Dennis Knickel
- Director
- Writer
- Producer
Dennis Knickel is born as the youngest of four children in Mainz
(Germany) on Octobre 27th in 1983. He grows up in the small town Alzey
and goes to high school there. At the age of eleven, he founds a school
magazine, as the already existing school magazine contains too much
advertising. At the age of 16, he changes his lifestyle and becomes a
vegan. In 2001, he becomes a PADI Divemaster. Since then, he sometimes
works on Majorca in a diving school. In 2003, he passes the final
examination (Abitur) and says goodbye with a "scandal speech". In the
same year, he has to do his ten month social service as a "urine
waiter" in a psychiatry. At the age of 20, his experiences during a
three month journey to Hawaii causes him to write a book about it:
"Kaffee, Kiffer, Killerkatzen" ("Coffee, Potheads, Zombie Cats"). In
January 2005, he finally writes the screenplay to his first movie "Die
Treppe" ("Stairway to Heaven"). This is also the birth of the Tupamaros
Film Productions. On March 15th 2007, the German major label e-m-s
publishes the very first movie of the Tupamaros: The DVD of "Die
Treppe" is now available in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. In
September 2006 starts the shooting of "Die Füchsin" ("Celine Dances
Today"). The post production gets interrupted for two month as Knickel
is backpacking through Cuba. In Cuba, Dennis writes his second book
about traveling: "Anarchistenherz" ("The Heart of the Anarchist"). "Die
Füchsin" is getting published as a digital download DVD in 2012. In
2009, Knickel starts with his third film project "Erinnerungen"
("Memories"). Before the work on "Erinnerungen" is completed in
February 2011, the post production pauses as Dennis Knickel writes
another book about traveling. This time, he writes about his two month
in Thailand: "Curry-Competition", which is Knickel's first book release
in March 2011.