Alexander Tuschinski

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Alexander Tuschinski
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2014 on the set of Timeless
Occupation(s)Film director, film producer, writer, actor
Years active2008 – present

Alexander Tuschinski (born 28 October 1988 [1] ) is a German film director, film producer, writer and actor.

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Life and works

Early life and education

Tuschinski's parents were born in Romanian Sighișoara and emigrated to West Germany in 1983. Alexander Tuschinski was born in Stuttgart on 28 October 1988; he attended Dillmann-Gymnasium in Stuttgart until 2008, and then studied audiovisual media at Hochschule der Medien, [2] graduating as a Bachelor of Engineering in 2011.[ citation needed ] He then studied history and literature at the University of Stuttgart. [3]

Work

In around 2010, Tuschinski started filming the first scenes for his low-budget feature film, Break-Up. [2] [3]

Helmut Berger (right) and Tuschinski on the set of Timeless (2015) Helmut Berger Alexander Tuschinski Set Timeless.jpg
Helmut Berger (right) and Tuschinski on the set of Timeless (2015)

In 2014/15, Tuschinski produced, wrote, directed and edited the feature film Timeless'. [4]

Tuschinski assisted Hugo Niebeling in restoring and re-editing B7, Niebeling's director's cut of his 1972 film showing the Berlin Philharmonic performing Beethoven's seventh symphony conducted by Herbert von Karajan. [5] Niebeling and Tuschinski together edited Niebeling's short film Apotheosis of Dance from the last movement of the symphony. [6]

Tuschinski produced and directed several short films in 2017–2019, including a documentary film Caligari in the Desert about Roger Ball and the film The Songwriter of Botnang portraying Gerda Herrmann, a poet and composer born in 1931, was screened at several international festivals. [7] [8] [9]

In 2021, Tuschinski produced, filmed, directed and edited the feature-length documentary Statue of Liberty about Tomas Kurth and his quest to build a "Statue of Liberty of Stuttgart" during lockdown. [10] Statue of Liberty screened together with Fetzenleben and the second instalment of Die Liedermacherin von Botnang at Filmschau Baden-Württemberg in December 2022. [11]

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