Norbert Lechner

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Norbert Lechner

Norbert Lechner (* 1961 in Munich ) is a German director , screenwriter and film producer . Children's and youth films, including an animation film, became his main field .

Career

In 1985 he began to create radio reports for the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation and did so until 1992. At the same time, he studied German , philosophy and art history at the University of Munich from 1987 , which he completed in 1994 with a Magister Artium . In 1990 he founded Kevin Lee Film GmbH, a film production company, and one year later presented his first self-produced film at the Hof International Film Festival : Wounded Faces . From 1993 to 1996 he worked as a screenwriter for the ARD series Sterne des Südens and Gegen den Wind . In 1996 Lechner received a VGF grant from the Bavarian Film Center.

Between 1997 and 2007 numerous documentaries were dubbed under his direction for the FWU Institute and the Goethe Institute . His children's film Toni Goldwascher from 2007 was a success because it received numerous awards. At the Cine La Nueva Mirada festival in Buenos Aires , it was awarded the Golden Kite Award for best youth film . In 2009 he received the special prize of the CIFEJ at the International Children's Film Festival in Cairo and in 2011 the Emil for good children's television. His children's crime thriller Tom und Hacke , shot in 2011 and published in 2012, was awarded the Gera Golden Spatz for best screenplay in 2012.

Norbert Lechner lives in Augsburg .

Filmography

Director

Screenwriter

  • 1991: Wounded Faces
  • 1993–1996: Stars of the South (TV series)
  • 1993–1996: Against the Wind (TV series)
  • 1998: Tim and the aunts
  • 2000: tiny, the elephant

literature

  • Tom and Hoe . Press booklet. ( zorrofilm.de [PDF; 1.9 MB ; accessed on January 3, 2014]).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Prizes and awards . In: Kinder- und Jugendfilm Korrespondenz (KJK) . tape  29 , no. 4 , 2008, p. 9 ( kjk-muenchen.de [PDF; 8.0 MB ; accessed on August 5, 2020]).
  2. ↑ Highlights of the children's program EMIL 2010/11. In: TV SPIELFILM. Retrieved August 5, 2020 .
  3. ↑ MDR-Rundfunkrat awards children's film / television prize 2012. In: MDR.de. May 11, 2012, accessed August 5, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Judith Strußenberg: Cinema: The Bavarian Tom Sawyer is rotated in Augsburg. (No longer available online.) In: Augsburger Allgemeine. July 22, 2011, archived from the original on August 6, 2012 .;

Remarks

  1. ^ The CIFEJ, also acronym for Center International de Film pour l'enfance et La Jeunesse , engl. International Center of Films for Children and Youth is an international non-governmental organization founded under the auspices of UNESCO that works as a global network of professionals in audiovisual media for children and young people. See History of CIFEJ. Retrieved August 7, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Lechner, Norbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German director, screenwriter and film producer
DATE OF BIRTH 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich