Torsten Schulz

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Torsten Schulz (born December 1, 1959 in Berlin ) is a German writer and screenwriter . He teaches as a professor for practical dramaturgy at the Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf .

Life

Torsten Schulz grew up in a working-class family in the East Berlin district of Friedrichshain . From 1982 to 1986 he studied film and television studies at the HFF Babelsberg. After graduating, he worked as a dramaturgy assistant and dramaturge in the DEFA feature film studio. During the fall of the Berlin Wall, he and friends founded the weekly newspaper “Der Anzeiger” (1990) and acted as editor of the GDR civil rights newspaper, the other . From 1992 Schulz worked as a freelancer.

First he wrote scripts for cinema and television films (including Raus aus der Haut , director and co-author: Andreas Dresen , In the Name of Innocence , director: Andreas Kleinert or Dicke Freunde , director: Horst Königstein ), which were shown at numerous film festivals and some prizes were won (including the Bavarian Film Prize for Best Actress for Barbara Sukowa , In the Name of Innocence ). In addition, he made several low-budget documentaries as a director: intense, controversial portraits of women such as Kuba Sigrid or Von einer Who Moved Out .

In 2004 Torsten Schulz made his debut as a novelist with Boxhagener Platz . The radio play adaptation (director: Gabriele Bigott) received various awards, and the feature film of the same name (director: Matti Geschonneck ), for which Torsten Schulz wrote the script, premiered at the 2010 Berlinale . "An intelligently structured and over long stretches of extremely comical Eastern burlesque," said DIE WELT of the novel, and the TAGESSPIEGEL commented on the film: "A tender reminder film, it's not about Ostalgie, it's about the past youth".

After the short story volume Revolution and Filzläuse (2008), Schulz published his second novel in 2013 with Nilowsky . "Schulz tells with a quiet joke of a magic that transcends milieus, of the secret of a big city youth that shapes a life," said DIE ZEIT. The screenplay of the same name by Torsten Schulz was nominated for the German Screenplay Prize (Goldene Lola) in 2018 . The jury's reasoning stated: "Idiosyncratic is the appropriate adjective for this adaptation of your own novel ... The power of language creates intense images in this script that have a long lasting effect."

The third novel by Torsten Schulz, Scandinavian Quarter , was also published in 2018: The story of a broker who worked in his childhood area, and an East German family story with lies and secrets. "Torsten Schulz succeeds in his lightness because with the motif of the flunkering he sets a private counterpoint to the systemic problem of betrayal in the dictatorship," wrote Gustav Seibt in the SÜDDEUTSCHEN ZEITUNG. Ursula März said on Deutschlandfunk Kultur that Torsten Schulz “succeeds in something that is by no means taken for granted in German literature: keeping a politically significant topic free from instruction and dark significance”. For Hubert Winkels , the Scandinavian Quarter is “[...] a great novel about lies that are disguised as magic. [...] A story of loss, grief and anger, in which the depths of one's own life are revealed. "

Torsten Schulz pursues a documentary approach in My Scandinavian Quarter . The book was published in 2019 in the series Berliner Orte by Bebra Verlag and tells in observations and anecdotes about life in this part of Berlin.

Schulz has worked several times as an editor and has been involved as a dramaturgic consultant in feature and documentary film projects. In addition to his work as a writer, he has been professor for practical dramaturgy and vice dean of the "Screenwriting / Dramaturgy" course at the Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf since 2002. His teaching fields are: feature and documentary film dramaturgy, screenplay, literature adaptation. He taught many times at home and abroad, such as B. at the Hamburg Media School , the Wits University Johannesburg or the University of Southern California in Los Angeles . He is a member of the PEN Center Germany . He was writer in residence in Los Angeles ( Villa Aurora ), Belgrade (literary tandem) and Johannesburg ( Goethe-Institut ).

Schulz lives in and near Berlin. He is the father of four children. He was in a relationship with the actress Katja Weitzenböck , with whom he has two children. He has been married to the writer Angelika Klüssendorf since 2017 .

Filmography

script

Director

  • 1995: Kuba Sigrid
  • 1996: The girl Liane
  • 1999: TechnoSalsa
  • 2000: From someone who moved out ...

