Aribert Weis

Aribert Weis (born January 3, 1948 in Heidenburg ) is a German director , screenwriter and producer of documentaries and feature films .

Life

Aribert Weis started making his own films at the age of 15. He later studied graphics and architecture at the Werkkunstschule in Trier and moved to Berlin . His first professional film work with Max Willutzki and Christian Ziewer followed.

With his first short film , he won various prizes (including at the 1972 Venice Film Festival ). 1977 shot his first documentary for television. For a while, his main focus in the documentary area has been ethnographic films. Together with Regine Heuser, he realized The People of Lich-Steinstrasse ; the documentary was television game of the month and television game of the year .

In 1981 Weis directed his first movie Das Haus im Park . In 1986 he married the actress Angelika Bartsch and moved to Ireland . There he shot about ten documentaries for the German broadcasters and worked temporarily for radio . Films followed in which he deals with the Second World War . You enter Germany from 2007 describes the battle in the Hürtgenwald .

Filmography

Feature films

• 1967: the fools
• 1971: Sascha
• 1981: The house in the park
• 1988/89: POL

Documentaries (selection)

• 1966: Falcons
• 1969: Matador
• 1977: Forced to go out into the world
• 1978: Hambach Forest
• 1979: The people of Lich-Steinstrasse
• 1982/84: Peoples in the shadow: Sardinians / Ladins / Germans in Hungary / Inuits on Greenland
• 1979/86: Requiem for a lily of the valley
• 1990: Anton
• 1991: Iraqi artists in Germany
• 1992: Northern Ireland's Crossroads: The Falls Road in Belfast
• 1992: homesickness for Ireland or: living on the border
• 1993: Mad cow disease - a danger to humans
• 1994: Foreigners in a foreign homeland - Hungarian minorities in Europe
• 1995: Lord Haw-Haw - An Anglo-Irish on Reichsrundfunk
• 1995: The triumphant advance of the potato - How the potato came to Europe
• 1996: Two Pastors - Two Worlds - Portrait of two Irish priests
• 1996: The Book of Kells - The most beautiful book in the world
• 1997: "Operation Shamrock" - German war children in Ireland
• 1997: Streets of Dublin - An unusual priest in Dublin
• 1998: The Irish Dream - Portrait of the Irish Nobel Peace Prize Laureate John Hume
• 1999: At the end of a nightmare? - Scotland's long struggle for independence
• 2000: Galway - Ireland's Blue City
• 2000: Eel fishing on the Shannon
• 2001: Attempted Abortion - Report on the Dutch abortion ship Aurora
• 2005–07: You enter Germany - Hürtgenwald and the long war on the Westwall

Awards

• Prize at the Venice Film Festival 1972 for Sascha
• Youth Film Library, Oberhausen 1972
• Honorary diploma of the Leipziger Woche for documentary and short film
• The people of Lich-Steinstrasse : TV game of the month August 1980
• The people of Lich-Steinstrasse : TV game of the year 1980
• Film tape in silver ; German Film Award 1974; Mannheim Gold Ducat 1973 for Der Lange Jammer (as co-author; director: Max Willutzki )
• The House in the Park : Official entry to the Moscow Film Festival 1983; Predicate: valuable

literature

• Werner Biedermann, Angela Haardt: Pictures from Reality / 4th Duisburg Film Week '80. Filmforum, Duisburg 1981.
• Wilhelm Roth: The documentary since 1960. Bucher, Munich / Lucerne 1982, ISBN 3-7658-0397-9 .
• Lothar R. Just: Film year 1981/82. Pandora's box, Wetzlar 1982, ISBN 3-88690-022-3 .
• Fischer Film Almanach 1982. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1983, ISBN 3-596-23674-6 .
• Hans Günther Pflaum : Yearbook Film 81/82. Reports / reviews / data. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich / Vienna 1981, ISBN 3-446-13456-5 .
• Hubert Ortkemper: Film in Berlin. Colloquium, Berlin 1983, ISBN 3-7678-0595-2 .

Web links

• Homepage of Aribert Weis
• Aribert Weis in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Aribert Weis . In: Lexicon of International Films
• Homepage of the film You enter Germany - Hürtgenwald and the long war on the Westwall