Benedict Neuenfels
Acteur
11 maart 1966 (60 years)
Born 1966 in Bern/Switzerland as the son of actress Elisabeth Trissenaar and director Hans . First encounter with film-industry 1982 as production assistant for the feature Penthesiliea.
He worked several years as camera assistant and operator for R.W. Fassbinder's former DP Xaver Schwarzenberger and Wim Wenders close collaborator Robby Mueller. In early years he founded his own low-budget orientated production company Giselafilms Berlin.
Since his study at the german film and television school (dffb) in Berlin, he is responsible for the cinematography of more than 60 features and documentaries and additional for the lighting design of various stage plays in opera and theater. He is giving master- camera -classes in major film schools in Germany for more than 20 years.
Benedict Neuenfels is member of the german, austrian and european film-academy. His work has been awarded numerous times. He received several times both the prestigious Grimme Award and the German Television award, the Bavarian and the German Film Award each, as well as seven times the German Camera Award for outstanding cinematography.
The counterfeiters, which he photographed in 2007, won an Academy Award for best foreign feature film the following year. In 2011 he was honored by the German Academy of Arts for outstanding achievement in cinematography. In 2018 he received various awards for the feature STYX.
In 2019 he received the Lifetime Honory Award for Cinematography - German Camera Award . So he will join the chain of outstanding former recipients like Michael Ballhaus, Robby Mueller, Renato Berta, Slawomir Idziak, Xaver Schwarzenberger, Judith Kaufmann, Elfie Mikesch, Jürgen Jürges...
He worked several years as camera assistant and operator for R.W. Fassbinder's former DP Xaver Schwarzenberger and Wim Wenders close collaborator Robby Mueller. In early years he founded his own low-budget orientated production company Giselafilms Berlin.
Since his study at the german film and television school (dffb) in Berlin, he is responsible for the cinematography of more than 60 features and documentaries and additional for the lighting design of various stage plays in opera and theater. He is giving master- camera -classes in major film schools in Germany for more than 20 years.
Benedict Neuenfels is member of the german, austrian and european film-academy. His work has been awarded numerous times. He received several times both the prestigious Grimme Award and the German Television award, the Bavarian and the German Film Award each, as well as seven times the German Camera Award for outstanding cinematography.
The counterfeiters, which he photographed in 2007, won an Academy Award for best foreign feature film the following year. In 2011 he was honored by the German Academy of Arts for outstanding achievement in cinematography. In 2018 he received various awards for the feature STYX.
In 2019 he received the Lifetime Honory Award for Cinematography - German Camera Award . So he will join the chain of outstanding former recipients like Michael Ballhaus, Robby Mueller, Renato Berta, Slawomir Idziak, Xaver Schwarzenberger, Judith Kaufmann, Elfie Mikesch, Jürgen Jürges...
Cinematografie
| 1983 | Heinrich Penthesilea von Kleist · as Cast |
| 1964 | Grimme Award · as Self |
| 1951 | German Film Award · as Self |
| 2025 | Icefall · as Director Of Photography |
| 2023 | Stella: A Life · as Director Of Photography |
| 2023 | Stella: A Life · as Visual Effects Supervisor |
| 2022 | In a Land That No Longer Exists · as Director Of Photography |
| 2021 | Hinterland · as Director Of PhotographyOp Plex |
| 2021 | I'm Your Man · as Director Of PhotographyOp Plex |
| 2020 | Narcissus and Goldmund · as Director Of Photography |
| 2019 | 8 Days · as Cinematographer |
| 2018 | Patient Zero · as Director Of Photography |
| 2018 | Styx · as Production DesignerOp Plex |
| 2018 | Styx · as Director Of PhotographyOp Plex |
| 2017 | Cold Hell · as Director Of Photography |
| 2016 | Der Fall Barschel · as Director Of Photography |
| 2015 | Der Fall Barschel · as Cinematographer |
| 2015 | Mädchen im Eis · as Director Of Photography |
| 2014 | Schönefeld Boulevard · as Cinematographer |
| 2013 | Radical Evil · as Director Of Photography |
| 2012 | Weil ich schöner bin · as Director Of Photography |
| 2012 | The Weekend · as Director Of Photography |
| 2012 | Riskante Patienten · as Cinematographer |
| 2011 | Homevideo · as Director Of Photography |
| 2010 | Small Lights · as Cinematographer |
| 2010 | Mahler on the Couch · as Director Of Photography |
| 2009 | 24 Hours Berlin · as Cinematographer |
| 2008 | A Woman in Berlin · as Director Of Photography |
| 2007 | Love Life · as Director Of Photography |
| 2007 | Auf dem Vulkan · as Cinematographer |
| 2007 | The Counterfeiters · as Director Of Photography |
| 2006 | Der Mann von der Botschaft · as Director Of Photography |
| 2006 | The Red Cockatoo · as Director Of Photography |
| 2003 | They've Got Knut · as Director Of Photography |
| 2002 | Bloch · as Cinematographer |
| 2002 | A Map of the Heart · as Director Of Photography |
| 2002 | Olga's Summer · as Cinematographer |
| 2001 | 99euro-films · as Cinematographer |
| 2000 | Lost Killers · as Cinematographer |
| 1999 | Deine besten Jahre · as Cinematographer |
| 1998 | Mrs. Rettich, Czerni and I · as Director Of Photography |
| 1997 | Doktor Knock · as Cinematographer |
| 1997 | Der Skorpion · as Director Of Photography |
| 1996 | Landgang für Ringo · as Director Of Photography |
| 1996 | Sperling · as Cinematographer |
| 1995 | Bunte Hunde · as Director Of Photography |
| 1994 | Frauen sind was Wunderbares · as Director Of Photography |
| 1988 | Innocence Unknown · as Cinematographer |
| 1970 | Tatort · as Director Of Photography |