Christoph Krauss

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Christoph Krauss (born 1964 in Hof/Saale, Germany) is a freelance cinematographer and director of photography for fictional movie and TV-productions, documentaries and art projects (film and video-installations).

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Life

Christoph Krauss learnt the craft of cinematography at Berlin's Technical College for Optics and Photo-Technics (SFOF) and started his professional career as a lighting technician. Then, he went on to become an assistant cameraman and camera operator later. Since 1995, he has had responsibility for cinematography on numerous productions in Germany and abroad. His filmography includes feature films, TV-series and documentaries as well as underwater photography, action film shoots and art projects.

In 1993, he helped set up the developmental video project "Theatre for Development" at the Bricks Township Center in Windhoek, Namibia. Later, he also taught at the Faculty of Media Design/Media Art at the Bauhaus University Weimar as part of a lectureship in 2010.

Christoph Krauss lives in Berlin and belongs to the German Society of Cinematographers, (BVK). He is a member of the German Film Academy as well as the European Film Academy and is represented by the agency "Players". With Manifesto he won the German Cinematography Award 2017 (Deutscher Kamerapreis 2017) in the category feature film and a nomination for the German Film Awards 2018 / Best Cinematography.

Co-operation

Christoph Krauss has co-operated with the following directors (in alphabetical order):

Christian Alvart, Angeliki Antoniou, Kevin Bachar, Walter Bannert, Axel Barth, bauhouse, Jürgen Bretzinger, Roland Busch, Sibylle Dahrendorf, Nicole-Nadine Deppé, Simone Dobmeier, Max Färberböck, Matl Findel, Herwig Fischer, Gunter Friedrich, Holger Gimpel, Esther Gronenborn, Nana Grote, Tsui Hark, Raoul W. Heimrich, Oliver Hirschbiegel, Hermann Joha, Sebastian Ko, Heidi Kranz, Olaf Kreinsen, Torsten Künstler, Sylvie Lazzarini, Nicos Ligouris, Mathias Luther, M+M, Yingli Ma, Wojciech Marczewski, Uli Möller, Claudia Müller, Till Müller-Edenborn, Michael Muschner, Christian Niccoli, Marc Ottiker, Stefan Richter, Julian Rosefeldt, Sigi Rothemund, Christoph Rüter, Christoph Schnee, José van der Schoot, Wolfram Seipp, Monty Simons, Torsten Striegnitz, Charly Weller, Rolf Wellingerhof, Eric Will, Donnie Yen, Chen Yifei, Tom Zenker

Projects

Fictional projects (selection):

Documentary projects (selection):

Art projects (selection):

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