Michael Klette
Michael Klette (born March 12, 1959 in Opladen , North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German theater and film director and screenwriter .
Life
He had his first productions at the age of 18 in the GDR . Working in Anklam and on an internationally acclaimed Schiller project led to a rift with the official GDR cultural policy and in 1986 he left for West Berlin . Between 1986 and 2002 Klette worked at the theaters Freie Volksbühne Berlin , GRIPS-Theater Berlin , Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz , Schauspielhaus Zurich , Vienna , Mannheim, Kassel , Hanover , etc. a.
From 1996 to 2000 he directed the drama at the Theater Aachen and led the house to national importance.
In 2001, Klette staged Boesman's opera Wintermärchen for the Wiener Festwochen . Since 2002, Klette has largely withdrawn from the theater and works as a screenwriter for television and cinema.
Klette has also been working as a film director since 2015. For the production company "Schiwagofilm" he shot the movie Solness based on his own script .
Klette lives with his wife, the film editor Beatrice Babin and his son in Berlin.
Awards
- 2011 Prize for "The best literary film" at the festival in Baden-Baden for Kasimir and Karoline
- 2015 Honorable Mention at the International Film Festival India (IFFI) for Solness
- 2020 German TV Prize for ZDF multipart for Freedom Prize
Web links
- Michael Klette in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- Michael Klette agency profile
- Michael Klette Interview: https://www.swr.de/swr2/film-und-serie/co-autor-michael-klette-ueber-den-ddr-dreiteiler-preis-der-freiheit-im-zdf-100. html
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Burdock, Michael |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German theater and film director and screenwriter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 12, 1959 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Opladen |