Züli Aladağ (born 2 January 1968,

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) is a German film director, film producer, and screenwriter. He is of Kurdish and Turkish descent.

Biography

Aladağ immigrated to

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in 1973 and grew up in

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. After a short theatre study in

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, he completed a six-month internship at

Roland Emmerich Roland Emmerich (; born 10 November 1955) is a German-American filmmaker. Emmerich is widely known for his science fiction and disaster films and has been called a "master of disaster" within the movie industry. His films, most of which are Eng ...

's Moon 44 in Stuttgart. There, he followed numerous collaborators in shorts, advertisements, plays and documentary films as a production assistant, recording manager and director assistant. Later, he worked as an editor and co-director for documentary TV series. Since 1993, he has worked as a producer, and since 1995, he has been working as a freelance filmmaker on documentary films and feature films. He is often the author of his own books. He graduated from the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne in the summer of 1999. His 2005 controversial drama, ''

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'' (2006), was awarded several times. In 2008, he directed a series of episodes of the television series '' Die Anwälte'' and ''

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

Exhibitions

* 2010/2011: ''Die Anderen'', Ausstellungsreihe ''Labor Berlin'' 3 in the

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Awards

* 1999: Prize of North Rhine-Westphalia for Film * FFA-Kurz film prize for "Short Tiger 2000" * 2001: Wilhelm Bitter Prize * "Special recognition" by the German Academy of Performing Arts at the Baden TV Film Festival 2006 for the entire production team of ''Rage'' * 2007: Golden Camera Award by Hörzu for ''Rage''. * 2007:

Grimme-Preis The Grimme-Preis (Grimme Award), formerly known as the 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. The Grimme Institute ...

for ''Rage'' * 2007:

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for ''Rage'' * 2010:

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for producing ''When We Leave''

Filmography (selection)

* 1991/1992: ''Freispiel'' – Acting, recording * 1992: ' – Recording * 1997: ''Hör dein Leben'' – Director, producer, scriptwriter, editor * 1997: ''Zoran'' – Director, scriptwriter * 1999: ''Bevor der Tag anbricht'' – Director, scriptwriter, editor * 1999: ''Der Ausbruch'' – Director, scriptwriter, editor * 1999: ''Enter'' – Producer * 2001/2002: ''Elephant Heart'' – Director, scriptwriter * 2003: ''

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– '' – Director, scriptwriter * 2004: ''Die Türken kommen'' (Documentary film) * 2005: ''Tatort – Erfroren'' – Director * 2006: ''

'' – Director * 2010: ''

When We Leave ''When We Leave'' (, ) is a 2010 German-Turkish drama film, produced, written and directed by Austrian filmmaker Feo Aladag. The film received worldwide acclaim and represented Aladag's debut as a producer, writer, and director. ''When We Leav ...

'' – Producer * 2010: ''

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'' – Director (two episodes) * 2010–2011: ''

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'' – Director (four episodes), scriptwriter (one episode) * 2013: '' 300 Words of German'', ' – Director, scriptwriter * 2014: ' – Director * 2015: ''Tatort – Schwerelos'' – Director * 2016: ''Tatort – Im gelobten Land'' – Director * 2016: '' NSU German History X: '' – Director

Performances

* 2012: ''Neden?'' (Warum?), UA: Januar 2012 Ballhaus Naunynstraße, Berlin-Kreuzberg

References

Literature

* Valerie Smith (Ed.): ''Die Anderen'', Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin 2010, .

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Aladag, Zuli Mass media people from Stuttgart 1968 births Living people German people of Turkish descent German people of Kurdish descent Turkish emigrants to Germany German Film Award winners People from Van, Turkey