Thomas Schadt
Thomas Schadt (born January 31, 1957 in Nuremberg ) is a German director, producer, cameraman , author and photographer .
Life
After graduating from high school, Thomas Schadt trained as a photographer and then worked as a projectionist, camera assistant and theater photographer. From 1980 to 1983 he studied at the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin and established himself as a documentary filmmaker for television. In 1983 he founded the film production company Odyssey-Film and has worked as a director, producer, photographer, cameraman and author ever since.
He has received numerous prizes for his work, including the Adolf Grimme Prize 1993 and 1999, the German Television Prize 1999, the German Documentary Film Prize 2005 and the Friedrich Baur Prize for Film and Media Art of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts in 2014.
In addition to his own film work, numerous teaching activities at film schools and universities followed from 1991 . In 2000 he was appointed professor for directing / documentary film at the Baden-Württemberg Film Academy and has been its director since 2005.
From 2000 to 2004 he was a member of the jury for the First Steps young talent award and from 2004 to 2007 for the German Television Award . In addition, Thomas Schadt is co-initiator and co-supervisor of the SWR debut series “Young Documentary”.
From 2010 to 2011 he was managing director of the Academy for Performing Arts Baden-Württemberg .
In 2015/16 he was the artistic director of the Nibelungen Festival in Worms under the direction of Nico Hofmann .
Schadt has been a member of the European Film Academy , the German Film Academy since 2005 , the Berlin Academy of the Arts since 2013 and the German Academy of Performing Arts since 2017 .
Filmography (selection)
- 1982: What did I lose in Hawaii
- 1983: For eternity - encounters on the former Nazi party rally grounds in Nuremberg
- 1984: computer fever
- 1986: On the way to always and everywhere - A trip to Germany
- 1988: The feeling of the moment - In the footsteps of the photographer Robert Frank
- 1989: Thrash-Altenessen - A film from the Ruhr area
- 1990: The magazine of pictures - a chronicle of current events
- 1990: Pavlos Bakojannis - Obituary for a friend in Greece
- 1991: The highway war
- 1992: The Forgotten City - Butte, Montana / USA
- 1993: You have to be eleven friends - the football professionals of FC Bayern Munich
- 1994: Homicide Commission MI / 4 - The Gleser case
- 1995: Iron Angels - Air Rescue in Germany
- 1996: Mr. W. and Mr. W. (together with Gerd Hoffmeister )
- 1997: Wall Street - A film about money
- 1997: Manhattan Stories - Seven friends and a big city (together with Susanne Kammermeier )
- 1998: Eyewitnesses - The photographers Höpker, Lebeck, Moses and Scheler (together with Rainer Holzemer )
- 1998: Life without work - long-term unemployed report
- 1998: The candidate - Gerhard Schröder in the '98 election campaign
- 1999: Capital newspaper - two Berlin newspapers and the election of the Federal President
- 2000: Democracy in the castle - the state parliament in Schwerin at work (together with Peter Schmidt )
- 2001: My Way - James Last - A Portrait
- 2001: Chancellor Pictures - Scenes from the big and small theater of politics
- 2001: Road of Eternal Peace - Chang An Jie, Beijing
- 2002: Berlin: Symphony of a Big City - symphonic documentary film
- 2003: break film (together with Thomas Keller )
- 2004: Amok in the school - The deed of Robert Steinhäuser (together with Knut Beulich )
- 2004: Carola Stern : Doppelleben (docudrama with Maria Simon as Carola Stern)
- 2004: The Chancellery (documentary series, production / director: Mechthild Gassner)
- 2006: Profession teacher (together with Wilma Pradetto )
- 2009: The man from the Palatinate (documentary drama about former Chancellor Helmut Kohl with Thomas Thieme )
- 2011: Der Engel Maria (script for a full-length feature film)
- 2012: The Autobahn War - 20 years later (together with Reiner Holzemer )
- 2013: Richling meets Richling
- 2014: The Resignation (docudrama with Kai Wiesinger as Christian Wulff )
- 2015: The Salt in the Soup (Production / Direction: Guido Lukoschek)
- 2015: Football - a life: Franz Beckenbauer
Theater production
- 2011: I invented Karl May " (as part of the Ludwigsburg Castle Festival with Thomas Thieme as Karl May)
- 2011: Call of the Wild (theater production at the Academy for Performing Arts Baden-Württemberg )
- 2013: Sexy Sally (theater production at the Academy for Performing Arts Baden-Württemberg )
- 2015: Carnage ( Nibelungen Festival Worms , author Albert Ostermaier )
Book publications
- 1979: variations
- 1992: The Forgotten City - Butte, Montana - exhibition project within "Facing America", in collaboration with Susanne Kammermeier
- 1999: On the situation of documentary film as an author's film - symposium in the house of documentary film in Stuttgart, in collaboration with Christoph Hübner
- 2002: The feeling of the moment - On the dramaturgy of the documentary film
- 2002: Berlin: Symphony of a Big City
- 2004: Nothing upsets us anymore (together with Carola Stern )
- 2006: Knowledge of directing (co-editor together with Beatrice Ottersbach ), UVK Verlag
- 2007: Acting credentials (co-editor together with Beatrice Ottersbach and Nina Haun ), UVK Verlag
- 2007: Screenplay confessions (co-editor together with Beatrice Ottersbach ), UVK Verlag
- 2008: Camera skills (co-editor together with Beatrice Ottersbach ), UVK Verlag
- 2009: Editing skills (co-editor together with Beatrice Ottersbach ), UVK Verlag
- 2009: Film music confessions (co-editor together with Beatrice Ottersbach ), UVK Verlag
- 2010: Confessions of film producers (co-editor together with Beatrice Ottersbach ): Praxis Film, Volume 59, Konstanz 2010, UVK Verlag, ISBN 978-3-86764-214-9 .
- 2012: The feeling of the moment - on the dramaturgy of the documentary film, 3rd revised and expanded edition, UVK Verlag, ISBN 978-3-86764-216-3
- 2013: Film Teaching - An Undogmatic Guide for Students, (co-editor together with Beatrice Ottersbach ), Bertz + Fischer Verlag , ISBN 978-3-86505-220-9 .
- 2017: The feeling of the moment - On the dramaturgy of the documentary film, 4th revised and expanded edition, UVK Verlag
Photographic work
- 1977: 8h37 - 20h42 - a description of the time ; b / w photo series
- 1979: The camera and me ; b / w photos
- 1979: variations ; Description of a row house settlement b / w photo series
- 1979: Anonymous portraits ; b / w photo series
- 1979: Pictures of a major German city ; b / w photos
- 1983–85: Germany: always and everywhere b / w photo series
- 1986: Keep on smiling with the dummy ; b / w photo series
- 1988-96: Under the big sky I-IV ; b / w photos and polaroids
- 2004: Remnants of the Schäuferle ; Polaroids
- 2010: Everywhere and Nowhere I ; Color photo tableau
- 2013: Dead End Butte ; Color photo tableau
- 2015: Everywhere and Nowhere II ; Color photo tableau
- 2015: Home ; Color photo series
Web links
- Thomas Schadt at the Baden-Württemberg Film Academy
- Thomas Schadt at filmportal.de
- Thomas Schadt in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Thomas Schadt at Crew United
- Asking questions that make you think , FAZ interview with Schadt on June 7, 2019
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Autobahn War , video in the ARD media library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schadt, Thomas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German film director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 31, 1957 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nuremberg |