Raimund Krumme

Raimund Krumme is an independent animation filmmaker who also directs commercials for the American and Japanese market. In 1996, he moved from his home in Berlin to Los Angeles. His animated shorts Ropedancers, Spectators, Crossroads, Passage and The Message have won many international awards including the Prix du Jury in Annecy, the Bundesfilmpreis-Filmband in Gold (Bonn), Silver Dragon (Cracow) and Grand Prix for animation (Montreal). He taught at at the University of Minas Gerais, Brasil, CalArts (Califonia( and at the Filmakademie Halle. He also worked at the research department of the Institut National d'Audiovisuel in Paris. He currently resides in Berlin. For the film The Choir of the Prisoners, based on a scene in Beethoven’s opera “Fidelio” he worked for the first time with actors and dancers. Backgrounds and light were computer generated. In 2006 he became an instructor at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne.