Rumle Hammerich
Illustration — Rumle Hammerich 1988 at the Malmö opening of his first film Otto Is a Rhino. Jens Peter Hammerich, better known as Rumle Hammerich (born 16 November 1954), is a Danish film director, screenwriter and film company director. He is currently creative director at Nordisk Film.
Also recorded as Jens Peter Hammerich
Rumle Hammerich

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- Full name
- Jens Peter Hammerich.
- Born
- 1954. · Copenhagen.
- Nationality
- Kingdom of Denmark.
- Occupation
- film director, screenwriter and film producer.
- Education
- National Film School of Denmark.
- Honours
- Hans Christian Andersen Award, Guldantennen and International Emmy Award for best TV movie or miniseries.
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Illustration — Rumle Hammerich 1988 at the Malmö opening of his first film Otto Is a Rhino. Jens Peter Hammerich, better known as Rumle Hammerich (born 16 November 1954), is a Danish film director, screenwriter and film company director. He is currently creative director at Nordisk Film.
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Biography
Biography
His filmography consists of both feature films and television films and mini series in Denmark as well as Sweden. His mini series Young Andersen—which describes the formative boarding school years of Hans Christian Andersen— won an Emmy Award for Best international TV Movie/Mini Series in 2005. His crime series The Protectors (Livvagterne) won the 2009 International Emmy Award for the best television drama series.
Jens Peter Hammerich was born on 16 November 1954 in Copenhagen to translator Ida Elisabeth Hammerich and Paul Hammerich, journalist, writer and editor in chief at the national Danish newspaper Politiken. From an early age he was called Rumle and when his father in 1959 asked her mother to translate Charles M. Schulz's comic strip Peanuts for Politiken, she gave the perpetually dirty boy Pig-Pen her son's nickname. He graduated from the National Film School of Denmark in 1979, and had his debut as a feature film director in 1983 with the children film Otto er et næsehorn "Otto Is a Rhino". After working in Sweden in the early 1990s, directing films such as the horror film Svart Lucia and the children film Kan du vissla Johanna?, he was made the director of national Danish television station DR's fiction department in 1994. In 1998 he left DR and the following year he joined Nordisk Film, where he led the subsidiary Nordisk Film Produktion until 2003 when he was made creative director of the company.
Television
Television
• Year — Title — Director — Writer — Executive Producer — Notes • 1988–90 — Dårfinkar & dönickar — 3 episodes • 1993 — Satirica • 1994 — Lærerværelset — 6 episodes • 1995 — Mellem venner — Idea • 1997 — Taxa — 2 episodes • 2000 — Rejseholdet • 2000 — Herr von Hancken — mini series • 2005 — Young Andersen — mini series • 2018 — The Bridge — Series 4 Executive producer • Leif Panduro (1998) • Rundt om Panduro (1998) • Beck (1 episode, 2002) • Forsvar (2003) TV movies • Year — Title — Director — Writer • 1987 — Quark and the Vikings — Story • 1991 — Fasadklättraren • 1994 — Kan du vissla Johanna?
Identity and origins
Identity and origins
Rumle Hammerich was recorded at birth as Jens Peter Hammerich. The authorities additionally record the heading Jens Peter Hammerich. He was the child of Paul Hammerich.
Identity
Identity
Rumle Hammerich is recorded as having received Hans Christian Andersen Award, Guldantennen and International Emmy Award for best TV movie or miniseries.
Film
• Year — Title — Director — Writer • 1981 — Den Sidste detalje • Cirkus Casablanca • 1983 — Otto the Rhino • 1988 — Skyggen af Emma • 1989 — The Dog That Smiled • 1992 — Svart Lucia • 2009 — Headhunter Producer • Cliff Forrest (2007) (Documentary) Executive producer • Once in a Lifetime (2000) • Lykkevej (2003) • En som Hodder (2003) • Facing the Truth (2002) (Documentary) Associate producer • I Am Dina (2002) Co-producer • Suxxess (2002) Creative producer • Strings (2004)
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Rumle Hammerich received Hans Christian Andersen Award, Guldantennen and International Emmy Award for best TV movie or miniseries.
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