CV+ AWARDS JOERN HEITMANN RUHE TALENT MANAGEMENT 1968 Born in Hamburg (Germany) 1968 - 1992 Widescale meditation practice and motion picture study 1992 – 1993 Second assistant camera at Studio Hamburg 1993 – 1996 First assistant camera for numerous TV movies, feature films and commercials 1996 – 1998 Camera operator and first assistant director in Hamburg and Berlin for TV series, commercials and music videos 1998 – Present Director 2003 Founder of production company Katapult Film Berlin Straßburger Straße 19 As a music video and advertising film director, the native Hamburg is a 10405 Berlin · Germany true multi-talent. www.ruhe-management.com !1 CV+ AWARDS Before becoming a director, Joern Heitmann spent most of time next to the camera, but exchanged the view through the lens for a farsighted overview of total project realization. As a music video and advertising film director, the native Hamburg is a true multi-talent. RUHE TALENT MANAGEMENT Joern Heitmann is specialised in story telling and creating period material that he’s able to bring to life with great attention to detail. Since founding his own production company for music videos with three former Berlin colleagues, Joern Heitmann has worked very successfully for artists such as Deep Purple, Scorpions, Rammstein, Toten Hosen, Jan Delay, Bloodhound Gang, Mando Diao, A-ha and Tokio Hotel and many many more. He was awarded with the MTV Clip Award for “Guano Apes” and won the VIVA COMET in the category “Best Video of the year” for German Top acts as Rosenstolz, Rammstein and Beatsteaks in 2002, 2005 and 2011. Nominated for MTV Europe Music Awards 2005 for “Best Video” Rammstein - “Keine Lust”, nominated for ECHO 2007 for “Best Video” Jan Delay – “Für immer und dich” and 2013 for Die Toten Hosen - Tage wie diese”, honored by the ADC in 2005, PROMAX 2007 Award for “Arena Signation” in category “Best On-Air Ident“. After several nominees he finally won the ECHO 2008 for Tokio Hotel “Spring nicht” in the category “Best Video National” and joined the ECHO jury 2015 for this most prestigious German Music Video Award. In 2010 he won Gold in the EBU “best sports campaign” awards in the category “Best Trailer of The Year” with the ZDF Winter Olympics Trailers, which succeeded against 350 competitors. Joern Heitmann has directed a large number of meticulously produced TV trailers for Premiere TV and Sat.1 TV, ZDF, and commercials for BMW, Coca Cola, Porsche, Casio G-SHOCK, Bentley, Maggi, Intel, Renault, Volkswagen etc. and works constantly on developing own feature-film projects for the near future. Straßburger Straße 19 10405 Berlin · Germany www.ruhe-management.com !2.