Michael Kloft

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Michael Kloft (* 1961 in Bonn ) is a German journalist , television author, television producer and director .

Life

After completing his community service , he studied political science from 1983 to 1989 . Initially he worked as a freelance writer for various contemporary television documentaries, including Spiegel TV and Chronos-Film. In 1992 he became assistant director in Heinrich Breloer's production Wehner - the Untold Story . With Spiegel TV since 1995, he has been head of the “History” department at Spiegel TV since 2000 and Michael Kloft has been managing director and program director at the pay-TV channel Spiegel Geschichte since 2009 . Michael Kloft's documentaries were a. a. broadcast by ARD , ZDF (in cooperation with Guido Knopp ), Sat.1 and VOX .

The documentary What Color is the War - Germany 1945 was nominated for the Adolf Grimme Prize in 1996. Hitler's Hehler - The Swiss Banks and Nazi Gold received the bronze medal at the New York Film Festival in 1998 . The documentary The Goebbels Experiment was shown at the 2005 Berlinale . In the same year, his two-part documentary When the War Came to Germany - Diary 1945 was nominated for the German Television Prize.

“Michael Kloft is considered the leading contemporary history and Nazi expert on German television. His productions always set new standards ... "

- Die Welt : welt.de: The collapse on a one-to-one scale (from April 30, 2011)

Filmography

  • 1992 - The Katyn Lie
  • 1993 - Berlin during the Cold War
  • 1994 - MPs under the swastika
  • 1994 - Search for Dr. Goerdeler
  • 1995 - resistance - fight against Hitler
  • 1995 - Germany 1945 - end and beginning
  • 1996 - Albert Speer's guilt and atonement
  • 1996 - What color is the war - Germany 1945 (nominated for the Adolf Grimme Prize in 1996)
  • 1997 - Hitler in Vienna - apprenticeship as a dictator
  • 1998 - Hollywood and the War - how star director John Ford shot D-Day
  • 1998 - Hitler's Hehler - Swiss Banks and Nazi Gold (1998 bronze medal at the New York Festival )
  • 1999 - The Third Reich in Color
  • 1999 - TV under the swastika
  • 2000 - Julius Streicher - Der Judenhetzer
  • 2001 - The tramp and the dictator
  • 2001 - Berlin - The first summer in peace
  • 2003 - The secret worlds of the Nazis
  • 2003 - The Chronicle of the Nuremberg Trial
  • 2004 - The last German emperor
  • 2004 - Death in the Führerbunker - The true story of Hitler's downfall
  • 2004 - Firestorm - The bombing war against Germany
  • 2005 - The Goebbels experiment
  • 2005 - When the war came to Germany
  • 2007 - The Bought Revolution
  • 2007 - 100 Years of Berlin - From Emperor to Chancellor
  • 2008 - 1933-Hitler's seizure of power
  • 2009 - The Faces of Evil - Hitler's executioner (On concentration camps and perpetrators of the Nazi extermination of Jews)
  • 2009 - When the world was on fire - The Chronicle of World War II
  • 2009 - The Strange War-Hitler's Blitzkrieg against France
  • 2011 - One day makes history - April 30, 1945
  • 2011 - Hitler's Death (Part 1: The Suicide, Part 2: The Surrender)
  • 2012 - Interior views - Germany 1937 (using recordings from March of Time: Inside Nazi Germany )
  • 2012 - Erwin Rommel myth. Documentation , 66 min., Mirror TV (DVD)
  • 2013 - Richard Wagner - Genius and Demon of the Germans
  • 2013 - Chancellor - Governing in Germany
  • 2015 - 1945 - 12 cities, 12 fates
  • 2015 - countdown to doom. The Long End of World War II (twelve-part series)
  • 2017 - Eva Braun - The Bride of Evil
  • 2017 - Rise and Fall of Communism (12 episodes)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Vox.de: Michael Kloft accessed on January 3, 2014.
  2. ↑ spiegel-geschichte.tv: About the broadcaster - The team from SPIEGEL Geschichte ( Memento of the original from January 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 5, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.spiegel-geschichte.tv
  3. ↑ spiegelgruppe.de: SPIEGEL TV: Michael Kloft becomes managing director of SPIEGEL TV history accessed on January 5, 2014.
  4. ^ TV author Michael Kloft: In search of the colorful past. In: Spiegel Online . January 6, 2001, accessed February 6, 2017 .
  5. ↑ http://www.cine-holocaust.de/cgi-bin/gdq?dfw00fbw003470.gd ( Memento from January 2, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ zdf info, broadcast on May 6, 2015, Hitler's Death - Der Suicide From : zdf.de accessed on May 6, 2015.
  7. ↑ Vox.de: 1945 - 12 cities, 12 Fates - The author Michael Kloft , accessed on May 2, 2015.
  8. ↑ presseportal.de: ZDFinfo starts countdown to the downfall of a twelve-part series on the long end of the Second World War , accessed on May 2, 2015.
  9. ↑ Two-part documentary "Eva Braun - The Bride of Evil" in ZDFinfo: ZDF press portal. Retrieved July 18, 2018 .
  10. ^ Entry of the documentary at imdb.com
  11. ↑ Page about the rise and fall of communism at Phoenix.de
personal data
SURNAME Kloft, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist, television writer, television producer and director
DATE OF BIRTH 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Bonn