Marcel Mettelsiefen

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Marcel Mettelsiefen (2015)

Marcel Mettelsiefen (* 1978 in Munich ) is a German-Ecuadorian photojournalist , war correspondent and documentary filmmaker .

Life

Born in Munich as the son of a German and an Ecuadorian mother, he began taking photos after graduating from high school. He came to photojournalism through his work on the Zenith magazine, founded in 1998 - magazine for the Orient .

In early 2000 he traveled to Israel and the Palestinian Territories for a few months , where he took photos for the Associated Press news agency . After his return he started to work for the news agency dpa , for which he reported from crisis areas such as Afghanistan (2001), Iraq (2003) and Haiti (2004). In addition to his work as a photographer, Marcel Mettelsiefen began studying medicine at the Charité in Berlin in 2004 . At the end of 2008 he interrupted his studies and went to Afghanistan for 13 months to realize a long-term photographic project. This was followed by close collaboration with the star correspondent at the time , Christoph Reuter in Kabul .

After researching with Reuter in Kunduz from December 2009 to March 2010 , he and Reuter published the book Kunduz, September 4th, 2009. A search for traces , as a result of research on the air raid in the south of Kunduz , and a series of portraits of the bereaved of the 92 civilians who lost their lives in the process. The project was nominated for the Henri Nannen Prize in 2010 . The accompanying exhibition was presented in Potsdam (2010), Hamburg (2010) and Munich (2011). Federal Defense Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg visited the exhibition in May 2010 and asked to help with the investigation of compensation for the victims' families. At the end of August 2010, each family was compensated with 5,000 euros. Part of the project can be seen in the international traveling exhibition Freedom to Create .

In spring 2011 Marcel Mettelsiefen was on the road as a photographer on behalf of the magazines stern , Der Spiegel and Geo in Egypt , Libya , Syria and Afghanistan. In Misurata on October 20, 2011, he and Spiegel editor Barbara Hardinghaus were one of the few foreigners who were able to see and photograph the dead Libyan dictator Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi in a former African Market shopping center . The report and the pictures appeared on October 24, 2011 in the news magazine.

In December 2011 Mettelsiefen began filming. Since then, he has traveled incognito to Syria a total of 24 times . The result are u. a. children on the frontline for Channel 4 and Agony in Aleppo for Channel 4 news. Mettelsiefen, who has a German and an Ecuadorian passport, has been living in Barcelona with his Spanish wife and young daughter since 2016.

In March 2017 it became known that Mettelsiefen was on a Syrian travel ban list , along with the editor-in-chief of Zenith magazine , Daniel Gerlach and the Swiss reporter Kurt Pelda .

Prices

Jörg Armbruster , Eva Müller and Marcel Mettelsiefen at the presentation of the Hanns-Joachim-Friedrichs-Prize 2013

Web links

Commons : Marcel Mettelsiefen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Grimme Prize: The Children of Aleppo (ZDF / ARTE / Channel 4) ( Memento of the original from April 3, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed June 25, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.grimme-institut.de
  2. ↑ Peter-Philipp Schmitt: Oscar candidate Mettelsiefen: "Hollywood has to be taken with humor" . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . February 23, 2017, ISSN  0174-4909 ( http://www.faz.net/aktuell/gesellschaft/menschen/marcel-mettelsiefen-interview-mit-dem-oscar-anwaerter-14887476.htm Marcel Mettelsiefen - Interview with the Oscar - Candidate l [accessed February 24, 2017]).
  3. ↑ Peter-Philipp Schmitt: Oscar candidate Mettelsiefen: "Hollywood has to be taken with humor" . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . February 23, 2017, ISSN  0174-4909 ( http://www.faz.net/aktuell/gesellschaft/menschen/marcel-mettelsiefen-interview-mit-dem-oscar-anwaerter-14887476.htm Marcel Mettelsiefen - Interview with the Oscar - Candidate l [accessed February 24, 2017]).
  4. ↑ Kunduz, September 4, 2009: a search for traces / photo gr. Marcel Mettelsiefen. Text by Christoph Reuter, Rogner & Bernhard Verlag, Berlin, 2010, ISBN 978-3-8077-1063-1
  5. ↑ Libya: Death of a Tyrant on SPON , online, PDF, accessed on April 3, 2017
  6. ↑ Libya: Death of a Tyrant , in: Der Spiegel , Edition 43, 2011, pp. 90 ff
  7. ^ Libya: "Death of a Tyrant" , on: Spiegel-Onloine , online. October 24, 2011, accessed April 3, 2017
  8. ↑ Peter-Philipp Schmitt: Oscar candidate Mettelsiefen: "Hollywood has to be taken with humor" . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . February 23, 2017, ISSN  0174-4909 ( http://www.faz.net/aktuell/gesellschaft/menschen/marcel-mettelsiefen-interview-mit-dem-oscar-anwaerter-14887476.htm Marcel Mettelsiefen - Interview with the Oscar - Candidate l [accessed February 24, 2017]).
  9. ^ Zapp - Syria journalists on wanted list on NDR-online from March 8, 2017, accessed on March 13, 2017
  10. ↑ Axel Springer Prize 2012 ( Memento of the original from June 26, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.axel-springer-preis.de
  11. ↑ Prize Winner 2013. In: hanns-joachim-friedrichs.de , accessed on June 26, 2015.
  12. ↑ Channel 4 News-Syria-war coverage wins… In: channel4.com
  13. ↑ oscar.go.com Oscar nomination for 'Watani - My Homeland' by Marcel Mettelsiefen and Stephen Ellis
personal data
SURNAME Mettelsiefen, Marcel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photojournalist, war correspondent and documentary filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich