Sinan Akkuş

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Sinan Akkuş at the German premiere of “King Ping” in Wuppertal

Sinan Akkuş (born December 17, 1970 in Erzincan , Turkey ) is a German director , screenwriter and actor .

Live and act

Sinan Akkuş was born in Turkey . As a child, he moved to Germany in 1973. After graduating from high school in Kassel , he studied philosophy and German literature from 1992 to 1994 . In 1994 he also began studying visual communication with a focus on film and television. Moreover Akkuş worked in film and television production company Kigali-films , where he at camera, editing and design of image films participated. In 1995 he attended the Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión as an exchange student in Cuba . In 2000 he graduated from the Kassel Art College with a focus on film and television.

After that, Akkuş had made a few short films that received several awards and honors. For example, his short film Lassie (2002) u. a. with the first prize of the Hofheimer Kurzfilmpreis and from the German Film and Media Assessment (FBW) with the predicate particularly valuable , which is also his feature film debut Evet, ich want! which he worked on in 2007 and 2008. In this culture clash comedy , Akkuş takes on the topic of marriage among and among people of Turkish origin in Germany and the difficulties associated with it. The one for Evet, I want! produced teaser Stromberg has (no) a heart for Turks from Akkuş has received almost 900,000 views on YouTube so far . In it, Bernd Stromberg , the main character from the TV series Stromberg , announces the film by his colleague and competitor Sinan Turçulu . The film won the Lüdia Audience Award at the Lünen Kinofest in November 2008 and was released in German cinemas on October 1, 2009.

In 2015, Akkuş's movie 3 Turks and a Baby , for which he also wrote the screenplay and in which Eko Fresh , Kostja Ullmann and Kida Ramadan play the leading roles, was released in German cinemas. 3 Turks and a Baby received the title valuable from the German Film and Media Assessment (FBW) and was nominated for the CIVIS Cinema Prize in 2015 . One of Akkuş's last directorial works, the television film Fischer sucht Frau , was nominated for the Hamburg Producer Award for German television productions at the Hamburg Film Festival in 2018 . His TV film Almost Perfectly in Love with Katharina Schüttler , Aleksandar Jovanovic and Manfred Zapatka in the leading roles was broadcast on ZDF on May 5, 2019 . Akkuş 'new TV film Your last will can do me! with Heiner Lauterbach , Uwe Ochsenknecht and Svenja Jung in the leading roles celebrated its premiere on November 1, 2019 at the Biberach Film Festival .

Akkuş also appears as an actor. Among other things, he played in the first season of the ProSieben comedy series Stromberg Stromberg's colleague and strongest competitor Sinan Turçulu , who also appears in the movie for the series. In the series Dr. Psycho - The bad guys, the cops, my wife and I with Christian Ulmen , Akkuş had a guest appearance in the episode The Turk , where he played a police spy.

Furthermore, Akkuş was also active as a juror for film festivals such as the Bamberg Short Film Festival , the Film Festival Turkey / Germany or the Independent Days and works as a lecturer at the International Academy for Film Acting - iaf in Cologne .

Filmography (selection)

Script / director

play

Others

  • 2009: Das Dorf (Köy) , (short film), (camera)

Awards (selection)

German Short Film Day
  • 2001: Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Prize for Sevda means love
short cuts cologne
  • 2001: Audience award for Sevda means love
  • 2003: Audience Award for Lassie
Exground Filmfest Wiesbaden
  • 2003: Audience Award for Lassie
Film Festival Max Ophüls Prize
  • 2003: Nomination for the Max Ophüls Prize in the Best Short Film category for Lassie
Rüsselsheim Film Festival
  • 2003: Second place in the audience award for Lassie
Lünen cinema festival
  • 2002: Audience Award for Lassie
  • 2008: Winner of the audience award for Evet, I want!
  • 2008: Winner of the jury's Berndt Media Prize for the best film title for Evet, I want!
Film Festival Turkey / Germany
2003: Nomination for Best Short Film for Lassie
2009: Nomination in the category Best Fiction for Evet, ich will!
Attention Berlin
  • 2008: Honorable Mention for Evet, I want!
Berlin & Beyond Film Festival
  • 2009: Winner of the Audience Award for Evet, I want!
TV film festival Baden-Baden
German Film Critics' Prize
  • 2010: Nomination in the category Best Feature Film Debut for Evet, I want!
Turkish Film Festival Frankfurt
  • 2010: Winner of the Cine Night Star Award for Evet, I want!
Silver Horse Awards Gent
  • 2011: Award for the best film for Evet, I want!
Hessian film award
  • 2014: Winner in the Script for Christmas Under the Crescent category
Civis - Europe's media prize for integration
  • 2015: Nomination for the Civis cinema award for European feature films for 3 Turks and a baby
Biberach Film Festival
  • 2019: Nomination for the TV beaver in the category Best TV film for your last will can do me!

Web links

Commons : Sinan Akkuş  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Biography / filmography by Sinan Accu on the website of Das Erste .
  2. ↑ Volker Sievert: Heiraten ( Memento from October 22, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), article in U mag from September 28, 2009, accessed on September 30, 2009.
  3. ↑ Teaser for the movie Evet, Ich Will with Bernd Stromberg on Youtube ( Memento from October 18, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Official Facebook page for the feature film 3 Turks and a Baby ( Memento from April 18, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Rapper Eko Fresh takes on the leading role in comedy "3 Turks and 1 Baby" - filmstarts.de article
  6. ↑ The television film Fischer sucht Frau on the Hamburg Film Festival website
  7. ↑ Almost perfectly in love - "Herzkino" with Katharina Schüttler and Aleksandar Jovanovic , Presseportal / ZDF, accessed on March 27, 2019.
  8. ↑ Your last will can do me! on the website of the Biberach Film Festival
  9. ↑ Profile of Sinan Akkuş on the website of the International Academy for Film Acting - iaf
personal data
SURNAME Akkuş, Sinan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish director and actor
DATE OF BIRTH 17th December 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Erzincan , Turkey