Volker Heise

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Volker Heise (* August 1961 in Hoya ) is a German television director, dramaturge and producer. He became known for the living history series Schwarzwaldhaus 1902 , for which he received the Grimme Prize in 2003 .

biography

Heise, born in August 1961, grew up in Hoya in Lower Saxony. He studied political science in Hanover and Berlin and graduated from the Otto Suhr Institute of the Free University of Berlin.

During his studies he was involved in the alternative radio station " Radio 100 " in Berlin, later he was a reporter and editor for the radio stations "Fritz", "inforadio" and "Radio Eins" from ORB and SFB (today RBB). At Radio Eins he was most recently head of prime-time programs.

From the mid-1990s, Heise worked closely with Thomas Kufus and the Berlin production company zero film ; Initially as a copywriter and dramaturge for documentary television series and full-length documentary films. Among other things, he was responsible for the conception of one of the first German documentary soaps that were developed for arte and various ARD channels based on the English model ( birthing station , Neue Heimat Berlin , Tanzpalast, etc.). As a dramaturge, he was in charge of Black Box BRD by Andres Veiel , Reporter Misses by Johann Feindt and The 50s - how we became what we are .

In 2001, Heise directed Schwarzwaldhaus for the first time in 1902 . The series was awarded the Grimme Prize and nominated for the German Television Prize and is considered to be one of the most successful documentaries on German television and a role model for numerous "adventure documentaries" in Germany. Heise subsequently directed two further living history projects for ARD ( Adventure 1900 - Life in the Manor House from 2004 and Adventure 1927 - Summer Resort from 2005).

Since 2008 Heise has been a partner of zero one film GmbH, which emerged from zero film GmbH. For zero one he developed the arte series The culinary adventures of Sarah Wiener (various series from 2005-2014) and the SWR / ARD presenter format Matusseks Reisen . He also directed both series.

From 2008 to 2009 Heise developed and realized the television project 24h Berlin - A Day in a Lifetime . With the help of over 70 directors, he documented a day in the life of a big city and processed the material into a 24-hour television program. The program was broadcast on September 5, 2009 on arte and on rbb television . Together with the producer Thomas Kufus , he received the Bavarian TV Prize for this . In 2010 Heise also received the special prize of the Robert Geisendörfer Prize and the German Television Prize 2010 .

Direction of the documentary "Help - what do we eat?" (HR / Das Erste 2011).

Idea and concept of the fictional series “Zeit der Helden” (SWR and ARTE 2013), awarded the German Television Prize and the Grimme Prize.

Heise's TV project 24h Jerusalem (idea, concept and project direction) was broadcast on arte and on BR in 2014 . The documentary television program was awarded the German Television Prize.

Directed the documentary "Heimat sucht" (RBB 2015).

Since 2010 he has been a columnist for the Berliner Zeitung and the Frankfurter Rundschau. Since 2013 moderation of the program “Big Issues, No Opinions” on Radio Eins (RBB).

Filmography

  • 2002: Black Forest House 1902 (Living History Series, 4 × 45 minutes, SWR / ARD)
  • 2004: Adventure 1900 - Life in the Manor House (Living History Series, 16 × 25 minutes, ARD)
  • 2005: Adventure 1927 - Summer Freshness (Living History Series, 16 × 25 minutes, ARD)
  • 2006–2010: The culinary adventures of Sarah Wiener (cooking series, 30 × 25 minutes and 10 × 45 minutes, ARTE)
  • 2007, 2008: Matusseks Reisen (TV documentary series, 3 × 45 and 3 × 30 minutes, SWR / ARD)
  • 2008: Die Freiwilligen (TV documentary, 2 × 45 minutes, SWR, WDR, ARTE)
  • 2009: 24h Berlin - A Day in the Life (TV documentary, 1 × 1440 minutes, ARTE and rbb)
  • 2011: Help - what do we eat? (TV documentary, 45 minutes, HR / Das Erste)
  • 2014: 24h Jerusalem (TV documentary, 1 × 1440 minutes, ARTE / BR)
  • 2015: Home wanted (TV documentary, 45 minutes, rbb)
  • 2017: 24h Bavaria - One Day at Home (TV documentary, 1 × 1440 minutes, BR)
  • 2018: 1929 - The Year of Babylon (TV documentary, RBB)
  • 2019: 24h Europe - The Next Generation (TV documentary, RBB and others)

Works

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 24hberlin.tv ( Memento from September 13, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ gep.de ( Memento of the original from January 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) 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.gep.de
  3. ↑ Start of shooting for the ARTE / rbb / SWR / BR television event "24h Europe - We are the Future" (AT). rbb-online.de , June 14, 2018, accessed on April 27, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Midnight Crime : Out of Control By Volker Heise , Dlf Kultur April 20, 2019, accessed April 23, 2019

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personal data
SURNAME Heise, Volker
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German television director and producer
DATE OF BIRTH August 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Hoya , Lower Saxony , Germany