Karsten Laske

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Karsten Laske (* 1965 in Brandenburg an der Havel ) is a German director and screenwriter .

Live and act

Laske initially studied acting from 1986 to 1990 at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin . He then worked as an actor in the ensemble of the Mecklenburg State Theater in Schwerin. Until 1998 he worked as an artistic assistant in the directing department at the Konrad Wolf Academy for Film and Television in Babelsberg. He directed and wrote the scripts for the feature films Stille Wasser and Edgar . In 2002 he published the feature film Hundsköpfe, which won the Findlings Prize at the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Film Festival in Schwerin in the same yearwas awarded. From 2004 to 2007 he directed several episodes of the television documentary series Back then in the GDR , for which he was awarded the Adolf Grimme Prize in 2005.

Laske received the Leonhard Frank Prize in 2015 for his play Terror Child .

Filmography (selection)

As a screenwriter

  • 1993: Still waters
  • 1997: Edgar
  • 2000: Apocalypse 99 - Anatomy of a gunman
  • 2001: HeliCops - deployment over Berlin (TV series, two episodes)
  • 2002: dog heads
  • 2016: Tahrib

As a director

  • 1993: Still waters
  • 1997: Edgar
  • 2002: dog heads
  • 2004–2007: Back then in the GDR (TV series, documentary, 11 episodes)
  • 2008: Then after the war (TV series, documentary, four episodes)
  • 2016: Tahrib

Awards (selection)

Foundling Prize 2002

  • Prize winners for dog heads

Adolf Grimme Prize 2005

  • Prize winner in the Information and Culture category for the GDR at that time

German Screenplay Award 2010

  • Prize winner for my brother, Hitler Youth Quex

German television award 2011

  • Nomination and the category Best Documentation for the Wall Secret - History of a German Border

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ From ABC to amok shooters - review of the premiere in Nürnberger Nachrichten on June 3, 2016
  2. ↑ Tobias Hering: Time Loop - Foreplay Past. In: freitag.de. November 23, 2003, accessed August 18, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Prize Winner - Grimme Prize. Grimme Institute, accessed on August 18, 2020 .
  4. ↑ German Screenplay Prize 2010 awarded. In: Archives of the Federal Government. February 12, 2010, accessed August 18, 2020 .
  5. ↑ 2011 Best Documentation: The Wall as a Secret Matter - The Story of a German Border. In: German Television Award. Retrieved August 18, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Laske, Karsten
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Brandenburg / Havel