Thomas Kufus

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Producer Thomas Kufus with Petra Müller at the NRW Cinema Program Award, November 2016, Cologne.

Thomas Kufus (* 1957 in Essen ) is a German film producer .

biography

He shot Kufu's first documentaries Mein Krieg und Blockade as an autodidact. In 1990 he founded the company zero film together with Martin Hagemann in Berlin and from then on produced numerous documentaries. After the producers split up in 2006, Kufus continued his work with zero one film. From the beginning, the focus of Kufu's activity was on the production of documentaries and series. Since 2011 he has also appeared as a producer of feature films ( Who if not we , the West , The State versus Fritz Bauer ).

In addition, Kufus got involved early on in unusual television formats such as the documentary 24h Berlin - A Day in Life , shot from 2008 to 2009 , a television documentary about Berlin and its residents. a. received the German Television Award. In 2014, Arte and Bayerischer Rundfunk broadcast the follow-up project 24h Jerusalem . For this, too, zero one film received the German Television Award and Kufus the producer award of the German Academy for Television .

Kufus was chairman of the board of the German Film Academy from November 2009 to February 2015 . He has been the recipient of the Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon since 2016 .

Cooperation with directors

Many projects from Kufus' production activities are based on long-term collaboration with the directors. Kufus has been co-producer of films by Russian director Aleksandr Sokurov since 1997 . a. he produced the feature films Mother and Son , Moloch , Father and Son and Francofonia .

The collaboration with the director Andres Veiel began with Black Box BRD , a documentary about the bank boss Alfred Herrhausen killed by the Red Army Fraction , which was awarded the European and German film prizes, among other things . The cooperation was u. a. with Veiel's first feature film Who if not we continued with August Diehl and Lena Lauzemis in the leading roles. Andres Veiel's documentary BEUYS about Joseph Beuys was shown in the competition at the 2017 Berlinale .

Kufus has also worked several times with the directors Corinna Belz and Regina Schilling .

Awards (excerpt)

Films (selection)

  • 1987: Yellow variety (camera assistant)
  • 1990: My War (writer and director)
  • 1992: Blockade (author and director)
  • 1993: Stalingrad Memorial Company (author and director)
  • 1994: Hidden Pages Tikhiye stranitsy (producer)
  • 1996: A Tickle in the Heart (producer)
  • 1997: mother and son (producer)
  • 1998: My friend the minister (producer)
  • 1999: maternity ward (producer)
  • 2000: El Acordeón del Diablo (producer)
  • 2001: Black Box BRD (producer)
  • 2001: Life After Microsoft (Producer)
  • 2002: Schwarzwaldhaus 1902 (executive producer)
  • 2003: The Children Are Dead (Producer)
  • 2003: father and son (producer)
  • 2004: Adventure 1900 - Life in the Manor House (producer)
  • 2004: Out of love for the people (producer)
  • 2005: Adventure 1927 - Sommerfrische (producer)
  • 2005: White Ravens - Nightmare Chechnya (Producer)
  • 2005: Our 50s - How we became what we are (screenwriter and director, 6 episodes)
  • 2006: The Stud (producer)
  • 2007: Bierbichler (producer)
  • 2007: My Class - What became of us (producer)
  • 2008: Sharon (producer)
  • 2008: One too many articles - Anna Politkovskaya and the Putin system (producer)
  • 2009: 24h Berlin - A day in the life (producer)
  • 2010: Lullabies (producer)
  • 2011: Who if not us (producer)
  • 2011: The Apartment (producer)
  • 2011: Gerhard Richter Painting (producer)
  • 2011: Closed society (producer)
  • 2012: More than Honey (producer)
  • 2012: Gold Rush - The History of the Treuhand (producer)
  • 2013: West (producer)
  • 2013: Time of Heroes (producer)
  • 2014: 24 h Jerusalem (producer)
  • 2014: Tito's glasses (producer)
  • 2015: The state against Fritz Bauer (producer)
  • 2015: The Consequences of the Act (Producer)
  • 2015: Francofonia (producer)
  • 2016: Peter Handke. I'm in the forest. I may be late (producer)
  • 2016: Wrong Elements (producer)
  • 2016: 24 weeks (producer)
  • 2017: Somewhere in Tonga (producer)
  • 2017: 24h Bavaria - One day at home (producer)
  • 2017: Beuys (producer)
  • 2018: The silent classroom (producer)
  • 2018: Kulenkampffs shoes (producer)
  • 2018: Eldorado (producer)
  • 2019: 24h Europe - The Next Generation (producer)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Guantanamo Trap / Stab . Archived from the original on October 23, 2013. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved May 4, 2011. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.guantanamotrap.com
  2. ↑ Laudation for Thomas Kufus at the award ceremony of the Artur Brauner Prize 2016 . Retrieved December 11, 2018.
  3. ↑ deutscher-regiepreis.de
personal data
SURNAME Kufus, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German television director and producer
DATE OF BIRTH 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH eat