Michael Wiesweg

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Michael Wiesweg (born December 10, 1960 in Essen ) is a German cameraman .

Life

Michael Wiesweg was already intensively involved in photography during his school days, began his training at the State College for Optics and Photo Technology in Berlin after high school and after a one-year internship, and has worked as a camera assistant for cinema and television films since the early 1980s. His most important teachers were the cameramen Konrad Kotowski and Jürgen Juerges . In 1990 he shot his first feature film as a cameraman with Wunderjahre by director Arend Agthe .

For director Thomas Arslan Michael Wiesweg photographed his trilogy about the life of teenagers and young adults of Turkish origin in Germany, with which Arslan became famous. In addition to the four seasons of the series Weissensee by director Friedemann Fromm , he shot a. a. with the Israeli director Eran Riklis his feature films The Syrian Bride and Dancing Arabs . In 2007 a long-term collaboration with director Dominik Graf began with the historic television film The Vow . After various television productions, u. a. the multi-part In the Face of the Crime , both recently worked together on the movie Die beliebten Schwestern and the TV movie Hanne with Iris Berben.

Michael Wiesweg lives with his family in Berlin and Brandenburg.

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SURNAME Wiesweg, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cameraman
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH eat