Tim van Beveren

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Tim van Beveren (* 1961 in Düsseldorf ) is a German journalist , non-fiction author , film director and film producer . a. in the aviation sector .

Life

After graduating from high school, Tim van Beveren completed an apprenticeship in photography and then studied law in Bonn , and later fine arts in Urbino , Italy. He lives in Berlin .

During his student days he made his first full- length feature film (Jannan - Die Abschichtung) , which was shown in German art house cinemas in 1986. In addition to his studies, he began to work for film and television production companies, completed a journalistic traineeship at a news agency in what was then the federal capital of Bonn and worked for local city television.

He later worked for airlines and international law firms as well as institutions as a consultant on aviation safety issues. He was an expert for the public prosecutor's office in Frankfurt a. M. in connection with the crash of a Boeing 757 of the Turkish airline Birgenair off the coast of the Dominican Republic in 1996.

He has worked as an author for various print media in Germany and abroad, including Spiegel , Focus , Facts , Süddeutsche Zeitung , Die Zeit , Stern , Die Welt , Aviation Today , Air Safety Week and Flight International .

For several years he was a war correspondent in the former Yugoslavia and Iraq and was a correspondent for private media companies in the USA. He mainly worked as a freelancer for public television in Germany.

In 1994, after the crash of a Norwegian charter plane on the flight from Oslo to Hamburg, he was concerned with the dangers of counterfeit aircraft spare parts ("bogus parts"). His television report "Zündstoff: The risk flies with" was broadcast in March 1994 on ZDF.

In a documentary entitled "Deadly Logic" broadcast for the first time in 1995 on West German Broadcasting (WDR) , he dealt critically with the human-machine interface in the computer-aided cockpit of the Airbus A320 introduced in the early 1990s, particularly after the landing accident of the Lufthansa Airbus A320 "Kulmbach" on September 14, 1993 in Warsaw. The further broadcast of this film was initially prohibited at the request of the aircraft manufacturer Airbus before the Hamburg district court. The WDR recognized the order, van Beveren not and thus opened the main proceedings in the matter against Airbus. He proved to Airbus that two high-ranking employees had given false affidavits in the previous preliminary injunction proceedings. The main proceedings were only closed seven years later, on May 5, 2003 by Airbus by withdrawing the lawsuit.

In 2001 van Beveren and a film team accompanied the undercover investigations of the Italian public prosecutor's office and the US Department of Transportation, which were conducted under the code name "Operation Latin Phoenix". The subject of the investigation was counterfeit aircraft spare parts that had been delivered to airlines worldwide, including Lufthansa, by a dealer in Rome and partner companies in the USA. The documentary was broadcast under the title "The Story: Dangerous Flights" on February 3, 2002 on WDR. As a result, airlines were requested by the responsible supervisory authorities to remove the questionable parts from their fleets. Lufthansa alone had to check 150 engines in this context.

Since 2008 van Beveren has been researching the subject of " contaminated cabin air in commercial aircraft ". As an author and journalist, he has since written numerous articles for ARD and print media. On September 21, 2011, he was one of the six experts at a private hearing in the German Bundestag.

From 2013 to 2015 he made a film documentary on the subject of “contaminated cabin air”. The English-language original version of the film Unfiltered breathed in - The Truth about Aerotoxic Syndrome ( Eng . Title: " Unfiltered inhaled - The truth about the aerotoxic syndrome ") premiered on July 15, 2015 in the Berlin art house Babylon in Berlin-Mitte. A documentary entitled Nervengift im Flugzeug , previously produced on behalf of WDR for the ARD series “Die Story” in 2014, caused a scandal regarding the authorship and content of the television program. The version of the film, which was finally broadcast on ARD on July 7, 2014 without van Beveren's approval, was also the subject of a program complaint.

Since 2015 van Beveren has been supporting Master’s students at the Beuth University of Applied Sciences in Berlin with the “Necropolis Project”, which deals with the visualization of war death and the victims of tyranny.

