Oliver Hirschbiegel

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Oliver Hirschbiegel at the Berlinale 2017

Oliver Hirschbiegel (born December 29, 1957 in Hamburg ) is a German director . His most commercially successful works include a. The Experiment (2001) and The Downfall (2004).

Career

After attending a Waldorf school , Hirschbiegel decided to go to sea as a kitchen boy. Soon, however, he began studying at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts and studied painting and graphics. He later switched to film as a subject.

Hirschbiegel celebrated his first successes as a performance artist with the group M. Raskin Stichting Ens. , together with Andreas Coerper , Rotraut Pape and Eschi Fiege. He was also significantly involved in the development of the video magazine Infermental .

Hirschbiegel came to film through his friend, the screenwriter Michael Arnal , who placed him as the production manager for the third season of the Losberg television series . Here Hirschbiegel has a comical appearance as the Italian gangster Inglese on the side of Ida di Benedetto and Sky du Mont . His first script , Das Go! Project , Hirschbiegel was able to sell to ZDF in 1986 . He then directed it here. Various television projects followed in the next few years. The thriller Murderous Decision , broadcast in 1991, is remarkable here , which shows the same story from the point of view of two people in the form of two films, whereby the viewer himself could determine the perspective: Both versions were broadcast in parallel on ARD and ZDF, a process unique on German television . Hirschbiegel was also responsible for the Tatort episodes Tatort: ​​Kinderspiel (1992) and Ostwärts (1994), as well as directing a total of fourteen episodes of the television series Kommissar Rex .

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His first feature film was the psychological thriller Das Experiment with Moritz Bleibtreu in 2001 . For this he was u. a. awarded the Bavarian Film Prize. His film My Last Film followed in 2002 with Hannelore Elsner in the lead role. In 2004 he directed the project Der Untergang, produced by Bernd Eichinger . The film describes the last days of Adolf Hitler in the Führerbunker in Berlin. This film is not without controversy and caused heated discussions around the world. On the other hand, Hirschbiegel received great recognition for his directorial work. The downfall was awarded several prizes. This includes a nomination for best foreign language film at the 2005 Academy Awards . In the project that followed the downfall , Oliver Hirschbiegel remained true to the theme of the Nazi era . On behalf of the NDR , Hirschbiegel shot the television film A Quite Ordinary Jew based on the play of the same name . The main role was played by Ben Becker . Hirschbiegel's next film, Invasion, was the fourth film adaptation of the novel The Body Eaters are coming . The cinema release in Germany was October 18, 2007. In contrast to Hirschbiegel's earlier projects, this film was not made in Germany, but in the USA . Oliver Hirschbiegel was replaced as director during the course of production. The Wachowski brothers and James McTeigue worked on the revision of the film without being named in the credits . The film fell far short of expectations at the box office and was largely rated very negatively by the critics.

Hirschbiegel 's feature film Five Minutes of Heaven , produced in Great Britain and Ireland , opened in German cinemas on June 17, 2010 and was only seen by around 4,000 viewers, although it was largely positively received in the US press. 2011 seemed Hirschbiegel on the co-produced by ZDF television series Borgia with, a 25 million US dollars expensive production about the family Borgia with an international cast. In 2013 his film Diana , a biopic about Princess Diana , was released. The film met with devastating international criticism and flopped at the box office.

His film Elser - He would have changed the world premiered at the 2015 Berlinale .

Others

Oliver Hirschbiegel was one of the founding members of the German Film Academy in 2003 . In 2007 he was a jury member of the 3rd Zurich Film Festival chaired by US producer Albert S. Ruddy .

Hirschbiegel is married and has two daughters. He has lived in London and Hamburg since 2012. His brother Thomas is the chief reporter for the Hamburger Morgenpost , his brother Urs works as an assistant director and producer.

Filmography

Films in the top 250 of the IMDb
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130 The downfall

Awards

Web links

Commons : Oliver Hirschbiegel  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Some sources incorrectly state March 26th.
  2. ↑ Berliner Zeitung number 242 of Wednesday, October 17, 2007.
  3. ↑ Review by Peter Zander in Die Welt , October 17, 2007.
  4. ↑ Five Minutes Of Heaven . BlickpunktFilm. Retrieved December 15, 2010.
  5. ↑ Quota of 75% at Rotten Tomatoes , accessed April 20, 2017.
  6. ↑ Björn Becher: "Borgia": ZDF produces a history series by Oliver Hirschbiegel . Filmstarts.de . December 15, 2010. Retrieved December 15, 2010.
  7. ↑ Rotten Tomatoes , accessed April 20, 2017
  8. ↑ Why does nobody want to see "Diana"? ( Memento from November 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  9. ↑ The Top 250 of the IMDb (as of April 26, 2020)
  10. ↑ Previously known Bambi Prize Winners 2009 ( Memento from November 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), in: Naumburger Tageblatt online from November 24, 2009, accessed on November 25, 2009
personal data
SURNAME Hirschbiegel, Oliver
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German director
DATE OF BIRTH December 29, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg , Germany