Thorsten Thielow

Thorsten Thielow , also Torsten Tielow , (born January 10, 1979 in Tübingen ) is a German cameraman .

Even as a teenager, Thorsten Thielow made his own films and founded a regional television station. After dropping out of school, he went to Stuttgart , where he trained as a film editor . In this role he produced news films and documentaries for Südwestrundfunk . From 1999 Thielow worked almost exclusively as editor and cameraman for the ARD foreign editorial team of Südwestrundfunk and traveled around the world, especially in crisis and war zones.

Before, during and after the 2003 Iraq war , Thielow mainly reported from the ARD branch in Baghdad and the ARD office in Cairo and produced many documentaries and reports from the Middle East . In 2004 he was transferred to the Central America Correspondents Office of ARD in Mexico City , where he shot and edited news, documentaries and reports from Central America, the Caribbean and Mexico . His months of filming on a freight train carrying illegal immigrants from Central America through Mexico to the US border were particularly dangerous.

In 2008 Thielow went to the USA for a year and worked in the ARD correspondent's office in Washington, DC, among other things, on an ARD documentary about the then presidential candidates Obama and McCain , whom he followed for months across the USA. Since 2009 he has been working in the ARD correspondent's office for South America in Rio de Janeiro at the side of studio manager Thomas Aders . Thielow and Aders made several ARD films together, including the two-part Expedition Humboldt - A German Genius in Latin America on Alexander von Humboldt's trip to South America at the beginning of the 19th century and an adventure film that led across South America on a motorcycle.

Web links

• Thorsten Thielow homepage
• Thorsten Thielow in the Internet Movie Database (English)