Jan Tenhaven - Documentary Filmmaker
SCHOCK SCHALOM – YOUNG, JEWISH, NOW
ARD Documentary: Medicine of Tomorrow
Price fighters / Life on the Polish Market
Adam & Ida
A DREAM SHATTERED? THE AMERICANS AND THE ELECTION YEAR
HEY, I AM A JEW!
4 WALLS BERLIN
BERLIN CLEANS! DIRTY TIMES
COLOURFUL GERMANY
SILICON VALLEY REVOLUTION – HOW A FEW NERDS DID CHANGE THE WORLD
BERLIN AND BRANDENBURG FROM ABOVE
PRETTY UGLY
EGYPT’S SUNKEN CITY – A LEGEND IS REVEALED
IRELAND: THREE SHADES OF GREEN
AUTUMN GOLD
“What kind of films do you make?”
“Actually about everything what fascinates me.”
“So, any focus?”
“No. history, culture, travel, politics, science. Somehow everything.”
“No focus?”
(Pause) “Actually it’s always about humans.”
“Ah. So, portraits?”
“No, not necessarily. But in the end it’s always about humans, right?”
“And are these reports or docs or?”
“Everything. It depends”
“Documentaries?”
“Yeah, as well.”
“I prefer those. Actually we’re only watching Arte and stuff like that at home.”
“Aha.”
“So, what are you doing exactly?”
SCHOCK SCHALOM
6th May 2024 By Jan Tenhaven
It was an emotional filming trip across Germany. For my ZDF documentary SCHOCK SCHALOM, I interviewed eleven young Jews in Berlin, Munich, Osnabrück, Essen and Stuttgart. How are they feeling six months after the Hamas massacre of Israeli babies, children and parents? Do they still feel understood, protected and safe in Germany? What do they think of the Arab community, with some of whom they had done joint projects or go to the same school class? The answers are honest, unembellished and shocking – but despite all the bitterness, they are also surprisingly nuanced.
Medicine of Tomorrow
9th April 2024 By Jan Tenhaven
Genetic engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Brain-Machine Interfaces, and Climate Catastrophe: For the accompanying documentary to the new Charité series, I have taken on the directorial role alongside Nicolas Hecker. In MEDICINE OF TOMORROW, we join Dr. Eckart von Hirschhausen on an exciting journey to researchers and patients in Berlin and Bonn, Magdeburg and Marburg, Weimar and Paris – and learn a lot about high-tech and clever computers, but also about surprisingly simple things that could improve our health in the future.
Media award for ADAM & IDA
21st July 2023 By Jan Tenhaven
Great joy: Our documentary ADAM & IDA has been nominated for the DAFFNE 2023 the award given my the German Academy for Television. Please keep your fingers crossed! The academy members will vote for the winner film, the award ceremony will take place in Berlin on December 2nd.
Our film has already won the first prize at the German ecumenical media award „Andere Zeiten”. From the jury’s statement: “The film is free of all clichés, does without kitsch and pathos and represents an art form of its own through the incorporated graphic novel elements. Adam & Ida is a humanly touching and at the same time politically significant story that shows how the Shoah continues to have an effect today.”
