Thomas Roth (filmmaker)

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Thomas Roth (premiere of "Brand" in the Wiener Gartenbaukino , 2011)

Thomas Roth (* 1965 in Graz ) is an Austrian film director and screenwriter .

Live and act

Thomas Roth is considered one of the most prominent directors for high-quality TV and cinema films in Germany and Austria and has already worked with numerous German-speaking and international stars. Again and again he discovered acting talents, who often quickly gained fame through his films. His portrait of the Viennese pop star Falco , Damn, we are still alive is one of the most popular Austrian films of the last 20 years. Thomas Roth directed several Austrian Tatort films as well as 9 out of 10 episodes of the award-winning Austrian crime series Trautmann , which he co-wrote with Ernst Hinterberger . Roth was also the co-writer and director of the only Ostbahn-Kurti movie, Blutrausch . In recent years, Thomas Roth has successfully staged a series of crime novels and dramas for ARD and ZDF ( Tatort Munich, Spreewald crime thriller Tears of the Fish , crime series Der Kommissar und das Meer in Sweden), before he started using the Viennese Tatort code name Kidon ( Broadcast January 2015) and then temporarily returned to Austria with the ZDF / ORF co-production Blood Sisters . In 2014 Roth filmed Jean-Luc Bannalec's crime bestseller Breton Gold in France for ARD / Degeto.

From 1985 to 1994 Thomas Roth was a director on ORF . During this time he produced documentaries (including about the EAV and the playwright Wolfgang Bauer ), music videos ( Opus , EAV), commercials, concert films (EAV, Austria 3 ) and short films. Roth then began directing feature films for cinema and television. From 1995 to 1996 he lived in New York, where he trained as a screenwriter. In 2005 he staged when his so far only theater work, under the direction of Michael Schottenberg, the Volkstheater Vienna Before the retirement of Thomas Bernhard .

Filmography

Feature films

Television films

Television series

Awards

  • 1998: Blutrausch : Nomination for the Max Ophüls Prize .
  • 2002: Nothing is so fine : Golden Romy , Best Director
  • 2004: 30 years of light in the dark : silver medal at the New York AME International Award 2004 .
  • 2004: Trautmann - The game is over : Nominated for the television film award of the Academy of Performing Arts Baden-Baden, best television film .
  • 2004: Trautmann - 71 days : Erich Neuberg Prize of the ORF for outstanding directorial work in a television film.
  • 2015: Romy in the category Best Director TV Film for Tatort: ​​Code name Kidon

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kurier: ROMY 2015: Academy prizes awarded . Article dated April 23, 2015, accessed April 23, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Roth, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz