Tomas Erhart

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Tomas Erhart (born January 10, 1959 in Oberammergau ) is a German cameraman who has occasionally also acted as a film director and film producer .

Live and act

As DoP (head cameraman), Tomas Erhart has designed over 70 feature films since 1984, as well as numerous documentaries and commercials. His work includes films such as Willy Bogner's Fire, Ice & Dynamite , Manta - Manta and Werner for producer Bernd Eichinger as well as The Ninth Day of Oscar Prize Winner Volker Schlöndorff or the historical drama The Breath of Heaven , directed by Reinhold Bilgeri .

Erhart received nominations and prizes for the German and European Camera Awards, the Golden Lion , the International Emmy Award , the Prix ​​Europa , the Romy and the Chinese Oscar: The Golden Rooster.

As a co-founder of the Baden-Württemberg Film Academy , he helped shape the first university camera course at a German university in the years after 1991. He has been a member of the German Film Academy since 2003 .

Parallel to his film work, Erhart has been working on the conceptual and technical possibilities of digital photography since the mid-1990s. His art projects 5PM and Cell Phonology have been presented to the public in numerous exhibitions.

Erhart has been dealing with 3-D as a filmic and artistic medium since 2009. In 2010 he shot the production Lang Lang 3D at Berghain, Berlin as DoP and the full-length music film Berlin Philharmonics in Singapore 3D as Dop and co-director.

In 2011 he founded the company "Jumpseat 3D" for the production, financing and licensing of 3D content. Erhart was responsible as producer for Wacken 3D (2014), a film in stereoscopic 3D about the Wacken Open Air Music Festival.

Erhart lives in Berlin with his wife, casting agent Gloria Erhart.

Filmography (selection)

Awards and nominations

  • 2018: Romy - Award in the category Best Image Creation TV Film for The Nameless Day
  • 2012: Golden Rooster Award (China's National Film Prize) for A Breath of Heaven
  • 2007: German Camera Prize for The Wall
  • 2007: Nomination for the International Emmy Award for The Wall
  • 2006: Best Photography, Intl. TV Festival Montenegro: The Wall
  • 2004: Nomination, European Camera Award for The Ninth Day
  • 2005: Nomination, German Camera Award for The Ninth Day
  • 2004: Nomination, German Camera Prize for Der Aufstand
  • 2000: Honorable Mention, Dt. Camera award for The Stolen Life
  • 1998: Nomination for the Golden Lion for Best Cinematography for Das Böse and Death Bus

Exhibitions

  • 2004 5pm / Berlin
  • 2005 5pm @ bread & butter / berlin
  • 2005 5pm @ stilwerk / hamburg
  • 2008 foto shop berlin - group exhibition
  • 2009 cellphonology - first look, gallery scala / berlin
  • 2009 "Bordel des arts", lucas carrieri art gallery / berlin
  • 2009 seven star gallery berlin - group exhibition
  • 2010 "high voltage", gallery lisi hämmerle / bregenz
  • 2012 "deconstructive nudes" / hamburg

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Tomas Erhart | filmportal.de. Retrieved September 9, 2019 .
  2. ^ Kurier: The winners of the Akademie-Romy 2018 . Article dated April 5, 2018, accessed April 6, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Erhart, Tomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cameraman
DATE OF BIRTH January 10, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberammergau