Olaf Jacobs

Olaf Jacobs (* 1972 in Leipzig ) is a German director, film and television producer.

biography

From 1993 to 1995, Olaf Jacobs was an editor at the public service broadcaster. In 1996 he founded Hoferichter & Jacobs GmbH together with the film author and director Matthias Hoferichter, which he has been managing as sole managing director since 1999. Jacobs is the author, producer and director of numerous reports and TV documentaries and has been teaching as a lecturer at various universities and colleges since 2002 and is also a trainer at the media academies of public broadcasters. In 2014, Rector Beate Schücking appointed him honorary professor for “Economics of Film and TV Production” at the Institute for Communication and Media Studies at the University of Leipzig . In 2016 he was visiting professor at the Polish State University for Film, Television and Theater Łódź .

His productions include documentaries such as Forgetting Dad (directed by Rick Minnich & Matt Sweetwood, IDFA 2008, Max Ophüls Prize 2009), Unter Männer - Schwul in der DDR (directed by Ringo Rösener & Markus Stein, Berlinale 2012), Grenz ( Director: Holger Jancke, Berlinale 2004) and Homemade Hillbilly Jam (director: Rick Minnich, HotDocs 2005) as well as feature films such as Balkan Traffic - Übermorgen Nirgendwo (director: Markus Stein & Milan Puzic), Three Girls (director: Murad Ibragimbekvov) or Drei Stern Red (Director: Olaf Kaiser). The television documentary series DDR ahoi! (Director: Lutz Pehnert ) received the Grimme Prize in 2011 in the “Information & Culture / Multi-Part” category. With series like "Who Owns the East?" Together with colleagues, he developed a special form of contemporary historical documentation. In the past few years, the focus has been on interactive and cross-media projects.

Olaf Jacobs is a member of the German and the European Film Academy .

Films (selection)

• 2000 Das Banett (documentary, as producer and author)
• 2001 Heaven on Earth (documentary, as producer)
• 2002 Drei Stern Rot (feature film, as producer)
• 2004 Grenz (documentary, as a producer)
• 2004 The power of knowledge. The major universities in Europe (documentary series, as a producer)
• 2004–2009 human wilderness (documentary series, as producer)
• 2005 Homemade Hillbilly Jam (documentary, as producer)
• 2007 Balkan Traffic - The day after tomorrow nowhere (feature film, as producer)
• 2008 Bartók's Requiem (documentary, as producer)
• 2008 Secret in the Siberian Ice (documentary, as a producer)
• 2009 Forgetting Dad (documentary, as producer)
• 2010 GDR ahoy! (Documentation, Grimme Prize 2011, as producer)
• 2010 Hacker (documentary, as a producer)
• 2010 When the ice melts. Expedition Antarctica (documentation, as producer)
• 2010 The Saurian Code (documentation, as a producer)
• 2010–2012 European Cultural Landscapes (documentary series, as producer and director)
• 2011 legendary paddle steamer (documentary series, as producer)
• 2011 Health GDR (documentary series, as producer)
• 2011 Beerland (documentary, as producer)
• 2012 The Secret of the Giant Elephants (documentary, as a producer)
• 2012 Among Men - Gay in the GDR (documentary, as a producer)
• 2012 The Return of the Elephants (documentary, as a producer)
• 2012 Drei Farben Grün (documentary series, as producer)
• 2012 The secret of the migratory birds. Big rest on the Red Sea (documentary, as producer)
• 2012 Just one syringe. The biggest medical scandal in the GDR (documentary, as a producer)
• 2009-2013 The Future of Cities (documentary series, as a director)
• 2013 Egypt's sunken port city - a myth emerges (documentary, as producer)
• 2013 Generation Wende (documentary series, as producer)
• 2013 The foreign traders (documentary series, as producer)
• 2013-2018 eXakt - This is how we live (documentary series, as a producer)
• 2013 Away (documentary, as producer)
• 2014 Only the Pole brings the coal (documentary, as a producer)
• 2015 Who Owns the East (documentary series, as producer)
• 2015 What happened to the Stasi ? (Documentation, as a producer)
• 2016 Who rules the East (documentary series, as a producer)
• 2016 The LPG scandal (documentary, as a producer)
• 2016 What happened to the SED (documentary, as a producer)
• 2017 Machine people - When technology gets under your skin (documentation, as a producer)
• 2017 Kings of the World (documentary, as co-producer)
• 2017 The Secret Lives of Cats (science documentary, as producer)
• 2017 Neutrinos - Messengers from the Edge of the Universe (science documentary, as producer)
• 2017 With Hatred and Violence - Attack on Democracy (Documentary, as a producer)
• 2017 Who pays the east? (Documentary series, as a producer)
• 2018 The Care Uprising (Documentary, as a producer)
• 2018 Ways of Agriculture (documentary and series, as a producer)
• 2018 Neuland (documentary series, as producer)
• 2018 The criminal cases of the unit (documentary series and documentation)
• 2018 Bischofferode - Das Treuhand-Trauma (as producer), nominated for the Grimme Prize 2019
• 2018 Who needs the east? (Documentary series, as a producer)
• 2018 The last GDR government - How to do away with yourself
• 2018 The Auctioneers (Documentation, as producer)
• 2019 How does the Big Bang sound? (Science documentation, as producer)
• 2019 Ostfrauen (documentary series, as producer)
• 2019 The Investors (documentary series, as producer)
• 2019 Wir sind die Friedensstraße (series and documentary, as producer)
• 2019 Who pays Europe? (Documentation, as a producer)
• 2019 Who Owns the East? - Die Schlösser (documentation, as producer)
• 2019 Are we all snuggled up? - The power of touch (science documentation, as a producer)
• 2019 What happened to popular education? (Documentation, as a producer)
• 2019 Who rules Germany? (Documentation, as a producer)
• 2020 The Grand Prize - The Trust and the East (documentary, 90 min, producer)
• 2020 Mythos Treuhand (interactive offer [1] as producer), nominated for the Grimme Online Award 2020
• 2020 Who Owns the East? - The forest (documentary, as a producer)
• 2020 Who Owns the East? - The Elbe (documentation, as a producer)
• 2020 1945: Our cities (documentary series and interactive offer, as producer)
• 2020 Children of War - The Year 1945 (documentary, as a producer)
• 2020 Flexible Spaces - The Future of Building (documentation, as a producer)
• 2020 chance human - the small step to the big brain, as a producer

