Otto Alexander Jahrreiss

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Otto Alexander Jahrreiss (born February 27, 1964 in Mainz , Rhineland-Palatinate ) is a German filmmaker, director and photographer .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1984, Jahrreiss worked as an advertising and fashion photographer before turning to film and writing his first scripts. Although he was self-taught, he was appointed to the Baden-Württemberg Film Academy as a lecturer in 1991, where he worked for various directors such as Reinhard Hauff , Michael Verhoeven and the later producer Nico Hofmann for the next two years .

In 1993 he shot his first full-length feature film Der Menschenfresser , for which he wrote the original script, as in all subsequent films, and which was co-produced with the Babelsberg studio . After a short detour to the Nationaltheater Mannheim , where he staged the German premiere of Jeremy Seabrook's Heart Throb in 1994 , Jahrreiss turned to television from 1995 and in the following three years staged a total of seven episodes of the Grimme Award- winning television series Balko and various television films.

In 1998 Jahrreiss returned to the cinema and shot Alles Bob with Martina Gedeck in the lead role, and a year later Zoom with Oana Solomon and Florian Lukas, which won several prizes after its premiere at the 2001 Berlinale, including the main prize for best film at the Ourense International Film Festival and caught Ridley Scott's attention . Scott offered Jahrreiss to realize a remake of his film Alles Bob for his production company Scottfree in Hollywood.

In 2002 Jahrreiss returned to Germany and directed over 400 commercials in the following years. In addition to his multiple award-winning work as an advertising director, Jahrreiss devoted himself again to photography in the following years and repeatedly exhibited his cycle "I Muri", for which the book "I Muri, work in progress" was published in 2007.

2010 was again for the cinema, the film pigeons on the roof , which borrowed the theater concept was that all the main roles of only two actors, Katja Riemann and Olli Dittrich , were played and the 2011 under the title The relativity of love into the cinemas came .

Filmography

as a director
  • 1996: The Man Eater (also screenplay and production)
  • 1996: The Voice of the Murderer (TV)
  • 1996: Balko (TV series; directed in 7 episodes)
  • 1998: love in the shadow of the dragon
  • 1999: Alles Bob (also script)
  • 2000: Zoom (also screenplay and production)
  • 2011: The Relativity Theory of Love (also screenplay)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Otto Alexander Jahrreiss at filmportal.de
personal data
SURNAME Jahrreiss, Otto Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German filmmaker, director and photographer
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainz , Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany