Uli M Schueppel

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Uli M Schueppel, photographed by Joe Dilworth

Uli M Schueppel (* 7. May 1958 in Erbach (Odenwald) as Ulf Schüppel ) is a German film director and documentary filmmaker . The M in the middle of his name is not an abbreviation of a first name, but a reference to the Elvis Presley song Trouble : My middle name is misery and is correctly written without an abbreviation point .

life and work

Childhood and youth

Schueppel is the son of the visual artist and author Hem Schüppel and the pedagogue Christine Schüppel, b. Irmer and has a younger sister, Heike (* 1961). The father was imprisoned because of opposition in the GDR , which led him to the Soviet labor camp Vorkuta . Through the establishment of diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and the FRG, he was surprisingly released in 1955 when the ten thousand returned home with many other political prisoners and relocated to the West. The mother relocated in 1957 and moved with her husband to Güttersbach , a little later their son Ulf and daughter were born. When the father accepted an appointment as professor of aesthetics and communication at the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences , the family moved to Friedrichsdorf im Taunus. Schueppel attended the Humboldt-Gymnasium in Bad Homburg before the height up to the Abitur. After doing community service and spending several months in Paris, he studied German, Romance languages ​​and linguistics at the University of Heidelberg . In addition to his studies, he was part of the spoken words group Poesie & Krach , which published numerous music cassettes as well as limited text books (including NoMade in Germany , VipDip Deluxe , an overdose of aspirin ). Schueppel also made his first short films and wrote film reviews for various Frankfurt film and city magazines. When he realized that all his orientations were moving more and more towards film, Schueppel broke off his studies and moved to West Berlin in 1983 .

1980s

From 1984 Schueppel began his studies at the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin . It created his first short films playBack2 (1985) and copiers to copier (1986). The ideas for the first longer feature film Nihil, or All Time of the World , came into being in the legendary Hansa recording studios in 1988 , while Schueppel spent a few months recording his music friends with the bands Einstürzende Neubauten , Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and Crime & the City Solution during their recordings Company. Many friends of Schueppel played roles in him, such as Friedrich Wall , Olivier Picot , Gesine Bohle , Kai Fuhrmann and Blixa Bargeld . Alexander Hacke composed the soundtrack. Nihil won various prizes such as the Special Jury Award at the World Film Festival in Montreal in 1988, and in 1989 the film music won second place in the Nino Rota Prize for film music at the Trossinger Film Festival . The international film magazine Filmfaust dedicated the cover story to the film.

From 1988 onwards, Schueppel directed and moderated the nightly radio show Slime-Line Show on the left-wing alternative radio station Radio 100 together with the musician Johannes Beck . The broadcaster canceled the show after Schueppel and Beck staged a fictitious fall of the Wall during a live broadcast in October 1989 and the telephones and microphones opened up emotional and politically "incorrect" reactions from the audience.

Schueppel completed his film studies in 1989 with the documentary "The Road To God Knows Where" & "Live At The Paradiso" . The film documents the North American tour of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds in 1989. The subject of "The Road To God Knows Where" & "Live At The Paradiso" was the rock music business in the late 1980s. In addition to Nick Cave and his band, other internationally known rock greats of this time have their say, such as Mick Harvey , Blixa Bargeld, Kid Congo Powers , Lydia Lunch , Rayner Jesson and Thomas Wydler . The readers and journalists of the English magazine Total Film voted in May 2008 "The Road To God Knows Where" & "Live At The Paradiso" among the 20 best music films of all time .

1990s

Together with the Canadian-British artist Susan Turcot , Schueppel made the short film A Priori in 1990 (soundtrack: Alexander Hacke). In the same year Schueppel shot the documentary The Song , in which he portrayed the musicians from Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds in the Hansa recording studio during the creation of the song Till The End Of The World for the Wim Wenders film Until the End of the World . The song was rearranged in 2004 and re-released in a shortened version.

In 1992 Schueppel's first full-length feature film Vaterland was made . The film focuses on the journey of an Algerian who kidnaps his young son through a cold post-reunification Germany. The film music was composed again by Alexander Hacke and Mick Harvey. Vaterland won the OCIC Award in 1993 despite the Vatican's protest note submitted to the jury in Amiens .

