Züli Aladağ

Züli Aladağ studied at Academy of Media Arts Cologne. The recorded working language is Turkish and German. The field of work recorded is film and television. Places of work recorded in the authority are Stuttgart, Cologne and Munich. Distinctions recorded are Grimme-Preis, GLAAD Media Awards and German Film Award for Best Feature Film.

Aladağ immigrated to Germany in 1973 and grew up in Stuttgart. After a short study of theatre studies at LMU Munich, he completed a six-month internship at Roland Emmerich's Moon 44 in Stuttgart. There, he followed numerous collaborators in shorts, advertisements, plays and documentary films as a production assistant, recording manager and director assistant. Later, he worked as an editor and co-director for documentary TV series. Since 1993, he has worked as a producer, and since 1995, he has been working as a freelance filmmaker on documentary films and feature films. He is often the author of his own books. He graduated from the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne in the summer of 1999. His 2005 controversial drama, Rage (2006), was awarded several times. In 2008, he directed a series of episodes of the television series Die Anwälte and KDD – Kriminaldauerdienst. Aladağ is the founder of the Young European Cinema initiative. The filmmaker was married, from 2002 to 2012, to Feo Aladağ, with whom he founded his own film production company with in 2006. Since 2002, Aladağ has lived in Berlin.

• 2010/2011: Die Anderen, Ausstellungsreihe Labor Berlin 3 in the Haus der Kulturen der Welt

• 1991/1992: Freispiel – Acting, recording • 1992: The Parrot (film) – Recording • 1997: Hör dein Leben – Director, producer, scriptwriter, editor • 1997: Zoran – Director, scriptwriter • 1999: Bevor der Tag anbricht – Director, scriptwriter, editor • 1999: Der Ausbruch – Director, scriptwriter, editor • 1999: Enter – Producer • 2001/2002: Elephant Heart – Director, scriptwriter • 2003: Tatort – – Director, scriptwriter • 2004: Die Türken kommen (Documentary film) • 2005: Tatort – Erfroren – Director • 2006: Rage – Director • 2010: When We Leave – Producer • 2010: Countdown – Die Jagd beginnt – Director (two episodes) • 2010–2011: Der Kriminalist – Director (four episodes), scriptwriter (one episode) • 2013: 300 Words of German, 300 Worte Deutsch – Director, scriptwriter • 2014: Die Fahnderin – Director • 2015: Tatort – Schwerelos – Director • 2016: Tatort – Im gelobten Land – Director • 2016: NSU German History X: NSU German History X: The Victims – Director

• 2012: Neden? (Warum?), UA: Januar 2012 Ballhaus Naunynstraße, Berlin-Kreuzberg