Thomas Frick

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Thomas Frick (born August 7, 1962 in Rostock ) is a German author and director .

Life

Thomas Frick began his artistic work in the 1980s as a cartoonist , songwriter and underground filmmaker . He organized underground film festivals and a film club in his hometown of Greifswald . After arrests, house searches and the confiscation of his film works and writings by the Ministry for State Security , Frick made contact with prominent artists in the GDR and Hungary. Above all, it was thanks to his Super 8 films and the mediation by DEFA director Heiner Carow that Frick was accepted as a trainee in 1987 at the DEFA Studio for Feature Films in Potsdam-Babelsberg .

Frick completed his training as a director from 1988 to 1996 at the HFF Konrad Wolf film school in Babelsberg under the mentorship of DEFA director Claus Dobberke . During this time he made several award-winning documentaries and short films , such as 10 days in October and vaudeville . He shot his award-winning diploma film The Unknown Deserter in 1994 as a co-production with the University of California in Los Angeles , also with Karoline Eichhorn , Udo Kier and Ralf Möller . The American mentor of the project was the well-known director Roland Emmerich .

After finishing film school, Frick worked as a director and writer for television ( Gute Zeiten - Schlechte Zeiten , Alpha Team , Gott und die Welt ), as a music clip maker and commercial film maker ( Clueso , Acoustica , Sony , Danone , Mc Paper, Red Cross, Telekom, Ferrero ) and as an event director (Prix Europa) and thus enabled his free work on his own short films ( Emmerich , Grünes Licht , Dangerous animal ).

In 1998 Frick founded "Thomas Frick Filmproduktion" and in 2001 he took over the direction of the adventure film Detective Lovelorn and the Revenge of the Pharaoh , in which Mišel Matičević , Eva Hassmann , Reiner Schöne and Horst Buchholz can be seen in his last leading role.

For many years, Frick has been actively involved in numerous charitable projects - mostly film or script projects with young people such as Courage Show - Overcoming Foreignness , Courageous Pictures , youth thinks um.welt / Youthinkgreen , Sukuma .

Frick teaches scriptwriting , advertising dramaturgy and directing in various places and institutions, in countries such as Iceland, Croatia, Belarus, Poland, France, Italy, Bulgaria, Turkey, India, China, Egypt, Brazil, Peru, Namibia and Chile. Travels as a filmmaker and photographer led him a. a. in the USA, Tunisia, Morocco, Ukraine, North Korea, Maldives, the United Arab Emirates and Iran. He was a speaker at the Saxon Media Academy and at the TÜV Rheinland School in Dresden.

Thomas Frick has been active as a literary author since 2015. He published short stories and travel stories as a self-publisher, won prizes, was included in anthologies and attended writing seminars with Sebastian Fitzek, Andreas Eschbach, Klaus N. Frick, Uwe Anton, Michael Markus Thurner, Leo Lukas, Kathrin Lange, Ursula Poznansiki, Andreas Gruber and others . He wrote for Perry Rhodan / STELLARIS and is a member of the board of the Brandenburg Literature College.

Filmography

Thomas Frick - director
  • The excursion into the mountains (after Franz Kafka , 1983)
  • The massacre (1985/87)
  • Time of Fires (1986)
  • 10 Days in October (1989)
  • Variety show (1992)
  • The Unknown Deserter (1994)
  • Pictures from the Mageburg youth scene / God and the World (TV) (1994)
  • Farewell to Germany (1995)
  • Good Times - Bad Times (TV) (1996-1998)
  • Do Swidanja Germany (1998)
  • Beloved Sisters (TV) (1998)
  • various commercials for Filmhaus Berlin (including Deutsche Telekom, McPaper, Danone, Ferrero, Red Cross, Civitas) (1998–2000)
  • Emmerich (1999)
  • Green light (2000)
  • Alpha Team (TV) (2001)
  • Clueso / Don't play with it (music video) (2001)
  • Detective Lovelorn and Revenge of the Pharaoh (2002) feature film
  • Dangerous Animal (2005)
  • Your order is built on sand, documentary (2006)
  • Caspar David Friedrich - the thought painter of romanticism (2008)
  • youth thinks about the world, commercials (2010-12)
  • The new conquerors of Königstein Fortress - 5 episodes (2014)
  • SUKUMA - Spots for Sustainability and SUKUMA - Stories of Change (2012–19)

Publications (excerpt)

  • "Counter-images. Cinematic subversion in the GDR 1976 - 1989. Texts, Images, Data ”(co-author, non-fiction book, 1996, Gerhard Wolf Verlag)
  • “The perfect island” (travel story, 2009 audience award of the PM), BOD
  • "Abgespaced" (fantastic short stories), ePubli, Holtzbrinck Publishing Group
  • “Adventure West Africa” (travel book), ePubli, Holtzbrinck Publishing Group
  • "Tree of Hope" (media manual, co-author and publisher, Kellner Verlag)
  • “Gagarin” in CORONA MAGAZINE, November 2016, publisher in color and multicolored
  • "Der Mahr" in Monster of the Week, Anthology 2017, ePubli, Holtzbrinck Publishing Group
  • "CAL" 2nd place in the VFR literary competition and publication in the space yearbook "Space 2018"
  • “Consul Gruner's most embarrassing hour” PERRY RHODAN, March 2018, Pabel Moewig Publishing Union
  • "Abgespaced 2" (fantastic short stories, volume 2), ePubli, Holtzbrinck Publishing Group
  • "CAL" in c't magazine January 2019, Heise Medien Verlag

Awards

  • 2018 Award for Sustainability Project 2018 with "Stories of Change" (German Council for Sustainable Development, RENN)
  • 2017 second place in the science fiction short story competition of the association for the promotion of space travel
  • 2017: Quality seal and award as a transformation project of the Council for Sustainable Development for SUKUMA films
  • 2017: GreenTec Award with youth thinks um.welt eV (communication category)
  • 2014: “Best Practice” initiative of the BMI for fair trade and sustainability spots, quality seal of the Council for Sustainable Development with SUKUMA
  • 2010: 3rd place “Goldenes Stadttor” for corporate film Central Germany
  • 2008: Winner of the PM literary competition with the book publication The Perfect Island
  • 2006: Bronze Award Worldfilmfest Houston Dangerous Animal
  • 2005: Audience Award Internationale Grenzlandfilmtage Selb, as well as audience award and main award International Short Film Festival Mechernich, third place audience award CON CAN Tokyo, audience winner "Shorts at Moonlight" in Bad Soden, nomination for the Hollywood Filmfest Award (all for Dangerous Animal ), winner of the ECOTOPTEN advertising film award with Susie!
  • 2003: Media education award from the Saxon State Institute for "Courageous Pictures"
  • 2002 nomination for the Boje Buck screenplay award on the Potsdam Sehsüchten with “Der Hecht”
  • 2002: Main and audience award at the “Halloween Film Festival ” in Stuttgart for Emmerich , special award from the BMI for the youth film project Courage show - overcoming being a stranger
  • 1996: 1st ORB script award for feature film Heimat
  • 1995: "Finalist Award" International Worldfest Houston for The Unknown Deserter
  • 1993: "Best Design" student film festival Tokyo with variety
  • 1990: "Golden Dove" in Leipzig, "Prize for Youth and Education" Frankfurt / M. - for documentary film 10 days in October

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Official homepage "Detective Lovelorn"
  2. ↑ worldwide youth work (youth thinks um.welt and youthinkgreen)
  3. ↑ Environmental spots Sukuma and Thomas Frick
personal data
SURNAME Frick, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH 7th August 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Rostock , GDR