Thomas Vinterberg

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Thomas Vinterberg at the Berlinale 2010

Thomas Vinterberg (born May 19, 1969 in Frederiksberg ) is a Danish film director . He became known as a co-founder of the Dogma 95 movement.

life and work

Vinterberg graduated from Danske Filmskole in 1993 as the youngest graduate to date . His graduation film Sidste omgang was nominated for a student Oscar . De Største Helte / Zwei Helden was the name of his first feature film, a road movie , for which he three Roberts received the Danish Film Academy Award. The film premiered at the Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival .

Vinterberg wrote the script for the first Dogma film Festen ( Das Fest ) and also directed it. In a short appearance he also plays a taxi driver here. The script was later adapted as a play and performed in various theaters in Germany.

On New Year's Eve 2000/2001 he was one of the four directors in the television experiment D-Day . A story was played in Copenhagen, which was directed live and in parallel by the four directors. The four different camera recordings were broadcast in real time on four different Danish television channels.

In 2003 Vinterberg shot the large international production It's All About Love . The drama Dear Wendy was created in 2005 based on a script by Lars von Trier . Neither film was a financial or cinematic success.

Vinterberg was invited to the 2010 Berlinale competition with his feature film Submarino , a literary adaptation of the novel of the same name by Danish author Jonas T. Bengtsson , which is about a drug addict father . On October 20, 2010, Submarino was awarded the Nordic Council Film Prize.

In 2012 Vinterberg completed the feature film The Hunt , in which a divorced teacher in the Danish provinces is falsely accused of abusing his friend's daughter. In 2012 the film received an invitation to the competition at the Cannes International Film Festival , won the European Film Prize for best screenplay and the Robert in the categories of film, directing and screenplay, among others. In 2014 The Hunt was nominated for an Oscar for best foreign language film .

In 2020 his social satire Der Rausch was awarded four European film prizes. Shortly after filming began, Vinterberg's daughter Ida, who was supposed to take on a role in the film, died. Despite this fact, he finished the film, which despite the COVID-19 pandemic should develop into the most successful cinema production in Denmark. It was also the noise as a Danish contribution to the Oscars 2021 in the category of international best film submitted.

Thomas Vinterberg has also made music videos for Metallica and Blur . In 2010 he staged his own play Das Burgtheater at the Burgtheater in Vienna .

Thomas Vinterberg is the owner of the Copenhagen-based company Thomas Vinterberg , which produces films. He lives with his second wife, the actress Helene Reingaard Neumann and his son in Copenhagen (as of 2012).

Filmography / Direction (selection)

Theater works / direction

Web links

Commons : Thomas Vinterberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Livestream via www.europeanfilmawards.eu; accessed on December 12, 2020.
  2. ↑ Firmaer: SMTM ApS. In: krak.dk. Retrieved December 13, 2020 (Danish).
  3. ^ Hanne Rask: Thomas Vinterberg fik sin søn. In: Billed Bladet. June 6, 2012, accessed December 13, 2020 (Danish).
  4. ↑ Get your pleasure from the fencers. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , July 15, 2015, page 14.
  5. ↑ Theater: The Hamlet Sex Machine. In: Der Spiegel . March 1, 2020, pp. 120–121 , accessed December 13, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Settlement with feminism. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , September 12, 2011, page 29.
personal data
SURNAME Vinterberg, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish director
DATE OF BIRTH May 19, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Copenhagen