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Oliver Schwabe

Visiting professor of television dramaturgy / creative television production
+49 221 20189 – 286
oliver.schwabe@khm.de

Oliver Schwabe has created feature and documentary films for television and cinema as an author, director and cameraman for over 20 years. His work includes numerous TV documentaries (arte, NDR, WDR, rbb) and cinema documentary films that deal with pop cultural themes, as well as the serial format “video diaries”, that he supervised and published regularly for the NDR in Hamburg from 1998 to 2010.

He is also interested in documentary inspired hybrid forms and formats, which explore the limits of the genre and which he has produced for the cinema as well as for television.

Oliver Schwabe approaches his protagonists with great curiosity but without bias and is always on the look out for themes that reveal the unexpected. He is driven by a passion for the new and unknown, together with the aspiration to get closer to his protagonists.

His films have been shown at numerous national and international festivals and awarded prizes including the Spiridon Neven Dumont Prize and was nominated for the Preis für Popkultur and the Deutschen Menschenrechtsfilmpreis.


Filmography (selection)

CINEMA (selection):

2019 DIE LIEBE FRISST DAS LEBEN – Tobias Gruben, seine Lieder und die Erde (Buch/Regie)

2018 ASI MIT NIWOH - Die Jürgen Zeltinger Geschichte (Buch/Regie)

2017 TOKIO HOTEL – Hinter die Welt (Buch/Regie)

2017 EXODUS - Berichte von vier unbegleiteten minderjährigen Flüchtlingen (Buch/Regie)

2012 FRAKTUS, (Kamera)

2009 ZARTE PARASITEN (Buch/Regie zusammen mit Christian Becker, Kamera)

2004 EGOSHOOTER (Buch/Regie zusammen mit Christian Becker, Kamera)

TV (selection):

2019 BEING DAVID HASSELHOFF (Buch/Regie)

2018 Sexy Mother F***** PRINCE (Buch/Regie)

2017 I’VE LOST MY MIND IN ESSEN – 40 JAHRE ROCKPALAST-NACHT, (Buch/Regie)

2016 DIE HÖHLE VON EPPENDORF – DAS LEGENDÄRE ONKEL PÖ, (Buch/Regie)

2016 Keine Atempause - Düsseldorf, der Ratinger Hof und die neue Musik, (Buch/Regie)

2013 HEINO – MADE IN GERMANY, (Buch/Regie)

2009 Berlin-Lost in Time and Space – Der Sound der geteilten Stadt (Buch/Regie)

2006 My Generation – Der Sound der Revolte erzählt in 15 Songs,(Buch/Regie)

Lectures - Seminars

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