Philipp Kadelbach

Philipp Kadelbach (born September 9, 1974 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German film director .

Career

Philipp Kadelbach attended the Pittsburgh Filmmakers' School of Film, Photography, and Digital Media. In addition to his studies, he worked there for the local TV station WQED . From 1995 he worked as head of the Avid Digital Editing department at the Frankfurt advertising film agency Neue Sentimental Film, after which he graduated from the Baden-Württemberg Film Academy in Ludwigsburg .

He is married and lives in Berlin .

Director

For his directorial debut, the short feature film Platonische Liebe ( FBW -prädikat: Wertvoll) from 1998/99, Kadelbach also wrote the script and took care of the editing . The film music comes from his younger brother, the film composer Michael Kadelbach , and Herbert Grönemeyer . The film won the Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Short Film Award in 2000. It was shown at the 1999 Telluride Film Festival (under the title Platonic Love ), the 1999 Torino Film Festival , the 2000 Berlinale and on Arte . Kadelbach's next short film was 2 bottles in 2001/02 .

He directed the first four episodes of the first season of the teamWorx- produced crime series Innocent , which was broadcast on ProSieben with Alexandra Neldel in the lead role . His first major film project was the ZDF two-part series The Secret of the Whales with Christopher Lambert , Mario Adorf and Veronica Ferres . For teamWorx and RTL he filmed the crash of the "Hindenburg" in the second half of 2009 under the title Hindenburg . The film won the German Television Award 2011 in the category Best Multi-Part .

In March 2011, filming began for the ZDF three-part film Our Mothers, Our Fathers . It tells the story of five friends and their lives and survival during the Russian campaign between 1941 and 1945. The game scenes were contrasted with historical recordings. Philipp Kadelbach took over the direction instead of the originally planned Lars Becker . The film won, among other things, the German Television Award 2013 in the category Best Multi-Part , the Golden Camera 2014 in the category Best TV Film and the International Emmy Award 2014.

In June 2015 he began filming the five-part mini-series SS-GB based on Len Deighton's bestseller in London . This makes him the first German director to have shot a television series exclusively produced in England for BBC Films . He stayed in London to direct the television series Riviera for SKY in 2016 . He then shot the movie So much time in Germany at the beginning of 2017 and the 6-part ZDFneo series Parfum , which uses motifs from the novel Das Parfum by Patrick Süßkind . Perfume premiered at the Munich Film Festival 2018.

Kadelbach has directed over three hundred national and international advertising films , for example for BMW , VW , Mercedes , Hornbach , Burger King , Chevrolet , Seat , Siemens and T-Mobile . When he shoots commercials with his cameraman Thomas Dirnhofer , they use the pseudonym Begbie .

Filmography

• 1999: Platonic love (short film)
• 2004: Innocent (TV series, four episodes)
• 2010: The Secret of the Whales
• 2011: Hindenburg (TV series)
• 2013: Our mothers, our fathers (TV series)
• 2014: The pilgrim
• 2015: Naked among wolves
• 2016: At a short distance
• 2017: SS-GB (TV series)
• 2017: Riviera (TV series)
• 2018: so much time
• 2018: Perfume (TV series)
• 2019: We children from Bahnhof Zoo (TV series)

Awards

Movie

• 2000: Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Short Film Prize for Platonic Love
• 2011: German Television Award 2011 in the category Best Multipart for Hindenburg
• 2013: Seoul International Drama Awards for Best Director and Best Mini-Series for Our Mothers, Our Fathers
• 2013: Prix de la meilleure in the fiction category for Our Mothers, Our Fathers
• 2013: German TV Prize 2013 in the category Best Multi-Part for Our Mothers, Our Fathers
• 2013: Award from the German Academy for Television 2013 in the category Best Director for Our Mothers, Our Fathers
• 2013: Prix ​​Europa in the category Best Mini-Series for Our Mothers, Our Fathers
• 2014: Golden Camera 2014 in the category Best TV Film for Our Mothers, Our Fathers
• 2014: Golden Magnolia Award at the International Shanghai Television Festival, Best Director for Our Mothers, Our Fathers
• 2014: International Emmy Award in the TV Movie / Mini-Series category for Our Mothers, Our Fathers
• 2015: Jury Grand Prize at the Seoul International Drama Awards for Nude Among Wolves
• 2015: Bavarian TV Award as best director in the category of TV films / series and series for Naked Among Wolves
• 2016: German TV Award 2016 in the category Best TV Film for Naked Among Wolves
• 2017: Golden Camera 2017 in the category Best TV Film for Short Distance
• 2017: Hamburg Crime Award in the Best TV Film category for Short Distance

Commercials

Mainly for commercials under the pseudonym Begbie :

• 2000: ADC Award, Gold for Bauhaus "European Athletics Championships"
• 2000: Epica Awards ; Eurobest, The New York Festival for Envia Energy
• 2001: ADC Award; The flap for Hornbach Paul
• 2001: VDW Award; The New York Festival for Furniture Walther Topf
• 2002: ADC Germany; D&D Award; VDW Award; London Int. Ad awards; Cannes Festival; Clio Awards for Wirtschaftswoche Wespe
• 2002: CCA, Gold for Iglo ÖSV Iss was G'scheits
• 2003: D&D Award; Clio Award for Yello Strom Boule
• 2003: Moebius Award , Gold; The New York Festival; The flap; ADC Award; London Int. Ad Award for Hornbach Bude
• 2005: Clio Award for Haake Beck Jetty
• 2005: Comprix; The flap; The New York Festival, gold for ADP mother
• 2007: VDW Award, Strong Children , commercial of the German Caritas Association
• 2008: The flap; The New York Festival, Moebius Award; Eurobest for Klicksafe.de Klaus
• 2008: Moebius Award, silver for Migros Twist
• 2009: Moebius Award, Gold; ADC Switzerland for Migros I am

Reviews

The actor Jürgen Schornagel is quoted about Philipp Kadelbach as saying: “ He is among the top 5 of the 116 directors I shot with. He helps the young and the experienced - and he lets us make mistakes. "

Web links

• Philipp Kadelbach in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Biographical data on the website ( Memento of January 6, 2014 Internet Archive ) Torino Film Festival (English) 1999
2. ↑ Platonic love on filmportal.de ( Memento of the original from March 7, 2016 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. 
3. ↑ Murnau Foundation, Winner 2000 ( Memento of the original from January 17, 2016 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. 
4. ↑ Regielounge.de ( Memento of the original from September 28, 2012 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. 
5. ↑ 2014 INTERNATIONAL EMMY® AWARDS WINNERS ANNOUNCED ( Memento of the original from February 3, 2015 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. (English) 
6. ↑ Winner VDW Award 2007 ( PDF ; 106 kB)
7. ↑ The crash of the “Hindenburg” as a film ( memento from November 18, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Article in the Münsterschen Zeitung from November 16, 2009.