Michael Steiner (film director)
Michael Steiner (born August 30, 1969 in Hergiswil NW ) is a Swiss filmmaker .
life and work
Michael Steiner grew up in Rapperswil SG . His mother was a teacher, his father ran a drugstore. After graduating from high school , he began to study ethnology, art history and film studies at the University of Zurich, but dropped out after two years.
In 1996 his road movie Night of the Jugglers came to the cinema, which he financed himself without funding and which was taken over by Condor World Sales . He then realized various commissioned films and a series of commercials for Condor Films in Zurich. He had his greatest commercial success so far with Mein Name ist Eugen , for which he received the Swiss Film Award in 2006 (Best Feature Film category). Grounding - The last days of Swissair was one of the most successful films in Swiss cinemas in 2006. The film Sennentuntschi was shot in Switzerland and Tyrol under Steiner's direction . This project cost 5.5 million Swiss francs.
In June 2009 it became known that Steiner's production company Kontraproduktion had to file for bankruptcy. After financing difficulties - Steiner's production company is in debt with 2.8 million francs - new financiers have been found for Sennentuntschi in Constantin Film . This film premiered on September 23, 2010 at the opening of the 6th Zurich Film Festival . The film opened in cinemas on October 14, 2010.
In 2012, Steiner shot Grounding 2026 , an approximately three-minute, elaborate commercial against the rip-off initiative for the business association Economiesuisse . The short film showed Switzerland in 2026 as a war-torn, failed state as a result of the initiative's acceptance. The spot was never broadcast because the client believed it was potentially counterproductive. The WOZ The weekly newspaper published the storyboard on the Internet.
In the late summer of 2017, Steiner shot the film Wolkenbruch's miraculous journey into the arms of a Schickse based on the bestseller of the same name by the Swiss writer Thomas Meyer , who also wrote the screenplay for it.
Steiner is married and has two children. He lives in Zurich .
Filmography
- 1991: The Floating Houses (feature film)
- 1993: Descartes Spiel (short film)
- 1996: Night of the Jugglers (feature film)
- 2000: Put through its paces (feature film)
- 2001: Spital in Angst (feature film)
- 2002: Suite 705 (short film)
- 2005: My name is Eugen (feature film)
- 2006: Grounding - The last days of Swissair (feature film)
- 2010: Sennentuntschi (feature film)
- 2012: The Missen Massacre (feature film)
- 2012: Grounding 2026 (political campaign film, unreleased)
- 2018: Wolkenbruch's whimsical journey into the arms of a Schickse (feature film)
literature
- Michael Steiner in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
- Andreas Scheiner: Open the flap! Portrait in: NZZ am Sonntag , Gesellschaft , from August 20, 2017, pp. 4–9.
Web links
- Michael Steiner in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Michael Steiner at swissfilms.ch
Individual evidence
- ↑ Green carpet at the opening of the Zurich Film Festival in: Tages-Anzeiger from September 24, 2010
- ↑ "Sennentuntschi" is saved - cinema release is set. Retrieved February 3, 2010 .
- ↑ Storyboard (PDF; 3.9 MB) on the WOZ Die Wochenzeitung website , accessed on March 12, 2013
- ↑ This is what the rip-off commercial would have looked like , Der Bund / Newsnet , February 20, 2013
- ↑ Michael Steiner's children grow up multilingual. Aargauer Zeitung , accessed on January 11, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Steiner, Michael |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss film director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 30, 1969 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hergiswil NW , Switzerland |