Thomas Arslan

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Thomas Arslan ( Viennale 2017)

Thomas Arslan (born July 16, 1962 in Braunschweig ) is a German - Turkish film director and screenwriter . He is considered a representative of the Berlin School .

Life

The son of a Turkish father and a German mother grew up in Essen , attended elementary school in Ankara , after which he returned to Essen. After graduating from high school, he did his community service and briefly studied German. From 1986 to 1992 he studied directing at the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin . After a series of short films, he presented his first feature-length film in 1994 with the television production Mach die Musik leiser .

He became known through his Berlin trilogy about the life of teenagers and young adults of Turkish origin in Germany, which, in addition to his film debut Geschwister - Kardeşler, also includes Dealer and The Beautiful Day . In these films, for which Arslan wrote and directed the scripts, he portrayed different characters in their diversity with impressive images.

Since 2007 he has also been a lecturer at the University of the Arts in Berlin.

Thomas Arslan received several awards for his work: the Max Ophüls Prize (1997), the Berlinale International Film Critics Prize 1999 ( FIPRESCI Prize , 1999) and the Ecumenical Jury Prize 1999. In 2004 he was a member of the jury of the International Forum of the young film .

Arslan was represented in the Berlinale competition for the first time in 2013 with the Western Gold .

Movies

  • 1994: Turn the music down (TV movie: Das kleine Fernsehspiel )
  • 1994: Deutschländer (camera)
  • 1995: Mädchen am Ball (camera)
  • 1997: Siblings - Kardeşler (screenplay, editor, director)
  • 1998: Baby tiger stripes waiting for Tarzan (actor)
  • 1999: Dealer (screenplay, director)
  • 2001: The Beautiful Day (screenplay, director, producer)
  • 2006: From afar (screenplay, producer, director, speaker, camera)
  • 2007: Vacation (screenplay, director, producer)
  • 2010: In the Shadow (screenplay, director)
  • 2013: Gold (screenplay, director)
  • 2017: Bright Nights (Screenplay, Director)

Web links

Commons : Thomas Arslan  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Thomas Arslan on the UdK website , accessed on March 29, 2013
  2. ↑ Thomas Arslan's Berlin trilogy arsenal-berlin.de, accessed on March 29, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Arslan, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Turkish film director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH July 16, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig