Martin Hermann (filmmaker)

Martin Hermann (* 1964 in Sulingen , Diepholz district , Lower Saxony ) is a German filmmaker .

He became known among connoisseurs primarily through his three " Apparatspott " films, full-length feature films in Low German, which were made between 1996 and 2008. He is a director, producer, screenwriter, composer of the film music , cameraman and "soul" of the Sulingen Filmemoker - a group of non-commercial film producers who have run their business so far mainly for fun. He is also responsible for film editing, visual effects, special effects , the sound department and the editorial department.

While the filmmakers consisted of just two people in the first Apparatspott film, the production team already had six people in the second film. Martin Hermann was responsible for the direction, music, camera and editing.

Martin Hermann has been running his own production company "fm-graphix" since October 2005

Works

Directed by Hermann, three full-length films by the Filmemoker are available (98, 93 and 108 minutes each). All three begin in the title with "Apparatspott" - so it's a trilogy :

• Apparatspott 1: De Apparatspott - Ick heep no more pleasure here . (1999; preparations and production since 1996)
• Apparatus ridicule 2: Apparatus ridicule - scramble in Ruum un Tied . (2003; preparations and production since 2000)
• Apparatus ridicule 3: Apparatus ridicule - Dat mokt like gistern . (2008; preparations and production since 2005)
• The Sulingen project: a virtual journey through time through more than 10 centuries (in production since 2016) in collaboration with Frank Wenker, Kerstin Melloh-Kordes, Werner Focke and Christine Nordenholz.

literature

• Martin Hermann. In: Falko Weerts : De Apparatspott. The science fiction story of the Sulinger filmemoker. Weerts-Verlag, Weyhe 2007; ISBN 978-3-940807-01-4 ; P. 96 and a.
• Filmemoker GbR - sponsorship award for the Low German language. In: Culture Prize Winners of the District of Diepholz 1989 to 2006. (Ed .: Susanne Hinrichs; Ed .: Gemeinnützige Stiftung Kreissparkasse Syke), Diepholz 2007, pp. 96–99

Web links

• Martin Hermann in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Martin Hermann
• Filmmoker side