Züli Aladağ

Züli Aladağ at the German Television Award 2018

Züli Aladağ [aˈlaːdaː] (born January 2, 1968 in Van , Turkey ) is a German film director , film producer and screenwriter .

biography

Züli Aladağ came to Germany in 1973 and grew up in Stuttgart . After briefly studying theater studies in Munich , he completed a six-month internship at Roland Emmerichs Moon 44 in Stuttgart. It was followed by numerous collaborations with short, advertising, feature films and documentaries as a production assistant, location manager and assistant director . He later worked as an editor and co-director for semi-documentary TV series. He has been a producer since 1993 and has been working as a freelance filmmaker on documentaries and feature films since 1995. He is also often the author of her scripts. He graduated from the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne in summer 1999.

His controversial integration drama Wut (2006), shot in 2005 , has won several awards.

In 2008 he directed a number of episodes of the television series The Lawyers and KDD - Criminal Continuous Service .

Aladağ is the founder of the Young European Cinema (jek) initiative . The filmmaker was married to Feo Aladağ from 2002 to 2012 , with whom he founded his own film production company in 2006. Aladağ has lived in Berlin since 2002.

Exhibitions

• 2010/2011: The Others , Labor Berlin 3 exhibition series in the House of World Cultures

Awards

• 1999: Award of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia for the field of film
• FFA short film award "Short Tiger 2000",
• 2001: Wilhelm Bitter Prize
• "Special recognition" by the German Academy of Performing Arts at the Baden-Baden 2006 Television Film Festival for the entire production team of his television film Wut
• 2007: Golden Camera from Hörzu magazine for his TV film Wut .
• 2007: Adolf Grimme Prize for Anger
• 2007: Golden Gate Award for Anger
• 2010: German Film Prize in bronze as a producer for Die Fremde
• 2018: German television award as director of the multi-part Brothers for the best multi-part

Filmography (selection)

• 1991/1992: Free play - actor, production manager
• 1992: The Parrot - Production Manager
• 1997: Hear your life - director, producer, screenplay, editing
• 1997: Zoran - director, screenplay
• 1999: Before the day breaks - direction, screenplay, editing
• 1999: Der Ausbruch - director, screenplay, editor
• 1999: Enter producer
• 2001/2002: Elefantenherz - director, screenplay
• 2003: Tatort - mother's love - director, screenplay
• 2004: The Turks Are Coming (Documentary)
• 2005: Tatort - Frozen - Director
• 2005: Wut - (drama), director
• 2010: The Stranger - Producer
• 2010: Countdown - The Hunt Begins - Director (2 episodes)
• 2010–2011: Der Kriminalist - director (four episodes), screenplay (one episode)
• 2013: 300 words in German - direction, screenplay
• 2014: Die Fahnderin - Director
• 2015: Tatort - Weightless - Director
• 2016: Tatort - In the Promised Land - Director
• 2016: The Victims - Don't Forget Me - Director
• 2017: Commissioner Marthaler - The Sterntaler Conspiracy - Director
• 2017: Brothers - director
• 2019: The Ireland Crime: The Dead of Glenmore Abbey - directed

performance

• 2012: Neden? (Why?), WP: January 2012 Ballhaus Naunynstraße , Berlin-Kreuzberg

literature

• Valerie Smith (Ed.): The Others , House of World Cultures, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-9812080-4-7 .
• Züli Aladag , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 39/2008 from September 23, 2008, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)

Web links

Commons : Züli Aladağ  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Zuli Aladag in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Züli Aladağ at filmportal.de

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