York-Fabian Raabe

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York-Fabian Raabe (* 1979 in Kassel ) is a German film director , screenwriter and film producer . He gained fame primarily through his directorial works between Heaven and Earth (2010) and Borga (2021), which are set in an African context .

Life

Worked in business and studied film

York-Fabian Raabe completed an apprenticeship as an industrial clerk . He then studied business administration at a university of applied sciences and obtained a degree in business administration . He then worked for DaimlerChrysler AG and PricewaterhouseCoopers .

In addition to working in business, Raabe pursued his artistic inclinations and acted in theater, wrote scripts and directed his first small films. He was then accepted at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (DFFB). His studies there made him familiar with the areas of screenwriting, directing, camera and production and he worked on his first film projects.

Work as a producer and successful short film debut

From the mid-2000s, Raabe began to work on the production of short films. In 2006 he worked as executive producer on the short film The Last Sheaf by Mariejosephin Schneider . The 20-minute DFFB production focuses on a poor farming family at the beginning of the 20th century. He also produced two DFFB short films by Janosch Orlowsky . Délire de négation (2007) is about a young woman who has lost the love of her life, while Blind (2009) focuses on a former sniper who is embroiled in a dangerous assignment against his will.

In 2010 he made his debut as a director and screenwriter with the short film Between Heaven and Earth . The 15-minute fictional film tells the story of two Ivorian brothers who grew up in a slum in the Ivory Coast and who dare to escape to Germany in an airplane landing gear. The story, which is based on a true story, brought Raabe first recognition in 2010/11. Between heaven and earth was among other things. on the LA Shorts Fest, Max Ophüls Prize Film Festival , International Short Film Festival Berlin , International Film Festival Emden-Norderney and Dresden Film Festival Award and was nominated for another film awards.

Further directorial work on Africa

After Zwischen Himmel und Erde (Between Heaven and Earth) , further directing work in an African context followed, in which Raabe was again responsible for the script and production. According to his own statements, he draws his inspiration from his many travels ("My Vita helps me in the second step when it comes to telling authentic characters and credible Métiers"). He attended the Tisch School of the Arts in New York to improve his scriptwriting work and together with Eric Golub founded his own film production company ViewYork in Berlin, which is divided into the two divisions ViewYork Media ( social media agency ) and ViewYork Film.

Raabe's second directorial work followed in 2013, the 15-minute short documentary Sodom's Children , which is set in Ghana's capital Accra . The film follows two street children who live in the vicinity of the electronic waste dump in Agbogbloshie . Eight years later he made his feature film debut with Borga (2021), in which he was inspired by his previous work. In the drama, Eugene Boateng can be seen as the eponymous Ghanaian who grows up near an electronic waste dump in Accra and hopes for a new, prosperous life in Germany. Borga was premiered as part of the 42nd Max Ophüls Preis film festival , which was organized entirely as an online edition due to the COVID-19 pandemic . There Raabe won the main prize for the best feature film, for the socially relevant film (to associate producer and actor Eugene Boateng), the audience award and the award of the Ecumenical Jury. The filmmaker had already received a nomination for the Thomas Strittmatter Screenplay Award in 2016 for the unpublished script .

Filmography (selection)

  • 2010: Between Heaven and Earth (short film)
  • 2013: Sodom's Children (documentary short film)
  • 2021: Borga

Awards (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ York-Fabian Raabe . In: filmportal.de (accessed on January 18, 2021).
  2. ↑ a b c About . In: vieworkfilm.de (accessed on January 18, 2021).
  3. ↑ The last sheaf . In: dffb.de (accessed on January 18, 2021).
  4. ^ Délire de négation . In: dffb.de (accessed on January 18, 2021).
  5. ↑ Blind . In: dffb.de (accessed on January 18, 2021).
  6. ↑ Honor for critical short film . In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger , July 22, 2011, p. 25.
  7. ↑ a b Borga . In: ffmop.de (accessed January 18, 2021).
  8. ↑ Rita Nikolow: That certain something . In: Der Tagesspiegel , February 13, 2011, No. 20887, p. 12.
  9. ^ Children of Sodom . In: vieworkfilm.de (accessed on January 18, 2021).
  10. ↑ The winners in 2021 . In: ffmop.de (accessed January 24, 2021).
  11. ↑ Notes . In: Südwest Presse , December 17, 2015, p. 15.
personal data
SURNAME Raabe, York-Fabian
SHORT DESCRIPTION German film director, screenwriter and film producer
DATE OF BIRTH 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Kassel , Hesse