Philip Groening

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Philip Gröning (born April 7, 1959 in Düsseldorf ) is a German director and documentary filmmaker .

Life

After graduating from Görres-Gymnasium (Düsseldorf) , Gröning worked in the technical field of film and TV productions from 1978. From 1979 to 1981 he studied psychology and medicine and worked as an assistant director for Peter Keglevic . In 1982 he began studying film at the HFF Munich , which he finished in 1984. In the same year he came up with the idea for the film Die Große Stille , which was released in 2005. In 1983 his first short film The Dry Swimmer was released . Gröning made his feature film debut in 1986 with the film Sommer , for which he received the Kodak Award in Amsterdam . In 1990 he was awarded the sponsorship award of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia . With the grotesque The Terrorists! Gröning made headlines in 1992 because Federal Chancellor Helmut Kohl , whose murder the three protagonists are planning, wanted to prevent the film from being broadcast. The film was awarded the Bronze Leopard in Locarno . In 2000, L'amour, l'argent, l'amour , a road movie about a prostitute and a laborer , filmed in the style of the experimental films of the 1970s, was released . For this film he received the Hessian Film Award for Best Director; Leading actress Sabine Timoteo was awarded the Swiss Film Prize and the Bronze Leopard in Locarno as best actress , lead actor Florian Stetter received the Max Ophüls Prize for best actor.

His film Die Große Stille from 2005 won the Bavarian Film Prize , the Special Prize of the Jury in Sundance and in 2006 the European Film Prize for Best Documentary Film and was also nominated for the 2006 German Film Prize. In 2013 , his drama The Policeman's Wife was the only German contribution to be premiered in the competition at the Venice International Film Festival and was awarded the special prize of the jury. Gröning was jury president of the series "Orrizonti" at the Venice International Film Festival 2006, member of the international jury at the Munich Film Festival in 2009, member of the international competition jury at the Venice International Film Festival 2014 and the Message to man Festival in St Petersburg. In 2018 he received an invitation to the competition at the 68th Berlinale for his feature film My Brother is called Robert and Is an Idiot .

Gröning has been teaching at the Baden-Württemberg Film Academy since 2001 and is a professor at the Cologne International Film School . At the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich , Gröning was visiting professor for fine arts in the 2018/2019 winter semester and 2019 summer semester. The exhibition of the Gröning project class on Artificial Intelligence A few days after the world was on view in February 2019, Naked Singularities in May 2019.

Filmography (selection)

Awards (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fritz Göttler: The time is ripe. Süddeutsche Zeitung No. 258 of November 9, 2005, p. 13.
  2. ↑ Helmut Kohl. November 30, 1992. Retrieved July 25, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Philip Gröning is the new professor at the ifs - ifs international film school in Cologne. Accessed November 2, 2017 (German).
  4. ↑ Philip Gröning is visiting professor at the Munich art academy. Retrieved on July 23, 2019 (German).
  5. ^ Exhibition of the project class Gröning of the Munich Art Academy. Retrieved on July 23, 2019 (German).
  6. ^ Exhibition of the project class Gröning of the Munich Art Academy. Retrieved on July 23, 2019 (German).
  7. ↑ Summer at crew-united, accessed on September 6, 2014
  8. ^ The terrorists at imdb accessed on September 6, 2014
  9. ↑ a b c L'amour at imdb, accessed on September 6, 2014
  10. ↑ a b c d e The great silence at imdb accessed on September 6, 2014
  11. ↑ a b c d The great silence at cinedat accessed on September 6, 2014  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / de.cinedat.org  
  12. ↑ German contribution wins special prize in Venice at zeit-online accessed on September 6, 2014
  13. ↑ Villa Massimo | Philip Groening. Retrieved August 20, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Groening, Philip
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German director and documentary filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH April 7, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf