Benjamin Reding

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Benjamin Reding at the opening speech of his exhibition Kluft und Haut in Saarbrücken in August 2019

Benjamin Reding (born January 3, 1969 in Dortmund ) is a German film director , screenwriter , film producer , author and photographer .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1987, Reding initially worked sporadically as a freelance poster designer and from 1990 to 1991 as a singer in the Dortmund crossover band ColeDress , then he studied archeology and art history at the Ruhr University in Bochum . From 1990 Reding worked as a freelance journalist for the WDR and was an actor at the student theater of the Ruhr University and at the NN street theater in Cologne. In 1991 Reding broke off his studies and became assistant director at the Schauspielhaus Bochum , among others under Frank-Patrick Steckel and Andrea Breth . A year later he directed the children's and youth theater at the Bochum theater for the first time. After his first personal experience as an actor on the stage of the Schauspielhaus, Reding began professional acting training in 1992 at the Stuttgart University of Music and Performing Arts , which he graduated with a diploma in 1995. Immediately afterwards he was a guest actor in the ensemble of the State Theater Stuttgart under Friedrich Schirmer . In addition, from 1996 Reding worked for many years as a radio play speaker for various ARD broadcasters .

From 1993 to 1997 Benjamin Reding took part in several short films by his twin brother Dominik Reding as an actor, co-director and co-producer. In 1997 work began on the debut feature film Oi! Warning . In 1998, Reding and his brother founded the Eye! Warning film production in Hamburg . Since then Benjamin Reding has made two feature films as author, director, producer, caster, location scout and set photographer: Oi! Warning and For the Unknown Dog . The script for the children's and youth film project The Golem and the Twofold World has not yet been filmed. He also worked as a book author (Oi! Warning, a film at your own risk) and writes regularly as a columnist for the architecture magazine AIT . From 2003 to 2005 Reding held a teaching position as a guest lecturer at the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin . In 1999 he received the Directors Guild of America Award, and in 2003 the Film and Media Art Award from the Academy of Arts in Berlin. Benjamin Reding has been a member of the German Film Academy since 2008 . Since 2011 Reding has also been working more and more as a photographer. a. Published in Der Spiegel , the Los Angeles Times in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , the Variety , in Der Tagesspiegel or the Folha de S. Paulo . His visual works were also cover motifs for filmdienst , epd-Film and the Film & TV Kameramann . In addition, there have been three book publications with 120 of his photographs and graphics ( Alles Office , Coming Home , Pretty Public ), several poster designs, and currently a large-scale photo art exhibition with a cycle of 43 large-format works in the former French embassy in recent years in Saarbrücken under the title gap and skin . Since November 2019 the picture cycle Kluft und Haut has been part of the handicraft history collection in the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg.

At the age of three, Benjamin Reding fell ill with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus , type 1. This chronic, immune-mediated metabolic disease has accompanied him throughout his life. Reding has lived in Berlin-Neukölln since 2001 .

Filmography

Shooting for For the Unknown Dog in the former Knapsack after-work house in Hürth in October 2005
  • 1992: Acker-Menschen-Goethe (short film)
  • 1993: Adrian's Monday (short film)
  • 1995: Dreck (short film)
  • 1998: Taste the sweat! (Short film)
  • 1999: The Man of Chance (7 short films for theater production)
  • 2000: Oi! Warning (also casting, script and production)
  • 2002: Stay away from the good guys (video clip for the band Terrorgruppe )
  • 2007: For the unknown dog (also casting, screenplay and production)

theatre

  • 1990: Direction at the Schauspielhaus Bochum for the children's play Die Verliebte Wolke ( Sevdalı Bulut ) by the Turkish poet and playwright Nâzım Hikmet .
  • 2014: NSU for you / An evening with Beate , stage play (draft, together with Dominik Reding) for the Kammerspiele of the German Theater , Berlin

Exhibitions

Exhibition on Oi! Warning in Berlin, 2002
View into the exhibition Gap and Skin by Benjamin Reding in the Pingusson building in Saarbrücken on the opening day, August 9, 2019
  • 2002 on the development history and set design of Oi! Warning in the Babylon cinema , Berlin-Mitte
  • 2010 and 2011 on the film architecture of For the Unknown Dog in the AIT architecture salons in Hamburg, Munich and Cologne
  • from August to September 2019 photo art exhibition gap and skin with a series of pictures by ings. 43 portrait photographs by Benjamin Reding (in the format 97 cm × 149 cm) and accompanying texts by Dominik Reding on journeymen and women on their traditional journey in their typical work clothes (guild clothing) and as a nude (art) in the Pingusson building (formerly French Embassy in Saarbrücken ), in cooperation with the Ministry of Culture of the Saarland .
  • from September to October 2019 photo art exhibition gap and skin with a cycle of pictures by ings. 41 portrait photographs by Benjamin Reding of journeymen and women on their traditional wanderings in the Lüneburg Museum .
  • From July to November 2020, eight portraits from the photo cycle Kluft und Haut will be shown in the exhibition in Hall 1. An experiment at the Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg .

