Benjamin Geissler

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Benjamin Geissler (* 1964 in Orbeck, Osnabrück district ) is a German filmmaker . His father was the writer Christian Geissler . He worked for various television and radio companies, and was also the assistant director of Karl Fruchtmann at Radio Bremen . In 1994 he founded Benjamin Geissler Filmproduktion.

His documentary Finding Pictures about the search, the find and the subsequent loss of pictures by the writer and painter Bruno Schulz gained worldwide attention. On February 9, 2001 Benjamin Geissler discovered the paintings in Felix Landau's nursery with his father and a film team in Drohobycz, East Galicia, today Ukraine . In cooperation with the German embassy, ​​the Ukrainian and Polish ministries of culture, a commission of experts carried out the first excavation work. In May 2001, employees of Yad Vashem removed the paintings from the wall in a controversial operation and brought them to Israel. In 2008 Israel accepted that the found objects belonged to Ukraine's property and cultural property and kept the three frescoes on loan for twenty years.

In 2013 , as in other places before, an installation entitled Die Bilderkammer des Bruno Schulz was on view in Berlin's Martin-Gropius-Bau , which showed a virtual reconstruction of Schulz's pictures.

Movies

  • Bussmanns in the Forest (1990)
  • Vincenzo Floridia, or the Last Rose of Noto (1995)
  • Time Leap (1999)
  • Find Pictures (2002)
  • Lost pictures - lost memories (2009)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Radio Bremen ( Memento of the original from December 13, 2009 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.radiobremen.de
  2. ^ Benjamin Geissler webpage
  3. ↑ Time
  4. ↑ Boston Review ( Memento of the original from November 13, 2012 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / bostonreview.net
  5. ^ Museum of Holocaust Art - When Snow White visited the SS - FAZ
  6. ^ The fairy tales in the SS playroom in FAZ of May 13, 2013, page 30
  7. ↑ Filmfest Hamburg  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.filmfest-hamburg.de  
personal data
SURNAME Geissler, Benjamin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Orbeck , Osnabrück district