Keep Going New York exhibition in Germany opening live on YouTube

 

Join us live for the opening of my exhibition on YouTube! 

Tomorrow, Thursday Sept 29, 1:30pm ET (19:30 in Germany): 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6y0AVzQ4RIc

Unless you happen to be in Tübingen, Germany, in person! 

Get more information here: 

https://www.dai-tuebingen.de/node/2813

Ludwig II film stills

I have been working as the stills photographer for the German movie production "Ludwig II", a new (Luchino Visconti shot one with Helmut Berger in the early 70s) film about the life of King Ludwig II of Bavaria, for about 2 weeks now. We are currently filming in Austria, which is very different from waking up in Brooklyn. It is absolutely beautiful here (so is Brooklyn !!!). We move around a lot, quiet an undertaking with a crew of 80, not counting actors and extras and of course, horses. The directors are Marie Noelle and Peter Sehr ("The Anarchist's Wife"), leading the cast as King Ludwig is the very talented newcomer Sabin Tambrea. He is in good company: Hannah Herzsprung, Justus von Dohnányi, Edgar Selge, Samuel Finzi and many other well known German actors are at his 'royal' side.
The work will continue until late November and I will post pictures here as soon as Bavaria Film and Warner Bros Germany give the ok. Until then, the material I shot so far is: secret.

The picture above shows one of the many many microphones our sound engineer Eckhard Kuchenbecker and his assistant Hannes Ullmann usually plant all over the movie set, which makes shooting pictures during the takes with the noisy D3 and the (a little less noisy) D700 difficult without a blimp. Which I just received from California and I will let you know about my experiences with it soon.

PS; I always wanted to ask this: Nikon, why are your great cameras the noisiest around ? The D3 sounds like it WANTS to be heard ...

Off to Germany

I am leaving for Germany this weekend to shoot movie stills for a comedy produced by Constantin Film. DOP and director in one person will be Gernot Roll (above as DOP with Armin Mueller-Stahl on the set of 'Buddenbrooks' in 2007) for whom I had worked on Buddenbrooks, 'Speer und Er' and other films. Camera operator will be Michael Praun (below with actor Mark Waschke on the set of 'Buddenbrooks')

I'll be back in New York at the end of September.

Buddenbrooks Film Book

I think it is safe to say that there is no comparable film book about one single movie in Germany. Heinrich Breloer's Buddenbrooks has 384 pages, most filled with color photographs of which I shot probably 90% during the making of the movie last year. Additional photography was provided by Detlef Overmann (3 of the cover protraits) and  Hendrik Heiden. The book was published by S. Fischer Verlage.

More Buddenbrooks film stills click here

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Karoline Herfurth

German Bavaria Film invited me last year as a guest photographer on the set of 'Im Winter Ein Jahr', directed by Oscar winner Caroline Link. The movie has just opened in Germany and it seems to become a big success for shooting star Karoline Herfurth (above), who also had a role in Tom Tykwer's "Parfume'. (With Caroline Link below)

more at www.stefanfalke.com

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HelloNewYork HelloHamburg

Hamburg based photographer Andreas Herzau and I decided to add yet another blog to the blogsphere. It's title is HelloNewYork HelloHamburg and the subtitle reads THE ULTIMATIVE PHOTOBATTLEBLOG BY ©ANDREAS HERZAU VS. ©STEFAN FALKE We will regularly post new images with a short caption from both sides of the Atlantic, mine in English, his in German (soon). The pictures will mostly be produced for the blog and we will stick to street photography. We are not quiet sure where this is taking us...time will tell.
Andreas and I are represented by the photo agency laif .
Please keep coming back to:
http://hellonewyorkhellohamburg.blogspot.com/

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In Cologne

Dear all, I have not vanished, it is just hard to keep the blog going while working on a 24/7 assignment which lasts for more than 3 month. I continue to shoot stills for Buddenbrooks, a German movie production. And I cannot show any images from this job until the press material is released next year. We have three more weeks to go, I should be back in New York November 17th.
Meanwhile something happened to my blog's design, as you can see, the box appears way below from where it should be.
Has anybody any idea on how to fix that ???

Buddenbrooks movie stills Stefan Falke

"Die Frau vom Checkpoint Charlie" billboard

I shot this portrait of German actress Veronica Ferres about a year ago during the filming of "Die Frau vom Checkpoint Charlie". It appears on billboards all over Germany these days to announce the two part mini series on the public tv channel ARD tonight and tomorrow night. The movie was directed by Miguel Alexandre.

View my stills from the movie here

I was surprised to see the quality of the enlarged portrait, about 5 feet high, which I shot with a 12 million pixel Nikon D2X. If you get close to the billboard you think it was shot with a medium format camera. So much for my fear about not having enough pixels in my cameras...