Awards

Benjamin Reding on November 4, 2007 at the awarding of the "Golden Beaver" at the Biberach Film Festival

literature

  • Dominik Reding, Benjamin Reding: Oi! WARNING, A film at your own risk . With over 450 photographs by Benjamin Reding. Schüren-Verlag, Marburg 2002, ISBN 3-89472-338-6
  • Film booklet for the cinema film Oi! WARNING by the Institute for Cinema and Film Culture, on behalf of the Federal Agency for Civic Education , text: Gudrun Baudisch, images: Benjamin Reding, IKF Cologne 2001
  • Dominik Reding, Benjamin Reding: EVERYTHING OFFICE , eighteen office stories. With 37 photographs by Benjamin Reding. Alexander Koch publishing house , Stuttgart (Leinfelden-Echterdingen) 2016, ISBN 978-3-87422-000-2
  • Dominik Reding, Benjamin Reding: COMING HOME , nineteen essays on the subject of living. With 39 photographs by Benjamin Reding. Alexander Koch publishing house, Stuttgart (Leinfelden-Echterdingen) 2017, ISBN 978-3-87422-001-9
  • Dominik Reding, Benjamin Reding: PRETTY PUBLIC , twenty-two essays on the subject of "Public Space". With 44 photographs by Benjamin Reding. Alexander Koch publishing house, Stuttgart (Leinfelden-Echterdingen) 2018, ISBN 978-3-87422-004-0

Artistic work

Two posters, designed by Benjamin Reding, for the photo art exhibition Kluft und Haut on advertising pillars in Saarbrücken in August 2019
  • 1987, poster and draft for Bei Liebe klickt’s , photo project and exhibition by the youth welfare office of the city of Dortmund on love, friendship and sexuality among young people
  • 1988 Poster AIDS - the end of the line fear? for the Dortmund Institute for Social Education (today Faculty 12 of the Technical University of Dortmund )
  • 1988 Poster Despite Aids: Give Sex Education a Chance! for the Dortmund Institute for Social Education ((today Faculty 12 of the Technical University of Dortmund ))
  • 1989 poster We tune in! for the 1st Youth Media Congress of the German Youth Press (until 2003 DJP, today Youth Press Germany )
  • 1993–1997 posters for the short films Adrian's Monday , Dreck and Taste the sweat!
  • 2000 official poster, press booklet and draft for the movie Oi! Warning
  • 2007 official poster, press booklet and draft for the movie For the Unknown Dog
  • 2019 posters, logo and information flyer for the photo art exhibition Gap and Skin of the Ministry of Education and Culture of the Saarland in Saarbrücken

