Michael Watzke

Michael Watzke (born April 12, 1973 in Lennep , a district of Remscheid ) is a German radio journalist , screenwriter , director and state correspondent Bavaria for Deutschlandfunk (DLF) from Munich .

Life

Watzke attended the Roentgen-Gymnasium Remscheid-Lennep and wrote for the local school newspaper “Die Waage” and as a freelance reporter for the Rheinische Post as well as for the regional studio Wuppertal of the WDR . In 1993 he attended the German School of Journalism . Watzke studied politics and communication science at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and in Washington, DC at the American University . In 2002 he became chief reporter at Antenne Bayern . In 2005 he visited the script workshop in Munich . In 2010 he moved to the DLF and became a state correspondent there.

He is a member of the sponsorship group of the German School of Journalism and sponsor of Akaflieg Munich.

He is the author and co-author of more than 30 broadcasts of the daily magazine “ Background” in the DLF.

Filmography

• 2005: do you feel something? (Short film) as a director and screenwriter
• 2007: The Last Piece of Heaven (TV film) as a screenwriter
• 2008: The secret noise (short film) as producer, director and screenwriter

Awards

• 2003: Axel Springer Prize for young journalists
• 2007: Nomination 'Best Film' at the Baden-Baden TV Film Festival for The Last Piece of Heaven
• 2008: Robert Geisendörfer Prize for The Last Piece of Heaven
• 2008: Prize of the German Film Critics for The Secret Sound
• 2009: 'Short film of the month' (particularly valuable) from FBW Wiesbaden for Das heimliche Geräne
• 2009: Audience Award of the Bamberg Short Film Festival for The Secret Sound
• 2010: Golden Globe of the Association of German Travel Journalists
• 2013: Media Prize of the German Society for Geography (DGfG)

Web links

• Michael Watzke in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.drehbuchwerkstatt.de/Erhaben/produkt.html
2. ^ State correspondents. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on August 20, 2018 ; accessed on September 12, 2018 (German). 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.  
3. ^ DJS: The German School of Journalism | Michael Watzke. Retrieved October 6, 2018 (German). 
4. ^ Crew United - The network of the film and television industry. Retrieved October 6, 2018 . 
5. ↑ https://www.crew-united.com/?show=projectdata&ID=75409
6. ↑ The secret sound. Retrieved October 31, 2018 . 
7. ^ "Association of German Travel Journalists"
8. ↑ Media Prize | DGfG. Accessed October 31, 2018 (German).