Marcus Attila Vetter (* 1967 in Stuttgart) is a German documentary filmmaker.
Marcus Attila Vetter (* 1967 in Stuttgart) is a German documentary filmmaker.
Vetter was born to a Turkish father, Cahit Cubuk, and a German mother. [1] After studying in Worms, Buenos Aires and Madrid (with a focus on European Business Management among others) Vetter started working as a trainee at the production company Bavaria Film in Munich and graduated in Media Studies and Practice at the University of Tübingen in 1994. Since 1994 he worked as a freelance editor, writer and director at SDR in Stuttgart, in 1998 he went to SWR in Baden-Baden, to work as a freelance documentary filmmaker for culture and society.
Vetter's autobiographical documentary My Father the Turk (2006) was awarded the Prix Europa for documentaries. [2] In June 2007, his documentary Traders' Dream was released in German cinemas, a global report on the phenomenon Ebay, produced in cooperation with Stefan Tolz. [3] Vetters feature documentary The Heart of Jenin, a film about the Palestinian Ismail Khatib, won the German Film Award 2010 for Best Documentary. Upon completion, Vetter founded the Cinema Jenin e. V., which has the goal to rebuild the cinema Jenin in the West bank that has been closed since 1987. Since 2008 Vetter has regularly been travelling to Jenin in order to promote the project; at the same time he made a film about the project, which was presented in 2012. [4] Simultaneously he filmed the SWR documentary Hunger. [5]
Vetter lives in Tübingen with his wife and two children.[ citation needed ]
1998: Hardy B. – Psycho gram of a lifer
1999: Life is wonderful – Former pop singers Leismann now touring through construction markets
1999: Megabucks – Daytrader's stock exchange roulette
1999: The Tunnel – About a legendary escape tunnel in Berlin
2000: Where money grows – The EM.TV Story
2001: Broadway Bruchsal – Actors dreams in a little German theatre
2002: War Games – The computer game Counterstrike
2003: Broadway Bruchsal – Actors dreams in a little German theatre
2003: La Florida – The collapse of the banking system in Argentina
2004: From zero to 42 – Docu Soap about amateur Marathon runners
2006: My father the Turk
2006: The Unbreakables – The reanimation of the glass manufacturer Theresienthal
2007: Traders'Dreams – The ebay phenomena
2008: The Heart of Jenin
2009: Hunger – the various faces of hunger
2011: After the Silence – An Israeli woman meets the family of the suicide bomber who killed her husband.
2012: Cinema Jenin – The story of a dream
2013: The International Criminal Court
2014: The Forecaster – The story of Martin Armstrong
2016: Killing for Love – The story of Jens Soering
2019: The Forum - About the World Economic Forum
Adolf Grimme Prize 2000 for The Tunnel
German Television Award 2000 for The Tunnel
Adolf Grimme Prize 2001 for Wo das Geld wächst – die EM.TV-Story
Ernst Schneider Award 2001 for Wo das Geld wächst – die EM.TV-Story
Axel Springer Prize [6] 2000 for ...ein Schweinegeld! Daytrader beim Börsenroulette
Ludwig Erhard Prize [4] for ...ein Schweinegeld! Daytrader beim Börsenroulette
Adolf Grimme Special Prize of North Rhine-Westphalia 2002 for Broadway Bruchsal
Prix Europa 2006 for My Father the Turk
The Cinema for Peace Award for the Most Valuable Documentary of the Year 2009 [7] for The Heart of Jenin
German Film Awards 2010 for The Heart of Jenin [8]
Robert Geisendörfer Prize 2011 together with Karin Steinberger for Hunger
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