Wnendt throws down: Akin filmed Herrndorf “Tschick” – THE WORLD

Shortly before Wolfgang Herrndorf at Berlin Hohenzollernkanal with a shot eluded one evening in August two years ago the terror of his brain tumor had, he still made provision for its most important, his most successful child: He had David Wnendt determined as a director for the film adaptation of his novel “Tschick”.

Now comes the news that another of the most anticipated film of the year in Germany will turn 2016: Fatih Akin. It is the first time in his twenty years of career filmmakers that Akin takes care of a substance that he has not even developed decisively.

“Tschick” is one of the greatest literary phenomena in Germany in recent years. Since the publication in 2010 the book was sold two million copies and been translated into 24 languages. Criticism likened it to “Huckleberry Finn” by Mark Twain, it was awarded the Clemens Brentano and the German Youth Literature Prize. Stabbed on German stages “Tschick” 2013 most performances even the perennial favorite “Faust” from.

David Wnendt was again one of the great cinematic discoveries Germany the recent years. Had he already excited with the neo-Nazi trial “The Warrior” sensation, he proved with his “wetlands” film version finally a keen sense of visual language and lifestyle of the young generation; Hardly any other German literary adaptation brought fidelity to work and filmic experiment as safe under one roof

“Tschick” and Wnendt seemed made in heaven marriage -. up now a terse press release appeared: “producer Marco Mehlitz, whose firm Lago movie has acquired the film rights to the bestselling, Tschick ‘by Wolfgang Herrndorf, and director David Wnendt have decided no longer to collaborate on the project.” More was on the facts not to be read

Wnendt could not be reached, and his (former) producer wanted to get carried away at no opinion -. Except to of that he was always happy to work on another project with Wnendt. Mehlitz has both national (“Oscar , Rico and the Tieferschatten”) and internationally produced (with Jim Jarmusch, David Cronenberg, Wim Wenders, István Szabó).

Photo: picture alliance / rtn radio t scheduling difficulties? David Wnendt (“wetlands”) has made for unknown reasons backtracked

Now Wnendt was involved not only with a snazzy project, but at the same time in a second: the film version of the Hitler-in-Berlin-the-presence-bestseller “He’s back”. The has a fixed start date: the October 8, 2015

This is followed now make speculations. Wnendt has been compromised for lack of time, unable to tackle both films parallel , Even “Tschick” urges, because of their content: While the mother in the withdrawal and the father with an assistant on “business trip” is, spends the 14-year-old outsider Maik Klingenberg major holidays alone at the pool of parental Villa. Then Tschick crosses on.

The repatriates from the deepest Russia comes from Berlin-Marzahn – and has thereby a stolen Lada. A summer puberty like none other – Thus a journey without a map and compass through the summer glowing East German province, with whimsical adventures, dangerous situations, first love, first sex begins. This needs to be filmed in the summer, and you do not want the movie to move a year must (and should) the shooting in early September start in Berlin, Brandenburg and central Germany.

But the supposed clash with “He’s back” is on closer inspection none. The Hitler satire is turned off and prospered the cut far; Wendt could have to take care of both problems, the post-production for the one and the pre-production for the other film.

Despite this was pulling the communication cord about a month ago and Fatih Akin committed. The most likely explanation for the spectacular Regieumbesetzung long expected the famous “creative differences” between the director and his producer to be.

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