Jan Schmidt-Garre
Jan Schmidt-Garre is a German film director and producer.
Life
Jan Schmidt-Garre studied philosophy at the Hochschule für Philosophie der Jesuiten in Munich from 1982 to 1986. He also studied feature film direction at Munich's Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film from 1984 to 1988. His mother is famous German critic Beate Kayser.During this time he worked as a trainee and assistant director for, among others, Rudolf Noelte, Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, David Esrig, Joachim Herz and Harry Kupfer.
He studied conducting and musical theory with Sergiu Celibidache in Mainz, Munich and Paris.
In 1988 he founded PARS MEDIA, a production company whose films have received international acclaim for its documentary and feature films focusing on music and the arts. PARS MEDIA productions have been awarded numerous prizes worldwide, among them the main prizes at the film festivals in Chicago, Paris, Monte Carlo, Columbus/Ohio, Munich and Prague as well as a nomination for the German Film Award. PARS MEDIA films have been broadcast in over thirty countries, many have been distributed theatrically and appeared on Laser Disc, VHS and DVD.
Schmidt-Garre is staging operas on a regular basis at opera companies in Germany and Switzerland.
Schmidt-Garre, a member of the German Film Academy, lectures on directing and aesthetics at the HFF Munich and the Athanor Academy of Performing Arts. He is married to art dealer Philomene Magers. They have two children and live in Berlin.
Filmography (selected)
- 360° Figaro
- Aida’s Brothers & Sisters
On DVD with Arthaus MusikThe Alchemy of the Piano
Music film with Alfred Brendel, Ermonela Jaho, Jean-Rodolphe Kars, Stephen Kovacevich, Sir Antonio Pappano, Francesco Piemontesi and Maria João Pires, 2024, 90 Min
- Belcanto – The Tenors of the 78 Era
On DVD with Naxos
- Bound
On DVD with Arthaus Musik
Documentary, 2012, 105 Min.
On DVD with Kino Lorber, Jupiter Films, Blue Dolphin and UpLink
- Bruckner’s Decision
On DVD with Arthaus Musik
- Celibidache – You Don’t Do Anything, You Just Let It Evolve
On DVD with Arthaus Musik
- Chopin at the Opera
On DVD with Arthaus Musik
- Fidelio
On DVD with Euroarts
- Fuoco sacro – A Search for the Sacred Fire of Song
On DVD with Naxos Audiovisual
- Furtwängler’s Love
On DVD with Arthaus Musik
- Home Music Berlin
On DVD with Naxos Audiovisual
- The Inner Film
- Legato – The World of the Piano
On DVD with Medici Arts
- Long Shot Close Up – Andreas Gursky
On DVD with Arthaus Musik
- Measure – Color – Light
- No More Wunderkind – Sergei Nakariakov
On DVD with Arthaus Musik
- Olafur Eliasson – Notion Motion
On DVD with Arthaus Musik
- Opera Fanatic
On DVD with Arthaus Musik
- The Promise – Architect BV Doshi
- Sophia – Biography of a Violin Concerto
Min. Nominated for Prix Italia.
On DVD with Arthaus Musik
- Super Life
On DVD with Belvedere
- This not that – The Artist John Baldessari
On DVD with Arthaus Musik