Van Beveren received particular attention at a press conference in March 2017, in which he questioned Andreas Lubitz's responsibility for the accident on Germanwings flight 9525 in an expert report of several hundred pages . On the initiative of Lubitz's father, van Beveren presented the results of his own investigations in an expert report that calls into question several conclusions from the official investigations. In his opinion, it has not been proven beyond any doubt that Lubitz deliberately crashed the machine. He criticizes the fact that the investigators were caught by a so-called confirmation bias (a confirmation error) at an early stage and that the voice recorder of the crashed machine, contrary to the requirements of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), was only evaluated by engineers, but not by human factor specialists has been. The responsible Düsseldorf public prosecutor's office rejected these statements. The completed proceedings have shown "a clear responsibility on the part of Andreas Lubitz as the culprit". The French investigative authorities also confirmed that the copilot had deliberately crashed the aircraft. The Federal Government and the Federal Ministry of Transport stated that there were no doubts about the results of the investigation.

In 2018 van Beveren shot the documentary women composers together with pianist Kyra Steckeweh . The film tells the story of four musicians who fought for their place in musical life in the 19th century: Fanny Hensel , Emilie Mayer , Lili Boulanger and Mel Bonis . The documentary won the New York Movie Awards.

Books

  • They always come down - the hidden risks of air traffic. Campus-Verlag, 1996, ISBN 3-593-35254-0 .
  • Flight Swissair 111 - The Halifax disaster and its aftermath. Together with Simon Hubacher. Pendo-Verlag, 1999, ISBN 3-85932-288-5 .
  • The risk flies with you - the hidden dangers in air traffic. Eichborn-Verlag, Frankfurt 2005, ISBN 3-8218-3977-5 .
  • Grays Blurb Inc., San Francisco - USA 2019, ISBN 978-0-368-74206-4 .

Films (selection)

  • Jannan - The Deportation , spot film production 1986
  • Stars for Warsaw , WDR 1990
  • Willy Brandt in Baghdad , RTL 1990
  • The risk also flies - through the trade in counterfeit aircraft spare parts spot-filmproduktion / ZDF 1994
  • Deadly Logic - a film about Airbus , WDR 1995
  • Overtime for pilots , ZDF 1996
  • Fear included in the airfare , ARD 1996
  • Vacation trip to death , RTL 1997
  • Operation Latin Phoenix , tvbmedia production 2003
  • The 3rd man - security risk with the Airbus A380? , ARD 2005
  • Notification obligations violated? , WDR 2009
  • Toxic Airlines , WDR 2009
  • Poison in the plane , WDR 2010
  • When flying makes you sick , BR 2011
  • Safety risk: tired pilots , WDR 2011
  • The story: Nerve poison in the airplane , ARD 2014
  • Inhaled Unfiltered - The Truth About Aerotoxic Syndrome , tvbmedia productions & suju-films, 2015
  • Female composers - a filmic and musical search for traces, tvbmedia productions, 2018, together with Kyra Steckeweh

Nominations, awards, prizes

  • 1986: Nominated for the Max Ophüls Prize (screenplay and direction), with the film Jannan
  • 1988: Federal Film Prize Das Treibhaus (production staff)
  • 1996: Gold medal at the New York Festivals for the TV documentary Angst Included in the Airfare (ARD)
  • 2015: Award as “best documentary” at the Great Lakes International Film Festival for Unfiltered breathed in - The Truth about Aerotoxic Syndrome
  • 2016: Finalist at the New York Festivals - International TV & Film Awards and "Award of Merit" at the International Film Festival for the Environment, Health and Culture, Jakarta for Unfiltered breathed in - The Truth about Aerotoxic Syndrome
  • 2018: Award as "best documentary by a woman or about women" at the ALIVEDOC International Documentary Film Festival, Los Angeles for women composers .
  • 2019: Award for "best documentary" at the 10th World Music and Independent Film Festival in Washington DC for female composers and "New York Movie Award" for "best documentary"

