Michael Wulfes

Michael Wulfes (* 1948 in Marburg ) is a German director , cameraman , producer and screenwriter of documentaries .

Career

Michael Wulfes is a graduate of the Munich University for Television and Film in Munich. From 1978 to 1985 he was initially co-owner of Nanuk-Film GmbH in Munich, where he mainly directed documentaries. In 1985 he left Nanuk-Film and founded Michael Wulfes Filmproduktion, also in Munich. The films made with him as a director are to this day exclusively productions for public television, primarily for broadcasters of the ARD and for Arte. This also applies to his work as a cameraman and writer on films in which he was not the director. In addition, Wulfes wrote and shot industrial films for well-known German companies. Together with the feature film director and writer Jörg Grünler, he wrote two screenplays for cinema. Wulfes also works as a director in entertainment television (Hidden Camera), since 2002 almost exclusively in the BR with Bavarian cabaret artists. As part of his film work, he was nominated for both the Grimme Prize and the Franco-German Journalism Prize.

Filmography (selection)

Director

• 1979: professionals
• 1980: The lawn of your dreams
• 1983: From the end of time
• 1986: The drop and the hot stone
• 1993: Bars in the USA, 7 episodes
• 1994: Grandhotels - The Peninsula in Hong Kong
• 1995: Day X - Karl Lagerfeld in Paris
• 1997: On the trail of the stones
• 2000: Manhattan terminus
• 2001: ARD legends: Diego Maradona
• 2002: Jo and the murderers ( people up close )
• 2002: ARD Die Grosse Adventurer: Red Adair
• 2003: ARD legends : Max Schmeling
• 2006: The day when the Beatles (almost) came to Marburg
• 2006: The Indomitable - Escape from Hitler's elite prison
• 2007: Our 60s (ARD documentary series, 6 parts)
• 2008: ARD legends: Jane Fonda
• 2010: The Porsches - father and son
• 2011: Senta Berger - Germany Your Artists, ARD
• 2011: Wiggerls Wiesnwelt
• 2012: Till Brönner - Germany Your Artists, ARD
• 2014: Je t'aime means I love you, Arte, HR, ARD

camera

• Stories from Elsewhere - 11 episodes
• ARD legends: Franz Beckenbauer
• ARD legends: Pelé
• ARD legends: Muhammad Ali
• ARD exclusive: Taxi to Capri
• ARD exclusive: The Cup of Good Hope
• Crime scene Manila
• Weltkurier 2000 - 5 episodes
• Fernweh , travel magazine of the BR - 10 episodes
• 100% cotton Made in India
• Asbestos - a pollutant returns
• Danger of plasticizers
• Send but harmful
• Flared

entertainment

• Fully caught (hidden camera, ZDF)
• Sonnenstich (hidden camera, ZDF)
• Bayern Champions (Hidden Cam, BR3)
• Hidden Camera - The Original (Sat1)
• Fonsi (Christian Springer) at the Oktoberfest - approx. 60 episodes
• Fonsi on Neuschwanstein
• Fonsi on the Zugspitze
• Fonsi in Rome
• No harm - approx. 40 episodes

Awards

• 1980 - Golden Gong for The Lawn of Your Dreams
• 2007 - Nomination for the Grimme Prize for Our 60s
• 2012 - Cameraman in the Grimme Prize nominated film Flared
• 2014 - Nomination for the German-French Journalism Prize for Je t'aime means I love you

Web links

• Michael Wulfes in the Internet Movie Database (English)