Michel Bergmann

Michel Bergmann at a reading at the Erlanger Poetenfest 2011

Michel Bergmann (* 1945 in Basel ) is a Swiss-German director , film producer , journalist and writer .

Life

Bergmann was born as a child of interned Jewish refugees in Switzerland. His mother came from Zirndorf . He spent his childhood and youth with his family in Paris and Frankfurt am Main , where he trained at the Frankfurter Rundschau and then worked as a freelance journalist. He later switched to the film industry and has since worked as a director, producer and, above all, screenwriter for film and television. Hello, Uncle Doc, Hagedorn's daughter, Until your death do us part, My Lovely Monster, Polizeiruf 110, Unter Verdacht, Soko Wismar etc. He also wrote articles for print media and various anthologies.

In 2010 he published his first novel entitled Die Teilacher , which deals with the post-war history of Frankfurt's Jews in a humorous way. The novel was a great success and should be made into a film by Sam Garbarski ( Irina Palm ) from 2013 as a German-Luxembourgish-Belgian coproduction. In 2017 Once Upon a Time in Germany ... was shown at the Berlinale. Based on Die Teilacher and the sequel Machloikes , the film was then released in cinemas and sold in 37 countries. Bergmann was involved as a screenwriter.

The sequel to the novel Machloike was published in September 2011. The sequel Herr Klee and Herr Feld was published in 2013. Together with Anke Apelt, he wrote the historical novel Die Ärztin under the pseudonym Anke Michel, published in 2010 as a paperback by Aufbau-Verlag . In 2014 he published in Alles was his childhood memories. In his short novel Weinheber's case (2015), Bergmann reconstructs a life story and illuminates both the circumstances of the formation of the State of Israel and the conflict between Israel and Palestine.

Awards

• German industrial film award
• New York Film Award
• Hessian Script Award 2016

Works

• The Teilacher . Novel. Arche, Zurich 2010; dtv, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-423-14030-0 .
• The doctor . Historical novel (about Dorothea Erxleben ). Structure, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-7466-2556-0 (together with Anke Apelt as "Anke Michel").
• Machloikes . Novel. Arche, Zurich 2011; dtv, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-423-14214-4 .
• Mr. Klee and Mr. Feld . Novel. Arche, Zurich 2013; dtv, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-423-14359-2 .
• All that was . Narrative. Arche, Zurich 2014; dtv, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-423-14457-5 .
• Wine lifter's suitcase . Novel. Dörlemann, Zurich 2015, ISBN 978-3-03820-016-1 ; dtv, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-423-14525-1 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Michel Bergmann in the catalog of the German National Library
• Michel Bergmann in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Michel Bergmann at filmportal.de
• Michel Bergmann's website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ biography on his website
2. ^ Sibylla von Suden: Screenplay, University Film and Feature Film Awards. In: weltexpresso.de. October 23, 2016, accessed March 9, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Adorno in smoke-filled cellars in: FAZ of February 7, 2012, page 28
4. ↑ Alexander Košenina: A ring parable for our time in FAZ from August 6, 2013, page 26