In 1993 Schueppel filmed Years of Cold about the path of political prisoners from the beginnings of the GDR to the Gulags of Siberia. With the film he worked on the story of his father Hem Schueppel at the same time. The score was composed by Blixa Bargeld and published under Bargeld - Commissioned Music .

In 1995, Sid & Nancy / Ex & Pop was created , a documentation of the intensive, sometimes chaotic process of the creation of the play Sid & Nancy based on the film Sid and Nancy . In the movie played Ben Becker , Meret Becker , Alexander Hacke, Otto Sander and Barbara Philipp .

In 1997 he shot Der Platz about the synthetic creation of an alleged center of the capital that Potsdamer Platz is supposed to represent. The square is the first part of the Gesänge trilogy in which Schueppel deals with the definition of emotional geography . The soundtrack comes from FM Einheit . Schueppel cut another completely different short film from the filmed material with FM Einheit: Im Platz (ReMix-Potsdamer Platz) based on a poem by the expressionist poet Paul Zech from 1920 about Potsdamer Platz, spoken by Otto Sander.

2000s

In 1999/2000 Uli M Schueppel produced and shot Planet Alex, one of the first in Germany to feature a full-length feature film on mini-DV . Planet Alex tells about young people and their stories around Berlin's Alexanderplatz with Marie Zielcke , Baki Davrak , Nadeshda Brennicke , Ben Becker, Andreas Schmidt , Birol Ünel , Marusha , Meret Becker, Regine Zimmermann , and others. v. a. The soundtrack was composed by Mick Harvey and Alexander Hacke together. Planet Alex has been shown at countless international festivals, including the Museum of Modern Art , and was nominated by ZDF for the German Television Award 2002 in the categories of Best Film Music and Best Female Supporting Actress.

For the Berlin Beta Filmfest, Schueppel initiated the digital fiction award in 2001 . In the 2002 reorganized festival under the new name b.film & digital vision Festival , Schueppel is the curator of the digital vision section and responsible for programming the films. At the conference of the Medienwoche Berlin-Brandenburg he was the curator responsible for digital entertainment . He then gave lectures on digital film making in numerous conferences and panels.

In 2001, Schueppel was commissioned by the Berlin International Film Festival to create the official Berlinale trailer / opener. This computer animation , which was created in cooperation with the film production company Das Werk - Berlin , has opened all films in all sections of the festival since 2002 . As a further computer animation, Schueppel created the Delphi trailer / opener for the Delphi film distribution in 2003.

From 2002 onwards, Schueppel was a regular guest lecturer for dramaturgy and directing at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin and at the Dutch Film and Television Academy , Amsterdam , and led various workshops / masterclasses on the subject of music documentary film.

In 2005 he shot the essay film Santos - heroic deeds that nobody needs with Ben Becker and Peppi Streich , which premiered at the 39th Hof Film Festival. 2006 the documentary BerlinSong , a music film about the myth of Berlin . In 2006/2007 various photo / video works / installations were created in collaboration with the Norwegian photographer Marie Sjoevold . Which have been shown in Oslo , Copenhagen , Denmark and Jogjakarta

In 2007/2008 he shot the second part of his "Gesänge" trilogy, the film essay Der Tag , the subject of which is dealing with death. The film music is again from FM Einheit. In 2009 the day received the New Berlin Film Award (Prize of the Ecumenical Jury) at the Achtung Berlin Festival .

In 2007/2008 Schueppel shot the documentary Von Wegen about the first concert of the Einstürzende Neubauten in the culture house of VEB Elektrokohle Lichtenberg , in East Berlin. As early as 1989, Schueppel combined footage he had shot with current scenes. The concert at that time was co-initiated by the writer Heiner Müller , who also gave a speech, and besides the French Minister of Culture Jack Lang also brings other members of the French ministerial delegation backstage. Von Wegen was featured in the program of the 59th Berlin International Film Festival in Panorama. It was released in cinemas under the distribution title Elektrokohle (Von Wegen) and was shown at numerous international festivals and at events around the world on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

In 2009 Schueppel received the "Underground Spirit Award" (16th European Film Festival Palic) for "his extraordinary achievements in independent film".

2010s

In 2010 Schueppel published tranzania.living.room . The film describes a journey between Tanzania and Germany . It was premiered in the program of the 39th International Film Festival Rotterdam .

2010/2011 came about Brötzmann - The world belongs to me that is about the group Caspar Brötzmann Massacre by Caspar Brötzmann . The film ran in 2012 in the official program of the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival in Panorama.

