Steffen Schäffler

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Steffen Schäffler (* 1968 in Trier ) is a German director , screenwriter and animator . His short animation film Der Wückenmacher (1999), which he made together with his sister Annette Schäffler , was nominated for an Oscar for Best Animated Short Film in 2001.

Life

Schäffler was born in Trier, like his sister Annette Schäffler, who was two years older than him. He was already fascinated by film in his youth. He first settled in Munich trained as a photographer and was in Munich and London as an animator and film assistant animator working. The films he worked on as a draftsman during this time include Peterchens Mondfahrt (1990), Feivel, the mouse wanderer in the Wild West (1991) and 1995 Balto - A dog with a hero's heart .

From 1993 to 1999 Steffen Schäffler studied directing at the Baden-Württemberg Film Academy and published his first short films. These were created in collaboration with Annette Schäffler, who studied film production at the University of Television and Film Munich from 1993 to 1997 . Together they founded the film production studio Ideal Standard Films in 1993 . The first film produced was Steffen Schäffler's Das ridiculous song of love in 1993 . As in other film collaborations, Steffen Schäffler directed and wrote the script, while Annette Schäffler also worked on the script and directed it.

While still a student, Schäffler began filming his first animated film The Wig Maker . This stop-motion short film is set at the time of the London plague in 1665 and is based on the novel The Plague in London by Daniel Defoe . The implementation of the film turned out to be difficult, as the film academy hardly supported the project. The siblings took over the production with their own production company. The filming of The Wig Maker began in London in spring 1999. Annette Schäffler acted as scriptwriter and producer, while Steffen Schäffler directed, co-wrote the script and edited the film. Kenneth Branagh could be won as the spokesman for the main character in the film . The wig maker appeared in 1999 and became a great success. It won a total of 33 prizes at international film festivals. In 2001 he was nominated for an Oscar in the category “Best Animated Short Film”.

Schäffler shot the 60-minute interview film Der Deutsche Film # 1 for the Baden-Württemberg Film Academy in 1999 , in which directors Wolfgang Becker , Matthias Glasner , Philip Gröning , Oskar Roehler and Tom Tykwer provide information about their entry into the film business. A film book called Nine Interviews followed in 2001 , in which Schäffler also interviewed Jörg Buttgereit , Ralf Huettner , Romuald Karmakar and Hans-Christian Schmid in addition to the aforementioned .

In 2008, Steffen and Annette Schäffler published the three-minute short animated film Screen Test , in which an amateur actor is casting a costume film. The film was awarded the highest rating “Particularly valuable” by the film evaluation office . The joint film Pickels in a Pickle from 2011 received the rating “Valuable”.

Filmography

(* = no animation film)

publication

  • Nine interviews with Wolfgang Becker, Jörg Buttgereit, Matthias Glasner, Philip Gröning, Ralf Huettner, Romuald Karmakar, Oskar Roehler, Hans-Christian Schmid, Tom Tykwer . Belleville, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-933510-70-8

Awards (selection)

  • 1999: “Particularly valuable” rating for The Wig Maker
  • 2000: BAFTA nomination, Best Animated Short Film, for The Wig Maker
  • 2000: Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Prize for making wigs
  • 2000: OIAF Award (Best Film Debut), Ottawa International Animation Festival , for The Wig Maker
  • 2000: Award for the best film debut, Animafest Zagreb, for The Wig Maker
  • 2001: Oscar nomination , Best Animated Short Film , for The Wig Maker
  • 2008: "Particularly valuable" rating for Screen Test
  • 2011: "Valuable" rating for pimples in a pickle

literature

  • Annette and Steffen Schäffler . In: Jeff Lenburg: Who's who in animated cartoons . Applause, New York 2006, p. 311. ISBN 978-1557836717

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See company presentation on idealstandardfilm.de
  2. ↑ See Anette and Steffen Schäffler on halle14.org
  3. ↑ Frank Junghänel: The trick with the plague. Berliner Zeitung , March 24, 2001, accessed on February 6, 2013 .
  4. ↑ Are you bringing an Oscar to Berlin? BZ , March 20, 2001, accessed February 6, 2013 .
  5. ↑ The German Film # 1. FirstSteps , accessed February 6, 2013 .
  6. ↑ See screen test at fbw-filmbeval.com
  7. ↑ See Pickels in a Pickle on fbw-filmbwertung.com
personal data
SURNAME Schäffler, Steffen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH trier