Author and producer

Born in 1952, studied literature in Marburg and Hamburg. University lecturer at the University of Hamburg and at the University of Rome "La Sapienza" 1985-1991. Author of biographies. Television journalist since 1983 for ARD, ZDF, 3sat, arte. Founded in 1999 the film production "Magic Mountain Film Berlin" with focus on the cultural documentary. Author of numerous documentary films. „Wohin denn ich. Der arme Hölderlin, NDR 1985, „Kriminalgeschichte einer Verfälschung. Der Fall Friedrich Nietzsche“, ZDF 1999, „Der Kreuzzug der Kinder“(zus. mit Martin Papirowski) ZDF, arte 2006; „Einmal einen Mönch vergiften. Umberto Eco“ BR, arte 2007, „Klassentreffen in der Toskana. Der junge deutsche Film“ (zus. mit Natalie Schulz) WDR, 3Sat 2008; „Richard Strauss. Das umstrittene Musikgenie, mdr, arte 2014; „Branford Marsalis. The Soundillusionist“ hr, arte 2016, „Alexander Kluge. Der Universalkünstler aus Halberstadt“ mdr 2018.

Producer

Georg Tschurtschenthaler is a Berlin-based creative producer, writer, and showrunner of high-quality documentaries, series and interactive projects with more than 15 years of experience. In his career Georg has earned some 25 credits for his work on non-fiction projects, mostly for the international market. In addition he is co-founder of the Bolzano-based production house ECHO FILM. In 2013, he was awarded with the Grimme Award, the most important German TV award, as creative producer / showrunner in the 6x52 min series FAREWELL COMRADES; in 2014, he was nominated for the Emmys for THE WAGNER FILES, and in 2019 he was awarded with the Grimme Award as creative producer for the Sundance-premiering documentary THE CLEANERS.

The Valley, feature length documentary realised by ZeLIG graduate Nuno Escudeiro, with a team of mainly ZeLIG graduates (above all Nikolaus von Schlebrügge as DOP and Beatrice Segolini as Editor), received the Emerging International Filmmaker Award at the recent edition of the Hot Docs International Documentary Film Festival, which took place in Toronto, Canada, few days ago.

A group of ZeLIG graduates will have the World Premieres of their newest Feature Length Documentaries in the next days, at the Hot Docs International Documentary Film Festival and at DOK.fest Munich.

The 2019 edition of the Trento Film Festival is going to start, and ZeLIG will present two recent productions.

Giovedì 2 maggio, a partire dalle 19.00h, la ZeLIG sarà presente all'interno del programma di "in.con.tra. - Festival delle Relazioni" di Verona.

Mercoledì 17 aprile, dalle ore 19.00h, presso "Le Serre" ai Giardini Margherita a Bologna, in via Castiglione 134, ci sarà una presentazione della ZeLIG. 

ZeLIG will be present at the coming edition of DOK.fest Munich with a film in the Student Competition and to promote the next call for admission. 

Two ZeLIG Films will be presented during the next edition of the Bolzano Film Festival Bozen 2019.

On Tuesday 9. April, starting at 7.30pm, there will be an online session (Facebook Live and Zoom Webinar) "Ask Me Anything" to answer to all the questions regarding the new Call for Admission.