Agency: Verlag S. Fischer, Frankfurt - Regine Eckel
www.brueggenthies.org - stephan@moving-records.de

Synopsis UNTER HAUSEN

Unter Hausen is a portrait of the city of Oberhausen, located in the middle of Germany's coal belt. Filmed and conceived during a jury activity at the Oberhausen Short Film Festival, the documentary experiment attempts to penetrate deeply into the place, between past and present, between hip festival visitors from all over the world and the partly disillusioned population, for whom the structural change after deindustrialization only works to a limited extent.
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Biography Stephan Brüggenthies

Stephan Brüggenthies works primarily as a screenwriter; his feature films have been seen by about 120 million viewers. The Ludwigsburg graduate and Märthesheimer student has also written novels and music. Brüggenthies's films have won over 20 awards and have been screened at more than 140 film festivals. He was head of the North Rhine-Westphalia Film Office (Filmbüro NW) for ten years, a board member of the NRW Cultural Council, on the selection jury of the NRW Film- und Medienstiftung Foundation and on the media commission of the NRW State Media Authority. He'll be in the Oberhausen Film Festival jury in 2025. Brüggenthies lives in Cologne.

Filmography Stephan Brüggenthies:

Mord hoch drei (Series concept and Pilot, Warner Bros. ITVP)
Wir sind die Nächsten (Cinema, screenplay funded by FMS NRW)
Die Bottrop Boys (Cinema, coin Film, funded by FMS NRW)
Tote trauern nicht (ZDF 2022, with Jan Fehse)
Funkstille (Tatort, hr 2020, with Andrea Heller)
Das Monster von Kassel (Tatort, hr 2019, with Andrea Heller)
Land in dieser Zeit (Tatort, hr 2017 with K. Bitar und D. Franke)
Zig Meier und die Grube von Walden (Novel, 2016)
Wendehammer (Tatort, hr 2016, with Andrea Heller)
Aus der Kurve (Thriller, ARD 2015, with Andrea Heller)
Polizeiruf 110 - Eine mörderische Idee (MDR 2014, with Stefan Rick)
Die Tote Schwester (Novel, Eichborn/btb 2013)
Unser Gelber Musikladen (Documentary 2012; also director)
Adenauer - Stunden der Entscheidung (Doku-Drama 2012 – dialogue script)
Das Erste Opfer (Tatort, SWR 2011)
Der Weihnachtsmann und die Gerechtigkeit (Short story, rowohlt 2010)
Countdown: Die Jagd beginnt (Series, RTL 2010)
Der Geheimnislose Junge (Novel, Eichborn/btb 2009)
Das Mädchen Galina (Tatort, SWR 2009)
Erfroren (Tatort, WDR 2005, with Patrick Gurris)
Ein Bad voll Liebe (Short film 2001, also director)
Sind Sie Luigi? (Short film 2000, also director)
Die seltsame Welt von Wolfgang und Melanie (Short film 1999, also director)
Der Peitschenmeister (ZDF 2000, MUSIC, Grimme-Preis)
Männer und andere Katastrophen (ARD 1999, MUSIC)