Stephan Brüggenthies

Stephan Brüggenthies (* 1968 in Münster ) is a German author , filmmaker and film composer .

Life

Stephan Brüggenthies, whose parents ran a music shop in Münster, studied business administration and musicology in Münster. He worked in several bands, including "MOVEMENT" (together with New Colors singer Gernot Bramkamp). With “New Harbour's”, released on Funfactory / Rough Trade, the band landed a small club hit.

After his time in Münster, Brüggenthies switched to the Baden-Württemberg Film Academy , where he first studied film composition with Oscar winner Cong Su , then film & media with Peter Märthesheimer & Christoph Fromm (screenplay) and Nico Hofmann & Lutz Konermann (directing).

His short films, including “Are you Luigi?” With Claus Theo Gärtner and “A bath full of love” with Heinrich Schafmeister and Gabriela Maria Schmeide , have won several awards.

He has lived in Cologne since 2001 . He has been on the board since 2003, and since 2005 chairman of the board of Filmbüro Nordrhein-Westfalen , the association of culturally oriented filmmakers in North Rhine-Westphalia . Brüggenthies has been on the board of the North Rhine-Westphalia Cultural Council since 2006 .

Brüggenthies wrote several episodes of the ARD series Tatort (TV series) and Polizeiruf 110 .

In summer 2009 his first novel, The Secret Boy , was published by Eichborn Verlag . The novel tells of a missing boy, a strange family home and the Cologne police officer Zbigniew Meier, for whom the search for the boy becomes an obsession - which ends in Normandy at Houlgate . The novel won the MIMI (Crime Audience Award of the German Book Trade) in early 2010 and was nominated for the Friedrich Glauser Prize (Best Debut) in 2010. The novel “Die tote Sister” was also published in 2011 by Eichborn Verlag. Here Zbigniew Meier is confronted with the kidnapping of his own girlfriend and gets caught up in a crime long ago.

Movies

1997: Music video "Jealousy" - Movement - production
1998: The strange world of Wolfgang and Melanie - screenplay and direction
1999: Are You Luigi - screenplay and director
1999: The Whip Master (ZDF, Grimme Prize) - film music
1999: Men and Other Disasters
2000: Are you Luigi - screenplay and director
2002: A bath full of love - screenplay, direction and film music
2005: Tatort: Erfroren - screenplay (WDR, together with Patrick Gurris)
2008: Tatort: Das Mädchen Galina - screenplay (SWR)
2010: Countdown - The hunt begins : A death (RTL, together with Hagen Moscherosch)
2010: Our yellow music store - direction and film music
2011: Tatort: The First Victim - Screenplay (SWR)
2014: Police Call 110: A Murderous Idea (MDR) (together with Olaf Kaiser and Stephan Rick)
2015: Out of the curve (hr) (together with Andrea Heller)
2016: Tatort: Wendehammer (hr) (together with Andrea Heller)
2017: Tatort: Land in this time (hr) (together with Khyana el Bitar and Dörte Franke )
2019: Tatort: The Monster of Kassel

Awards (selection) in the film sector

Sat1 Talent Award 1999 "Best Comedy"
Filmkunstfest Schwerin 1999: Grand Prize
Kinofest Lünen 1999: Best Short Film
Figuera da Foz Film Festival 1999: Grand Prix
Rüsselsheim Film Festival 1999: Audience award for the film "Are you Luigi?"
Fort Lauderdale Film Festival 2000: Best Short Drama

prose

2009: The Mysterious Boy (Eichborn Verlag)
2010: Santa Claus and Justice (short story, in: Mordsweihnachten, Jan Costin Wagner (Ed.), Rowohlt Verlag)
2011: The Dead Sister (Eichborn Verlag)

Awards and nominations in the field of literature

2010 MIMI (Crime Audience Award of the German Book Trade)
2010 nominated for the Friedrich Glauser Prize (Best Debut)

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ http://www.brueggenthies.org/filme.html

personal data
SURNAME	Brüggenthies, Stephan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German author, filmmaker and film composer
DATE OF BIRTH	1968
PLACE OF BIRTH	Muenster

[1] ttp://www.brueggenthies.org/filme.html