Marcus Attila Vetter (* 1967 in

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) is a German

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Life and career

Vetter was born to a Turkish father, Cahit Cubuk, and a German mother. After studying in Worms, Buenos Aires and Madrid (with a focus on European Business Management among others) Vetter started working as a trainee at the production company Bavaria Film in Munich and graduated in Media Studies and Practice at the

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in 1994. Since 1994 he worked as a freelance editor, writer and director at SDR in Stuttgart, in 1998 he went to SWR in Baden-Baden, to work as a freelance documentary filmmaker for culture and society. Vetter's autobiographical documentary My Father the Turk (2006) was awarded the Prix Europa for documentaries. In June 2007, his documentary Traders' Dream was released in German cinemas, a global report on the phenomenon Ebay, produced in cooperation with Stefan Tolz. Vetters feature documentary The Heart of Jenin, a film about the Palestinian Ismail Khatib, won the German Film Award 2010 for Best Documentary. Upon completion, Vetter founded the Cinema Jenin e. V., which has the goal to rebuild the cinema Jenin in the West bank that has been closed since 1987. Since 2008 Vetter has regularly been travelling to Jenin in order to promote the project; at the same time he made a film about the project, which was presented in 2012. Simultaneously he filmed the SWR documentary Hunger. Vetter lives in Tübingen with his wife and two children.

Filmography

1998: Hardy B. – Psycho gram of a lifer 1999: Life is wonderful – Former pop singers Leismann now touring through construction markets 1999: Megabucks – Daytrader's stock exchange roulette 1999: The Tunnel – About a legendary escape tunnel in Berlin 2000: Where money grows – The EM.TV Story 2001: Broadway Bruchsal – Actors dreams in a little German theatre 2002: War Games – The computer game Counterstrike 2003: Broadway Bruchsal – Actors dreams in a little German theatre 2003: La Florida – The collapse of the banking system in Argentina 2004: From zero to 42 – Docu Soap about amateur Marathon runners 2006: My father the Turk 2006: The Unbreakables – The reanimation of the glass manufacturer Theresienthal 2007: Traders'Dreams – The ebay phenomena 2008: ''

The Heart of Jenin ''The Heart of Jenin'' is a 2008 documentary film written and directed by Marcus Vetter and Leon Geller. The film tells the story of Ismael Khatib from Jenin, a Palestinian whose son was shot by Israeli soldiers. Instead of seeking revenge, he don ...

'' 2009: Hunger – the various faces of hunger 2011: After the Silence – An Israeli woman meets the family of the suicide bomber who killed her husband. 2012: Cinema Jenin – The story of a dream 2013: The International Criminal Court 2014: The Forecaster – The story of Martin Armstrong 2016: ''Killing for Love'' – The story of Jens Soering 2019: The Forum - About the

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Awards (selection)

Adolf Grimme Prize The Grimme-Preis ("Grimme Award"; prior to 2011: Adolf-Grimme-Preis) is one of the most prestigious German television awards. It is named after the first general director of Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk, Adolf Grimme.German Television Award 2000 for The Tunnel Adolf Grimme Prize 2001 for ''Wo das Geld wächst – die EM.TV-Story'' Ernst Schneider Award 2001 for ''Wo das Geld wächst – die EM.TV-Story'' Axel Springer Prize 2000 for ''...ein Schweinegeld! Daytrader beim Börsenroulette'' Ludwig Erhard Prize for ''...ein Schweinegeld! Daytrader beim Börsenroulette'' Adolf Grimme Special Prize of North Rhine-Westphalia 2002 for Broadway Bruchsal Prix Europa 2006 for My Father the Turk The

Cinema for Peace The Cinema for Peace Foundation is a registered, non-profit organization based in Berlin, Germany. It supports film-based projects dealing with global humanitarian and environmental issues, and coordinates the Cinema for Peace awards. History The ...

Award for the Most Valuable Documentary of the Year 2009 for

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2010 for The Heart of JeninPrize winners of the German Film Award 2010
/ref> Robert Geisendörfer Prize 2011 together with Karin Steinberger for Hunger

External links

Official website of Marcus Vetter
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Articles about Vetter's documentary project "Cinema Jenin" at www.zenithonline.de

Website of Marcus Vetter's Project Cinema Jenin

Detailed Article and Trailer about the documentary "Hunger" (German)

Official website of the documentary "The Forecaster"

References

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