Checkpoint Charlie Die Frau vom Checkpoint Charlie Veronica Ferres Movies Film Photography Film Stills Stefan Falke

Buddenbrooks Family Portrait

This (only) movie still of 'Buddenbrooks' was released by the film production company Bavaria Pictures GmbH a little while ago. I wish I could show more here, but that has to wait until next year, a few month before the movie opens at theaters around Germany in late 2008. Left to right: Thomas Buddenbrook (Mark Waschke), Bethsy Buddenbrook (Iris Berben), Jean Buddenbrook (Armin Müller-Stahl), Tony Buddenbrook (Jessica Schwarz) and Christian Buddenbrook (August Diehl)
© BAVARIA PICTURES GMBH / Stefan Falke

update Dec. 27/2008: Please see "Buddenbrooks Book"
More Buddenbrooks film stills here

Buddenbrooks movie stills Stefan Falke

In Lübeck

I arrived in Lübeck a week ago and the weather was just awful. But yellow looks good in the rain. I tried to take some pictures of this very beautiful old city - parts of it like the Holsten Tor above are protected by UNESCO - but could not come up with much. We started shooting "Buddenbrooks" the next day, and rain or shine, my job as the stills photographer is great so far, the costumes alone.... I realize once more that being a (working !) photographer is quiet a privilege. I cannot show images of the movie or set yet until they are released by the producer.
I will be in Lübeck until mid September, when the whole company moves south.

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On my way to "Buddenbrooks"

I am leaving for Germany in less than 24 hours to shoot movie stills for Emmy Award winner Heinrich Breloer , who will direct “Buddenbrooks”. I have worked on two of his previous films, The "Devil’s Architect" (Speer und Er), with Sebastian Koch (below) and "The Manns" (Die Manns), where Armin Mueller-Stahl portrayed Thomas Mann (above) , who, as you might know, wrote Buddenbrooks....in the new movie Mr. Mueller-Stahl will also play the leading role . I am definitely looking forward to working with this great actor again.
















But before I start my 3 month job on “Buddenbrooks” at the end of July, I have the pleasure to visit Caroline Link again, who is directing a new movie in Brandenburg/Germany. I shot one of my personal favorite movie stills on the set of her “Nowhere in Africa”(with Juliane Kohler in Kenya, below), which won the 2003 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.
















PS: My blogging activities might slow down a little due to the nature of the demanding job over the next few month, and I normally cannot show images from movie sets until they are released by the production company. But I will try my best to keep you up to date, so stay tuned !!!

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Hounded (Verfolgt)

Director Angelina Maccarone ('Hounded' German: 'Verfolgt') won the Golden Leopard Award in the category cineastes of the present at the Locarno Filmfestival. Congratulations !
See more stills from Hounded at my website

Locarno Film Festival Hounded Verfolgt Angelina Maccarone Movies Movie Stills Stefan Falke Photography

Maren Kroymann is 'Hounded'

I photographed the wonderful German actrice Maren Kroymann at her home in Berlin a few weeks ago. I had last worked with her about a year earlier, on the set of 'Hounded' (German titel: 'Verfolgt'), a daring movie about a forty-nine years old successful probation officer (Maren Kroymann) who "abandons herself to a sadomasochistic affair with her sixteen years-old new probation candidate (Kostja Ullmann)"...
















The movie, shot in black & white, has it's Worldpremiere at the 59. International Filmfestival in Locarno today !!
















It was directed by Angelina Maccarone, DOP Bernd Meiners, script by Susanne Billig and produced by Ulrike Zimmermann.
















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World Cup V

I watched the final game at the fan mile in Berlin. Zinedine Zidane leaves the game after receiving a red card for hitting an Italian player. Shock....
Well, as we all know by now, Italy won and Berlin was drowned in green-white-red ...













































...while one brave French woman managed to draw a lot of attention during Italy's car parade along Berlin's Ku'Damm...
















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World Cup IV

A Portugese fan showed up with the perfect head gear to watch his team loose the game for 3rd place against Germany. German fans celebrated the victory as if it was the World Cup Title. Visitors from all over the planet were draped in black-red-gold for the occasion.













































World Cup Football Flags Berlin Germany Fans Stefan Falke Photography

World Cup III

It is pretty clear to many Germans that there can be only one World Cup winner...













































...and it is great to see so many Turks out in the streets of Berlin supporting the German team.













































I took all these pictures in Berlin during and after the game Germany-Sweden (2-0)























I arrived in Helsinki a few hours ago (to continue the work on "Die Frau vom Checkpoint Charlie"), watching Ghana loose against Brasil on tv, I think Ghana has put up a great fight !!
I will be back in Berlin July 8., so stay tuned for my 'World Cup IV' posting.


World Cup Football Flags Berlin Germany Fans Stefan Falke Photography

World Cup II

I was on my way to the subway yesterday, coming from my regular job (see Checkpoint Charlie post) when all hell broke loose on Berlin’s Tauentzienstrasse…Ghana had just made it to the next round by beating the US 2-1 !!! CONGRATULATIONS !!!













































The instant street party was joined by the Italians, some by the truckload, to celebrate their own victory, but they were clearly ‘out-party-ed’ by Ghana.













































Germany is a wonderful place to be these days. I just wish that my favorite team, Trinidad & Tobago’s Soca Warriors, would have had some more luck during the first round, but hey, it was great that they were here!! Now, Go Ghana, go…













































World Cup Football Ghana Italy Berlin Fans Street Party Stefan Falke Photography