Thomas Grube (born 1971) is a German photographer, film director, script writer and film. With his partner Uwe Dierks, he has written scripts and directed films about classical music, such as ''

Rhythm Is It! ''Rhythm Is It!'' is a 2004 German documentary film directed by Thomas Grube and Enrique Sánchez Lansch. The film documents a project undertaken by conductor Simon Rattle and choreographer Royston Maldoom to stage a performance of Stravinsky's ...

Life

Born in Berlin, Grube studied political science, American studies and Eastern European studies at the

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as well as film and television business at the Konrad Wolf Film University of Babelsberg. At the same time, he worked as director and producer. Thomas Grube / Regie, Drehbuch, Schnitt, Produzent, Aufnahmeleitung / 1971 Berlin
(in German) Filmportal In 1993, he founded his first production company, with which he made short films, reports and music films as author, director and film producer. His first long film was ''Love is the Message'' in 1995. The music film (among others with

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, WestBam, Kid Paul,

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) was released by

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and is a comprehensive documentation of the early

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generation of which he himself was a member. In 1996, Grube met his partner . Both were strongly inspired by the personality and music of the American composer and conductor

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and shifted their focus to the genre of classical music. Together they realised various documentaries and music films as directors and producers, including

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Christoph Eschenbach Christoph Eschenbach (; born 20 February 1940) is a German pianist and conductor. Early life Eschenbach was born in Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland). His parents were Margarethe (née Jaross) and Heribert Ringmann. He was orphaned durin ...

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, Anne Sophie Mutter and

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. In 1999, Grube and Dierks founded, together with , the company Boomtown Media GmbH & Co. KG in Berlin. Since then, Grube has realised numerous

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s for television and cinema as director and producer. For ''Warschau Express'', he was nominated for the

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in 2000. The documentary ''

'', with Enrique Sánchez Lansch about a community outreach project of

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with

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, received its premiere at the 2004

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2004, and won the

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, and in 2005 the

. In February 2008, his film ' (world premiere at the Berlin Festival) was released in German cinemas. ''Trip to Asia'', the first feature film about the mysterious inner life of the

and its chief conductor

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, received the ''Tiempo del Historia Award'' for "Best Documentary" at the 2008

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. ''Rhythm Is It!'' is one of the most successful documentaries in German cinema. As a producer, Grube was responsible for the cinema documentaries ''Porgy and Me - In the World of Gershwin's Porgy and Bess'' (world premiere

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2009), ''Friedensschlag - Das Jahr der Entscheidung'' (world premiere

2010; PDF; 135-kB) by Gerardo Milsztein or

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- ' (world premiere at the

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) by Marcus Vetter 2011. The documentary film ''Friedensschlag'', which was released in German cinemas in 2010, received the in the same year ("Best documentary film"). The project Cinema Jenin was awarded the 2011. The film was also awarded the German Camera Prize 2012 and was released by

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in German cinemas in June 2012. In 2014 he accompanied the organ virtuoso

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on the way to the creation of his ''International Touring Organ''.Cameron Carpenter: The Sound of my Life
(in German) ''Arte'' The film ''The Sound of my Life'' was released in 2014. In the years 2014 to 2016, Grube accompanied the 150th anniversary of the

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group in Europe, the US, South America and India with the feature film ''Experiment 150''. The world premiere of ''Experiment 150'' took place in 2016 at the 12th in Ludwigshafen. Besides his work as author and director, Grube also realises commercials as director and is responsible for the production company BOOMTOWN MEDIA as film producer. Grube is a member of the

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References

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Grube, Thomas German documentary film directors German documentary film producers German film directors German Film Award winners Echo (music award) winners 1971 births Living people Artists from Berlin