-fictional manner in a staged interview situation.

In 2014/2015 he was co-author and co-director of the feature film White Knights (world premiere on October 22, 2015 at the 49th Hof International Film Festival). He plays the film character Alfred alongside Markus Mischkowski and Steffi Gosejohann.

In addition to his work as a screenwriter and director, Kai Maria Steinkühler works as an actor and regularly goes on scenic reading tours with various authors.

Kai Maria Steinkühler is a member of the 813 Film Club and the "Kölner Gruppe", writes poetry and fiction: "Ballnacht im Breisgau" is the first part of his current cycle of animal poems. He is currently working on his novel "Sisu or Sörgel's Dream".

Filmography

  • 1996: Westend , short film ( Cologne Westend cycle , episode 1)
  • 1998: What to do , short film (Cologne Westend cycle, episode 2)
  • 2001: Westend , feature film (Cologne Westend cycle, episode 3)
  • 2003: Volga , short film (Cologne Westend cycle, episode 4)
  • 2007: Woodruff , short film (Cologne Westend cycle, episode 5)
  • 2010: Wellenreiter , short film (Cologne Westend cycle, episode 6)
  • 2010: waiting loops , documentary film
  • 2012: Wolkenheime , documentary film
  • 2012: 50 years of the Oberhausen misunderstanding
  • 2013: the pitch
  • 2014: competitor , short film (Cologne Westend cycle, episode 7)
  • 2015: White Knights , feature film (Cologne Westend cycle, episode 8)
  • 2016: The Change, short film

Awards

  • 2005 "KölnFilm" script award from the Imhoff Foundation / FilmInitiativ Köln eV for the script Southern Comfort (with Markus Mischkowski )
  • 2014 Script Award "Münster.Land" for the Treatment Let Rock sein - Hiltrup to Hell (with Markus Mischkowski )
  • 2016 Jury Prize and 3rd Audience Prize for the short film "Der Wechsel" (with Markus Mischkowski)
  • 2017 FBW rating "Particularly valuable" for the short film "Der Wechsel" (with Markus Mischkowski)
  • 2017 1st prize of the NRW competition of the 63rd International Short Film Festival Oberhausen for the short film "Der Wechsel" (with Markus Mischkowski)

literature

  • Marco Abel: Underground Film Germany in the Age of Control Societies: The Cologne Group , In: Quarterly Review of Film and Video 27: 2, 2010, pp. 89-107.
  • Hans Schifferle: Cine-Desperados from the Rhine - The Cologne group and their lived cinema , Munich Film Museum . Program 22/2012, pp. 64–67.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Westend , International Film Festival Rotterdam
  2. ↑ Westend - Money doesn't matter , filmz.de
  3. ↑ Andreas Busche: Westend - money doesn't matter , filmzentrale.com
  4. ↑ Cinema in a nutshell: Westend , Der Spiegel , October 6, 2003
  5. ↑ a b c d Westend , Edition Filmmuseum
  6. ↑ Woodruff ( Memento of the original from September 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) 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. , Hamburg short film agency  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kurzfilmverleih.com
  7. ↑ Wellenreiter ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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. , Hamburg short film agency  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kurzfilmverleih.com
  8. ↑ first screenplay award "Cologne Film 2005" , press release, koeln-im-film.de, April 21, 2005
  9. ↑ Screenplay Award Münster.Land "Stories for the Province" , City of Münster
personal data
SURNAME Steinkühler, Kai Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German filmmaker, screenwriter, author and actor
DATE OF BIRTH October 23, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne