Züli Aladağ

Züli Aladağ (born 2 January 1968, Van, Turkey) is a German-Kurdish film director, film producer, and screenwriter.

Biography

Aladağ immigrated to Germany in 1973 and grew up in Stuttgart. After a short theatre study in Munich, he completed a six-month internship at Roland Emmerichs 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, Wut (2006), was awarded several times.

In 2008, he directed a series of episodes of the television series Die Anwälte and KDD – Kriminaldauerdienst.

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 Haus der Kulturen der Welt

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 Wut
2007: Golden Camera Award by Hörzu for Wut.
2007: Grimme-Preis for Wut
2007: GLAAD Media Award for Wut
2010: Deutscher Filmpreis for producing Die Fremde

Filmography (selection)

1991/1992: Freispiel – Acting, recording
1992: Der Papagei – Recording
1997: Hör dein Leben – Director, Producer, scriptwriter, cutting
1997: Zoran – Director, scriptwriter
1999: Bevor der Tag anbricht – Director, scriptwriter, cutting
1999: Der Ausbruch – Director, scriptwriter, cutting
1999: Enter – Producer
2001/2002: Elefantenherz – Director, scriptwriter
2003: Tatort – Mutterliebe – Director, scriptwriter
2004: Die Türken kommen (Documentary film)
2005: Tatort – Erfroren – Director
2005: Wut – Director
2010: Die Fremde – Producer
2010: Countdown – Die Jagd beginnt – Director (two episodes)
2010–2011: Der Kriminalist – Director (four episodes), scriptwriter (one episode)
2014: Die Fahnderin – Director
2015: 300 Worte Deutsch – Director, scriptwriter
2015: Tatort – Schwerelos – Director
2016: Tatort – Im gelobten Land – Director
2016: Die Opfer – Vergesst mich nicht – Director

Performances

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

Literature

Valerie Smith (Ed.): Die Anderen, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-9812080-4-7.

External links

Züli Aladağ on IMDb

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