Kai Wessel (director)

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Kai Wessel (born September 19, 1961 in Hamburg ) is a German film and television director .

Life

After completing his apprenticeship, Wessel started his career as an assistant director. The Hamburger Wochenschauen founded his filming for the cinema in 1983.

With the feature film Martha Jellnek , which was nominated for the Federal Film Prize in 1988 , Kai Wessel became known to a wider audience. Other cinema productions were Das Sommeralbum (1991) and Die Spur der Roten Fässer (1995). Additionally, he directed several episodes of the TV crime series Peter Strohm , Alles bes Mord und Sperling for television.

In 1999, based on the script by Peter Steinbach , Wessel directed the filming of the widely acclaimed 12-part television series Klemperer - A Life in Germany . In this series he filmed the diaries of the Jewish literary professor Victor Klemperer (portrayed by Matthias Habich ), a testimony to the everyday life of Jewish intellectuals during the Nazi era and a document of the increasing exclusion and persecution of Jews during the 12-year Nazi dictatorship, which culminated in the Holocaust .

For the television film Mein Bruder, der Idiot about people with disabilities, Wessel received, together with Heike Richter-Karst and Beate Langmaack, the Kassel Citizen Prize Das Glas der Vernunft in 2001 . His film Does he have a job? was honored with the VFF TV-Movie Award as best TV film at the Munich Film Festival in 2001 and was nominated for the Adolf Grimme Prize in the following year . In the script (Beate Langmaack) and camera ( Holly Fink ) categories he won the German Television Prize 2002 , as well as the Robert Geisendörfer Prize 2002 in the television category . In 2006, the drama The Secret in the Moor was created with Sebastian Blomberg and Anna Loos . Also in 2006, Wessel shot the two-parter Die Flucht for ARD. The drama with Maria Furtwängler in the leading role describes the experiences of an East Prussian landowner who fled East Prussia from the approaching Soviet troops in the winter of 1945. Broadcast on the channel arte , the film Die Flucht set a rating record for the culture channel with 2.4 million viewers.

With actress Heike Makatsch in the lead role, Kai Wessel took on the film adaptation of Hildegard Knef's autobiography Der schenkte Gaul , which started in cinemas in 2009 under the title Hilde . He received the Grimme Prize in 2014 for the series Zeit der Helden . The television film Murderous Heat from the Spreewald crime series has received multiple awards .

Filmography (selection)

Awards

  • 1988: Federal Film Prize nomination, 1st Prize Filmfest f. pole. Education Nuremberg, 1st prize d. German art film theater for Martha Jellneck
  • 1999: Goldener Jupiter, audience award for Klemperer - A Life in Germany (TV series)
  • 2001: Kassel Citizen Prize, for My Brother, the Idiot
  • 2001: New York, Silver Medal for Best Directing for Goebbels and Geduldig
  • 2001: VFF TV Movie Award, Munich Film Festival for Does he have a job?
  • 2002: Robert Geisendörfer Prize (Director, TV: Does he have a job?)
  • 2004: Grimme Prize for Life would be nice
  • 2007: Bambi for Escape
  • 2008: Diva Award for Die Flucht
  • 2013: German television award and directing award of the Federal Association of Directing for Time of Heroes
  • 2014: Grimme Prize for Time of Heroes
  • 2014: Directing Award of the Deutsche Akademie f. TV for Time of Heroes
  • 2015: Bavarian Film Award in the category Director for Fog in August
  • 2016: Peace Prize of German Films - Die Brücke (main national prize) for fog in August
  • 2016: Best Film, Giffoni Film Festival, Nebel im August
  • 2017: German Audio Film Award for Fog in August
  • 2017: German Director Award Metropolis - Best Director Film for Nebel in August

Web links

Commons : Kai Wessel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ arte quota record with Die Flucht , heise.de, May 29, 2012
  2. ↑ derStandard.at: German Metropolis Director Award: Goiginger as multiple winner . Article dated November 6, 2017, accessed November 6, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Wessel, Kai
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film and television director
DATE OF BIRTH September 19, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg , Germany