Michael Schaerer

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Michael Schaerer (2013)

Michael "Mike" Schaerer (born March 17, 1975 in Aarau ) is a Swiss film editor and film director .

Career

Michael Schaerer visited in Aarau schools, he attended the old district school with the Matura Type B completed. In his youth he played in music groups and did athletics (mainly 800 meter run ).

After a year in between, he began studying at the School of Visual Arts in New York and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in film and video directing. At the School of Visual Arts he produced Flow and “On Tact” as well as the short film Warmth as a thesis, which was shown in the short film competition at the Venice Film Festival and which earned Schaerer the renowned Student Academy Awards (“Student Oscar”). In 2001 Schaerer was the first Swiss to receive this coveted trophy (gold medal in the 'Alternative' category).

After completing his training (2001), Michael Schaerer mainly works as a film editor. At the same time he also developed his own projects and directed, a. a. in the 10-part SRF documentary series “Start up - the way to your own company”.

Stationspiraten is the first feature film that he made as a director. The film was shown at the Emden Film Festival , the Max Ophüls Festival , the Zurich Film Festival and others. a. O. was awarded prizes and was well received by the critics. It is aboutyoung peoplewith cancer . In2012, the Swiss Cancer League awarded Schaerer the Recognition Prize, which is given to people or organizations who work to improve the situation of patients.

In 2013 he was commissioned to direct the Swiss (Lucerne) crime scene Between Two Worlds . In the Berliner Zeitung, Klaudia Wick attests to the director Schaerer a “no frills and flawless staging” (BZ “Cracked or bumped?”). The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung ( FAZ) emphasizes the "relaxed realism" and praises the " crime scene, which is quiet despite all the tension and filmed with attention to detail " ( Dieter Bartetzko ). The “Prix du Public” of the Solothurn Film Festival 2016, endowed with CHF 20,000 , went to the film Lina by Michael Schaerer (broadcast on SRF1 on February 21, 2016), which tells a tragic love story against the background of administrative support . At the same time, Rabea Egg received the award for best leading actress.

Schaerer's film The Little Witch, based on the novel of the same name and classic children's book by Otfried Preußler, celebrated its world premiere on January 21, 2018 in Munich . The film jury of the German Film and Media Assessment FBW gave the film the title “Particularly valuable”; the youth film jury awarded four and a half stars. The Swiss premiere (Di chli Häx) took place on January 27, 2018 at the Solothurn Film Festival . The film was released on February 1, 2018. Christian Junge certified Schaerer in the film magazine "Frame", which was enclosed with the NZZ am Sonntag on December 10, 2017, that he was a great director and that he recommended himself for the leap to Hollywood with this film. The cameraman Matthias Fleischer received the Bavarian Film Prize for The Little Witch. The film already enjoyed great public success in its first few weeks in Germany, Austria and Switzerland; it was received positively by the critics and nominated for the German Film Prize 2018 (Best Children's Film). With around 1.8 million cinema entries, it was the most successful Swiss co-production abroad in 2018. In Germany alone he was able to book over 1.5 million admissions. It was shown in theaters in over 20 other countries.

Michael Schaerer teaches at the Zurich University of the Arts . He is married and has two children.

Filmography

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "There are a lot of self-appointed 'crime scene' experts" (January 4, 2014)
  2. ↑ … a collage of three people's intertwined-yet-separate lives spanning all ages and locations from the Swiss Alps to the streets of Manhattan's Lower East Side. http://www.colorlab.com/
  3. ↑ Experimental film http://www.swissfilms.ch/de/film_search/filmdetails/-/id_person/953116436
  4. ↑ Table of contents and review by Doris Senn: Warmth - Michael Schaerer ( Memento from October 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ); Cast: http://www.swissfilms.ch/de/film_search/filmdetails/-/id_film/-1794866006
  5. ↑ About his way of working: Christoph Schneider: The cut is a criticism of the shooting. In: Tages-Anzeiger (Culture) of March 25, 2006, p. 54.
  6. ↑ http://www.werbewoche.ch/sf-start-up-ist-begehrt , http://www.gruenderszene.de/news/schweizer-startup-hype-durch-sf-start-up and http: / /www.wirtschaft.ch/Excellent+SF+Start+up/295341/detail.htm#image0
  7. ↑ Prize winners of the recognition award of the Swiss Cancer League. (PDF) In: Swiss Cancer League. Retrieved February 3, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Dieter Bartetzko: Say “Hare Krishna” quietly as you part. In: FAZ.net . April 21, 2014, accessed October 13, 2018 .
  9. ↑ solothurnerfilmtage.ch - Previous winners
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  16. ↑ https://www.deutsche-filmakademie.de/no_cache/herzlich-willkommen/aktuelles/meldung.html?tx_news_pi1%5Bnews%5D=621&tx_news_pi1%5Bcontroller%5D=News&tx_news_pi1%5Baction%5D=detail&cHash=da864eb23c60ce53b5cb1f1de91d4155  ( page no longer retrievable , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.bayern.de  
  17. ↑ u. v. a. https://www.welt.de/kultur/kino/article173059073/Trailer-Kritik-Zauberhaft-Die-kleine-Hexe-mit-Karoline-Herfurth.html , http://www.luzernerzeitung.ch/nachrichten/kultur/ love-good-evil-witch-or-what; art9643,1191698
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  19. ↑ Swiss Films February 4, 2019 [9]
  20. ↑ Zurich University of the Arts ( Memento from January 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  21. ↑ Solothurn Film Festival - "Lina" - gloomy memories of a youth (23 January 2016)
  22. ↑ Film releases - THE LITTLE WITCH
personal data
SURNAME Schaerer, Michael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schaerer, Mike (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss film editor and film director
DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Aarau