Peter Schran

Peter Schran (* 1949 in Schmallenberg-Oberkirchen ) is a German TV journalist, filmmaker and producer.

Life

After completing his commercial training, Peter Schran graduated from high school on the second educational path. In 1978 he was able to complete his teaching degree in Cologne and became a music manager for “Independence Labels” and a producer. From 1983 Schran was a freelance radio journalist, from 1990 a TV reporter and documentaryist. He became a pioneer of TV documentaries on violence prevention and founded MIGRA-Filmproduktion GmbH in Cologne in 1994. Since then, Schran has been working as a producer and author for MIGRA-Film.

He worked on around 50 longer TV social documentaries and reports for clients WDR, SWR, ZDF, Arte and Stern TV. Peter Schran made further contributions for the ARD editorial team MONITOR and also video documentation for social associations and institutions. Since 2007 he has been the managing director of MIGRA-Filmproduktionen & Reportagen GmbH. Schran is a member of the Documentary Film Working Group .

TV and video productions

• Farewell to Fist Law, 45 min. ZDF 1991
• Violence of Honor, 60 min. Arte 1993
• The Skin and the Turk, 90 min. 3sat 1999
• Glen Mills Gang - Trapped without a lock and bolts, 90 min. ARD 2000 (documentary about the Glenn Mills School )
• Germany's brown center, 45 min. WDR 2001
• You're nothing without a walk !, 45 min. WDR 2002
• Torture chamber classroom, 45 min. WDR 2004
• Gang war 45 min. ARD 2005
• Next door the brown swamp, 45 min. WDR 2005
• Shock experience burglary, SternTV 2006
• KO drops, 45 min. ARD 2006
• Violence behind bars, 45 min. WDR 2007
• Emergency “child welfare”, 45 min. ARD 3/2008
• Crisis spot in the playground, ZDF 2008
• Westside Kanaken , 87 min. ZDF-3sat 4/2009

Media prizes / awards

• 1991 Ernst Reuter Prize
• 1992 CIVIS TV Prize
• 2004 Cologne Media Prize

Web links

• Peter Schran in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Vita of Peter Schran