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, musician
Years active2008 – present

Alexander Tuschinski is a German film director, film producer, writer, actor and musician.

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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. [1] 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 his own experimental short film Gold. , which set the last movement of Beethoven's seventh symphony to images of nature and decay. Gold. won the "Golden Pelican" award at Mykonos Biennale in 2015. [7] [ better source needed ]

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. [8] [9] [10]

In 2018, Tuschinski's research into Tinto Brass's work on Caligula was examined in his feature documentary Mission: Caligula, which premiered in Los Angeles. [11]

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. [12] Statue of Liberty screened together with Fetzenleben and the second instalment of Die Liedermacherin von Botnang at Filmschau Baden-Württemberg in December 2022. [13]

In 2022, Tuschinski self-published a documentary Whisper and Laugh(Flüstern und Lachen) on his own YouTube channel; it portrays German protest singer Yann Song King, the peaceful protests in Germany during the COVID-19 pandemic and the treatment of "unvaccinated" people. [14] In March 2023, Whisper and Laugh screened in competition at Hollywood Reel Independent Film Festival together with Tuschinski's short film "Vigil" (Mahnwache) about a healthcare-workers' demonstration in Berlin. [15] Eugen Zentner considers Whisper and Laugh as part of 2020s German counter-culture. [16]

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