Biography

Thomas Ladenburger was born in 1975 in Ellwangen/Jagst. He began his studies at the San Francisco Art Institute, where he studied for almost 2 years with a major in Interdisciplinary Media. Then he returned to Germany and continued his education at the University of Arts Berlin where he graduated as „Meisterschüler“ in 2005.

 

During his masters between 2003 and 2005 he was teaching at the University of Arts.

 

Besides his freelance-work for different TV and cinema productions as camera man and sound engineer, he realized and produced own film works.

Filmography

    Feature Films
     
2010   Al Halqa - In the Storyteller's Circle
Documentary, 90 min
     
2004   For Myself And The Others
Paola Beate von Pückler and Egypt

 

 

     
    Shortfilms
     
2013   The Halqa of Shrifa Aicha Benbaha
Documentary, 19 min.
     
2013   Bouia Omar - Tamer of Demons
Documentary, 18 min.
     
2013   Trance and Snakes - The Aissawa
Documentary, 20 min.
     
2013   Hassan's Rooster Training
Documentary, 10 min.
     
2013   Mustapha El Hansh - The Young Magician
Documentary, 17 min.
     
2013   Die Herb Men From The Desert
Documentary, 16 min.
     
2013   The Halqa Of "Msieh"
Documentary, 16 min.
     
2013   The Transvestites
Documentary, 11 min.
     
2013   The Poetry Of The Melhoun
Documentary, 14 min.
     
2011   Poem About Jemaa El Fna Square
Documentary, 5 min.
     
2000   The Ferry Lady
Experimental video, 5min.
     
2000   Holzschnitt/Filmschnitt
Experimental film, 15 min.
     
1999   Begegnung in 17 sec.
16mm/SW
     
1998   San Francisco No.11
16mm S/W, 3 min.

Selected Exhibitions And Projects

 

2011   Al Halqa - Kinetic Sculpture
Project Manager and Artistic Director
in collaboration with Hannes Nehls,

supported by Kulturstiftung des Bundes,
in cooperation with Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
     
2010  

Djemaa El Fna - Hangman's Square

Installation

Exhibition "Spirit of Islam", Ruhr Triennale Duisburg

     
2010  

The Storyteller

Installation  
Grassi-Museum Leipzig

Awards

 

 

2011   Organization Commitee Prize 
for Al Halqa - In The Storyteller's Circle
Festival Flahertiana - Perm, Russia
     
2010   Special Jury's Mention
for Al Halqa - In The Storyteller's Circle
24th Pärnu International Documentary and Anthropology Film Festival
     
2007   NaföG-Stipend of the Berlin Senate
     
2006   Stipend of DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst)
     
1998   Student Grant - San Francisco Art Institute