Michael Meert

Michael Meert (born 1953 in Bonn, Germany) is a German film author and director. He is the grandson of the Flemish politician and writer Leo Meert and the bohemian violinist Stephanie Prinz.

Life and work From 1976 to 1981 Michael Meert studied at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (dffb), where he met Andrei Tarkovsky, Joris Ivens and Johan van der Keuken. Later he attended the Masterclass of Edvard Bernstein−Zebrowski and Krzysztof Kieslowski for three years. Along with many others, he founded the “Video-Movement” and worked on a great number of videos within the “grass-roots movement” of video art. After his highly acclaimed feature film “Krieg der Töne” (ZDF, 1988) he worked along the border between documentary and video art and now he devotes his work mainly to TV movies with a highly poetic style for a broader public.

Filmography (selection) 2012: Alle Menschen werden Brüder. Die Freimaurer und die Musik 2010: Die 12 langen Jahre 2009: Die hängenden Gärten von Cordoba 2008: Musikalische Reise - Beethoven in Bonn 2007: Vom schönen leben 2007: Der junge Beethoven 2007: Das Geheimnis des Dritten Tores 2005: Jordi Savall oder wie die Indianer sich in die Barockmusik einschlichen 2005: Eine Baltische Reise-Gidon Kremer 2004: Der Flamenco Clan/Herencia Flamenca 2003: Pablo Casals, ein Musiker verlangt eine bessere Welt 2000: Bad Boy of Music 1999: Violin Up!-Isaac Stern 1996: Iberia - Die Isaac Albéniz Story 1995: Paco de Lucía. Light and Shade 1993: Manuel de Falla und Federico García Lorca 1989: Der Tod des Maurice Ravel 1987: Krieg der Töne 1984: Nahtstellen