Manuel Weiss

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Manuel Weiss (born February 23, 1982 ) is a German director and producer of music videos , image films and fictional projects such as Ebersberg . Until 2010 he was also the drummer for the band Jenson . He lives in Munich.

music

From 2005 to 2010 Weiss was the drummer in the rock band Jenson , with whom he played around 400 club shows in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. In 2007/2008 he was part of the Radio Energy Music Tour with Jenson in Munich, Stuttgart and Nuremberg, where he shared the stage with bands like the Fantastischen Vier , Jennifer Rostock and the Donots . Weiss also played with Jenson as support for Tito & Tarantula and JBO .

With Jenson he released the album Großstadtschmutz in 2007 . The song Wir werden ..., which among other things acted as the title song for the DFL League Cup on SAT1 and Pro7 , reached number 88 in the German charts.

After separating from the first label 313Music , with label boss Thomas Stein , the 2nd album Auf nie more Wiedersehen was created in 2009 under the direction of Kurt Ebelhäuser .

After Jenson broke up , Weiss withdrew from the music industry and devoted himself to film.

From May 2020, the podcast with the title "wannabe rock stars - successful failure", which Weiss produced together with his former bandmate and singer of the band Jenson , Florian Pfisterer , was released. The content is about the history of the rock band Jenson from 2005 to 2010 and why the quartet failed in the end despite all efforts and a record deal.

Movie and TV

In 2009 Weiss started his work at ProSiebenSat.1 Media SE and produced for Blockbuster TV with Steven Gätjen as well as web shows about Voice of Germany or Germany's next top model . For the program The Voice of Germany , Weiss realized the most successful web program to date, "Etage 7", as producer and director with u. a. Robert Redweik as moderator. In addition to his work at ProSiebenSat.1 Medie SE, he founded his production company Weiss Entertainment, with which he develops and implements fictional in-house productions. In 2015 he produced the web series Ebersberg ; Season 2 received a grant of 30,000 euros from the FilmFernsehFonds Bayern . The series is distributed on Prime Video , among others , and has received several awards at international film festivals. Among other things, the series was recognized as the best web series at the Monkey Tree Bread Festival. In 2020 his first feature film production "Tag X", also funded by the FFF Bayern, was released. It is distributed by Studio Hamburg Enterprises as Video on Demand on Amazon, Google Play Store, Apple TV + and iTunes.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alina Schimansky: The spirits he called. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. February 5, 2016, accessed June 5, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Jenson at laut.de
  3. ↑ Final season of 2016 on themonkeybreadtree.com
  4. ↑ Day X , on filmstarts.de, accessed on June 5, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Weiss, Manuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German director and producer
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich