Peter Kullmann

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Peter Kullmann ( October 3, 1962 in Hanover ) is a German journalist , photographer , cameraman and filmmaker . He lives and works in Mainz and Vienna.

Life

Peter Kullmann is a trained advertising photographer, but turned to press photography with the fall of the Berlin Wall in the early 1990s. In 1990 he became co-owner of the Hamburg photo agency Zone5 photography and took photos for the Reuters Newspictures news agency . Since 1992 he has been traveling to war and crisis areas around the world. From 1996 to 2001 he had a permanent residence in Nairobi, Kenya, as the operational base for his Africa reporting.

From 2001 he worked from his new location in Vienna as a cameraman and reporter for various German and Austrian television stations. In 2003 Kullmann und Berger Filmproduktion was formed, from which the film company Kubefilm GmbH (Vienna) emerged in 2009, for which he is still active as a partner and managing director.

job

1989-2000

Peter Kullmann was on a motorcycle expedition through the Middle East and North Africa for several months when he learned of the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 11, 1989 in a desert oasis in Egypt . He decides to break off his trip, which should actually have taken him to India, to return to Germany and follow the consequences of this event as a press photographer. In Hamburg he joined the photo agency Zone5 photography, which at that time was head of the photo journal service of the Hamburg office of the Reuters news agency (Reuters newspictures). In addition to news photography, from then on he worked on his first photo reports, which were published in various special interest magazines and magazine supplements in large daily newspapers. His photos were subsequently published by Gruner + Jahr in GEO and GEO Special, among others .

Impressed by the dramatic news images from the war in Yugoslavia, Kullmann volunteered to work as a war photographer in the Balkans, where he initially worked as a representative for Reuters photographer Corinne Dufka in besieged Sarajevo from September 1992. Kullmann's writing colleague and (war) journalistic mentor during this time is Reuters correspondent Kurt Schork. Subsequently, in the winter of 1992/1993, Kullmann photographed for the newly founded German news magazine Focus , and later also for Der Spiegel , The New York Times and the New York Times Magazine from the Bosnian War . During and after his work for Reuters, Kullmann worked several times with Pulitzer Prize winner John F. Burns on reports for the New York Times and the New York Times Magazine , photographed and reported, among other things, on the Serbian snipers in siege positions around Sarajevo or the former Olympic village of Dobrinja, cut off from the outside world for months. In addition, he witnessed the two so-called Markale massacres in Sarajevo, as well as the departure of the Serbian troops and a large part of the Serbian population from the Grbavica district after the Dayton Agreement.

Parallel to his missions in the Balkans, Kullmann was sent to the Somali town of Belet Huen by the Hamburg news magazine Der Spiegel in March 1993 to report on the German Bundeswehr's first so-called out-of-area mission since the Second World War. Later, Kullmann traveled several times to the fiercely contested Somali capital Mogadishu.

By the year 2000, dozens of missions from war and crisis areas in Rwanda, the Congo, Uganda, South Sudan, Kenya, Nigeria, among others, for German and international media followed.

2000-2009

On a trip to the north of the Ivory Coast, he filmed his escape from the rebel area around the city of Korhogo in 2002 in the sudden outbreak of civil war . His first TV reportage for the ZDF format Die Reporter emerged from the filmic recordings under ZDF foreign correspondent Peter Kunz as the lead author.

During the so-called Sahara hostage-taking , Kullmann managed to travel to South Algeria for RTL and, with the help of two smuggled satellite phones, was the only Western journalist to regularly deliver video material and reporter stand-ups for RTL Nachrichten over a period of around 4 months . In 2004, Kullmann spent several months as an RTL news reporter in Baghdad and also produced the report “Baghdad - No calm after the storm” for the news channel ntv . In the same year he reported on the Sumatra- Andaman quake in Sri Lanka.

Since 2009

Under the name Kullmann und Berger Filmproduktion , Kullmann and his editor / designer colleague Florian Berger worked together for a number of years and produced television content for the German, Austrian and international markets, especially long-format reports for Spiegel TV on behalf of the Austrian broadcaster ATV . In 2009 they founded the film company Kubefilm GmbH . Since it was founded, Kullmann has been producing non-fictional TV projects on behalf of various broadcasters, such as reports, documentaries and nature films, including the multi-award-winning animal film The Return of the Hoopoe , together with the now new Kubefilm co-owner and journalist Magdalena Maier.

In 2013 Peter Kullmann and Magdalena Maier traveled to Nigeria in a TV documentary to shed light on the ongoing violent clashes that are generally considered to be religious conflicts. Their research led them on the trail of the terrorist organization Boko Haram and to the city of Maiduguri, which is officially banned from foreign journalists, where they interviewed the lawyer Aisha Wakil, who describes herself as the mother of the Boko Haram. After an almost fatal robbery in the city of Maiduguri, known as Boko Haram's birthplace, the team had to interrupt work for several weeks. During another trip to northern Nigeria, which was marked by great obstacles and dangers, there was a secret meeting between Kullmann and two members, one of whom was an allegedly high-ranking strategist, from Boko Haram. The result was an on-camera interview lasting several hours, from which parts of the ORF documentation Gottes Krieger - Gottes Feinde (ORF 2013, "God's Army - God's Enemy") are published.

For several years now, Kullmann has also been active in the field of corporate global communications and has developed storytelling concepts and projects for companies such as OMV AG , Daimler AG , Swarovski Optik or Agrana . From this work the communication agency dotcom.media (dotcom media global communications GmbH) emerged, which develops and implements communication strategies, storytelling concepts and paid and owned content formats for companies.

Filmography (selection)

  • 2004: No calm after the storm
  • 2009: Drawn for life
  • 2011: forgiven and forgotten?
  • 2012: death is my life
  • 2012: The return of the hoopoe
  • 2013: freedom in thought
  • 2013: God's warriors, God's enemies
  • 2015: Dokeins: Que será, será?
  • 2016: Documentaries: madness football
  • 2016: Generation Jihad
  • 2016: In the face of death

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Liz Wieskerstrauch: I was shocked when I saw my pictures. In: Art & Culture. No. 4, May 1996, pp. 5-9.
  2. ↑ Peter Kullmann - Kubefilm. Kubefilm website. Retrieved May 18, 2020.
  3. ↑ Liz Wieskerstrauch: I was shocked when I saw my pictures. In: Art & Culture. No. 4, May 1996, pp. 5-9.
  4. ↑ Der Spiegel: In- House Communication. In: Der Spiegel. No. 33, 1993, p. 3.
  5. ↑ Der Spiegel: Just damn bad luck. In: Der Spiegel. No. 25, 1999, pp. 108-110.
  6. ↑ Sniperalley website: Kullmann in Sarajevo / Bosnia-Herzegovina website Sniper Alley. Retrieved May 18, 2020.
  7. ↑ Press release: German films liberation from rebel hands. Press portal website. Retrieved May 18, 2020.
  8. ↑ Freefall - A Love Story - Crew website of the Ican Film. Retrieved May 25, 2020.
  9. ↑ Freefall - A Love Story - Crew website of the Ican Film. Retrieved May 25, 2020.
  10. ↑ Peter Kullmann - Kubefilm. Kubefilm website. Retrieved May 18, 2020.
  11. ↑ 3Sat: The return of the hoopoe. Website of 3Sat. Retrieved May 27, 2020.
  12. ^ ORF: In the footsteps of Boko Haram. ORF website. Retrieved May 18, 2020.
  13. ↑ Terror in the name of religion: ORF documentary on the trail of the Boko Haram. Website of the derStandards. Retrieved May 18, 2020.
  14. ↑ ORF: God's warriors - God's enemies. ORF website. Retrieved May 18, 2020.
  15. ↑ ARD: God's warriors - God's enemies. ARD website. Retrieved May 18, 2020.
  16. ^ Doris Priesching: The standard: tremendous hatred in Nigeria. Website of the derStandards. Retrieved May 18, 2020.
  17. ↑ dotcom.media. Dotcom Media website. Retrieved May 27, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Kullmann, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist, photographer, cameraman and filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd October 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover