Nico Hofmann was born in Heidelberg on 4 December 1959 as the son of two journalists. As producer and director, his name stands for films that relate exceptional stories at a very high level of craftsmanship. After a two-year stint as a trainee at a newspaper, he studied at the Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film in Munich. His cinema debut "Land der Väter, Land der Söhne" obtained the Bavarian Film Award in 1989, among other honors.
In 1998 he ended his career as director in order to found the production company teamWorx Television & Film GmbH. The firm soon developed into one of the most important players in the German film industry. Event productions such as "The Tunnel," "March of Millions," "Operation Valkyrie" and "Mogadishu" raised teamWorx to the level of a European market leader in the field of event television. "Home Video," the first film on the topic of cyber mobbing among youths, won the most awards for a TV movie in 2011. Among the company's other ratings hits are the adaptation of Uwe Tellkamp's "The Tower." The lavish three-part event miniseries "Generation War" was produced with a budget of 14 million euros and triggered a Europe-wide discussion among all generations.
Nico Hofmann has received multiple honors for his achievements as producer and director. For his distinctive merits in the field of TV movies, he obtained the Hans Abich Award in 2006, and for his achievements as producer of "Dresden," "Storm Tide!" and "The Airlift," he was honored with the Bavarian Television Award. In 2007 he obtained the Schiller Award of the city of Mannheim as well as the Romy as "Best Producer." Moreover, Hofmann was honored with the Medal of Merit of the State of Baden-Württemberg in 2009.
Nico Hofmann has been committed to fostering upcoming talents in the film branch for many years now. Since 1995 he has been teaching "Staged Film" as Professor at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg in Ludwigsburg. He set up the young talents' award First Steps with Bernd Eichinger in 2000.
Since 2013, Nico Hofmann has been the chairman of the management board of UFA FICTION, which has been uniting all previous fiction activities of UFA Fernsehproduktion, Phoenix Film and teamWorx since August 2013. For UFA Cinema Hofmann was responsible as CEO and producer for the film adaptations of "Hanni & Nanni 1+2," "Jungle Child," "Devil's Kicker," "Die Relativitätstheorie der Liebe" as well as the GDR drama "Shores of Hope" by Oscar®-winner Toke C. Hebbeln. Hofmann's most recent UFA Cinema theatrical productions are, next to "Hanni & Nanni 3," "Jesus loves me" by and with Florian David Fitz, the star-studded literary film adaptation "The Weekend," "Der fast perfekte Mann" and "The Physician."
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