Michael Comtesse

Michael Comtesse is a German screenwriter and director .

biography

After graduating from high school, Comtesse was a member of the district council in the Hochtaunus district for one legislative period and worked for a number of years in an institution for mentally ill and handicapped people. At the same time he studied cultural anthropology and European ethnology and art history at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main from 1997 to 2000 . From 2000 to 2002 he studied visual communication at the Offenbach am Main University of Design . After completing her intermediate diploma , Comtesse switched to the Baden-Württemberg Film Academy , where she then studied screenwriting between 2002 and 2007 . Since 2004 he has worked as a director and screenwriter.

Filmography

As a director

• 2004: Slapping and stinging (short film)
• 2005: Lost in Romania (short film)
• 2006: Cornfield of Horror (short film)
• 2007: Salsa Biggicita (short film)

As a screenwriter

• 2006: Cornfield of Horror (short film)
• 2007: Salsa Biggicita (short film)
• 2010: SOKO Stuttgart - The prototype
• 2015: Schwarzach 23 and the hand of death
• 2015: family commitments
• 2015: The Criminalist - The Innocence of Angels
• 2016: The Criminalist - The Two Deaths of Igor Dovgal
• 2017: The Criminalist - Mother of the Storm
• 2017: Tatort: ​​Your name is Harbinger
• 2018: Tatort: ​​We'll get you all
• 2019: Tatort: ​​Where did my darling go?
• 2020: Tatort: ​​The perfect crime
• 2020: Tatort: ​​The time has come

Awards

• 2005: Caligari Film Prize for Lost in Romania
• 2015: Miami LGBT Film Festival Award for Family Committed in the Best Feature Film category

Web links

• Michael Comtesse in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Statement by screenwriter Michael Comtesse. Retrieved June 15, 2020 . 
2. ^ Michael Comtesse - film projects. Retrieved June 15, 2020 . 
3. ↑ Michael Comtesse - biography. Retrieved June 15, 2020 .