Joseph Vilsmaier

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Joseph Rudolf Vilsmaier (born January 24, 1939 in Munich ; † February 11, 2020 there ) was a German film director and cameraman . His name is given as Josef Vilsmeier in all Tatort episodes that he shot as a cameraman .

Life

Vilsmaier attended boarding school near Augsburg , completed technical training at the film camera manufacturer Arnold & Richter ( ARRI ) and studied music with a focus on piano for nine years at the Richard Strauss Conservatory in Munich . Then he was a member of a jazz band.

After working as a technician for a few years, he entered the film industry in 1961, first as a materials assistant and camera assistant, then as a cameraman , where he quickly made a name for himself. Behind the camera he worked, among other things, in some episodes of the television series Aufachse (1977), a series of Tatort episodes as well as in the Hallervorden strips Didi on Full Tour and Didi - The Expert .

With his directorial debut , the Heimatfilm Herbstmilch , in which his wife Dana Vávrová played the leading role and which was made without film funding, Joseph Vilsmaier had immediate success in 1988, which was even surpassed in 1997 by Comedian Harmonists . On the other hand, the reactions of some film critics to his work as a director are less enthusiastic . Vilsmaier's films have often been criticized as "craftsmanship" or as historically reduced in their perspective. For many of his directorial work he was also responsible as a cameraman.

On June 21, 2009 Vilsmaier received the Honorary Camera Award for his life's work. The jury justified this decision with the emotional power in Vilsmaier's pictures and with the fact that he intuitively grasps lighting moods and pictorial spaces. Vilsmaier was one of the founding members of the German Film Academy in 2003 .

He was married to Dana Vávrová from 1986 until her death in February 2009. The three joint daughters Janina Vilsmaier , Theresa Vilsmaier and Josefina Vilsmaier all took up the profession of actress. During the shooting of The Last Train , a film produced by Artur Brauner , Vilsmaier sustained injuries when a camera tower collapsed in Prague, as a result of which he was only partially operational. Therefore Vávrová took over the direction for the rest of the shooting. Vilsmaier and Vávrová were awarded the special jury prize for The Last Train at the 2006 Bavarian Film Prize.

Joseph Vilsmaier worked as a director until shortly before his death, his last film The Boandlkramer and Eternal Love with Michael Herbig and Hape Kerkeling is due to hit cinemas in November 2020. His archive is located in the archive of the Academy of Arts in Berlin.

Filmography

Director

Cinemamovies:

TV films:

TV Shows:

  • 2006: Siska (Episode 79: Shadow of a Woman )
  • 2006: The Old One (Episode 320: When Love Strikes )

camera operator

Films:

TV Shows:

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ mdr.de: Director Joseph Vilsmaier dies | MDR.DE. Retrieved February 12, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Focus on piano ( memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hff-muenchen.de
  3. ↑ His life was "carnival": On the death of Joseph Vilsmaier - obituary on BR.de
  4. ↑ Joseph Vilsmaier, Ehrenkameramann 2009 ( Memento of the original from October 16, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. deutscher-kamerapreis.de @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.deutscher-kamerapreis.de
  5. ↑ DerWesten- derwesten.de: Joseph Vilsmaier (81) is dead: his last film will be released this year. February 12, 2020, accessed February 12, 2020 .
  6. ^ Joseph Vilsmaier Archive Inventory overview on the website of the Akademie der Künste in Berlin.
  7. ↑ Go on, time, stop! in: FAZ of July 25, 2012, p. 25
personal data
SURNAME Vilsmaier, Joseph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vilsmeier, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film director and cameraman
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH February 11, 2020
Place of death Munich