Roland May (director)
Roland May (born July 12, 1960 in Hamburg ) is a German director and author .
Career
Roland May studied journalism , film and theater studies as well as Latin American studies at the Free University of Berlin .
After graduating, he started working in the media in 1985. In the early 1990s he worked as an editor at n-tv and then at RTL . Since 1995 he has worked in television and advertising as a freelance writer, director and producer.
Works
- 1988: Swing versus lockstep (documentation)
- 1991: KGB - Two spies, one friendship (Documentation)
- 1992: The Death Dancers of Rio (report)
- 1997: Shanghai is on fire! (Documentation)
- 1998–2000: Legends (documentary series):
- Curd Juergens (1998)
- Soraya (1998)
- Roy Black (2000)
- 2002: The conscience of the world (2-part documentary)
- 2004: Back then in the GDR - a new beginning in Russian (co-director of an episode of a documentary series)
- 2004–2007: The great criminal cases (docu-drama series):
- 1. The Schlecker Kidnappers (2004)
- 2. Bernhard Kimmel - Al Capone von der Pfalz (2006)
- 3. Dagobert - The Department Store Blackmailer (2007)
- 2007: The Baghdad Railway (2-part documentary drama)
- 2007: Love without limits - And suddenly the wall was there (docu-drama)
- 2010: 1000 small revolutions (documentation)
- 2010: Detroit - Between Utopia and Doom (Documentation)
- 2010: Code name Annett - In the network of the Stasi (docu-drama)
- 2013: Berlin2Shanghai (5-part documentary series)
- 2016: The Great Arab Revolt (3-part docu-drama)
- 2017: Witch Hunt (docu-drama)
- 2018: Stage magic - behind the scenes at the Berlin State Opera (documentary)
- 2019: An airport at the end of the world (documentary)
Awards
- 2010: Friedrich Vogel Prize for Business Journalism for: Detroit - Between Utopia and Downfall
- 2008: Nomination for the Prix Europa for: Boundless Love
- 2005: Adolf Grimme Prize for: Back then in the GDR
Web links
- Roland May. Writer and director. In: kress.de (curriculum vitae, prices)
- List of works on the Lavafilm website ( Memento from January 4, 2011 in the Internet Archive ). In: lavafilm.de, accessed on September 19, 2016 (Status: 2011; partly with links to film descriptions; no details of the year)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Roland May. Author and director. In: kress.de , accessed on December 5, 2019 (CV, prices).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | May, Roland |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German director and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 12, 1960 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |