Enrique Sánchez Lansch

Enrique Sánchez Lansch (b. 1963) is a Spanish-German film director and screenwriter.

Enrique Sánchez Lansch was raised in Gijón, Northern Spain and Cologne, Germany. During his extensive academic and artistic education in theatre and music (including a career as an opera singer as well as a master’s degree in Romance Philology, writing his master’s thesis on film adaptation of literature) Enrique Sánchez Lansch worked as an assistant director first for opera productions and later for film and TV while still performing on the opera stage. In the mid 1990s he decided to focus exclusively on film. His work brought him beyond Germany to Italy, France and Greece, writing and directing films mostly on the subjects of music, opera and ballet.

After some years of producing and directing fiction programs for television, Enrique Sánchez Lansch spent a year developing new projects and improving his film and screenwriting skills at Columbia University in New York, and at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). Since 2002 he has been based in Berlin, working as a director and writer of feature length films, both documentary and fiction.

A selection of his recent films includes:
* "Rhythm is it!" Theatrical documentary about 250 Berlin youngsters working with British choreographer Royston Maldoom, conductor Sir Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic in a fascinating outreach project. 100 min. 2004
* "Sing for your life!" Documentary about young singers from all over the world at the International Singer’s Competition New Voices 2005. 60 min. 2005
* "Schumann, Schubert und der Schnee." Film adaptation of the opera by Hans Neuenfels with music from Robert Schumann and Franz Schubert. 60 min. 2006
* "Mstislav Rostropovich – The musical conscience" (2007). Documentary featuring cellist and conductor Rostropovich in some of his latest rehearsals and master classes.
* "“The Reichsorchester” – The Berlin Philharmonic and the Third Reich." Theatrical documentary featuring some surviving former members and other eyewitnesses together with footage never seen before in public. 90 min. 2007

The theatrical documentary "Rhythm is it!" was awarded with the "German Critics Award", the "Bavarian Film Award" and twice with the "German Film Award".

In 2008 Enrique Sánchez Lansch is to complete his feature length documentary "Promise of Music", about young Venezuelan conductor Gustavo Dudamel and the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra.

External links

* http://www.rhythmisit.com
* [http://www.arte.tv/de/suche/1270656.html Schumann, Schubert und der Schnee]
* [http://www.arte.tv/de/suche/1599596.html Kunst der Fuge]
* http://www.reichsorchester-film.com
* http://www.promiseofmusic.com
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