Lars Kraume

Lars Kraume at the award ceremony of the German Academy for Television 2015

Lars Kraume (born February 24, 1973 in Chieti , Italy ) is a German director , producer and screenwriter .

Career

Lars Kraume grew up in Frankfurt am Main . After graduating from high school, he worked as a freelance photographer for two years. In 1994 he studied for four years at the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin . For his graduation film Dunckel from 1998, which had its first TV broadcast on October 28, 1999, he received the Adolf Grimme Prize for the first time in 2000 .

The German Television Prize followed in 2007 and the Adolf Grimme Prize again in 2008 for the television psychodrama Good Morning, Mr Grothe .

In 2016, his film Der Staat gegen Fritz Bauer received six German Film Awards, including the award for the best film and the best director.

Kraume has lived in Berlin since 1994 . Between 2005 and 2013 he was represented with seven films at the Frankfurt Tatort .

Filmography

• 1996: Life Is Too Short to Dance with Ugly Women (director and screenplay) - Prize of the City of Turin at the Torino International Festival of Young Cinema 1997
• 1998: Dunckel (director and screenplay)
• 1999: My Mother's Killer (Director)
• 1999: Countdown to Murder (Director)
• 2001: Viktor Vogel - Commercial Man (director and screenplay)
• 2003: Tatort : Say Nothing (Director)
• 2005: crime scene: where is Max Gravert? (Director and screenplay)
• 2005: Kismet - die your life! (Director)
• 2005: No Songs About Love (Director, Production and Screenplay)
• 2007: Good morning, Mr Grothe (director)
• 2007: KDD - Criminal Continuous Service (director episodes 3–6 and screenplay)
• 2008: Tatort: ​​The Early Farewell (Director)
• 2010: The Coming Days (Director, Production and Screenplay)
• 2011: Tatort: ​​A Better World (director and screenplay)
• 2011: Tatort: ​​The Dead on the Night Train (director and screenplay)
• 2012: Tatort: ​​It's Bad (screenplay)
• 2012: Tatort: ​​In the name of the father (director and screenplay)
• 2013: My Sisters (Direction and Production)
• 2013: Tatort: ​​Who breaks the silence (screenplay)
• 2013: Tatort: ​​Borowski and the Burning Man (director)
• 2014: Tatort: ​​Der Hammer (director and screenplay)
• 2015: Der Staat gegen Fritz Bauer (Director; Screenplay with Olivier Guez )
• 2015: Family Festival (Director)
• 2015: Dengler : The Last Escape (director and screenplay)
• 2016: Dengler: On the twelfth day (director; script together with Wolfgang Schorlau )
• 2016: Terror - Your Judgment (Director and Screenplay)
• 2017: Dengler - Die Schutzende Hand (direction and screenplay)
• 2017: The King of Berlin (Director, Screenplay)
• 2018: The Silent Classroom (Director, Screenplay)
• 2018: The Most Beautiful Girl in the World (Screenplay)
• 2019: Die Neue Zeit (TV series, director)

Awards

• 1997: International Film Festival of the Young Cinema Turin - Prize of the City of Turin (Best International Short Film) for Life Is Too Short to Dance with Ugly Women
• 1998: Studio Hamburg Young Talent Award for Dunckel
• 2000: Adolf Grimme Prize in the fiction / entertainment category for Dunckel as a director / screenwriter, together with Andreas Doub (camera) and Oliver Korittke (actor)
• 2006: German Television Crime Award - Audience Award for the Tatort episode Where is Max Gravert?
• 2007: German TV Award in the Best Director category for Good Morning, Mr. Grothe
• 2007: TV film award from the German Academy of Performing Arts for Good Morning, Mr. Grothe
• 2008: Adolf Grimme Prize in the fiction category for Good Morning, Mr. Grothe as director, together with Beate Langmaack (book), Nessie Nesslauer (casting) and Sebastian Blomberg and Ludwig Trepte (representation)
• 2015: Günter Rohrbach Film Prize for The State against Fritz Bauer as director, together with Thomas Kufus (producer)
• 2015: Hessian Film Award in the Best Film category for Der Staat gegen Fritz Bauer
• 2016: German Film Award in the Best Director category for Der Staat gegen Fritz Bauer
• 2017: German Television Prize for Terror - Your Judgment (ARD) and Family Festival (ZDF)
• 2018: Peace Prize of German Films - The Bridge for The Silent Classroom

Web links

Commons : Lars Kraume  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Lars Kraume in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Lars Kraume at filmportal.de
• Marco Schmidt: A Portrait of Director Lars Kraume on germanfilmsquarterly.de (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sascha Westphal: Critique of Family Festival , review in epd on September 18, 2015, accessed June 30, 2018
2. ^ Peace Prize of German Films - Die Brücke will be awarded for the 17th time on July 5th in Munich . Article dated June 6, 2018, accessed June 6, 2018.