Andres Veiel

Quick Facts

Full Name	Andres Veiel
Occupation	Film Director
Date Of Birth	Oct 16, 1959(1959-10-16)
Age	65
Birthplace	Stuttgart
Country	Germany
Birth City	Stuttgart
Horoscope	Capricorn

Andres Veiel Biography

Andres Veiel is one of the most popular and richest Film Director who was born on October 16, 1959 in Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany. Andres Veiel (born 16 October 1959) is a German film and theater director and author.

In 2001, a large audience took notice of Veiel’s documentary Black Box BRD, in which he is bringing the biographies of Alfred Herrhausen, chairman of the Deutsche Bank and his suspected assassin and Red Army Fraction (RAF) member Wolfgang Grams face to face. Black Box BRD has won numerous awards, among others the European Film Award, the German Film Award and the Santa Barbara Film Festival Insight Award.

In 2005, the documentary theater play Der Kick (The Kick) about the 2002 murder of a teenager by three neo-Nazi teenagers in East Germany, which Veiel has written together with Gesine Schmidt, was first performed at theaters in Basel (Switzerland) and Berlin and was invited to the major German Theater Festival, the Berlin Theater Festival (Theatertreffen der Berliner Festspiele ) in May 2006. To date, the play has been performed by more than 60 theaters and has been translated into nine languages. Based on the performance of the play, Veiel created a documentary film which was first shown at the Berlinale

2006. Furthermore, German public radio stations collaborated with Veiel to produce an eponymic radio drama in 2005.

According to his technique of longstanding and profound research when dealing with a subject, Andres Veiel explores the topics of his films also as an author of non-fictional books. Black Box BRD. Alfred Herrhausen, the Deutsche Bank, the RAF and Wolfgang Grams gathers and extends by far the results of the research shown in the film. In 2007, Der Kick – ein Lehrstück über Gewalt (The Kick – a Lesson in Violence) is released and is awarded with the Deutsche Jugendliteraturpreis (German Youth’s Literature Award) in 2008.

His next documentary about a Jewish-Palestinian theater group in Israel, Balagan, won in 1993 the Findling Award than was screened at the 1994 Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale) and awarded with the Peace Film Award, the Camera Award and the German Film Award in silver. In 1996, Veiel shot his most personal film, Die Überlebenden (The survivors). It pictures the fate of three of Veiel’s former schoolmates who committed suicide.

Andres Veiel Net Worth

Andres Veiel is one of the richest Film Director from Germany. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Andres Veiel 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

From 1982 to 1988, Andres Veiel studied Psychology at the Free University of Berlin and attended the director’s class of Krzysztof Kieślowski at the Independent Berlin Artist Center Künstlerhaus Bethanien from 1985 to 1989. As professors, the Künstlerhaus Bethanien gathered other renowned International and European directors such as Andrei Tarkovsky, Patrice Chéreau and Robert Wilson.

Andres Veiel’s first documentary film Winternachtstraum (Winter Night’s Dream) resulted from his theatrical work with a group of senior actresses and premiered 1992 at the Duisburger Filmwoche, an annual festival for German- speaking documentaries.

Veiel’s next released work returned to the field of theater. Die Spielwütigen (Addicted to Acting) portrays four Berlin based acting students during the period of almost seven years and premiered at the 2004 Berlin International Film Festival.

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Beuys received positive reactions. It’s described to be the film of record and “the most extensive revisiting of Beuys’s art and life for a general public.” “The documentary Beuys will not only offer a psychological portrait of the man, but chronicle the many ways he sought to reverse the effects of our repressive social systems — and how his breakthroughs continue to influence artists today.” Furthermore it’s pointed out that both of Beuys’ “most recognisable and less emblematic works come alive on screen thanks to the inventive ways in which the director dives into the moments depicted in still pictures of the era, while his use of archival footage of Beuys’ installations proves to be a transportive decision.” The US – theatrical release of Beuys started on 17 January 2018 and was again well received: The village voice acknowledges that “the engaging Beuys avoids the typical pitfalls of documentaries and that Veiel’s refreshingly open-ended approach invites you to find your own answers” while Glenn Kenny from the New York Times defines Beuys as “an exhilarating portrait of a unique truth-teller. Makes a strong case for Beuys, emphasizing the social conscience at work in his art.”

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Andres Ranked on the list of most popular Film Director. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Germany. Andres Veiel celebrates birthday on October 16 of every year.