Matthias Julian Wörz

Matthias Julian Wörz (* 1983 ) is a German film director and screenwriter.

Life

Wörz studied theater studies , philosophy and modern history at the Free University of Berlin from 2003 and graduated in 2013 with a Magister Artium . In the same year he completed training as a screenwriter at the Script Academy in Berlin . In 2015/2016, she also trained as a theater teacher .

In 2008 Wörz directed Macbeth, Striving for Power at the Theaterhaus Mitte in Berlin. The staging impressed with its physically brutal play and the fact that it broke up common narrative patterns by switching the genders of its characters.

In 2009, Wörz and the actor Daniel Faust produced the mockumentary 3 Wochen Sonnenallee, in which Faust can be seen in the figure of a right-wing criminal and ex-prisoner who wants to gain a foothold in Neukölln and is given probation to rehabilitate himself on the basis of a documentation.

Wörz made his feature film debut with the film Ein Tag 2010. The main roles were Sebastian Freilang , Johannis Hendrik Langer , and Daniel Faust .

His second film, Kalashnikov, followed in 2018/2019. A title with the power of a rifle volley.

In this film, Matthias Julian Wörz deals with the subject of suicide. He stages the constant companion as the last way out of a supposedly hopeless situation, the depression, which his main character Anton Schmieder is confronted with. Even though he should be happy, apparently. On a different level we encounter death in Kalashnikov as the force of change, as the beginning of a new form of existence in the constant dance of being: dying as a form of transformation towards the actual self, which the sick self can let go of and enough of itself may be.

Matthias Julian Wörz has lived in Berlin since 2003 .

Filmography

2009: 3 weeks Sonnenallee (director)
2010: One Day (Director)
2019: Kalashnikov (actor, director)

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personal data
SURNAME	Wörz, Matthias Julian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German film director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH	1983