Robert Thalheim
Robert Thalheim (born July 2, 1974 in Berlin ) is a German theater and film director and screenwriter .
Life
In 1997/1998 Robert Thalheim worked at the Berliner Ensemble as an assistant director. From 1998 to 2000 he studied New German Literature, History and Politics at the Free University of Berlin . During this time he published the first copies of the culture magazine Plotki . In 2000 he began studying film directing at the Potsdam-Babelsberg Film Academy . His directing teacher here was Rosa von Praunheim , who supervised his first film work.
In 2003 he returned to the theater and staged his own play Wild Boys at the Maxim-Gorki-Theater in Berlin. In 2004 he made his debut with his first feature film Netto , for which he was awarded the Filmkunstpreis at the Festival of German Films . In 2006 he staged in Auschwitz , where he was already in the 1990s in the International Youth Meeting had worked, he graduated film Come Tourists . The feature film was shown in a side series at the Cannes Film Festival in 2007 and was released in German cinemas in mid-August 2007. It was produced by fellow directors Hans-Christian Schmid and Britta Knöller.
With Kolja Mensing he created Moschee DE , a scenic reconstruction of the construction of the Khadija Mosque in Berlin-Heinersdorf in 2006. The work premiered on February 27, 2010 at the Hanover Theater.
In 2011 Thalheim's feature film Westwind was released, which is about the encounter between young GDR athletes and West German tourists in Hungary shortly before the fall of the Berlin Wall. Together with the directors Tom Tykwer , Chris Kraus , Axel Ranisch and Julia von Heinz , Thalheim made the documentary Rosakinder (2012) about the relationship with their mutual "film father" and mentor Rosa von Praunheim.
In autumn 2015 he directs the agent comedy Scouts of Peace with Henry Hübchen , Michael Gwisdek , Jürgen Prochnow , Winfried Glatzeder and Antje Traue . On June 6, 2019, his "TKKG" prequel, staged with screenwriter Peer Klehmet, will come with a. Tom Schilling, Milan Peschel, Lorenzo Germeno and Manuel Santos Gelke in the lead roles, in German cinemas. Robert Thalheim appears as producer and co-screenwriter for this film.
Works
Filmography
- 2005: net
- 2007: At the end there are tourists
- 2011: west wind
- 2012: Pink Children
- 2013: parents
- 2014: Police call 110 - beetle and princess
- 2017: Scouts of Peace
- 2017: Crime scene: Goldbach
- 2019: TKKG
Plays
- (together with Kolja Mensing ): Moschee DE . Verbrecher Verlag, Berlin 2011. ISBN 978-3-940426-69-7 . First performed at the Schauspielhaus Hannover on February 27, 2010.
Awards
- 2005: Screenplay Prize of the Berlinale for the feature film Netto
- 2005: Film Art Prize for Netto
- 2005: Nomination and sponsorship award of the Max Ophüls Film Festival for Netto
- 2006: Prize of the German Film Critics , “Best Feature Film Debut” for Netto
- 2008: German Critics' Prize
- 2010: Culture Prize of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover
- 2011: Eberhard Fechner scholarship from VG Bild-Kunst for tourists come at the end
Web links
- Robert Thalheim in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Agency page
Individual evidence
- ↑ World premiere Schauspiel Hannover: Moschee DE. A scenic reconstruction. ( Memento of the original from November 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Hanover Theater, February 27, 2010. Accessed January 6, 2012
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Thalheim, Robert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German theater and film director and screenwriter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 2nd July 1974 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |