Rainer Knepperges
Rainer Knepperges (born August 9, 1965 in Korschenbroich ) is a German screenwriter , film director and actor .
Rainer Knepperges is the editor of the film magazine Gdinetmao and co-founder of the Cologne film club 813 . He belongs to the so-called Cologne Group , a loose association of Cologne filmmakers. In 1996 he was involved as a screenwriter and actor in the comedy Happy Weekend by Ed Herzog . In 1993, Herzog and Knepperges had already made a short film from the material, produced at the Berlin film school dffb , where Herzog was studying at the time. The career changers marked Knepperge's first full-length film as a director in 2005. He can be seen as an actor in numerous short and feature films by the Cologne group, but also in films by other directors such as Klaus Lemke .
Rainer Knepperges lives in Cologne.
Filmography (selection)
- 1993: Happy Weekend (short film) (screenwriter, actor)
- 1996: Happy Weekend (screenwriter, actor)
- 1996: 8 Essen III (actor, director - together with Bernhard Marsch , Thomas Hermel and Markus Mischkowski )
- 1996: The Servantilist (Actor)
- 1997: China, Mexico (screenwriter, director)
- 1997: The wet grave of the border bandits (director - together with Christian Mrasek )
- 2001: Tour Eifel (actor, director - together with Christian Mrasek)
- 2000: mid 30s (director)
- 2000: The Neopacifist (Actor)
- 2001: Westend (actor)
- 2003: No Science Fiction (Actor)
- 2005: The lateral entrants (screenwriter, actor, director - together with Christian Mrasek)
- 2005: City of Light (Actor)
- 2006/2007: Two Goldfish (Actor)
- 2006/2007: I desire (actor)
- 2008: Exploring diversity (direction, screenplay, camera, animation, editing)
- 2008: Work for Everyone (Actor)
- 2008–2010: 24h Marrakech (screenplay)
- 2009: Serge Rippenanker (director)
- 2010: Ordinary sailors (actor, screenplay)
- 2012: Leichtmatrosen II (director, screenplay, production, actor)
- 2013: Adam & Omar (co-director, screenplay, production, editor, actor)
- 2013/2014: Let there be a city! 50 years of the Grimme Prize in Marl (participation)
- 2014: Looping (direction, editing, production, music)
- 2016/2017: Open Wound German Film (participation)
- 2017: The Monetary Idyll (Actor)
- 2017/2018: Bad Girl Avenue (Actor)
- 2019: New Gods in Maxvorstadt (Actor)
Awards
- 2001: Honorable mention at the Dresden Film Festival for Tour Eifel
- 2002: Winner of the Rüsselsheim Film Festival with Tour Eifel
- 2002: Audience award for Tour Eifel at the film festival Grenzlandfilmtage Selb
literature
In 2000 Rainer Knepperges published a book with texts from his film magazine Gdinetmao : GDINETMAO - Deviations from German Film. Essays and articles, published by Maas Media Verlag, ISBN 978-3-929010-74-9 .
He publishes regularly on the film blog new filmkritik .
His conversation with Zbyněk Brynych , which he conducted together with Stefan Ertl on June 26, 1994, can be found in the bonus booklet for the DVD release of Die Weibchen (publisher: Bildstören).
Web links
- Rainer Knepperges in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Rainer Knepperges on the film portal
- Entries by Rainer Knepperges on new filmkritik
- The career changers at Filmportal
- Official website: The lateral entrants
- Volker Hummel: No girls sport - Interview with Rainer Knepperges In: Friday , August 25, 2006. Retrieved on October 13, 2019.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Knepperges, Rainer |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German film director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 9, 1965 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Korschenbroich |