Kilian Riedhof

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Kilian Riedhof (born April 27, 1971 in Jugenheim ) is a German film director and screenwriter .

Life

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Kilian Riedhof grew up in southern Hesse and studied directing at the Filmstudium Hamburg (today Hamburg Media School ) from 1994 to 1996 . His teachers included Nikita Michalkow , Hark Bohm , Alexander Mitta , Jon Boorstin, Michael Ballhaus and Sławomir Idziak .

One of his most successful projects is the television film Homevideo , for which he has received more than 30 awards in Germany and abroad, including the 2011 German Television Prize for “Best Television Film”, a year later the Grimme Prize , the Rose d'Or and the Magnolia Award in Gold in Shanghai.

In autumn 2012 he shot his first movie with Dieter Hallervorden in the role of a marathon runner with his last race . The film was a success at the German box office and gave Hallervorden the Lola for Best Male Leading Role at the German Film Awards .

Kilian Riedhof's political thriller Der Fall Barschel has also received several awards, including the German Director Prize Metropolis and the Bernd Burgemeister TV Prize in 2016 .

In 2018, his two-part TV series Gladbeck about the drama about the hostage-taking of Gladbeck in August 1988 caused a sensation. The film received, among other things, three German television awards (Best Multi-Part, Best Actor and Best Editing), the Golden Bird Prize in Seoul and the German Acting Award for Best Ensemble. Gladbeck ran with great success on BBC Four and was the only non-English format nominated for the British television award BAFTA TV AWARD 2019.

Kilian Riedhof is the first cousin of the German extreme mountaineer Florian Hill . Riedhof lives in Hamburg .

Riedhof has been married to the actress and author Jana Voosen since the beginning of 2014 .

Filmography (selection)

Director

script

Awards / prizes

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A Hamburg author and the Fall of Man on http://www.abendblatt.de/
  2. ↑ Winners Of 2018 Seoul International Drama Awards. In: soompi.com. September 3, 2018, accessed on September 3, 2018 .
  3. ↑ German Screenplay Prize awarded - You don't get my hatred. In: bundesregierung.de. February 18, 2020, accessed August 18, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Riedhof, Kilian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH April 27, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Youth home