Others

  • On New Year's Eve 1996/97, Benjamin Reding and his brother Dominik said they had an encounter with Uwe Böhnhardt , Uwe Mundlos and Beate Zschäpe, who later became known as the NSU trio, in Erfurt's main train station , where the Reding brothers shot several times has been. According to MDR and the investigation results of the public prosecutor's office in Erfurt and the Thuringian public prosecutor's office in Jena, this shooting was unanimously confirmed by several witnesses.
  • After a dispute about the two-time non-nomination of the feature film Oi! Warning of the awarding body of the German Film Prize at that time with the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media Prof. Julian Nida-Rümelin, who was responsible for the film award, in 2001, the method of awarding the award was revised and from 2004 in the hands of the to the newly founded German Film Academy .
  • The feature film For the Unknown Dog by Benjamin and Dominik Reding is, according to the publication statistics of the Filmförderungsanstalt, the only full-length German feature film (with a length of over 79 min.) That has been rated “particularly valuable” by the Wiesbaden film evaluation office to date (Reference year is 2019) has never been shown on German television.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ [1] Date and place of birth according to filmportal.de
  2. ↑ [2] , biography of Benjamin Reding from the website for the cinema film For the unknown dog
  3. ↑ Book documentation Neun Jahre Schauspielhaus Bochum 1986–1995, drama , p. 78 full-page photo and p. 163 cast list for the production. Publisher: Schauspielhaus Bochum, 1995
  4. ↑ [3] , program reference to the radio play Paradise Hospital Inc. by Friedrich Bestereiner , in Deutschlandradio Kultur for June 2016 with an ensemble list
  5. ^ [4] , contribution by Ed Meza German brothers return with new film in the print and online edition of Variety from Nov. 2, 2008 in the feature section
  6. ↑ Official website of the film production
  7. ↑ Dominik Reding, Benjamin Reding: Oi! Warning, a film at your own risk , page 198, Schüren-Verlag, Marburg, 2002, ISBN 3-89472-338-6
  8. ↑ List of members of the German Film Academy ( Memento from October 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  9. ↑ [5] , rituals of bald heads , contribution by Susanne Weingarten in Der Spiegel , with two set photos from Oi! Warning , photographed by Benjamin Reding, issue 40/2000, pp. 302–303, category: Culture
  10. ↑ [6] , review of the film Oi! Warning and interview with Benjamin Reding, in the Folha de Sao Paulo, issue of October 23, 1999 in the acontece section
  11. ^ Cover of the magazine Filmdienst , edition 25/2007, with photo by Benjamin Reding from the movie For the unknown dog
  12. ^ Cover of the magazine Filmdienst , edition 21/2000, with photo by Benjamin Reding from the movie Oi! Warning
  13. ↑ Cover of the magazine Film & TV Kameramann , edition 09/2000, with photo by Benjamin Reding from the making-of of the movie Oi! Warning
  14. ^ [7] , catalog of the German National Library , subject to: Benjamin Reding
  15. ↑ [8] Handicrafts and bare skin in the Pingusson building , exhibition note from Esther Brenner in the print edition of the Saarbrücker Zeitung from August 10, 2019, in the culture section
  16. ↑ [9] Blog post of the GNM on the history of the traveling craftsmen and women by Heike Zech, head of the collection and deputy general director of the GNM
  17. ↑ Berliner Zeitung , December 8th 2007 edition, article in the Sunday supplement by Regine Sylvester Live at your own risk: The twins Benjamin and Dominik Reding make films that attract attention.
  18. ↑ [10] Press release from the Saarland Ministry of Education and Culture on the opening of the photo art exhibition Kluft & Haut
  19. ↑ Book documentation Neun Jahre Schauspielhaus Bochum 1986–1995, drama p. 78 whole. Photo and p. 163 dates / cast list of the production. Publisher: Schauspielhaus Bochum, 1995
  20. ↑ [11] , in Spiegel Online , interview by Tobias Becker with Benjamin Reding and Dominik Reding under the heading Theater about Beate Zschäpe: We light up a soul. in the Panorama section of January 26, 2014
  21. ↑ [12] , Der Spiegel ( Spiegel Kultur ), February 2014 edition, issue 2, article Beate and we , p. 13
  22. ^ Monthly program of the Filmkunsthaus Babylon Berlin for October 2002
  23. ^ AIT , Zeitschrift für Architektur, Edition 06/2011, p. 139
  24. ↑ [13] Portraits of young people on the waltz , contribution by Barbara Renno for the program Der Afternoon on August 9, 2019 in the program of SR 2 Kulturradio des Saarländischen Rundfunks (SR)
  25. ↑ [14] The man behind tradition , article by Susanne Schütz in Die Rheinpfalz , Culture section, on August 10, 2019, issue No. 184
  26. ^ [15] Naked journeyman craftsmen in Lüneburg , TV contribution by Stefan Mühlenhoff for the program NDR-Kulturjournal on Sept. 30, 2019 in the program of NDR television
  27. ^ [16] Program information from the Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg from June 30, 2020 on the exhibition in Hall 1, an experiment
  28. ^ Annual report of the Filmförderungsanstalt for the 2001 calendar year
  29. ↑ Berlin Art Prize 2003 , booklet presenting the award winners, pp. 22/23, Film and Media Art Promotion Prize , published by the Akademie der Künste, Berlin, 2003
  30. ↑ [17] Article Vergebliche Sexsuche in Der Spiegel , issue 21/1988, p. 215, with illus. In the category Spectrum / Modernes Leben
  31. ↑ Bei Liebe klickt’s , catalog for the same exhibition, with illustration of the poster on p. 84 and p. 86, publisher: Institute for Social Pedagogy of the University of Dortmund, Bild- u. Text editing: Frank Herrath, in collaboration with the Museum for Art and Cultural History , Dortmund, 1988
  32. ↑ [18] , article under the heading Further proceedings against Beate Zschäpe from April 28, 2013
  33. ↑ [19] , MDR article from May 13, 2013
  34. ↑ Interview with Prof. Julian Nida-Rümelin on the German Film Prize in filmdienst , No. 14 of July 2, 2002 under the title Unbeeinflusst? , P. 9
  35. ↑ [20] , article by Hanns-Georg Rodek under the heading Bernd Eichinger and the dream of the Academy in Die Welt from June 14, 2002, print and online edition
  36. ^ [21] , FFA online presence, market research and statistics section , market data on the German cinema and film industry
personal data
SURNAME Reding, Benjamin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German director
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd January 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Dortmund , Germany