Markus Mischkowski

Markus Mischkowski (born October 7, 1966 in Cologne ) is a German filmmaker , screenwriter , film producer and actor .

Life

After graduating from high school, Markus Mischkowski studied language and literature in Berlin . Since 1990 he has been an author, director and producer (Westendfilme) of numerous short and feature films. In 2000/2001 he studied screenwriting / dramaturgy at the International Film School in Cologne . Together with the actor and director Kai Maria Steinkühler , he has been working on the Cologne Westend Cycle, a series of short and long black and white film comedies about the fictional film characters Mike (Markus Mischkowski) and, who live in the Cologne suburb of Westend, since the mid-1990s Alfred (Kai Maria Steinkühler). In his film debut Westend (2001) he was responsible as a screenwriter, director and actor.

Westend had its world premiere on October 24, 2001 at the 35th Hof International Film Festival and its international festival premiere on January 27, 2002 at the 31st International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR). The film was released in October 2003 under the title Westend - Money does not matter in German cinemas. A DVD edition was published in February 2006 by Edition Filmmuseum .

Together with Kai Maria Steinkühler, Markus Mischkowski developed his own concept of the documentary film in the films Waiting Loops (2010) and Wolkenheime (2012), in which the actors mix their own improvised storytelling and experience with role specifications in a documentary-fictional manner in a staged interview situation.

In 2014/2015 he produced and directed the feature film White Knights (world premiere on October 22, 2015 at the 49th Hof International Film Festival). He plays the film character Mike alongside Kai Maria Steinkühler and Steffi Gosejohann. White Knights came to German cinemas on October 13, 2016 (distributor: OLYMP Film / cineleusis) and was released on DVD on October 22, 2018 (provider: strzeleckiBooks).

Markus Mischkowski is a member of the Kölner Filmclub 813 and the Kölner Gruppe , a loose association of Cologne filmmakers.

Filmography (selection)

• 1996: Westend , short film ( Cologne Westend cycle , episode 1)
• 1998: What to do , short film (Cologne Westend cycle, episode 2)
• 2001: Westend , feature film (Cologne Westend cycle, episode 3)
• 2003: Volga , short film (Cologne Westend cycle, episode 4)
• 2003: The negative potential - Johannes Agnoli in conversation , documentation
• 2007: Woodruff , short film (Cologne Westend cycle, episode 5)
• 2007: Inside Lemke , short film
• 2010: Wellenreiter , short film (Cologne Westend cycle, episode 6)
• 2010: waiting loops , documentary film
• 2012: Wolkenheime , documentary film
• 2012: 50 years of misunderstanding in Oberhausen , short film
• 2013: The Pitch , short film
• 2014: competitor , short film (Cologne Westend cycle, episode 7)
• 2015: White Knights , feature film (Cologne Westend cycle, episode 8)
• 2016: The Change , short film
• 2018: What you share is ours , short film (producer; director: Mi Steinbach)

Awards (selection)

• 2005 "KölnFilm" script award from the Imhoff Foundation / FilmInitiativ Köln eV for the script Southern Comfort (with Kai Maria Steinkühler )
• 2014 script award "Münster.Land" for the treatment Lasset Rock sein - Hiltrup to Hell (with Kai Maria Steinkühler )
• 2017 FBW rating "Particularly valuable" for the short film Der Wechsel (with Kai Maria Steinkühler)
• 2017 1st prize in the NRW competition of the 63rd International Short Film Festival Oberhausen for the short film Der Wechsel

Web links

• Markus Mischkowski in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Markus Mischkowski at filmportal.de
• Markus Mischkowski on Köln-im-Film.de
• Westendfilme website

swell

• Abel, Marco (2010): Underground Film Germany in the Age of Control Societies: The Cologne Group, In: Quarterly Review of Film and Video 27: 2, pp. 89–107
• Christa Aretz / Irene Schoor: "We want to make cinema!" - The Cologne Group and the Cologne Film Schools. In: Cologne in Film - Film History (s) of a City. Pp. 343-348. Emons Verlag Cologne 2004. ISBN 3-89705-344-6 .
• Stefan Benz: Kaurismäki's Cologne colleagues are coming. In: Darmstädter Echo. August 16, 2014.
• Ground Zero: German moviemakers to present deadpan comic film cycle at Ross. In: JournalStar, Lincoln, October 28, 2011.
• Cameron Mount: German comedy duo to showcase film series at The Ross. In: The Daily Nebraskan. October 28, 2011.
• Schifferle, Hans (2012): Cine-Desperados from the Rhine - The Cologne Group and its Lived Cinema, Munich Film Museum . Program 22/2012. Pp. 64–67
• Schifferle, Hans (2016): Critique of White Knights . In: epd Film 10/2016, p. 61 (accessed on March 23, 2019)
• Tietke, Fabian: First a beer . (Review of White Knights ). In: taz of October 12, 2016, p. 16 (accessed on March 23, 2019)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Westend , International Film Festival Rotterdam
2. ↑ Westend - Money doesn't matter , filmz.de
3. ↑ Andreas Busche: Westend - money doesn't matter , filmzentrale.com
4. ↑ Cinema in a nutshell: Westend , Der Spiegel , October 6, 2003
5. ↑ ^{a b c d} Westend , Edition Filmmuseum
6. ↑ Woodruff ( Memento of the original from September 25, 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. , Hamburg short film agency 
7. ↑ Wellenreiter ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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. , Hamburg short film agency 
8. ↑ first screenplay award "Cologne Film 2005" , press release, koeln-im-film.de, April 21, 2005
9. ↑ Screenplay Award Münster.Land "Stories for the Province" , City of Münster