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jannan - the deportation. Retrieved January 19, 2016 .
  2. ↑ About me. Retrieved January 19, 2016 .
  3. ^ Opinion for the Frankfurt am Main public prosecutor's office, file number 58 UJs 30369/96 from December 1998.
  4. ↑ Birgenair: Wasn't it a design flaw that caused the crash? The legend of the low-cost airline. Retrieved January 19, 2016 .
  5. ↑ First land, then delete. Retrieved January 19, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Crash in New York: Investigators have strong air turbulences and new materials in their sights. Retrieved January 19, 2016 .
  7. ^ The Risk Society. Retrieved January 19, 2016 .
  8. ↑ Airbus A380 - giant bird tilted. Retrieved January 19, 2016 .
  9. ↑ Crash of the Birgenair plane: pilots were overwhelmed. Retrieved January 19, 2016 .
  10. ↑ Airlines do nothing against dangerous cabin gas. Retrieved January 19, 2016 .
  11. ^ Bogus Parts Broker Gets Jail. Retrieved January 19, 2016 .
  12. ↑ Peter B. Ladkin: A320 incident. pprune, June 18, 2001, accessed August 7, 2017 .
  13. ↑ Johannes Ludwig: Tim van BEVEREN and the WDR documentary "Nervengift im Flugzeug": Chronicle of a shoot that turned into 2 (different) films. Retrieved May 16, 2020 .
  14. ↑ The mirror. Der Spiegel, March 28, 1994, accessed August 16, 2017 .
  15. ↑ www.dfv-archiv.de Search Search term: Zündstoff the risk flies with zdf. Retrieved May 22, 2020 .
  16. ^ AZ LG Hamburg 324 O 44/95 and 324 O 203/96 . In: Justice authorities Hamburg (ed.): Court files . Hamburg 2003.
  17. ↑ vse1t2: Endangered Flights. In: YouTube. vse1t2, January 5, 2019, accessed on May 22, 2020 .
  18. ↑ Tim van Beveren: Risk flies with you . Eichborn, Frankfurt 2003, ISBN 3-8218-3977-5 , p. 167 ff .
  19. ^ German Bundestag: Web archive. Retrieved January 19, 2016 .
  20. ↑ Tim van Beveren: Statement to the German Bundestag, Committee on Tourism - Expert discussion Sept. 21, 2011 . Ed .: HAW Hamburg, Competence Center Communication. Hamburg September 11, 2011, p. 61 .
  21. ↑ http://programm.ard.de/?sendung=2810612384907203
  22. ↑ Ulli Schauen: Dispute over the Lufthansa documentary on ARD: "Exploited, exploited" . In: The daily newspaper: taz . July 7, 2014, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed October 29, 2017]).
  23. ↑ Volker Birk: > b's weblog. Retrieved October 29, 2017 .
  24. ↑ Johannes Ludwig: > Tim van BEVEREN and the WDR documentary "Nervengift im Flugzeug": Chronicle of a shoot that turned into 2 (different) films. Retrieved May 15, 2020 .
  25. ↑ Dorothee Gümpel: The invisible becomes visible. In: Beuth magazine. Beuth University for Applied Sciences, Berlin, October 4, 2017, accessed on October 29, 2017 .
  26. ^ Günter Lubitz: Report on the Germanwings crash. Günter Lubitz, Bülach, accessed on May 17, 2020 .
  27. ↑ Petra Sorge: Or was it turbulence? In: The time . March 24, 2017. Retrieved March 25, 2017 .
  28. ↑ After a fact check, little remains of the Lubitz report. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . March 24, 2017. Retrieved March 25, 2017 .
  29. ↑ Dirk Banse, Michael Behrendt, Per Hinrichs, Ibrahim Naber: Lubitz 'conspiracy theories. "Andreas was life-affirming and responsible". In: The world . March 24, 2017. Retrieved March 25, 2017 .
  30. ↑ Reinhard Kowalewsky and Rena Lehmann: Günter Lubitz against the rest of the world. In: Rheinische Post . March 25, 2017. Retrieved March 25, 2017 .
  31. ↑ Female composers are completely underrepresented . In: BR-Klassik, February 15, 2019. Accessed May 4, 2020.
  32. ↑ 2015 Great lakes Film Festival Award Winners. In: unfiltered: Breathed In The Truth About Aerotoxic Syndrome. Retrieved August 7, 2017 .
  33. ^ New York Festivals - 2016 World's Best Television & Films ™ Winners. In: www.newyorkfestivals.com. Retrieved December 1, 2016 .
  34. ^ Winners - International Film Festival Environment, Health, and Culture. In: internationalfilmfestivals.org. Retrieved December 1, 2016 .
  35. ^ Alive Documentary Film Festival | MovieScreenPro. Retrieved May 22, 2020 (English).
  36. ↑ 2019 WINNERS. Retrieved May 15, 2020 .
  37. ↑ WINNERS-NOVEMBER 2019. Retrieved May 15, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Beveren, Tim van
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist, non-fiction author, director and pilot
DATE OF BIRTH 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf