Uli M Schueppel

Uli M Schueppel (born 7 May 1958 in Erbach, Germany as Ulf Schüppel) is a German director and documentary filmmaker.

The father was offered a professortship at the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences for aesthetics and communication, so the family moved to Friedrichsdorf.

Simultaneously he created a Spoken word-formation named Poesie & Krach and published some Compact Cassette and magazines with poetry.

Hanging out with his friends of the bands Einstürzende Neubauten, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, and Crime & The City Solution in the legendary studios of Hansa Records inspired him producing his first longer movie Nihil, oder alle Zeit der Welt.

A lot of friends played in the film like Friedrich Wall, Olivier Picot, Gesine Bohle, Kai Fuhrmann, and Blixa Bargeld.

Since 1988, he anchored parallel to his film studies the nightly radioshow Slime-Line Show once a week together with Johannes Beck, on the German alternative radiostation Radio 100.

[2] The film documents the tour of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds through the US in the year 1989, and includes a lot of interviews with friends and other important musicians of this time, like Anita Lane, Lydia Lunch, Jim Thirwell, Mick Harvey, Blixa Bargeld, Kid Congo Powers, Rayner Jesson, and Thomas Wydler.

Jahre der Kälte was released in 1993: the film disputes the way of political ex-convicts from GDR till to sibirian gulags.

In 1999/2000, he produced one of the first German full-length movies in Mini-DV format: Planet Alex, stories around of Alexanderplatz in the central Mitte district of Berlin with the German actors Marie Zielcke, Baki Davrak, Nadeshda Brennicke, Ben Becker, Andreas Schmidt, Birol Ünel, Marusha, Meret Becker, Regine Zimmermann, a.s.o..

Since 2002 he gives lectures for "dramaturgy and filmdirecting" at the dffb in Berlin and Netherlands Film and Television Academy with special focus on music documentaries.

The concert was co-directed with Heiner Müller, who gave a speech with the French minister of culture Jack Lang.

The documentary was shown at a lot of festivals and exhibitions worldwide on the occasion of the anniversary of 20 years fall of the Berlin Wall.

[4] Since 2018 Schueppel designs as creative director (in collaboration with Arri) the new trailer / opener of all DFFB films (German Film and Television Academy) and created in the same year for the duo HACKEDEPICCIOTTO (Alexander Hacke & Daniele de Picciotto) the music video for the song „Dreamcatcher“.

„Der Atem“ (The Breath) is after „The Place“ and „The Day“, the third part of the filmmaker's “Chants”-trilogy on space, time and body.