Thomas Heise

Regista, Sceneggiatore, Attore, Produttore

22 agosto 1955 — 29 maggio 2024 (68 anni)
Thomas Heise was born in Berlin, capital of the German Democratic Republic, in 1955. After school he trained as a printer. After his military service in the East German armed forces he began to work as an assistant director at the DEFA - Studio for Feature Films in Potsdam Babelsberg in 1975. Between 1978 and 1983 Heise studied at the Academy of Film & Television in Potsdam-Babelsberg (HFF/B). His first film, the documentary Wozu denn über diese Leute einen Film/Why a Film About These People - produced entirely with materials bought on the black market - was banned from public screening. Since 1983 he has worked as a free-lance writer and director in the areas of theatre, audio drama and documentary. Until the end of the GDR all his documentary efforts were however either blocked by what was – in official jargon – called 'operative means' or destroyed or confiscated.

Since the beginning of the 1990s Heise's documentaries have attracted national and international attention. Since 2007 he's been teaching as a Professor for Film and Media Art at Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe. Thomas Heise's earlier films dealt with social phenomena in the GDR and the country's bureaucratic apparatus. From the late 80s his focus has moved to the changes individuals, families and regional communities have had to undergo in the aftermath of the German reunification. The works of the filmmaker encompass a wide range of contemporary socially relevant topics such as privatisation, the re-organisation of the formerly industrial sphere, unemployment and rightwing radicalism to name but a few.

Famoso per

  • Heimat è uno spazio nel tempo
    Heimat è uno spazio nel tempo2019
  • Material
    Material2009
  • Stau - Jetzt geht's los
    Stau - Jetzt geht's los1992
  • Solar System
    Solar System2011
  • Fatherland
    Fatherland2002
  • Children. As Time Flies
    Children. As Time Flies2008
  • Eisenzeit
    Eisenzeit1992
  • Imbiß spezial
    Imbiß spezial1990
  • Die Lage
    Die Lage2012
  • Städtebewohner
    Städtebewohner2014
  • Barluschke
    Barluschke1997
  • Im Glück. Neger
    Im Glück. Neger2006
  • Spiegel TV Magazine
    Spiegel TV Magazine6 stagioni
  • 24 Hours Berlin
    24 Hours Berlin2009
  • Notorious Deeds
    Notorious Deeds2016
  • 20 x Brandenburg
    20 x Brandenburg2010

Filmografia

2021
Höllental · as Self - Narrator
2019
2005
1992
1967
TTT · as Self

2019
Heimat is a Space in Time · as Narrator (voice)
1991

2016
Notorious Deeds · as Consulting Producer
2014
2011
2009

2009
Material · as Director Of Photography
2006
Im Glück. Neger · as Cinematographer
1996
Spiegel TV Reportage · as Staff Writer
1984
Das Haus 1984 · as Sound
1984
Wundkanal · as Assistent Director