Thomas Nikel

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Thomas Nikel (born August 5, 1946 in Munich ) is a German film director and film editor whose field of activity primarily focuses on German television series and television films.

Career

Assistant director, film editor

Thomas Nikel first appeared in 1973 as a dubbing director on three episodes of Peter Frankenfeld's show Peters Bastelstunde . This was followed by work for television series, in which he either assisted the director or worked as an editor. So with the Tatort episodes Abendstern (1976) and Ein Schuß zuviel (1978) with Hansjörg Felmy as Commissioner Haferkamp . In Niklaus Schilling movie Rheingold of 1978, that on the 28th Berlin International Film Festival was presented, Nikel was responsible for the cut, along with Angelika Gruber. In the US-German science fiction film Enemy Mine - Geliebter Feind by Wolfgang Petersen , Thomas Nikel was also involved in editing alongside Hannes Nikel in 1985, as he had previously done in 1981 on Petersen's film Das Boot .

Director

In 1981 Nikel first directed five episodes of the crime series Attention Customs! that were broadcast on television's early evening programming. Nikel was responsible for the consequences of the then regional broadcaster SDR . This was followed by further work for television, for example for the series Jakob and Adele (1989) with Carl-Heinz Schroth and Brigitte Horney , Ein Heim für Tiere (1989) with Siegfried Wischnewski as Dr. Willi Bayer, 33 episodes of the SOKO Munich crime film series (1991–1997) and the family series Forsthaus Falkenau (1993) with Christian Wolff and Wildbach (1994) with Siegfried Rauch .

The 1996 film Lichterspiele , directed by Nikel under the working title Another View , is based on a novel by Rosamunde Pilcher . In it, Anja Kling plays the daughter of a famous painter who spends little time with her. From 1978 to 2006 Nikel shot 42 episodes of the television series Medicopter 117 - Every Life Counts , which reports on the risky deployment of two rescue helicopter teams. The television series The Rescue Fliers, in which fictitious missions of a rescue helicopter were re-enacted, had a similar theme . Nikel directed 11 episodes of the series from 2004 to 2007.

Filmography (selection)

- Director, unless otherwise stated -

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas Nikel at filmportal.de
personal data
SURNAME Nikel, Thomas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nickel, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film director and film editor
DATE OF BIRTH August 5, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich , Germany