Peter Thorwarth

Peter Thorwarth (2014)

Peter Thorwarth (born June 3, 1971 in Dortmund ) is a German director and screenwriter .

biography

Peter Thorwarth grew up with two brothers in Unna . He made his first small films at the age of 14. He attended the Ernst-Barlach-Gymnasium in Unna, where he graduated from high school in 1990. He then moved to Bavaria and studied dentistry in Munich for a few semesters because he could not meet the admission requirements for the film school there. In 1992 he studied communication design in Augsburg , until in 1994 he was finally accepted for directing at the University of Television and Film in Munich . While still a student, he received the Munich Directing Award and the silver plaque at the International Film Festival in Chicago in 1997 for various short films .

His film debut Bang Boom Bang from 1999, in which Thorwarth can also be seen in front of the camera as Juppie , is now considered a cult film. In 2000 the band Die Toten Hosen hired him to direct their music video for the song Bavaria .

In 2002 he shot the clip for No alcohol is also no solution for the band , which received the Comet as best national video. His second film, What Doesn't Fit, Is Made To Fit, was awarded the Jupiter for Best German Film in the same year .

Thorwarth co-wrote the films Golden Times from 2006 and Die Welle from 2008.

Thorwarth lives in Cologne. He is married to actress Nele Kiper . The two have a son together.

Filmography (selection)

Feature films and series

• 1997: The two from the subject (TV, direction)
• 1997: Mafia, Pizza, Razzia (short film, director & screenplay)
• 1997: What doesn't fit is made to fit (short film) (director & screenplay)
• 1998: shoplifting
• 1999: Bang Boom Bang (Director & Screenplay)
• 2002: What does not fit is made to fit (feature film) (actor, director & screenplay)
• 2003: What doesn't fit is made to fit - The Series (TV)
• 2004: Sounds of Fear (actor)
• 2006: Golden Times (Director & Screenplay)
• 2007: Video Kings (actor)
• 2008: The Wave (screenplay)
• 2009: Résiste - Uprising of the interns (actors)
• 2014: Not My Day (Director & Screenplay)
• 2019: The Last Bull (Director & Screenplay)

Music videos

• 1999: Time of my life, H-Blockx
• 2000: Bavaria , Die Toten Hosen
• 2001: Summer, Beatsteaks
• 2002: No alcohol is no solution either, Die Toten Hosen
• 2003: As a reminder , Ferris MC
• 2006: The One, Martin Jondo

Web links

Commons : Peter Thorwarth  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Peter Thorwarth in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Peter Thorwarth at filmportal.de (with photo gallery)
• Peter Thorwarth at Crew United
• Literature by and about Peter Thorwarth in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Thorwarth-Film nominated for European Film Award in: Westfälische Rundschau from September 3, 2008
2. ↑ Peter Thorwarth ( Memento of the original from May 28, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Biography (website of Peter Thorwarth) 
3. ^ Friends of the House // Peter Thorwarth. Die Toten Hosen, March 2000, archived from the original on June 25, 2013 ; accessed on January 21, 2014 . 
4. ↑ Note in: Borussia - The Members' Magazine - Issue 102 of January 30, 2016, p. 19