Marcus Pfeiffer

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Marcus Pfeiffer (* 1981 in Ebersberg , Upper Bavaria ) is a German screenwriter .

Life

Marcus Pfeiffer grew up with a younger sister in Upper Bavaria . In his youth he played football at TSV 1860 Munich , as well as in the German national youth team. In 2000 he won a sponsorship award from the German Youth Film Award with his satirical show Die Junge Wochenshow .

After graduating from high school , he studied communication science at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . He then worked as a copywriter for the advertising agency Ogilvy & Mather in Frankfurt , where he won a lion at the Cannes Lions Festival as a junior copywriter for an Ikea Facebook app . Most recently he was Creative Director at Jung von Matt in Hamburg .

In total, in his career as a copywriter, he has won over 50 national and international creative awards, including two Cannes Lions and a Grand Prix of the New York Festivals.

In 2019, as a scholarship holder of the DrehbuchWerkstatt München ( HFF München ), he won the Tankred Dorst Prize for the best screenplay at the Munich Film Festival with his script “Beckenrand Sheriff” . This script was funded by FilmFernsehFond Bayern and the Filmförderungsanstalt and filmed as a comedy for the cinema in 2020 by director Marcus H. Rosenmüller .

He currently lives in Munich with his wife Ariane Pfeiffer .

Filmography

  • 2000: Die Junge Wochenshow (satirical weekly show, director: Marcus Pfeiffer)
  • 2016: Training with Ralf Moeller ( Webisodes for Real , Director: Dennis Gansel )
  • 2017: Be the one who dares (worldwide TV spot for BMW , director: Manu Cossu)
  • 2020: Beckenrand Sheriff (cinema comedy, director: Marcus H. Rosenmüller )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ German Youth Film Award 2000. In: deutscher-jugendfilmpreis.de. Retrieved July 24, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Cannes Lion for Ikea "Billygram". In: welovead.com. Retrieved July 24, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Marcus Pfeiffer | Authors | Association of German Scriptwriters eV (VDD). Retrieved July 24, 2020 .
  4. ^ New York Festivals. Retrieved July 24, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Screenplay Workshop Munich - Prize Winner. In: Drehbuchwerkstatt.de. Retrieved July 24, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Millions in funding from Bavaria. In: blickpunktfilm.de. Retrieved July 24, 2020 .
  7. ^ FFA Filmförderungsanstalt. In: ffa.de. Retrieved July 24, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Interview with Marcus Pfeiffer | Association of German Scriptwriters eV (VDD). In: scriptwriters.den. Retrieved July 29, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Pfeiffer, Marcus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Ebersberg , Upper Bavaria