Michael W. Driesch

Michael W. Driesch (born November 9, 1963 in Duisburg ) is a German filmmaker , author and entrepreneur .

Life

Driesch studied economics grew in Duisburg-Rheinhausen on, with final degree in business administration at the University of Duisburg and a PhD from the University of Witten / Herdecke to Dr. rer. pole. He is a member of Intertel .

He has been making short films since 1979, including the 1999 mystery film Carmare , with Barbara Schöneberger and Steffen Gräbner in the leading roles.

Michael W. Driesch, Lou Binder, Hannes Jaenicke and Detlev Buck (from left to right) at the opening of the MFA in 2004.

Michael W. Driesch in December 2019

In 2003 he founded the Mallorca Film Academy (MFA), whose advisory board included Dieter Wedel , Hannes Jaenicke , Detlev Buck and the Spanish Oscar winner Fernando Trueba . The company moved to Munich in 2007 and changed its name to "Munich Film Academy".

In 2008 he shot the mockumentary Die Eylandt Recherche under the pseudonym Doc Miguel . The film flopped at the box office.

On November 9, 2017, Driesch's children's fantasy film Max Topas - The Book of Crystal Children, based on the novel of the same name by Miguel G. Baldío, premiered in the UCI Kinowelt in Düsseldorf. The film was the opening film of the 30th Bielefeld Children's Film Festival 2018 and won the festival as "Best Film". German cinema distributor is W-film from Cologne.

In November and December 2018 Driesch shot his first international, English-language feature film, Frieda - Coming Home , which celebrated its world premiere at the Snowdance Independent Film Festival in January 2020 . The mystery thriller takes place in New York and in a house on the Niepkuhlen in Krefeld.

After a few years on Mallorca, Driesch now lives in Düsseldorf . He is the managing director of a film production SE in Düsseldorf, managing director of a consulting and investment company and has been working as an author and ghostwriter since the 1990s.

Trivia

In 1978 Driesch was an inmate of the Spantax passenger plane coming from Mallorca , which landed at Cologne-Bonn airport without warning with retracted landing gear and caught fire. In 1999 he was named "Mr. Bald" by the readers of "com! Online".

Publications (selection)

• 2014: The Myth of Art. ISBN 978-3899785005
• 2015: Faith to (w / w) eat - About the everyday illusion of knowing the truth. ISBN 978-3899785012
• 2017: Max Topas - The Book of the Crystal Children (under the pseudonym Miguel G. Baldìo ). ISBN 978-1549670824

Filmography (selection)

• 1999: Carmare
• 2008: The Eylandt Research
• 2017: Max Topas - The Book of the Crystal Children
• 2020: Frieda - Coming Home

Web links

• Michael W. Driesch in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Michael W. Driesch / Doc Miguel homepage
• XAMARAM Entertainment SE website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Vita on the homepage: Archived copy ( memento of the original from August 27, 2013 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. 
2. ↑ Driesch's XING profile
3. ↑ Galerie Driesch-Klonaris: About us ( Memento of the original from June 2, 2010 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. (accessed on November 12, 2010) 
4. ↑ IMDB: [1] (accessed November 12, 2010)
5. ↑ Dreharbeiten.de: German-Spanish Film Academy founded on Mallorca ( Memento of the original from January 15, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on November 12, 2010) 
6. ↑ About us. History . Doc M media production, accessed March 10, 2016
7. ↑ The Eylandt Recherche "is more of a parody than a mystery documentary: In Duisburg the aliens are sitting in the basement , Berliner Zeitung , November 6, 2008, accessed on July 13, 2017
8. ↑ Information by e-mail from Driesch personally on November 12, 2010
9. ↑ Information about the film: website (accessed November 10, 2017)
10. ↑ Bielefelder Kinderfilmfestival 2018 ( Memento of the original from October 1, 2018 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. (accessed October 1, 2018) 
11. ↑ Film distribution (accessed November 25, 2017)
12. ↑ IMDB (accessed November 30, 2019)
13. ↑ Information about the film at Crew United and on Driesch's website (accessed on August 8, 2018)
14. ↑ FAZ: In the end, even the palm trees were annoying (accessed on November 12, 2010)
15. ↑ Xamaram SE website (accessed October 1, 2018)
16. ↑ MARAMAX the spirit of enterprise GmbH Imprint (accessed on March 23, 2014)
17. ↑ Vita ( Memento of the original from August 27, 2013 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. (accessed on January 18, 2018) 
18. ^ WDR contribution from 1998 on YouTube
19. ↑ Elke's World [2] (accessed on January 21, 2018)