- Occupation
Director - Country
Germany
Schäfer André
100 Porsches and Me
"100 Porsches and Me" is a road movie about the obsession of driving a Porsche, a journey into the dreams and fantasies of those for whom a Porsche has become the purest expression of who they actually are. A film about the myth of a company and a brand which has fascinated people like Adolf Hitler, Andreas Baader, James Dean and, of course, myself. A film about a car which has become the synonym for my own ambivalent relationship with Germany, a country which can come along so conservative and bourgeois, but was still capable of producing this car - an icon of perfect design, a high-tech-toy, a retro-looking piece of the swinging 60s and a revolution in the most untypical of German fields: universal good taste.
25 and Going Down
Hormone therapies, genetic manipulations, magic enzymes, poisonous injections and vitamin pills - scientists are working hard at prolonging our lives and for once the dream of bathing in the eternal fountain of youth seems very real and very near. Indeed, it appears that the apparently inevitable and unstoppable destruction of human body cells can be slowed down. Scientists are rejoicing - and the demand is getting greater. Is this a pleasant prediction for a brave young world - or just a cheap trick from the miracle medicine cabinet? Whilst many biologists are warning about being beware of empty promises, some scientists are declaring "a war against ageing."
"100 Porsches and Me" is a road movie about the obsession of driving a Porsche, a journey into the dreams and fantasies of those for whom a Porsche has become the purest expression of who they actually are. A film about the myth of a company and a brand which has fascinated people like Adolf Hitler, Andreas Baader, James Dean and, of course, myself. A film about a car which has become the synonym for my own ambivalent relationship with Germany, a country which can come along so conservative and bourgeois, but was still capable of producing this car - an icon of perfect design, a high-tech-toy, a retro-looking piece of the swinging 60s and a revolution in the most untypical of German fields: universal good taste.
25 and Going Down
Hormone therapies, genetic manipulations, magic enzymes, poisonous injections and vitamin pills - scientists are working hard at prolonging our lives and for once the dream of bathing in the eternal fountain of youth seems very real and very near. Indeed, it appears that the apparently inevitable and unstoppable destruction of human body cells can be slowed down. Scientists are rejoicing - and the demand is getting greater. Is this a pleasant prediction for a brave young world - or just a cheap trick from the miracle medicine cabinet? Whilst many biologists are warning about being beware of empty promises, some scientists are declaring "a war against ageing."
Date of birth 30th August 1966 in Troisdorf, Germany.
Higher education: Degree in History and Journalism at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, 1987-1992; German School of Journalism, Munich, 1987-1993; work placements with the Frankfurter Rundschau (1991), ARD-Kulturweltspiegel (1992), Die Zeit (1992/93); Freelance Journalist for Die Zeit, Frankfurter Rundschau, Kölner Stadtanzeiger and the taz; Freelance Director with the WDR, ARD, stern TV, 3sat, ZDF and ARTE since 1992. April 1999 until May 2002 Editor and Journalist of the ?Kultur aktuell?-series (?Culture Today?) of the Westdeutscher Rundfunk in Cologne, Partner of FLORIANFILM GMBH since 2001.