Matthias Kiefersauer

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Matthias Kiefersauer (2017)

Matthias Kiefersauer (* 1973 in Wolfratshausen ) is a German film director , screenwriter and columnist . His stories often take place in Bavaria and are characterized by a profound sense of humor, precise observations and a great love for the characters.

life and work

Matthias Kiefersauer grew up in Waldram , a district of Wolfratshausen, and attended the Geretsried grammar school , which he graduated from high school in 1992. After his community service , he began to study German and political science at the Munich LMU in autumn 1993 . In addition, he applied, allegedly out of lovesickness, to host the youth show "Live from Alabama". The application of the then 20-year-old got him an internship at the TEXT + BILD production company responsible for "Live from Alabama", which soon turned into a traineeship. At the end of 1994 Matthias Kiefersauer moved to Munich. He left his studies at the LMU on hold.

From 1994 to 1996 he worked as a trainee at the television production company TEXT + BILD . Here he mainly wrote for the BR youth show Live from Alabama . This was followed by studies in the documentary film department of the University of Television and Film Munich from 1996 to 2002 . During a seminar in 1999 Matthias Kiefersauer got to know the Munich director Franz X. Bogner. He encouraged him to shoot his exercise film "Noodles" in Bavarian. After the seminar, Bogner Kiefersauer offered to help him develop the book for his series "Café Meineid" (BR). Matthias Kiefersauer researched cases and backgrounds for Bogner. Together they wrote the scripts for several episodes of the series. Matthias Kiefersauer found a second mentor in Franz X. Gernstl. The Bavarian documentary filmmaker engaged Matthias Kiefersauer in 2001 as an editor for several editions of his series "Gernstl on the go". The collaboration lasted two years.

Matthias Kiefersauer finished his studies at the University of Television and Film in 2002 with the short film "Wonderful Days", which was shown at numerous festivals in Germany and abroad and won him prizes at the Landshut Short Film Festival and the Rüsselsheim Film Festival. After graduating from university, Matthias Kiefersauer first made documentaries for Bavarian television, especially for the series "People in Bavaria" and "Under Our Heaven". In addition, between 2004 and 2005, he was a scholarship holder of the script workshop in Munich . There he developed the script for his film "Baching", which he was to shoot in 2007. He received the Tankred Dorst Prize in 2005 for the book . Matthias Kiefersauer made his feature film debut with the comedy "Das große Hobeditzn", which he wrote together with Alexander Liegl (Cabaret Valtorta) and shot in 2006. The feature film, in which an odd village community invents a custom and its long history, was made for Bavarian television and premiered at the 2007 Munich Film Festival. Since then, Matthias Kiefersauer has been one of the most important directors of the new Bavarian homeland film.

The versatility of his training (s) is also reflected in the projects that Matthias Kiefersauer has carried out since 2007: He shot comedies ("What do women do in the morning at half past three?", "False Seventies"), crime novels ("Soko 5113", "Der Alte"), love films ("Inga Lindström"), television series ("Betty Diagnose", episodes 1 to 4; "Franzi", episodes 1 to 26) and even staged seven plays for the "Komödienstadel" of Bavarian television. Regardless of the genre, his works often achieved high audiences. For example, his film "Love Your Neighbor" from the Inga Lindström series is considered the most successful ZDF Sunday evening film in 2015 (over 6 million viewers). With the comedy "What do women do at 3:30 in the morning?" When it was first broadcast, it reached 5.5 million viewers and a market share of 17.6 percent, which was one of the best results on a Wednesday evening on ARD in 2013.

In August 2008 Matthias Kiefersauer received the offer to write a weekly column for "Münchner Merkur". Every Saturday he was supposed to tell stories from his everyday life in Munich under the heading "Münchner Freiheit". The first text appeared on August 23, 2008. Since then there have only been two Saturday editions of "Münchner Merkur" without a text by Matthias Kiefersauer. In the summer of 2011, LangenMüller published the anthology "Weltstadt mit Föhn - a Munich must read", which contains the most beautiful texts from the first two years as a columnist - and is now considered a standard work in Munich.

In autumn 2016 he shot the pension fraud comedy "Falsche Seventies" for BR / ARD. It celebrates its premiere at the "Münchner Filmfest 2017".

Honourings and prices

  • 2005: Tankred Dorst script award from the script workshop in Munich for Baching
  • 2009: AZ star of the year for "Franzi", also nominations for the German Television Prize, Adolf Grimme Prize and Bavarian Television Prize (here: for the leading actress Jule Ronstedt)
  • 2012: 1. Bad Feilnbacher film apple for "The great Hobeditzn"

Filmography (selection)

  • 2002: wonderful days
  • 2004: People in Bavaria: Nuremberg - Stories from the Südstadt
  • 2004: Andreas Giebel - traveler
  • 2005: People in Bavaria: The Erlanger and their mountain
  • 2007: The great Hobeditzn
  • 2008: Komödienstadel - Foulspui
  • 2008: Baching
  • 2010: Comedy nobility - Glen Miller and Sauschwanzl
  • 2011: Komödienstadel - A bottle of happiness
  • 2012: Komödienstadel - The pious Helene
  • 2009–2011: Franzi (TV series)
  • 2012: What do women do at 3:30 in the morning?
  • 2013: Komödienstadel - Alone among cows
  • 2013: Komödienstadel - Alpenglühn and Männertreu
  • 2014: Four triplets are one too many
  • 2014: SOKO 5113 (episode 535 to 539)
  • 2014: Comedy nobility: Paula's last will
  • 2014: Betty's diagnosis - episodes 1 to 4
  • 2015: Inga Lindström: Love your neighbor
  • 2015: The old man: "Bird of Paradise" and "Deadly Ideals"
  • 2016: The old man: "Silent witness" and "Beautiful glow"
  • 2016: Inga Lindström: Dance with me
  • 2017: Wrong Seventies
  • 2018: Munich murder: the whole city is a fool
  • 2018: Inga Lindström: The bride from the Götakanal
  • 2019: Inga Lindström: Söderholm, of all things

Book publications

  • 2011: "Cosmopolitan city with a hair dryer - a Munich must read". Collection of columns with photos by Volker Derlath (LangenMüller; ISBN 978-3-7844-3277-9 )

Trivia

  • Between 1991 and 2001 Matthias Kiefersauer was bassist in the soul band Sir Quickly . Among the musicians were u. a. Florian Boitin , the editor-in-chief of PLAYBOY Germany; the trombonist Marion Dimbath, who accompanied the Sportfreunde Stiller on their unplugged tour; and the drummer Andreas Haberl , who appears as a stage drummer with "The Notwist" and who enjoys an international reputation as a jazz musician.
  • Matthias Kiefersauer has a license as a football coach.

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personal data
SURNAME Kiefersauer, Matthias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German director
DATE OF BIRTH 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Wolfratshausen