Uli M Schueppel

From the raw material of this documentary he made a second film, the short film Im Platz (ReMix-Potsdamer Platz), based on the 1920 poem of the expressionist writer Paul Zech, spoken by the German actor Otto Sander.

Diplomatic reasons delivered him and he was able to move to West Germany in 1955.

In 1956 his wife left the East Germany with the two children, and the family moved to Güttersbach.

The father was offered a professortship at the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences for aesthetics and communication, so the family moved to Friedrichsdorf.

Schueppel attended Humboldt-Gymnasium in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe.

After this, he stayed in Paris and then studied German studies, Romance studies, and Linguistics at Heidelberg University.

Simultaneously he created a Spoken word-formation named Poesie & Krach and published some Compact Cassette and magazines with poetry.

Additionally he produced his first short films and wrote film reviews.

Uli M Schueppel (born 7 May 1958 in Erbach, Germany as Ulf Schüppel) is a German director and documentary filmmaker.

The "M" in the middle of the name is not an abbreviation of a name, but a reference to the Elvis Presley's song "Trouble": My middle name is misery.

It is written without dot.

Schueppel is the son of the visual artist and author Hem Schueppel and the educationalist Christine Schueppel, (born as Christine Irmer) and has a younger sister, Heike.

The father was an oppositional political activist in East Germany and sent to the Soviet gulag of Vorkuta.

When he realized that his ambitions went more and more to creating films, he discontinued his studies and moved in 1983 to West-Berlin.

In 1984, Schueppel started his studies at Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin and shot is first short films, playBack2 (1985) and Kopierer gegen Kopierer (1986).

Hanging out with his friends of the bands Einstürzende Neubauten, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, and Crime & The City Solution in the legendary studios of Hansa Records inspired him producing his first longer movie Nihil, oder alle Zeit der Welt.

A lot of friends played in the film like Friedrich Wall, Olivier Picot, Gesine Bohle, Kai Fuhrmann, and Blixa Bargeld.

The soundtrack was composed by Alexander Hacke.

The film won several prices like the Special Jury-Award, of the Montreal World Film Festival 1988, the soundtrack came out second in 1989 at the Nino-Rota-Preis für Filmmusik of the German film festival Trossinger Filmtage.

The title story of the international movie magazine Filmfaust was devoted for the film.

Since 1988, he anchored parallel to his film studies the nightly radioshow Slime-Line Show once a week together with Johannes Beck, on the German alternative radiostation Radio 100.

Once they simulated the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Hundrets of people called the radiostation.

After this the Radio cancelled the whole show.

In 1989, Schueppel graduated with the documentary film The Road to God Knows Where.

The film documents the tour of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds through the US in the year 1989, and includes a lot of interviews with friends and other important musicians of this time, like Anita Lane, Lydia Lunch, Jim Thirwell, Mick Harvey, Blixa Bargeld, Kid Congo Powers, Rayner Jesson, and Thomas Wydler.

With the British-Canadian artist Susan Turcot in 1990 he released the short film A Priori with film score of Alexander Hacke.

In the same year he shot the documentary The Song in which Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds record the music video for "Till the End of the World" from Wim Wenders' movie Until the End of the World.

In 1992, Schueppel made his first fictional movie Vaterland.

In the film an Algerian, the father kidnaps his son into Germany.

The soundtrack was again composed by Alexander Hacke and by Mick Harvey.

The movie won the 1993 OCIC-Award although there was a veto of the Vatican City.

Jahre der Kälte was released in 1993: the film disputes the way of political ex-convicts from GDR till to sibirian gulags.

Schueppel faced up with this film the destiny of his father.

The soundtrack was composed by Blixa Bargeld and released through Bargeld – Commissioned Music.

In 1995, he made the documentary Sid&Nancy–Ex&Pop, based on the theater play Sid and Nancy, featuring German film actors Ben Becker, Meret Becker, Alexander Hacke, Otto Sander, and Barbara Philipp.

1997 saw Schueppel he shot Der Platz, a documentary film about the construction work of Potsdamer Platz in Berlin.

The soundtrack was made by FM Einheit.

In 2004 there was a re-release of The Song in a new arrangement.

In the year 2008, the film was voted within the 20 best musicmovies of all the time by the readers and journalists of Total Film.