Alf Brustellin

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Alf Brustellin (* 27. July 1940 in Vienna , † 11. November 1981 in Munich ) was an Austrian , in the Federal Republic of Germany active filmmaker , director , author , producer , cinematographer and actor .

Life

The son of an officer moved to Mönchengladbach with his parents in the 1950s. After graduating from high school, he studied German and theater studies for ten semesters in Munich. There he began his artistic work in 1964 as a member of the cabaret " Rationaltheater ", of which he was a member until 1966. From 1966 to 1971 he was a feature editor at SZ , from 1967 to 1969 he worked for the magazine “Film” and taught at the University of Television and Film in Munich and at the German School of Journalism . As a freelancer, he wrote for various magazines, including Spiegel .

Brustellin began his film work with a documentary about Alexander Kluge for WDR . Together with Edgar Reitz , Ula Stöckl and Nikos Perakis , he participated in both the script and the direction of the film Das goldene Ding in 1971 . In 1972/73 he made about 50 contributions for the ARD pre-school series Sesame Street .

For Bernhard Sinkel , Brustellin worked as a cameraman on his films The Clinch and Lina Braake . The latter, a socially critical comedy, was a considerable success with the public. In 1975 both founded the company "ABS-Filmproduktion München". Together they wrote and directed the other films. While Berlinger and Der Mädchenkrieg were still moderate successes, the films that followed were more and more ignored and can be seen as examples of the slow pace of the New German Film against the background of the German Autumn in the late 1970s .

It was only with the five-part TV adaptation of Thomas Mann's novel Confessions of the Impostor Felix Krull (1981), for which Brustellin had provided the screenplay, that he was able to build on earlier successes. Shortly afterwards, Alf Brustellin, who had been in a relationship with actress Hannelore Elsner since 1973 , died as a passenger in a taxi in Munich as a result of a car accident.

His written estate is in the archive of the Academy of Arts in Berlin.

Filmography

  • 1968: Kluge, Leni and the Lion (documentary; direction and script)
  • 1970: Tales of the Bucket Child (Actor)
  • 1971: Sunday painting (TV; actor)
  • 1971: Das goldene Ding (TV; direction and book with Edgar Reitz, Ula Stöckl and Nikos Perakis; actors)
  • 1971: Kino two (TV; actor)
  • 1972: The City of Dogs (direction, script, production)
  • 1973: The trip to Vienna (assistant director)
  • 1973: Clinch (TV; camera)
  • 1975: Lina Braake (camera)
  • 1975: Berlinger (script and direction with Bernhard Sinkel; co-production)
  • 1977: The Girls' War (script and direction with Bernhard Sinkel; co-production)
  • 1977: Good-for-nothing (book with Bernhard Sinkel)
  • 1978: Germany in autumn (joint film; collaboration on script and direction)
  • 1978: Der Sturz (written and directed with Bernhard Sinkel; co-production)
  • 1980: Cold set (book with Bernhard Sinkel; co-production)
  • 1981: Confessions of the impostor Felix Krull (TV, 5 parts; book with Bernhard Sinkel)

Awards

  • 1977: German Film Prize : Filmband in Silber (production) for The Girls' War
  • 1977: IFF San Sebastian: Silver Shell (director) with Bernhard Sinkel for Der Mädchenkrieg
  • 1977: IFF San Sebastian: OICIC Prize for The Girls' War
  • 1978: German Film Award: Filmband in Gold (conception) for Germany in autumn in the team

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ deutsches-filmhaus.de
  2. ↑ Alf-Brustellin-Archive inventory overview on the website of the Academy of Arts in Berlin.
personal data
SURNAME Brustellin, Alf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH July 27, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH November 11, 1981
Place of death Munich