Michael Meert

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Michael Adriaan Meert (born November 6, 1953 in Bonn ) is a German film director .

Life

Studied at the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin .

Co-founder of the video movement in the 1970s. Specialist in music documentaries and docu-drama.

Michael Meert is influenced by Andrej Tarkowski , Joris Ivens and Johan van der Keuken , whom he met at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (dffb) and later by the Polish dramaturge Edvard Bernstein-Zebrowski and the director Krzysztof Kieślowski , with whom he spent three years worked and debated for a long time at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien , Berlin. Using the new video technology, he explored areas at the border between documentary film and video art . From this a continuous work in the field of music film developed. His aim is to bring poetic principles into everyday TV life.

Since 1993 he has been married to the Spanish journalist Maite Serrano, who also works on the film projects. Documentaries, mostly biographical stories in different cultures, are made parallel to the music films. His works became cult films: War of Tones , Bad Boy of Music, Der Flamencoclan and Herencia Flamenca.

Filmography (selection)

  • 2013: Wavelengths / Electronic Waves
  • 2012: All people become brothers. The Freemasons and the Music
  • 2010: The 12 long years
  • 2009: The Hanging Gardens of Cordoba
  • 2008: Musical journey - Beethoven in Bonn
  • 2007: From the beautiful life
  • 2007: The young Beethoven
  • 2007: The Secret of the Third Gate
  • 2005: Jordi Savall or how the Indians crept into baroque music
  • 2005: A Baltic Journey - Gidon Kremer
  • 2004: The Flamenco Clan
  • 2003: Pablo Casals, a musician demands a better world
  • 2000: Bad Boy of Music
  • 1999: Violin Up! - Isaac Stern
  • 1996: Iberia - The Isaac Albéniz Story
  • 1995: Paco de Lucía. Light and shade
  • 1993: Manuel de Falla and Federico García Lorca
  • 1989: The death of Maurice Ravel
  • 1987: War of Sounds
  • 1984: seams

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personal data
SURNAME Meert, Michael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Meert, Michael Adriaan (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film director
DATE OF BIRTH November 6, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Bonn