Detlef Siebert
Detlef Siebert is a German television writer, director and producer, working in the United Kingdom.[1]
Biography
Siebert began his career at the BBC as assistant producer of the 1997 documentary series The Nazis: A Warning from History.
He wrote, directed and produced the 2001 Bombing Germany episode of the Timewatch series.[2]
He also directed the drama sequences in the 2005 series Auschwitz: The Nazis and the 'Final Solution',[3] wrote, directed and produced the 2006 drama documentary The Somme - From Defeat to Victory,[4] and produced the 2006 series Nuremberg: Nazis on Trial, produced the 2011 docudrama Atlantis: End of a World, Birth of a Legend.
In his latest programme, the 2014 BBC Two documentary, I Was There: The Great War Interviews,[5] Siebert used interviews with eyewitnesses of the First World War filmed by the BBC in the 1960s. Most of the interview material in the film had never been shown [6] and the film garnered critical acclaim.[7][8]
Filmography
- 1994 Dichter, Tod, und Teufel: Salman Rushdie co-producer/director[9]
- 1997 The Nazis: A Warning from History assistant producer
- 1999 War of the Century assistant producer
- 2001 Timewatch: Bombing Germany producer, director & writer
- 2001 Timewatch: Himmler, Hitler, and the End of the Reich producer, director & writer
- 2005 Auschwitz: The Nazis and the 'Final Solution' drama director
- 2006 The Somme - From Defeat to Victory producer, director & writer
- 2006 Nuremberg: Nazis on Trial series producer
- 2007 Visions of the Future series producer
- 2009 How the Celts Saved Britain executive producer
- 2011 Atlantis: End of a World, Birth of a Legend producer
- 2014 I Was There: The Great War Interviews
- 2016 The Man Who Discovered Capitalism (about Joseph Schumpeter)
References
- "Detlef Siebert". imdb.com. Retrieved January 9, 2010.
- https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/area_bombing_01.shtml
- https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/genocide/history_drama_01.shtml
- "A German redraws the lines of the Somme". The Times. London. July 2, 2006.
- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03y76xl
- https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/tv/posts/I-Was-There-The-Great-War-Interviews
- https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/tv-and-radio-reviews/10690007/I-Was-There-The-Great-War-Interviews-BBC-Two-review.html
- http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/tv-radio/tv-review-i-was-there-shows-the-sad-horror-of-the-great-war.1394834762
- http://www.zeit.de/1994/25/Rushdie-lebt