Tom Zickler
Thomas "Tom" Zickler (born May 1, 1964 ; † September 2, 2019 ) was a German film producer .
Life
Zickler grew up in Thuringia and gained his first experience in the film business at DEFA from 1986 to 1988 before studying at the HFF Babelsberg from 1988 to 1994 . He has worked with Til Schweiger since 1994 , first at Mr. Brown Entertainment, where they made Knockin 'on Heaven's Door (1997), and then at Barefoot Films , whose first project was Barfuss (2005). In collaboration with Schweiger, he was responsible for some of the most successful German cinema productions of the 1990s and 2000s, such as Keinohrhasen , Zweiohrküken or Barefoot . In 2010 the film Friendship! to the cinema based on a true story by Zickler.
Until 2016, Zickler was managing director of Barefoot Films. He produced the B-movie series Planet B with Checkpoint Berlin .
Tom Zickler and Studio Babelsberg founded the joint production company Traumfabrik Babelsberg in 2017 . The company's aim is to develop and manufacture German in-house and co-productions for Studio Babelsberg. Studio Babelsberg board members Christoph Fisser and Tom Zickler, who moved into his office on the studio premises on February 1, 2017, became managing directors. For the first time in more than 20 years, Studio Babelsberg got back into the development of German in-house productions.
Zickler died in September 2019 after a very brief, serious illness at the age of 55. He had a son.
Filmography
as a producer
- 1989: 10 days in October (documentary)
- 1997: Knockin 'on Heaven's Door
- 2000: Falling Rocks
- 2000: marble, stone & iron
- 2002: The Antman
- 2002: Detective Lovelorn and the Pharaoh's Revenge
- 2002: Room of Fear (TV movie)
- 2002: Mask Under Mask
- 2005: barefoot
- 2006: One Way
- 2007: Rabbit with no ears
- 2008: 1½ knights - In search of the adorable Herzelinde
- 2009: two-eared chicks
- 2010: Friendship!
- 2011: Kokowääh
- 2012: Guardian Angel
- 2013: Kokowääh 2
- 2013: small city
- 2014: honey in your head
- 2016: Tschiller: Off Duty
- 2016: Our time is now
- 2017: Conni & Co 2 - The secret of the T-Rex
- 2019: dream factory
as executive producer
- 1992: Variety (short film)
- 1994: The Unknown Deserter (short film)
as co-producer
- 1998: The polar bear
- 2013: No-eared rabbit and two-eared chick
- 2014: Not my day
- 2015: Half brothers
- 2015: 8 seconds - a moment of infinity
- 2017: Return to Montauk
- 2018: Multiply jar
- 2018: Steig. Not. Out!
- 2018: 25 km / h
- 2020: Lassie - An Adventurous Journey (posthumous publication)
Web links
- Tom Zickler in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Tom Zickler at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ^ "Honey in your head" producer Tom Zickler died at the age of 55. In: yahoo.com . September 3, 2019, accessed September 3, 2019 .
- ↑ Interview with Tom Zickler , medienfische.de, August 3, 2012
- ^ Studio Babelsberg mourns the loss of the film producer Tom Zickler. In: studiobabelsberg.com. September 3, 2019, accessed September 3, 2019 .
- ↑ Joachim Huber: "Traumfabrik Babelsberg" founded: Potsdam studio again with in-house productions. In: Der Tagesspiegel . January 13, 2017. Retrieved July 15, 2017 .
- ^ Studio Babelsberg: Film producer Tom Zickler is dead , Potsdam Latest News , September 3, 2019
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Zickler, Tom |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Zickler, Thomas; Zickler, Thomas W. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German film producer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 1, 1964 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2nd September 2019 |