Marc Boettcher

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Marc Boettcher (born April 12, 1965 in Berlin ) is a German filmmaker , producer , author , dramaturge and actor .

Life

Marc Boettcher graduated from high school in Berlin-Charlottenburg in the early 1980s. At that time he was already making his own Super8 films and in 1982 won the audience award at the 2nd national school film festival in Hanover for his film Das tödliche Telefon .

Parallel to his studies in German and theater studies at the Free University of Berlin (1982–1988), which he completed with a later published master's thesis on Henrik Ibsen , he completed an acting training. In 1987 he was a guest director for Götz Friedrich at the Deutsche Oper Berlin . During this time the first small appearances in cinema productions such as Fatherland by Ken Loach and Das Spinnennetz by Bernhard Wicki took place .

In 1988 Boettcher went to the Stuttgart Theater in the West as a dramaturge, actor and director . There he had his acting debut as pale cheek in the comedy What you want by William Shakespeare . A year later he accepted an offer at the Lübeck City Theater . After the fall of the Berlin Wall , he moved back to Berlin in 1989, where he began working as a freelance artist and journalist with his first print and radio reports . Since then he has also worked as a dubbing writer and director , so u. a. in An indecent woman , Heinrich V in various Walt Disney productions and television series such as Perry Mason , Eine himmlische Familie , Men in Trees , Rosewood , Der Name der Rose and films such as Call Me by Your Name , God's Own Country , Dark Places - Dangerous Memory and Eisenstein in Guanajuato by Peter Greenaway .

In 1992 he founded the Theater kunstgriff e. V.

In 1998 he published his biography about the chanson singer Alexandra, who died in 1969 . The following year, Boettcher and his production company MB-Film produced the portrait of Alexandra - the legend of a singer , which has been watched by more than twelve million television viewers to date. In 1993 a book and a film about the Hamburg composer and orchestra director Bert Kaempfert (1923–1980) were published. In 2006 Boettcher's documentary about the Danish singer Gitte Hænning was nominated for the Adolf Grimme Prize and received the film title “Valuable”. On June 16, 2011, Boettcher's film portrait Sing! Inge, sing! - Inge Brandenburg's broken dream premiered at the 22nd International Film Festival in Emden. This film was also awarded the title “Valuable”, the TV version, which was shortened to 52 minutes, was nominated for the 2013 Adolf Grimme Prize. Both the soundtrack on CD and the DVD with the long version of the film received the “ German Record Critics ' Award ”.

At the request of AnNa R. and Peter Plate , Boettcher realized the one-hour TV special Rosenstolz - Wir sind Wir! For her 20th stage anniversary . The success story of a pop duo for Norddeutscher Rundfunk, which was shown for the first time on October 21, 2011 on ARD's first program.

On April 4, 2016, Boettcher was a guest on the TV show “ARD @lpha - Forum” and spoke 45 minutes about projects, career and private matters as well as the publication of his biography “ SING! INGE, SING - Inge Brandenburg's Broken Dream ”, which was published for the 2016 Frankfurt Book Fair.

In November 2018 Boettcher published a detailed chapter on the Polish-Jewish singer Belina in the biography " Siegfried Behrend - Stations ", edited by Helmut Richter.

On May 31, 2019, Boettcher released the CD "I Love Jazz" as a music producer with the Unisono Records label on the 20th anniversary of Inge Brandenburg's death and was again nominated for the German Record Critics' Prize.

Books

  • Henrik Ibsen - On the stage history of his ghosts. Peter Lang Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1989, ISBN 3-631-42166-4 .
  • Alexandra - your moving life ... , Knaur Verlag, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-426-60757-3 .
  • Stranger In The Night - the Bert Kaempfert story. European Publishing House, Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3-434-50523-7 .
  • Alexandra - the legend of a singer. Parthas Verlag, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-936324-10-7 .
  • SING! INGE, SING! - Inge Brandenburg's broken dream. Parthas Verlag, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-86964-113-3 .
  • Siegfried Behrend - stations. Edited by Helmut Richter, 2nd expanded edition 2018, ISBN 978-3-7460-5652-4 .

Movies

  • Alexandra - the legend of a singer. 90 min, 1999 (also available on DVD, ARD-Video Hamburg)
  • Strangers In The Night - the Bert Kaempfert story. 120 min, 2003 (also available on DVD, languages ​​E / D, ARD-Video Hamburg)
  • I want everything - the Gitte Haenning story. 120 min, 2006 (also available on DVD, languages ​​E / D, ARD-Video Hamburg)
  • Sing! Inge, sing! - Inge Brandenburg's Broken Dream , 117 min, 2011 (theatrical distribution: Edition Salzgeber, also available on DVD)
  • Rosenstolz - we are we! The success story of a pop duo. 58 min, 2011 (a NDR production)
  • The German Lady Jazz - Inge Brandenburg (La lady allemande du jazz). 53 min, 2012 (a production by NDR-Arte)

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personal data
SURNAME Boettcher, Marc
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH April 12, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin