Biography
Born 1966 in Bern/Switzerland as the son of actress Elisabeth Trissenaar and director Hans . First encounter with film-industry 1982 as production assistant for the feature Penthesiliea.
He worked several years as camera assistant and operator for R.W. Fassbinder's former DP Xaver Schwarzenberger and Wim Wenders close collaborator Robby Mueller. In early years he founded his own low-budget orientated production company Giselafilms Berlin.
Since his study at the german film and television school (dffb) in Berlin, he is responsible for the cinematography of more than 60 features and documentaries and additional for the lighting design of various stage plays in opera and theater. He is giving master- camera -classes in major film schools in Germany for more than 20 years.
Benedict Neuenfels is member of the german, austrian and european film-academy. His work has been awarded numerous times. He received several times both the prestigious Grimme Award and the German Television award, the Bavarian and the German Film Award each, as well as seven times the German Camera Award for outstanding cinematography.
The counterfeiters, which he photographed in 2007, won an Academy Award for best foreign feature film the following year. In 2011 he was honored by the German Academy of Arts for outstanding achievement in cinematography. In 2018 he received various awards for the feature STYX.
In 2019 he received the Lifetime Honory Award for Cinematography - German Camera Award . So he will join the chain of outstanding former recipients like Michael Ballhaus, Robby Mueller, Renato Berta, Slawomir Idziak, Xaver Schwarzenberger, Judith Kaufmann, Elfie Mikesch, Jürgen Jürges..
Filmography
all 55
Movies 48
TV Shows 7
Director 6
self 5

Stella. A Life. (2024)

In a Land That No Longer Exists (2022)

Hinterland (2021)

I'm Your Man (2021)

Narcissus and Goldmund (2020)

8 Days (2019)

Patient Zero (2018)

Styx (2018)

Cold Hell (2017)

Fatal News (2016)

Girl in the Ice (2015)

Schönefeld Boulevard (2014)

Zorn - Tod und Regen (2014)

Radical Evil (2014)

The Weekend (2012)

Riskante Patienten (2012)

Cause I Have the Looks (2012)

Homevideo (2011)

Die fremde Familie (2011)

Small Lights (2010)

Schurkenstück (2010)

Mahler on the Couch (2010)

Villalobos (2009)

A Woman in Berlin (2008)

The Man from the Embassy (2007)

Love Life (2007)

Auf dem Vulkan (2007)

The Counterfeiters (2007)

The Red Cockatoo (2006)

21 Liebesbriefe (2004)

They've Got Knut (2003)

A Map of the Heart (2002)

Olga's Summer (2002)

Lonesome (2001)

Ich bin keiner von uns (2000)

Lost Killers (2000)

Your Best Years (1999)

Frau Rettich, die Czerni und ich (1998)

Mein großer Freund (1998)

The Scorpion (1997)

Landgang für Ringo (1996)

Doktor Knock (1996)

Bunte Hunde (1995)

Frauen sind was Wunderbares (1994)

Bilder von anderswo (1993)

Ins Leere (1993)

Das blinde Ohr der Oper (1990)

Innocence Unknown (1988)

Scene of the Crime (1970)

Golem
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Known ForCamera
GenderMale
Birthday1966-03-11 (58 years old)
Birth PlaceBern, Switzerland
Height
FatherHans Neuenfels
MotherElisabeth Trissenaar
CitizenshipsGermany
AwardsMarburg Camera Award, Romy
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