Books

Radio plays and audio books

  • Boxhagener Platz . 1 audio CD. Director: Gabriele Bigott. Speaker: Carmen-Maja Antoni, Florian Martens, Jaecky Schwarz, Boris Aljinovic u. a. Eulenspiegel Verlag 2005. ISBN 978-3359011033
  • Hotel Bedford - A piece of exile . Radio play production by RBB, Berlin 2006. Co-author Horst Königstein, director: Barbara Plensat. Speaker: Markus Meyer, Friedrich Mücke, Inga Busch, Tina Engel u. a. Another broadcast: Deutschlandfunk
  • Everything has to be different. Part 4: Lost . Radio play 2008. Director: Barbara Plensat
  • Boxhagener Platz. Original radio play for the film . 2 audio CDs. Speaker: Gudrun Ritter, Michael Gwisdek, Samuel Schneider u. a. Jumbo Neue Medien & Verlag 2010. ISBN 978-3833725302
  • Revolution and pubic lice '. Stories. Audio book . 3 audio CDs. Director: Torsten Schulz. Speaker: Corinna Harfouch, Axel Prahl, Milan Peschel, Florian Martens, Ina Weisse, Katja Weitzenböck and Torsten Schulz. Goya LIT 2010. ISBN 978-3-8337-2671-2
  • Nilowsky. Audio book . 5 audio CDs. Director: Margrit Osterwold. Speaker: Sebastian Zimmler. Audiobook Hamburg 2013. ISBN 978-3-89903-857-6
  • Nilowsky. Radio play . Editing: Andrea Czesienski. Director: Judith Lorentz. Speaker: Milan Peschel, Moritz Grove, Mira Partecke, Christine Schorn u. a. RBB / NDR 2014

Other works

  • Essays, reports, portraits in newspapers, magazines, anthologies.

Prices

  • Hotel Bedford - A Piece of Exile (radio play)
Slabbesz - Specialized Jury Prize of the Lower Austrian Writers' Association (2007)
  • Boxhagener Platz (radio play)
Zons Radio Play Prize 2006
Radio play of the month (August 2005) by the Academy of Performing Arts
Nomination ARD-Online-Award (2005)
Slabbesz , expert jury award at the radio play days of the Lower Austrian Writers' Association (2005)
Radio EINS Radio Play Cinema Audience Award (2006)
Nomination for the German Audio Book Prize in the category "The Special Audio Book" (2008)
Main prize at the 8th FilmKunstFest in Schwerin
Jury Prize (main prize) at the 24th International Children and Youth Film Festival "Lucas"
Nomination Prix ​​Europa
48th Int. Berlin Film Festival 1998 (International Forum)
International Film Festival Potsdam 1998
"Berlin and Beyond" San Francisco International Film Festival (SFIFF) 1999
Contribution to the series "50 Years of Television Film" (3Sat)
  • Nilowsky (screenplay)
Nomination for the German Script Award (Goldene Lola) 2018

Numerous festival participations with other films.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gunnar Leue: Interview with the author Torsten Schulz: "Realtor is actually a non-profession" . In: The daily newspaper: taz . September 24, 2018, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed October 19, 2018]).
  2. ↑ Boxhagener Milljöh In: The world . July 9, 2004.
  3. ↑ With the seventh man everything is different In: Der Tagesspiegel . February 17, 2010.
  4. ↑ Is that supposed to be grandpa? In: Die ZEIT . 1st of March 2013.
  5. ↑ German Script Award 2018: Minister of State for Culture Monika Grütters announces nominations In: bundesregierung.de . December 13, 2017.
  6. ↑ Built on drifting sand In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . May 13, 2018.
  7. ↑ A broker against the sale of a quarter In: Deutschlandfunk Kultur . June 11, 2018.
  8. ↑ Torsten Schulz: "My Scandinavian Quarter" - A conversation with Hubert Winkels In: Deutschlandfunk Büchermarkt . April 18, 2018.
  9. ↑ With Torsten Schulz through Pankow: Longing for the North In: Tagesspiegel . 1st December 2019.
  10. ↑ https://www.filmuniversitaet.de/portrait/person/torsten-schulz/
  11. ↑ https://www.vatmh.org/de/stipendiaten-details/grant/251-torsten-schulz.html
  12. ↑ http://www.spritz.de/index.php?module=Pagesetter&func=viewpub&tid=8&pid=3
  13. ↑ http://42film.de/pages/de/projekte/in-vornahm/nilowsky.php
  14. ↑ http://www.deutschlandfunk.de/studiozeit-hoerspiel-hotel-bedford-ein-stueck-exil.688.de.html?dram:article_id=44967

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personal data
SURNAME Schulz, Torsten
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH December 1, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin