Oliver Sechting
Oliver Sechting (born October 5, 1975 in Göttingen ) is a German director and author .
Sechting, who became ill himself, became known to a wider public through his advocacy for people with obsessive-compulsive disorder . Some of his works also deal with the subject of homosexuality .
Life
Oliver Sechting works primarily for his partner Rosa von Praunheim and has worked on several of his film productions, including as assistant director and consultant on the Grimme Prize- winning documentary Die Jungs vom Bahnhof Zoo (2011) about male poverty prostitution in Germany. Sechting has also been directing since 2012. He has made several short TV documentaries for Rosa von Praunheim Filmproduktion. Below is a portrait of the artist Sin with Sebastian .
His documentary How I Learned to Love Numbers (co-director: Max Taubert) about obsessive thoughts premiered in the competition of the Max-Ophüls-Preis 2014 film festival . The documentary then ran at international film festivals, in the cinema and on TV. The Berlin Chamber of Psychotherapists praised the film as a remarkable contribution to destigmatizing mental illnesses. The German Society of Obsessive-Compulsive Diseases described How I Learned to Love Numbers as the first film that succeeded in depicting the inner workings of an obsessive-compulsive patient. Sechting is affected by an obsessive compulsive disorder. In October 2016 he was elected to the board of the German Society for Obsessive Compulsive Diseases . In 2017, Sechting was invited to represent those affected at the World Psychiatry Congress in Berlin. Sechting has contributed to various TV and radio reports, web videos and print media on the subject of obsessive compulsive disorder.
Since 2011, Sechting has been writing articles for the Erotik yearbook Mein Schwules Auge ( konkursbuch Verlag ). It also appears in the book Des Wahnsinns fette Beute ( rororo ) by Hella von Sinnen and Cornelia Scheel , as well as in various books by Rosa von Praunheim, and others. a. in How do I get rich and famous? (2017), which is dedicated to Sechting. Sechting also appears as a stage character in von Praunheim's play Every Idiot Has a Grandma, except I don't ; the song Je t'aime - more and more is dedicated to it. In 2015, Sechting acted as a protagonist in the Italian documentary Welcome Home about the queer residential building Lebensort Diversity in Berlin.
His autobiography The Number Thief - My Life with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (co-author: Karen-Susan Fessel ) was published in 2017 by Balance Buch + Medien Verlag . In June 2020 his children's book Frederic, the Prince of Numbers, was published by riva Verlag , which he made as an illustrator together with Eva Hidalgo. It is the first German children's book on the subject of obsessive-compulsive disorder.
As a part-time job, he works as a qualified social pedagogue for the Anders Altern network of the Berlin gay counseling service, which was nominated for the German Age Award in 2016 . Before that, as a street worker in the male prostitute project subway (help for boys) for boys who buy.
Oliver Sechting comes from a watchmaker and jeweler family with a long professional tradition; he is related to Johann Gottfried Sechting .
He lives in Berlin .
Movies
- 2012: Gay Not Gray (short film)
- 2012: Möpse in Not (short film) with Stefan Lukschy a . a.
- 2012: Sin With Sebastian (short film) with Sin with Sebastian , Nina Queer u. a.
- 2014: How I learned to love numbers (documentary) with Max Taubert, Rosa von Praunheim , Tom Tykwer , Ultra Violet , Ira Sachs , Jonathan Caouette and others. a.
Books
- 2017: The number thief - my life with obsessive-compulsive disorder , autobiography, co-author: Karen-Susan Fessel , Balance Buch + Medien Verlag , ISBN 978-3-86739-125-2
- 2020: Frederic, the number prince , children's book, illustrations: Eva Hidalgo, riva Verlag , ISBN 978-3-7423-1576-2
As a TV guest
- 2009: TIMM - Timmousine
- 2014: Zibb
- 2014: SR culture time
- 2014: Festival TV - Attention Berlin
- 2014: Kulturzeit - Adventure Cinema
- 2015: rbb - heaven and earth
- 2016: Full pot
- 2017: tough
- 2017: Night cafe
- 2020: RTL - Talk with Marco Schreyl
Awards
- 2014: Nomination for How I Learned to Love Numbers for Best Documentary at the Max Ophüls Prize .
- 2014: Nomination for How I learned to love numbers as best documentary at the Achtung Berlin-new berlin film award.
- 2015: Film Prize of the German Obsessive-Compulsive Disease Society for How I Learned to Love Numbers .
Web links
- Homepage of Oliver Sechting
- Oliver Sechting in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Oliver Sechting at filmportal.de
- Oliver Sechting on crew-united.com
- Image by Oliver Sechting & Rosa von Praunheim on spiegel.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mira Fricke: Fear of numbers, colors, names: When compulsions direct thoughts. In: Spiegel Online . July 4, 2016, accessed August 5, 2016 .
- ↑ WPA Congress 2017. In: wpaberlin2017.com. Retrieved October 29, 2017 .
- ↑ Review of My Gay Eye 8 (2011)
- ↑ Review of My Gay Eye 9 (2012)
- ↑ The prey of madness. In: rowohlt.de.
- ^ Rosa von Praunheim in Martin Schmitz Verlag.
- ↑ Welcome Home. Queer Filmfest Verona, accessed on September 2, 2018 .
- ↑ Frederic, the number prince. riva Verlag , accessed on June 16, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sechting, Oliver |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German filmmaker and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 5th October 1975 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Goettingen |