Oliver Halmburger

Oliver Halmburger (* 1971 in Munich ) is a German documentary filmmaker specializing in contemporary history documentaries. He has been working for television ( ZDF , ARD , Arte and others) since 1992 . Since 2001 he has been the managing director of Loopfilm GmbH in Munich-Schwabing .

Filmography

• 1997: Vatican - The Power of the Popes - John XXIII. and the departure
• 2000: Holocaust
• 2001: Hitler's women - Eva Braun
• 2001: Silently at the limit - gliding world record
• 2002: The secret of U-166
• 2002: decisive battle Moscow 1941
• 2003: Stalin - The Warlord
• 2003: Ghosts - Dimension PSI
• 2004: You wanted to kill Hitler - missed opportunities
• 2004: The hell of Monte Cassino
• 2004: Hitler's manager - Wernher von Braun
• 2005: Soraya and the Shah
• 2005: Hitler family
• 2005: Fritz Wunderlich - Life and Legend
• 2006: The Hell of Verdun
• 2007: Leni Riefenstahl - Hitler's useful idols
• 2007: The Miracle of Mogadishu
• 2009: Escape to Freedom - By all means
• 2009: Stauffenberg - The real story
• 2009: Busting the Berlin Wall
• 2010: The Aliens - Myth and Truth
• 2011: The race to the South Pole - Amundsen versus Scott
• 2015: With the courage of despair

Award

In 2010 he received the History Makers Award for Busting the Berlin Wall in the Best History Production category . The film was also awarded a gold medal at the New York Festival . At the 2012 Romy Awards , he and Heinrich Mayer-Moroni were honored in the category Best Producer TV Documentation for Der Wettlauf zum Südpol .

Web links

• Literature by and about Oliver Halmburger in the catalog of the German National Library
• Oliver Halmburger in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Oliver Halmburger at filmportal.de
• Short biography of Oliver Halmburger at the German Television Award