Till Franzen

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Till Franzen (born May 18, 1973 in Flensburg ) is a German director and screenwriter .

Life

In 1993/94 he studied at the European Film College in Denmark .

In 1995 he continued his studies at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne . His graduation film "The Great Operation" received attention at numerous festivals around the world and was broadcast on television on the Franco-German channel Arte .

His feature film debut The Blue Border with Hanna Schygulla , Dominique Horwitz , Antoine Monot Jr. and the Danish actress Beate Bille was shown at almost forty film festivals around the world and has won several awards. In Lund , Sweden , the film received the melies d'argent award for best European film. In Portugal , The Blue Border received the Portuguese Film Critics Award. He was also nominated for the German Independence Award at the Oldenburg Film Festival. Further nominations followed for the North German Film Prize in the categories “Best Film” and “Best Screenplay”. The main actors Dominique Horwitz and Antoine Monot, Jr were nominated as best leading actor at the German Film Awards for their achievements in The Blue Border . The film was shown in German cinemas in 2005/06. The star, for example, praised the film as "one of the most beautiful films of the year". A critic in Choices wrote: "As if David Lynch and Helge Schneider had brainstormed during the coastal fog."

In autumn 2015 he took over the direction of the six-part mystery miniseries Weinberg . He staged the pilot episode and the following three episodes and was therefore responsible for the visual language, the sound design , i.e. the basic audiovisual concept of the series. The series was critically acclaimed, was nominated for the German Television Prize and the Grimme Prize , and was ultimately awarded the latter. Weinberg ran at the international Cologne Conference in the category “10 most important works worldwide”. For episode 4 Franzen also received a nomination for the German Director Prize Metropolis as best director.

In 2018 he took over the direction of the first 4 episodes of VOX's own production "The Most Important in Life" and was thus again responsible for the cast and the basic audiovisual concept.

Till Franzen shot numerous music videos for bands such as Blumfeld , International Pony , Stella and Whirlpool Productions . Commercials for u. a. Mercedes-Benz, 13th Street and LG.

Franzen is married to the actress Katharina Schüttler . They have two daughters together.

Filmography

  • 1992: Dialogue (screenplay, director)
  • 1993: The Haunted Chicken (Writer, Director)
  • 1994: My Northern Western (Writer, Director)
  • 1995: Pänyz (screenplay, director)
  • 1995: Owschlag - Mekong Delta (screenplay, director)
  • 1997: In the hotel on the border (screenplay, director)
  • 1999: Back Home (screenplay, director)
  • 2000: The Big Operation (screenplay, director)
  • 2005: The Blue Border (screenplay, director)
  • 2009/2010: Flensburg, Minnesota (screenplay, director)
  • 2015: Weinberg (Director)
  • 2016: Three Fathers Are Better Than None (Director)
  • 2017: Nord bei Nordwest - Der Transport (Director)
  • 2018: Wolfsland - Irrlichter (Director)
  • 2019: The Most Important Things in Life (Director)
  • 2019: Christmas in the Snow (Director)
  • 2019: Charlotte Link - Im Tal des Fuchses (Director)

Awards

  • Dialog 2nd place Film and Video Festival Schleswig-Holstein 1992
  • The haunted Chicken 1st place at the Film and Video Festival Schleswig-Holstein 1994
  • The great operation Dr Hans Hoch Prize 2002
  • The Blue Border Mélies d'Or 2007
  • German Art Film Award Ludwigshafen 2005 - Audience Award
  • Fantasporto Critics' Award (Prize of the Portuguese film critic for "The Blue Border")
  • German Independence Award - Special Mention
  • Grand Prize of European Fantasy Film in Silver
  • 2001 Audience Award for "Lifechange" by Whirlpool Productions at the MuVi Award at the International Short Film Festival in Oberhausen.
  • 2001 Till Franzen / Sebastian Schultz awarded by the Association of German Music Clip Producers: "Best German Director Newcomer"
  • 2003 backup_clip_award for the music video "Beautiful Day" by International Pony at the backup_festival in Weimar.
  • 2004 Bronze award for the music video "Neuer Morgen" by Blumfeld, awarded by the Art Directors Club Germany.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Katharina Schüttler in conversation in NDR-Kultur: Klassik a la carte; available at http://www.ndr.de/ndrkultur/audio118119.html on July 29, 2012
  2. ↑ Angela Boll: "I missed the guitar". In: Mannheimer Morgen . October 13, 2016. Retrieved October 13, 2016.

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personal data
SURNAME Franzen, Till
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH May 18, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Flensburg