Annelie Thorndike
Annelie Thorndike , b. Kunigk (born April 17, 1925 in Klützow , Pyritz district ; † December 26, 2012 in Wolgast ) was one of the most important documentarists in the GDR .
Life
Annelie Kunigk was born in Pomerania . Her father was a locksmith in a sugar factory, the mother came from a fishing family. Since 1945 she lived in Penzlin, where she helped to rebuild the school, of which she became director in 1949. In 1946 she joined the SED . In 1953 she married the documentarist Andrew Thorndike .
With films such as " You and some comrade " (1955), "The Teutonic Sword " (1958) and above all the two-part documentary " The Russian Miracle " (1963) Annelie Thorndike became known nationally and internationally. On all three films, she worked with both Paul Dessau as a composer and with her husband Andrew Thorndike, who was also one of DEFA's most important documentary film directors .
Annelie Thorndike was elected to the Volkskammer in 1963 as a member of the Kulturbund , of which she was a member until 1971. From 1967 she was a board member and, from 1980, a member of the presidium of the Association of Film and TV Makers of the GDR founded by Andrew Thorndike . From 1973 to 1989 she was president of the “Committee of the International Leipzig Week for Documentary and Short Film”, which was responsible for organizing the Leipzig Documentary Film Week .
She lived with her husband in Potsdam-Babelsberg for a long time . After the reunification she withdrew from the film business. She last lived in Heringsdorf on the Baltic Sea island of Usedom .
Filmography (selection)
- 1952: Blue pennants in the summer wind (educational advice)
- 1952: The exam (educational advice, co-script)
- 1954: The seven from the Rhine (co-script, co-director)
- 1956: You and some comrades (co-script, co-director)
- 1957: The case of Hartmann and others (co-script, co-director)
- 1957: Vacation on Sylt
- 1958: The Teuton Sword Company (co-script, co-director)
- 1963: The Russian Wonder 1/2 (co-script, co-director)
- 1969: You are min (CO screenplay, scenario)
- 1970: Unter den Linden - history and stories (TV film)
- 1971: All my life (co-director, script)
- 1972: Start (co-director, book)
- 1977: The Old New World (text / book)
- 1985: Departure (screenplay, text)
- 1987: All ideas begin as a dream (script, text)
Books
- Every day was nice. Experiences, dreams, confessions recorded between Antwerp and Bombay. VEB Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 1966
- With Klaus Huhn : The mass murderer remained unpunished. edition ost , Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-360-02005-5 . (Spotless series, 211)
literature
- Thomas Heimann: You and some comrades. In: Federal Center for Political Education (Hrsg.): The Federal Republic of Germany in the mirror of the GDR media. Series: Media Consulting Series. Issue 3. Bonn 1996, pp. 45-58.
- Christian Krause: Thorndike, Annelie . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Annelie Thorndike in the catalog of the German National Library
- Annelie Thorndike in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Annelie Thorndike with three portraits at filmportal.de
- Biography and filmography on film-zeit.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Annelie Thorndike. Bio-filmography by Annelie and Andrew Thorndike. on www.filmmuseum-potsdam.de
- ↑ Erika Müller: DEFA forged documents . The time of February 13, 1959, retrieved on August 24, 2017.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Thorndike, Annelie |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kunigk, Annelie (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German director, documentarist and politician, MdV |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 17, 1925 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Klützow , Pyritz district |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 26, 2012 |
| Place of death | Wolgast |