Oliver Schündler

Oliver Schündler (born August 10, 1966 in Munich ) is a German film and television producer . He is the managing director and owner of Lucky Bird Pictures GmbH, Munich.

Life

Schündler is the son of the photographer Verena Schündler and the director and actor Rudolf Schündler , at whose side he played a small role in the family comedy As a mother at the age of seven . After graduating from high school and abroad in Italy and the USA, he completed an apprenticeship as a banker in 1988. Already during his apprenticeship he staged several plays (including Enzensberger's / Molières Der Menschenfeind , Ödön von Horváth's Faith, Love, Hope and Martin Walser 's Children's Game ) and immediately after his apprenticeship began various internships and internships at the theater (including Piccolo Teatro, Bavarian Staatsschauspiel) and worked as a lecturer and production assistant for film and television.

After his first permanent position in 1991 as a dramaturge at the Neue Deutsche Filmgesellschaft, he moved to the Bavarian State Theater in Munich as an assistant director and evening play director , then to the Salzburg Festival . As assistant director Schündler u. a. with Matthias Hartmann, Günther Beelitz, George Tabori , Robert Lepage, Leander Haußmann , Peter Stein and Luca Ronconi .

In 1994 Schündler first became a dramaturge at Bavaria Film GmbH and between 1995 and 2000 was responsible as a producer for various TV movies, series and series. In 2001 he took over the management of international co-productions within Bavaria Media GmbH. Under the new label Bavaria Media Television, Schündler combined the TV activities of the Bavaria Film Group in world sales and international co-productions under one roof. At the same time, he took over the management of the newly founded Bavaria Media Italia srl ​​in Rome from 2004 and became co-managing director of the rights sales company German United Distributors GmbH, Cologne, from 2005.

In 2008 he founded Yellow Bird Pictures GmbH in Munich together with the Swedish Yellow Bird AB under the umbrella of the Zodiak Media Group as their managing partner. After a management buy-out , Oliver Schündler took over the film and television production company completely under the current name Lucky Bird Pictures GmbH in 2012.

Since 2001 Schündler has been working closely with the Munich producer Boris Ausserer, with whom he produces for cinema and television.

His most important works include the ZDF comedy Verdammtes Glück , which opened the new TV movie timeslot on Mondays at 8:15 p.m. in 1997, the thriller Death in Your Eyes with Thomas Kretschmann , the three-part Antonia , the film adaptation of Henning Mankell's Der Chinese und die Kino -Co-productions Gespensterjäger and Elser . He is currently preparing a SciFi television series with the working title Mars - You Will Never Come Back .

The films of his production company Lucky Bird Pictures are distributed and run worldwide. a. in cinemas and television in Italy, France, Spain, the UK and the US.

As a producer of the feature film Elser , Schündler was awarded the Bavarian Film Prize in 2015 together with Boris Ausserer .

Private life

Schündler is the father of four children and lives with his partner Antje Lenk near Munich.

Awards

Producer Award of the Bavarian Film Award 2014 for the "Best Production" of the movie "Elser"

Filmography

producer

• 1996: Damned Luck (TV movie, ZDF)
• 1996: The Inseparable (family series, 13 parts, Sat.1)
• 1997: Help, my wife is getting married (TV film, Sat.1)
• 1997: Heart over Head (TV film, ZDF)
• 1999: Death in Your Eyes (TV film, Sat.1)
• 1999–2001: A love on Mallorca 1-3 (TV films, ZDF)
• 2001: Antonia - Between Love and Power (mini-series, 3x90 ')
• 2001: We stay together (TV film, ZDF)
• 2005: The tunnel of death - Only the truth counts (TV film, including Sat.1 / ORF / Mediaset)
• 2011: Der Chinese (TV movie, mini-series, 2x90 ', ARD)
• 2011: Sex of all things! (TV film; Sat.1)
• 2012: Bank robbery for beginners (TV film, ZDF)
• 2012: Die kleine Lady (TV film, ARD)
• 2014: Ghost hunters - On the icy trail (cinema)
• 2014: Elser - He would have changed the world (cinema)
• 2019: The order (TV film, ARD)

Co-producer

• 2000: The Foundling (TV film, ARD)
• 2001: The Resurrection (TV film, ARD / ORF / FR2 / RAI)
• 2001: La bicyclette bleu (TV movie, FR2 / RAI)
• 2003: There where love lives (TV film, ARD / ORF)
• 2004: A love in Venice (TV film, ARD / RAI)
• 2005: Love goes through the stomach (TV film, ARD / RAI)
• 2008: The Avalanche of the Century (TV film, RTL)

Web links

• Oliver Schündler in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Website of the production company Lucky Bird Pictures