Veit Helmer

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Veit Helmer, in Amiens in November 2008.

Veit Helmer (born April 24, 1968 in Hanover ) is a German film director and film producer .

Life

Veit Helmer was born on April 24, 1968 in Hanover. Helmer started his first cinematic steps at the age of 14.

After graduating from high school, he began training as a unit manager at NDR. In 1988 Helmer shot his first short film on 35 mm ("Tour d'Amour") with Dominique Horwitz and Beate Jensen. Even before the fall of the Berlin Wall (September 1989), he began studying theater directing in the GDR at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin . The short film "The Robbers" was made there. Veit Helmer switched to the University of Television and Film Munich in 1991 . During this time he was already co-director, co-author and producer on Wim Wenders ' film The Skladanowsky Brothers (1996). He became known through numerous short films such as Surprise! , The window cleaner and Tour Eiffel (70 mm). Many of his films were made in cooperation with students from film schools in Tbilisi , Almaty , Uzbekistan , Baku and Indonesia . The plot of his films is often burlesque , characterized in the stylistic implementation by an only sparing use of dialogues (which also facilitates the use of actors of different mother tongues next to each other), with high expressiveness of the facial expressions at the same time.

Helmer has been a member of the European Film Academy since August 2002 . He teaches at various film schools, including in Beirut , Tbilisi , Djakarta , Tashkent and Bogotá . Today Helmer lives in Berlin and Buckow (Märkische Schweiz) .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Come to me in the adventure land in FAZ of July 23, 2011, page Z3
  2. ↑ News on the film Nonsense and the Coati Gang , accessed on November 1, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Helmer, Veit
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film director and film producer
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover