Matthias Kiefersauer has many talents, he is probably best known for his films.
The Waldramer is an important representative of the new Bavarian homeland film.
Wolfratshausen
- This is how it should be for a director: Matthias Kiefersauer (47) found out on the film set that he is the district's new art prize winner.
He was shooting an episode for the Saturday night crime thriller Munich murder when his agency informed him.
As luck would have it, he filmed a screenplay by the second winner, Friedrich Ani.
“A huge honor for me,” he says of the award.
"That makes me very proud."
Readers of our newspaper know this Matthias Kiefersauer a little better than others.
For over ten years he has been writing a column every Saturday in the “Münchner Freiheit” series - with episodes from his life, full of puns, self-irony and, above all, a power of observation.
The secret hero of this column: Munich, the city he never wants to leave again.
Friday is submission, the text appears on Saturday.
“This short-term sense of achievement is good,” he says.
"It takes much longer to work on a film, the sheet is much larger."
A director with a love for football
Matthias Kiefersauer grew up in Waldram, more precisely in Faulhaberstraße.
His grandfather is Alois Engelhard, the so-called settler boss, who managed the transition from the Föhrenwald DP camp to the new Waldram.
Kiefersauer goes to Geretsrieder grammar school, makes music, writes for the newspaper - and plays football for the DJK Waldram.
It should remain a constant in his life.
Waldramer, an avowed 1860 fan, is one of the few directors with a coaching license.
Among other things, he taught his sons Xaver and Anton how to enjoy football.
With a wink, he says that four of his ex-players even made it to youth training centers.
The 47-year-old tries out his many talents in Munich, works on “Live aus dem Alabama”, volunteers at a television production company and studies at the University of Film and Television.
He actually wants to get down to documentary film, but then he meets one of his idols: Franz X. Bogner.
He recognizes the talent of the young man and invites him to work on the series “Café perjury”.
"At that time I took the direction in which I am still traveling today."
A magical thesis
Kiefersauer finished his studies with the magical little film "Wonderful Years", which you can still see on YouTube today.
It is about a pastor (Michael Lerchenberg) who instigates an improvisational theater to re-enact biblical miracles in the village in order to strengthen the faith of the population.
At the end of the day, Jesus appears personally in blue leisure clothes, whom the clergyman recognizes by the fact that he is doing a miraculous increase in French fries.
Anyone who sees the film will have one or the other aha experience.
So the actors meet for a briefing in the Geltinger ambush.
Kiefersauer made his feature film debut in 2007 with the comedy “Das große Hobeditzn”, which he wrote with Alexander Liegl.
The plot: a village community has to invent a custom and its history - the “Hobeditzn” - in order to be able to inherit.
At least now he is one of the most important directors of the new Bavarian homeland film.
"Topics such as customs, which usually occupy the CSU, have great potential for good comedies."
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The other projects show the entire versatility of the award winner: TV series ("Franzi"), comedies ("Falsche Seventies", mostly shot in Holzhausen), thrillers ("The Old One"), love films ("Inga Lindström").
Many things can be found in the media library, thank God.
The Waldramer likes to think back to the films in which he wrote the screenplay and directed at the same time.
"There is certainly most of me in there."
And now?
Is the culture award winner tired at first?
“44 days of shooting are a lot of wood,” he says.
In fact, he has shot two films for the Munich murder in the past few weeks.
"I would love to sleep through the night," he said.
Allow him to do that.
The main thing is that he delivers his new column on time.