Nils Willbrandt
Nils Willbrandt (born 1967 ) is a German film director and screenwriter.
Life
Willbrandt studied communication sciences , political science and media law at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich from 1987 and graduated in 1993 with a master's degree . This was followed by a postgraduate course in film at the University of Hamburg from 1994 to 1998 . In 1989/1990 he spent a few months in New York City , where he took acting and dramaturgy lessons at the Herbert Berghof Studio . He also worked as a journalist for Sat.1 , Springer's international service and Swiss television .
As a film director, he first made a few short films, was also seen as an actor in the movie Happy Weekend, and then got more and more television jobs in the early 2000s. From 2004 to 2007 he was the director of eleven episodes for the TV series SOKO Wismar . From 2008 he was established in the TV crime thriller upper class and took on 110 directing jobs for Tatort and Polizeiruf , several times even including a script. It wasn't until 2014 that he managed to work outside the crime genre again. His film adaptation of Lale Akgün's novel Tante Semra im Leberkäseland , for which he wrote and directed the screenplay and direction for ARD Degeto / Ziegler Film, won him the Civis - Europe's media prize for integration in the entertainment sector in 2016 . In 2015, he also shot the TV miniseries Pregau - No way back for the Austrian film production company Mona Film .
Nils Willbrandt lives with his family in Berlin .
Filmography
- 1996: Without pants, short film (director)
- 1996: Happy Weekend (actor, dramaturgy)
- 2000: Homicide Squad , TV series (directed in 2 episodes)
- 2000: 30 years of Peter Maffay, TV documentary (director)
- 2002: Stars That Never Set - Atlantic Affairs (Director, Screenplay)
- 2004–2007: SOKO Wismar , TV series (direction in 11 episodes)
- 2007: Nothing Is Forgotten , TV Feature Film (Director)
- 2007: The Fat Man , TV series (Directed in 2 episodes)
- 2008: Tatort: incorruptible (director)
- 2009: Polizeiruf 110: Wrong Father (Director, Screenplay)
- 2009: Tatort: Above and Below (Director)
- 2009: The Seizure of Power, documentary series (directed in 3 episodes)
- 2009: Guilty TV Feature Film (Director)
- 2010: Tatort: Life Against Life (director, screenplay)
- 2011: Tatort: Murder in the first division (director, script assistant)
- 2011: Polizeiruf 110: Zwei Brüder (director)
- 2012: Roter Schnee (Director)
- 2012: Blutadler (Director)
- 2013: Death in the Mountains , TV crime thriller (director)
- 2014: Polizeiruf 110: Downward (Director)
- 2015: Brandmal (screenplay)
- 2015: Leberkäseland, TV feature film, (director, screenplay)
- 2016: Pregau - No way back (director, screenplay)
- 2017: I'll turn back time for you (Director)
- 2018: Commissioner Lucas - The Judgment (Director)
- 2019: Commissioner Lucas - Polly (Director)
- 2019: Schuld (ZDF television series) (Direction in 4 episodes 2019)
Awards
- 2007: International TV Festival Bar Montenegro, bronze olive for nothing is forgotten
- 2016: European CIVIS TV Award in the entertainment category for the film Leberkäseland
- 2016: Juliane Bartel Prize , Best Film, Leberkäseland
Web links
- Nils Willbrandt in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Nils Willbrandt at filmportal.de
supporting documents
- ↑ Profile Nils Willbrandt at the Bundesverband Regie , accessed June 11, 2016
- ^ Leben & Werk Nils Willbrandt , kino.de, accessed June 11, 2016
- ↑ Civis Prize Winners 2016 , accessed on June 11, 2016.
- ^ TV series "Pregau" (AT) , accessed on June 11, 2016.
- ↑ Best film: “Leberkäseland.” , Accessed December 4, 2016
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Willbrandt, Nils |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German film director and screenwriter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1967 |