Books

• GDR ahoy - small country on a long journey , Mitteldeutscher Verlag.
• GDR ahoy - heroes of the sea , Mitteldeutscher Verlag.
• Time travel GDR - eleven articles for the classroom , as editor and co-author, pentAlpha Verlag.
• Time travel GDR - eleven new articles on GDR history , as editor and co-author, pentAlpha Verlag.
• Financing of film and television productions , ESV Medien.
• Discover agriculture , with Anne Mesecke, pentAlpha Verlag.
• The forgotten places of work , as editor and author with Maix Mayer (photos) and Emilia Thalheim, Mitteldeutscher Verlag 2013.
• Science for television , with Theresa Lorenz, Springer VS 2014.
• Time travel from departure - The time from October 9, 1989 to October 3, 1990 , as editor, pentAlpha Verlag 2015.
• Journalism for television , with Timo Großpietsch, Springer VS 2015.
• Traces of work , as an author with Maix Mayer (photos), Mitteldeutscher Verlag 2015.
• Who Owns the East , with Sebastian Fink, Klaus Stuttmann (caricatures), Mitteldeutscher Verlag 2015.
• Ways of Agriculture , as editor, pentAlpha Verlag 2017.
• The state power that abolished itself , together with the Federal Foundation for the Processing of the SED Dictatorship , Mitteldeutscher Verlag 2018.
• Die Treuhand - A German Drama , with Matthias Judt, Michael Schönherr, Michael Graupner, Mitteldeutscher Verlag 2020.

Awards (selection)

• 2019: Alternative media award in the history category for "The Auctioneers"
• 2018: Award for excellent business journalism with Who needs the East? in the television category of the Friedrich and Isabel Vogel Foundation .
• 2017: 2nd prize in the German Business Film Award in the feature films category
• 2017: Award for excellent business journalism with Who Owns the East? in the television category of the Friedrich and Isabel Vogel Foundation .
• 2013: “Best Nature Film” with cultural landscapes in Europe - South Tyrol in the 2013 eco-film tour
• 2011: Grimme Prize in the category "Information & Culture / Multi-Part" for the documentary series DDR ahoi! (Director: Lutz Pehnert ).
• 2008: “Joris Ivens Competition Special Jury Prize” of the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam , for the documentary Forgetting Dad produced by Olaf Jacobs (directed by Rick Minnich & Matt Sweetwood). In 2009, the same film won the Special Jury Prize of the Max Ophüls Film Festival , The Grand Jury Prize of the Guangzhou International Documentary Film Festival and the William Dieterle Film Prize.

Greatest sporting success

Olaf Jacobs is a sailor (boat class Sonar ) and took fourth place with his team (Peter Reichl, Jens Krocker) at the Paralympics 2004 in Athens .

Web links

• Hoferichter & Jacobs GmbH
• Olaf Jacobs in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Olaf Jacobs at filmportal.de
• Springer VS
• Beerland film website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Grimme-Institut.de ( Memento of the original from April 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ Ludwigshafen.de ( Memento of the original from December 26, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ www.paralympic.org/Athletes/Results
4. ↑ www.paralympic.org/Athletes/Results Results Athens 2004