Peter Welz (director)

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Peter Welz (born November 6, 1963 in East Berlin ) is a German actor and director .

Life

Peter Welz was born as the son of a production designer and a physiotherapist. The parents divorced in 1980. Through his father, Welz got his first television role in the Dolles family album series . At the age of eleven, he took on the leading role in Heiner Carow's divorce drama Icarus in 1974 . In 1977 he played another leading role in Ralf Kirsten's I force you to live, a fifteen-year-old indoctrinated by the National Socialists who wanted to register for the Waffen SS shortly before the end of World War II and was prevented from doing so by his father, played by Rolf Ludwig . Other roles in theater and film productions followed.

After finishing school, he studied directing from 1984 to 1989 at the Konrad Wolf Academy for Film and Television in Babelsberg . During his studies he made a number of short films, including Welcome to the Canteen in 1988 based on a script by Frank Castorf . The film was screened with great success at the GDR feature film festival in Karl-Marx-Stadt and won the Alan Parker Director's Prize at the International Festival of Film Schools in Munich . To our family! (1989), his graduation film at the HFF, wrote the screenplay by Leander Haußmann .

His first movie as a director, and at the same time one of the last DEFA productions, was Banale Tage, shot in 1990 based on a script by Michael Sollorz . In 1991 the film received the Interfilm Jury Prize at the Max Ophüls Festival in Saarbrücken. His second feature film, Burning Life (1994), a gangster film with Anna Thalbach and Maria Schrader in the leading roles, won the Hypo-Bank Director's Prize at the Munich Film Festival and was nominated for the Federal Film Prize in 1995.

Welz received the Saxon and Bavarian Television Awards in 1997 and the Adolf Grimme Prize in 1998 for his television work Have fun with my wife . Since the late 1990s, he has mainly worked for German television series.

Peter Welz lives in Berlin . He is the father of two children.

Filmography

as a performer

as a director

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Icarus - Peter Weltz . In: Elstermann, Knut: I used to be a movie kid. DEFA and its youngest actors . Berlin: Das neue Berlin, 2011. - ISBN 978-3-360-02114-4 , p. 99.
  2. ^ Icarus - Peter Weltz . In: Elstermann, Knut: I used to be a movie kid. DEFA and its youngest actors . Berlin: Das neue Berlin, 2011. - ISBN 978-3-360-02114-4 , p. 101.
  3. ↑ a b Icarus - Peter Weltz . In: Elstermann, Knut: I used to be a movie kid. DEFA and its youngest actors . Berlin: Das neue Berlin, 2011. - ISBN 978-3-360-02114-4 , p. 103.
  4. ↑ Offside ( Memento of the original from December 15, 2010 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. on Polizeiruf110-Lexikon.de (accessed on December 15, 2010) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.polizeiruf110-lexikon.de
personal data
SURNAME Welz, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and director
DATE OF BIRTH November 6, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH East Berlin