André Erkau (born 1968) is a German film director and screenwriter.
Life and work
Born in
Dortmund
Dortmund (; Westphalian nds, Düörpm ; la, Tremonia) is the third-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia after Cologne and Düsseldorf, and the eighth-largest city of Germany, with a population of 588,250 inhabitants as of 2021. It is the la ...
, Erkau grew up in
Bremen
Bremen ( Low German also: ''Breem'' or ''Bräm''), officially the City Municipality of Bremen (german: Stadtgemeinde Bremen, ), is the capital of the German state Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (''Freie Hansestadt Bremen''), a two-city-state cons ...
. After he completed his actor's training, he worked for theatre and TV. In 2001, he began to study film direction at the
Academy of Media Arts in
Cologne
Cologne ( ; german: Köln ; ksh, Kölle ) is the largest city of the German western state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) and the fourth-most populous city of Germany with 1.1 million inhabitants in the city proper and 3.6 millio ...
. He finished his study in 2005 with his diploma-movie ''
37 ohne Zwiebeln''. This short film won more than twenty film awards and was in 2006 one of Germany's most successful short films. His first cine film, ''Come In and Burn Out'', also received awards.
Selected filmography
*1993: ''
Nicht von schlechten Eltern'' (German TV series, actor)
*2001: ''fabrixx'' (German TV series, actor)
*2003: ''Verkauftes Land'' (German TV movie, actor)
*2006: ''
37 ohne Zwiebeln'' (direction, screenplay, producer)
*2008: ' (''Selbstgespräche''), (direction, screenplay)
*2011: ''
Alive and Ticking'' (actor)
*2011: ' (direction, screenplay)
*2012: ''
Das Leben ist nichts für Feiglinge'' (direction)
*2014: ''
Tatort
''Tatort'' ("Crime scene") is a German language police procedural television series that has been running continuously since 1970 with some 30 feature-length episodes per year, which makes it the longest-running German TV drama. Developed b ...
- Wahre Liebe'' (German TV series, direction)
*2015: ''Winnetous Sohn'' (direction)
*2015: ''Tatort - Schwanensee'' (German TV series, direction, screenplay)
Awards and nominations
*''37 ohne Zwiebeln'' (2006)
:- 2006: Winner of the
Audience Award An audience award is typically an award at a film festival (or some other type of cultural festival or similar competition) which is selected by the audience attending the festival, rather than by the festival jury or a group of critics.
Example ...
in the category Hanse Short at the Hamburg International Short Film Festival
:- 2006: Winner of the Audience Award and Best short Film award at the Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis in
Saarbrücken
Saarbrücken (; french: link=no, Sarrebruck ; Rhine Franconian: ''Saarbrigge'' ; lb, Saarbrécken ; lat, Saravipons, lit=The Bridge(s) across the Saar river) is the capital and largest city of the state of Saarland, Germany. Saarbrücken is ...
:- 2006: Winner of the ProSieben Young Directors Award in the category Best Director at the Munich International Festival of Film Schools
:- 2006: Winner of the Studio Hamburg Newcomer Award in the category Best Screenplay at the Studio Hamburg Newcomer Award
*''Come In and Burn Out'' (2008)
:- 2008: Winner of the Max Ophüls Award at the Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis in Saarbrücken
*''Das Leben ist nichts für Feiglinge'' (2012)
:- 2012: Nominated for the ''Best German Language Feature Film'' at
Zürich Film Festival
:- 2014: Nominated for the ''Best German Film'' at the
Jupiter Awards
References
External links
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1968 births
Living people
Film people from Dortmund
Mass media people from North Rhine-Westphalia