Biography
Jürgen Haase was born March 8, 1945, in Berlin. From 1967 until 1968, he studied at the German Film & Television Academy (dffb) in Berlin. Subsequently, he worked as an author and director for the German TV stations ARD and ZDF (1970-1982). From 1983 until 2007, Haase undertook the management of the "Provobis Gesellschaft für Film und Fernsehen mbH", which has business locations in Hamburg, Berlin, Leipzig, and Munich. As executive director, he involved himself with socio-politically important topics and sophisticated film adaptations.
As a producer, Haase has worked on several successful and award-winning big-screen and television movies, including numerous "Tatort" episodes, Frank Beyer"s mini-series "Nikolaikirche" (1995), Bernhard Wicki"s "Das Spinnenetz" (1989), Klaus Maria Brandauer"s "Mario und der Zauberer" (1994), Nina Grosse"s "Feuerreiter" (1998) as well as Volker Schlöndorff"s "Der neunte Tag" ("The Ninth Day", 2004) and "Strajk – die Heldin von Danzig" (2006).
In 1984, Jürgen Haase made his debut as a director with the children’s film "Gülibik", which won several awards. Since then, however, Haase directed only two more feature-length movies: "Eine Liebe in Istanbul" (1990) and the documentary "Ernst Fuchs - Straßensänger und Kaiser wollt ich werden" (2006).
Aside from socio-political topics, Haase puts his focus on Germany’s Nazi past and the search for Christian values in an ever-changing society. He has also discussed these issues in books accompanying his movies.
Since 1994, Haase is an executive partner at the Tellux Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH (in addition to his position at Provobis). In 1997, he became director of the Progress film distribution company. Since 1996, he also works as a lecturer at numerous international universities, including the "Konrad Wolf" Academy of Film and Television in Potsdam (1996-1998), the FAMU in Prague, and the University Magdeburg.
In 2007, Jürgen Haase received the Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon.