Manuel Siebenmann

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Manuel Siebenmann (born March 11, 1959 in Boston ) is a German-Swiss film and television director, author and dramaturge.

Life

Manuel Siebenmann is the grandson of the poet Lonja Stehelin-Holzing and the great-nephew of the writer Marie Luise Kaschnitz . His father Rudolf Ernst Siebenmann (1922–2018) was Professor of Pathology at the University of Zurich . His sister Nina Siebenmann (1956–2009) was a musician and lecturer at the Zurich Conservatory. Siebenmann grew up in Switzerland.

After graduating from high school, Siebenmann worked as a production manager and assistant director in film productions (including Der Zauberberg), as a photographer and, in Brazil, as a surveyor. His first short films were made while studying theater studies , journalism and sociology at the Free University of Berlin . Siebenmann gained experience as an assistant director at the Schillertheater Berlin and in film productions in Germany and Switzerland, among others with Daniel Schmid , Urs Egger , Urs Odermatt and Georges Luneaux.

He attended directing seminars and workshops with Krzysztof Kieślowski , Edward Zebrowski , Andrew Birkin and advanced training in screenwriting with Frank Daniel, David Howard, Don Bohlinger , and in the screenplay masters school.

From 1990 to 1992 Siebenmann studied directing at the American Film Institute (AFI) in Los Angeles .

Siebenmann was involved in building the daily soap Gute Zeiten, Bad Zeiten in the 1990s and directed series, including A Lot of Life , Dr. Stefan Frank , OR calls Dr. Bruckner and Wolff's territory . His preference for intimate drama and broken protagonists was evident in the first full-length directing work for RTL and Sat 1 . Siebenmann directed the crime scene three times (2000, 2003 and 2006) , as well as the crime series Polizeiruf 110 and Wilsberg .

He made several television films for ZDF and BR , such as the war drama "In Another Life" (2003) and Freiwild - Ein Würzburg-Krimi (2008) as the prelude to a new crime series. In Switzerland he shot the comedy “Strangers in Paradise” and the political thriller “Side Effects” for SF DRS , which won the 2008 Swiss Film Prize (“Best Actress”). Siebenmann works as a writer on the development of his own film material, including about the young Hannah Arendt , and the literary work of Marie Luise Kaschnitz .

Siebenmann is a member of the Swiss Film Academy and is a member of the board of directors of the BVR Federal Association and of the German Cultural Council (deputy spokesman for film and audiovisual).

Siebenmann has a daughter (* 1999) and lives in Berlin .

Filmography

Awards

  • Award of the Kuratorium Kulturelles Leben Aargau, Switzerland (1990)
  • Stanley Thomas Johnson Prize for "Optimists" (1992)
  • Friends of the German children's film "Greetings to the Buschmann" (with Beate Pfeiffer) (1993)
  • Nomination for the Adolf Grimme Prize "A Murderous Fairy Tale" (2002)
  • Swiss Film Award for "Side Effects" (Best Actress: Sabine Timoteo) (2008)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gustav Siebenmann: Romania - Hispania - América. LIT Verlag Münster, 2011, ISBN 9783643800770 , p. 21. Limited preview in the Google book search
  2. ↑ Bio- / filmography Manuel Siebenmann (director): Fama Film AG. In: famafilm.ch. Accessed December 31, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Siebenmann, Manuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Swiss film and television director, author and dramaturge
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Boston