Axel Kaspar

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Axel Kaspar (* 1939 in Laage ) is a German journalist and documentary filmmaker .

Axel Kaspar learned the trade of commercial clerk from 1956 to 1959 after completing secondary school . He then attended the workers and farmers faculty at the University of Rostock until 1961 , from which he graduated with a high school diploma. He then volunteered at the Ostsee-Zeitung before studying journalism at the University of Leipzig from 1962 to 1966 . During this time, he completed a six-month special training course on the subject of "literary reportage" with the Swiss writer Jean Villain , who had moved to the GDR .

From 1966 he worked for the German television station (television of the GDR) as an editor and author in the editorial team of the critical television magazine Prisma . From 1979 to 1991, when the show was discontinued, he also hosted it. Since 1968 he has worked as a writer and director of lengthy reports and documentaries. His documentation Can a VEB go bankrupt? (1968) was not published because of criticism of the planned economy . In 1971 he was awarded the Golden Dove for his film Then I'll say it with my hands at the Leipzig Documentary Film Week .

In 1987 and 1988 he was a member of the jury of the International Leipzig Documentary and Short Film Week. In 1988 and 1989 he was President of the National Documentary Film Festival of the GDR.

After the German reunification he worked as a freelance writer for the magazines "WIR" and "Exakt" of MDR television and the ARD magazine " FAKT " from 1992 to 2004 . Several travel reports were published under the title “Axel Kaspar on the Move”.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1968: Can a VEB go bankrupt?
  • 1971: Then I'll say it with my hands.
  • 1971: Beat in the legs.
  • 1974: First you grow up.
  • 1979: Until everyone has an apartment.
  • 1981: Grouch, stubborn - but nice.
  • 1986: Daughters of the Spree.
  • 1988: water level 3.81 meters above normal.
  • 1992: Freitaler descent.
  • 1993: A third pair of boots.
  • 1994: Sex is my job.
  • 1994: Russenliebchen.
  • 1995: Naked Holidays.
  • 1997: Arkona ahoy!
  • 1999: This is the WIR house.
  • 1999: Why didn't you look for me?
  • 2001: Axel Kaspar on the move: On the way on the Oder and Neisse. (3 parts)
  • 2002: Axel Kaspar on the move: A journey through the Ore Mountains. (3 parts)
  • 2003: Axel Kaspar on the move: A trip to the Baltic Sea. (3 parts)
  • 2005: Axel Kaspar on the move: A trip to the Harz Mountains. (3 parts)
  • 2005: The New Europe: From Estonia to Slovenia. (4 parts)
  • 2007: Axel Kaspar on the move: Stories from the triangle. (2 parts)
  • 2008: "Mama" is the best reward.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Jegor Jublimov, Brockmann, Freier, Kaspar, Rasche, in: Junge Welt, September 11, 2019.
  2. Jegor Jublimov, Brockmann, Freier, Kaspar, Rasche, in: Junge Welt, September 11, 2019.