In 2013 Schueppel was the first European auteur filmmaker to publish his filmography as VoD (Video on Demand) on his own homepage - as a reaction to what he believed to be the “unjust marketing practice of the group-controlled film platforms” and to show “that it is for independent filmmakers and producers has its own marketing channels on the Internet ”.

In 2014 Schueppel received the “Lifetime Award” at the 5th SPFF (Int. Music Documentary Festival, Croatia) “for his exceptional achievements in the music documentary film and its industry”.

In 2017, “documenta 14” showed THE ROAD, To God Knows Where in a selection of “important films” compiled by curator Adam Szymcyk . As creative director, he has been designing the trailers / openers of all DFFB (German Film and Television Academy) films (in collaboration with Arri), and the music video for the duo HACKEDEPICCIOTTO (Alexander Hacke & Daniele de Picciotto) in the same year to the song "Dreamcatcher".

In 2019, the feature film Der Atem was included in the official program of the “69 Int. Berlin Film Festival ”has its world premiere. After “Der Platz” and “Der Tag”, “The Breath” is the third part of Schueppel's “Gesänge” trilogy on the themes of space, time and body.

Uli M Schueppel lives in Berlin and has a son (* 2000). He has been married to the photographer Patricia Morosan since 2018 .

Filmography (selection)

  • 1988: Nihil, or All the Time in the World
  • 1990: "The Road To God Knows Where" & "Live At The Paradiso"
  • 1992: Fatherland
  • 1994: years of cold
  • 1996: Sid & Nancy - Ex & Pop
  • 1997: The place
  • 2000: Planet Alex
  • 2004: The Song
  • 2005: SANTOS - heroic deeds that nobody needs
  • 2007: BerlinSong
  • 2008: the day
  • 2009: Electric coal - By ways
  • 2010: tranzania.living.room
  • 2012: Brötzmann, The world is mine
  • 2019: the breath

Music videos

  • 1988: Lost In Music - Risk - Anita Lane & Mick Harvey
  • 1990: The Gun - Crime & The City Solution
  • 2005: Hank Williams Said It Best - Mick Harvey
  • 2008: Godman - Singapore Sling -, Summer Garden - Henrik Bjornsson ("Songs & Trees" series), Pokokok- Zai Kuning ,
  • 2009: Free And Easy - Anton Newcombe , "Songs & Trees" series, Tree Song - Robert Rutman ("Songs & Trees" series)
  • 2010: Bassy - Lucky Laughing Panda , Autumn Song - Will Carruthers ("Songs & Trees" series), The Ballad Of Jay Givens - Mick Harvey ("Songs & Trees" series)
  • 2012: Crocodile - The Sun and the Wolf
  • 2013: I go to sleep - Anika
  • 2018: Dreamcatcher - HACKEDEPICCIOTTO

Awards

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Issue 64; Feb 1988
  2. ↑ http://mutualmusik.com/artists/johannesbeck/ accessed on May 23, 2012
  3. ↑ https://www.zeit.de/zeit-magazin/leben/2014-11/mauerfall-live-westberlin-radio-100
  4. ↑ http://www.nick-cave.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=439&Itemid=2
  5. ↑ www.berlinbeta.de
  6. ↑ http://www.berlinale.de/de/das_festival/im_fokus/trailer/index.html
  7. ↑ http://www.filmfestivalrotterdam.com/professionals/films/tranzania-living-room/
  8. ↑ http://thequietus.com/articles/08160-caspar-brotzmann-thats-when-the-world-is-mine-film-director-uli-m-schueppel-interview
  9. ↑ http://fred.fm/podcast/2012_BFF/BFF-INT-Br%F6tzmann-Neu-Lang-GER.mp3  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / fred.fm  
  10. ↑ https://www.documenta14.de/de/calendar/25045/the-road-to-god-knows-where
  11. ↑ http://rachtberlin.de/archiv/ab_2009/home.html
  12. ↑ http://programm.ard.de/TV/arte/der-tag/eid_287246428495173?list=now
  13. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated August 4, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.filmecho.de
  14. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from January 31, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.palicfilmfestival.com
  15. ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/sep/20/20-best-music-documentaries-ranked-rock-pop

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personal data
SURNAME Schueppel, Uli M.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schüppel, Ulf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film director and documentary filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH May 7, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Erbach (Odenwald)