Karsten Scheuren

Karsten Scheuren (* 1970 in Munich ) is a German documentary filmmaker . He grew up on the Schliersee and now lives in Mitterdarching , about 30 kilometers south of Munich.

Life

Scheuren attended the Tegernsee high school and initially studied media law , politics and communication science at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich for six years . During his studies he worked as a freelance writer for various public and private television broadcasters. Scheuren then worked from 1999 to 2002 in an editorial office in Munich.

Scheuren has been in charge of ProSieben's Galileo editorial team since 2002 .

Movie

In 2012 Karsten Scheuren made a documentary entitled "Seven Days in September" about the two extreme ski mountaineers and speed climbers Sebastian Haag and Benedikt Böhm . In addition to the personal environment and the rivalry between the two, the attempt to speed up the 8th-highest eight-thousander Manaslu is a central theme. The tragic avalanche accident in which Haag and Böhm were the first to be at the scene of the accident and were able to save some mountain comrades, but also had 11 deaths, is described up close. Scheuren dramatically describes the absolute will of the two extreme climbers to - then only partially successful - summit success in the face of death. The film lasts 1:21 and opened on December 11, 2014.

Awards

• In 2008 he was honored with the Bavarian TV Prize as an author and director for Grave in Icy Heights - Rescue from the Death Zone .
• In 2010 Scheuren and his partner Bernhard Albrecht received the Adolf Grimme Prize for the documentary Caravan of Hope . The film shows the struggle of young African women against female genital mutilation .

Web links

• Karsten Scheuren in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Merkurextra, April 8, 2010
2. ↑ Brief portrait at the Grimme Institute ( Memento of the original from March 5, 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. (PDF; 705 kB) 
3. ↑ Filmstarts.de
4. ↑ Interview with the two winners and photo
5. ^ Prize winner 2010 at the Grimme Institute