Sven Unterwaldt

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Sven Unterwaldt (born April 21, 1965 in Lübeck ) is a German film director and screenwriter .

Sven Unterwaldt (left) with Otto Waalkes

Life

Unterwaldt, who grew up in Timmendorfer Strand , started making his first amateur films at the age of 14. These include the film Trip to Transylvania , Tatort Schulhof, made at the forest church in Timmendorfer Strand in 1979, and a not entirely serious film about work for the Maltese relief service . In 1985 he won a comedy film festival from RTL and Hörzu with the comedy Beginners Pech .

After graduating from high school at Ostsee-Gymnasium Timmendorfer Strand and doing some odd jobs as a kiosk seller and beach chair rental company, Unterwaldt worked as a sketch writer for the TV station RTL. Here he developed sketch templates for Hape Kerkeling , Ingolf Lück , Wigald Boning and Götz Alsmann and also directed them. In 1994 and 1995 he worked as a freelance director for the Till & Obel Show and RTL Saturday Night . This was followed by films for the ZDF- produced awarding of the Golden Camera , directing work for Switch , the television film Request from Ex and the Christmas gala Thank You Anke . Other directorial work included 24 episodes of the comedy series Anke with Anke Engelke , the series Berlin, Berlin and Alles Atze with Atze Schröder .

Unterwaldt made his debut as a feature film director in 2001 with the Ralf-König film adaptation, Wie die Karnickel . Together with his friend Otto Waalkes he wrote the script for 7 dwarfs - men alone in the forest . He also directed. The next directorial work for the cinema was Siegfried (2005) and 7 Zwerge - The forest is not enough . The latter fairytale comedy premiered on October 24, 2006 in Hamburg . Just 28 days after the cinema release, there was again the golden screen (for three million moviegoers) and the gold bogey . On October 7, 2008 Unterwaldt celebrated the world premiere of his new comedy film " U-900 " (with Atze Schröder and Yvonne Catterfeld, among others ) in Essen .

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personal data
SURNAME Unterwaldt, Sven
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH April 21, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck