Raymond Ley
Raymond Ley (born October 16, 1958 in Kassel ) is a German author , film and television director . He is best known in the field of documentary fiction .
Life
From 1979 Ley studied at the University of Fine Arts in Kassel . As early as 1982 he was working as a filmmaker and was co-founder of the Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival with the "Filmladen Kassel". Since 1984, several of his feature films have received funding from the federal states of Hesse, Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein. Since 1991 he has worked as a freelance director and author, filming and writing, among others, for the broadcasters ARD, MDR and NDR.
Filmography (selection)
- 1998: A dog hater on a talk show tour (45 min., NDR)
- 1998: Deer for Moscow (50 min., In-house production / feature film)
- 1999/2000: The Auto Temple (report, 30 min., ARD)
- 1999/2000: Politics is a whore (report, 30 min., NDR)
- 1999/2000: Beate Uhse - a German career (45 min., ARD)
- 2001: Beloved garbage! - About the man who couldn't throw anything away (report, 30 min., ARD)
- 2001: men never die! (60 min., In-house production / feature film)
- 2002: You are only animals! - The hostages of Jolo (62 min., ARTE / ARD)
- 2002: Ronald B. Schill - close-up of a political phenomenon (45 min., NDR)
- 2003: Out of love for Germany - A donation affair (90 min., ARTE, NDR)
- 2003: The Years As They Were - The Fifties (45 Min., NDR)
- 2004: Murder at Ave Maria - The life of Eva Maria Mariotti (45 min., ARD)
- 2004: Last refuge men's dormitory (report, 30 min., NDR)
- 2005: The Night of the Great Flood (90 min., ARTE / NDR / ARD)
- 2005: Helmet from the anniversary - 50 years of the Bundeswehr (with Ulrich Wickert 90 min., ARD)
- 2006/2007: Interview with Helmut Schmidt (45 min., NDR)
- 2006/2007: Nanking 1937, diary of a massacre - the story of the Hamburg resident John Rabe (52 min., ARTE / NDR / WDR)
- 2007/2008: Eschede Zug 884 (90 min., NDR / ARD)
- 2010: Eichmann's end - love, betrayal, death (90 min., NDR / ARD)
- 2010: The children of Blankenese (90 min., ARTE / NDR / ARD)
- 2013: A murderous decision (90 min., ARTE / NDR / ARD)
- 2014: My daughter Anne Frank (90 min., HR / WDR / RBB)
- 2016: Last exit Gera - eight hours with Beate Zschäpe
- 2016: Crime scene: Borowski and the lost girl
- 2017: Death of a cadet (89 min., ARD)
- 2018: Lehman - Greed eats the heart (90 min., ARD / HR)
- 2018: The Aldi brothers (90 min., ARD / WDR)
- 2019: Zellers Reeperbahn (Trailer UFA)
- 2020: Hannelore Kohl - the first woman (direction and interviewing for interviews and documentary sequences)
Awards and nominations
Ley received several awards, including
- 1992: Silver Grimme Prize for the TV satirical magazine "KAOS" - there collaboration as an author from 1991 to 1995
- 1994: National Prize of the German Preservation of Monuments for the MDR film "Leipziger Bahnhof"
- 2003: Nomination of the Ernst Schneider Prize for "Out of love for Germany - a donation affair"
- 2005: Hamburg Producer Award for "The Night of the Great Flood"
- 2006: Nomination “ Golden Prometheus ” as Journalist of the Year
- 2006: German Camera Prize for "The Night of the Great Flood"
- 2006: German television award for "The Night of the Great Flood"
- 2010: Magnolia Award (Silver), Shanghai International TV Festival for "Nanking 1937, Diary of a Massacre - The Story of John Rabe from Hamburg"
- 2011: Grand Remi Award for The Children of Blankenese and Special Jury Prize for Eichmann's End - Love, Treason, Death , 44th WorldFest Houston (USA)
- 2011: Silver World Medal for Eichmann's End - Love, Treason, Death , New York Film Festival (USA)
- 2011: Nomination for Eichmann's End - Love, Treason, Death , Banff World Media Festival (CAN)
- 2011: Nomination for Best Director for Eichmann's End - Love, Treason, Death , Sichuan TV Festival (China)
- 2012: Gold World Medal for The Children of Blankenese , New York Film Festival (USA)
- 2013: Nomination Bernd Burgemeister TV Prize for A Murderous Decision , Munich Film Festival
- 2014: Grimme-Preis director / screenplay for Eine Murderische Abo (A Murderous Decision) together with Hannah Ley
- 2015: Honorary Prize of the Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival
- 2015: TV Film Award of the Baden-Baden TV Film Festival for My Daughter Anne Frank
- 2016: Nomination of the Grimme Prize for my daughter Anne Frank
- 2016: Nomination for the Script Section for the Last Exit Gera - Eight Hours with Beate Zschäpe , German Academy for Television
- 2018: Silver Remi Award for Death of a Cadet , WorldFest Houston (USA)
Web links
- Raymond Ley in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Literature by and about Raymond Ley in the catalog of the German National Library
- Excerpts from Raymond Ley's films on YouTube
Individual evidence
- ^ DasErste.de: Raymond Ley - Short biography ( Memento from January 6, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on November 13, 2012.
- ↑ kino-zeit.de: Trailer , accessed on June 20, 2013.
- ↑ tittelbach.tv: [1] , accessed on January 13, 2015.
- ↑ ARD.de [2] , accessed on May 26, 2020.
- ↑ daserste.de [3] , accessed on May 26, 2020.
- ↑ Spiegel.de [4] , accessed on May 26, 2020.
- ↑ Tagesspiegel.de [5] , accessed on May 26, 2020.
- ↑ Faz.net [6] , accessed on May 26, 2020.
- ^ Kino.de: Profile of Raymond Ley , accessed on November 13, 2012.
- ↑ filmfest-muenchen.de: [7] ( 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. , accessed July 3, 2013.
- ↑ NDR.de: http://www.ndr.de/kultur/kino_und_film/ndr_produktionen/grimmepreis155.html ( Memento from March 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) , accessed on March 19, 2014.
- ↑ Hessenfilm.de: [8] , accessed on May 26, 2020.
- ↑ Blickpunkt: Film: [9] , accessed on May 26, 2020.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ley, Raymond |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German filmmaker and director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 16, 1958 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | kassel |