Martin Choroba

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Martin Choroba (* 1961 in Göttingen ) is a German film producer and media manager .

Life

The studied communication scientist and ethnologist produced his first films in collaboration with Westallgäuer Filmproduktion and later with Syndikat-Film, which he founded. Here he also directed and wrote scripts, including his first television play "Pain - Chronicle of a Disease" with Günter Lamprecht in the lead role, awarded at the Medicinale in Parma 1992 and nominated at the John Muir Festival in Los Angeles in 1992. After his studies at the Georg-August-Universität in Göttingen, he moved to Stuttgart , where he completed a traineeship at what was then Süddeutscher Rundfunk (SDR). He then worked in the field of dramaturgy for television plays and was then responsible for the state programs of SDR and Südwestrundfunk (SWR) as the cultural correspondent in Stuttgart until 1994 .

In 1994 he moved to Tellux-Film in Munich to take over management there. This was followed by other management positions within the Tellux Group in Austria , Luxembourg and Germany , including at Provobis . In 2002 he was appointed to the executive board of Tellux-Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH, where he finally took over the management. In his role as a producer, he was also responsible for numerous award-winning television programs and films. Tellux-Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH has 20 subsidiaries with the core business of production, including Tellux next, of which Martin Choroba is also the managing director, and which has been in charge of the group's digital business since 2015. The Tellux Group also has stakes in a television and radio station.

Martin Choroba is also supervisory board of the General program production (apg), which is also the platform katholisch.de operates. Since 2015 he has been chairman of the Association of Catholic Entrepreneurs (BKU) in Munich and a member of the Executive Committee of the State Committee of Catholics in Bavaria and an individual member of the Diocesan Council of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising . He was one of the initiators of the Leipzig Declaration in 2009 for the establishment of university television in Germany and taught as a lecturer for a few semesters at the Ludwig Maximilians University (LMU) in Munich and the University of Leipzig in the field of communication studies. He is also the initiator of the international Fritz Gerlich Prize at the Munich Film Festival . Martin Choroba was the jury president of the Signis Prize at the television festival in Monte Carlo and at the 2013 Prix ​​Italia television festival in Turin.

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wilfried Witte: Unheard of suffering: The history of pain therapy in Germany in the 20th century. Campus Verlag 2017, ISBN 3-593-4366-55 , p. 282.
  2. ^ Educational film: Chronicle of Pain. Retrieved December 17, 2018 .
  3. ↑ 55 years of the TELLUX Group. Retrieved December 17, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Communication from the Association of Catholic Entrepreneurs , last accessed on December 29, 2017.
  5. ↑ Communication of the Diocesan Council of Catholics , last accessed on December 30, 2017.
  6. ↑ Jury list of the Festival de Télévision de Monte-Carlo 2013 ( Memento of the original from January 12, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , last accessed on December 29, 2017. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tvfestival.com
  7. ^ Announcement from SIGNIS on the Prix Italia 2013 award ceremony , last accessed on December 29, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Choroba, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film producer and media manager
DATE OF BIRTH 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Goettingen