Uli M Schueppel

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 activivist in East Germany and sent to the Soviet gulag of Vorkuta. 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 aestethics 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. 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.

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