Matthias Drawe

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Matthias Drawe in New York, 2012

Matthias Drawe (born February 4, 1963 in East Berlin ) is a German journalist , author , director and actor .

Life

Drawe grew up in a DEFA building in Potsdam-Babelsberg, on the border with West Berlin . Together with his mother and father, Hans Drawe , a DEFA dramaturge at the time , he managed a spectacular escape to West Berlin in 1970. With an unsecured ladder they climbed over the Berlin Wall and risked their lives in the process.

In the early 1980s, Drawe lived in an occupied house in Berlin-Kreuzberg , an experience that he processed in his novel Wilde Jahre in West Berlin .

Through a mutual friend, Drawe met the Turkish director Serif Gören in 1987 , who had taken on the direction of the film Yol - The Way (1982) for the imprisoned Yilmaz Güney in the early 1980s . Brats was in Kreuzberg to direct the comedy Police (1988) with the Turkish actor Kemal Sunal . Brats cast Drawe as petty criminals.

Inspired by brats, Drawe filmed The Art of Being a Man (1989) on Russian black and white material that friends had smuggled out of the GDR . In 1990 he founded the cellar cinema in Kreuzberg together with other independent filmmakers. Among other things, the early short films by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck , who was still unknown at the time and who later won an Oscar for The Lives of Others , were shown there.

After Drawe had made the films Der König von Kreuzberg (1990) and Der Elfenbeinturm (1992), he wrote the pilot film and the first episode of the ZDF series Lutz & Hardy with Karl Lieffen and Hans Korte in the leading roles.

In 1995 Drawe moved to New York City and worked there as a journalist for Deutschlandradio Kultur . Most of Drawe's radio reports were brought to life by actor Christian Brückner , the official dubbing voice of Robert De Niro . This gave the German listener the impression that it was De Niro who reported here from all over the world.

Filmography

  • 1988: Police (actor), director: Şerif Gören
  • 1989: The Art of Being a Man (Writer and Director, Actor)
  • 1991: The King of Kreuzberg (script and direction, actor)
  • 1993: The Ivory Tower (script, director, actor)
  • 1994: Lutz & Hardy , ZDF television series with Karl Lieffen and Hans Korte,
    scripts for the pilot film and the first episode (together with Hans Drawe)

Radio reports (selection)

  • 2002: The Tijuana Wall - Borderline Experiences in Mexico
  • 2002: Kinga and Micky - shoe sellers in Manhattan
  • 2002: Beloved Mumpies - being fat is nice - in Jamaica
  • 2003: My reward is hope - stand-up comedians in New York
  • 2003: Life is a beach - Carnival blues on Copacabana
  • 2004: You have to be funny! - As a foreigner looking for a job in Tokyo
  • 2004: Haiti 2004 - a country in turmoil
  • 2005: respect for the Rastaman! - Musicians in Jamaica
  • 2005: Point Barrow Alaska - At the northernmost point of the USA
  • 2006: From Arroz con Pollo to Empire Chicken - the chicken in New York's cooking pots
  • 2006: Got to the rooster - unexpected encounters in Puerto Rico
  • 2007: We stop paying rent - land grabbing in Brazil

Books

  • 2014: Wild Years in West Berlin , novel
  • 2016: Almost at the top , novel
  • 2019: The world is my oyster , travelogues

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wild Years in West Berlin , Goodreads
  2. ↑ The Art of Being a Man , IMDb
  3. ↑ Kellerkino , Berliner Zeitung of July 3, 1996
  4. ↑ List of actors for the police , IMDb
  5. ↑ The art of being a man , filmportal.de
  6. ↑ The King of Kreuzberg , filmportal.de
  7. ↑ The ivory tower , filmportal.de
  8. ^ The Wall of Tijuana , DLR program announcement
  9. ^ Shoe seller in Manhattan , DLR program announcement
  10. ↑ Beloved Mumpies , DLR program announcement
  11. ^ Stand-up comedians in New York , DLR program announcement
  12. ↑ Life is a Beach , DLR program announcement
  13. ↑ Funny you have to be! , DLR program announcement
  14. ^ Haiti 2004 , DLR program announcement
  15. ↑ Respect for the Rastaman , DLR program announcement
  16. ^ Point Barrow, Alaska , DLR program announcement
  17. ↑ From Arroz con pollo to Empire Chicken , DLR program announcement
  18. ↑ Got the tap , DLR program announcement
  19. ↑ We no longer pay rent , DLR program announcement
  20. ↑ Wild Years in West Berlin , Goodreads
  21. ↑ Almost at the top , Goodreads
  22. ↑ [1] , The world is my oyster , review in Eisenacher Rezi-Center, January 2, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Drawe, Matthias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author, journalist, director and actor
DATE OF BIRTH 4th February 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH East Berlin