Bodo Witzke

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Bodo Witzke (2012)

Bodo Witzke (born November 15, 1955 in Krefeld ) is a German television journalist , documentary filmmaker , photographer , cartoonist and book author.

biography

Witzke grew up in Krefeld, attended the Fichte-Gymnasium Krefeld , is an engineer in phototechnology , and first completed an editing and then an editorial traineeship at ZDF .

As an author, he produced more than 70 reports, documentaries, documentary series and documentaries on social, development and environmental issues for ZDF, 3sat and ARTE . He worked u. a. for the ZDF report , ZDF-Zündstoff, 37 degrees, etc. Again and again he produced individual films and series for special or event programming outside of the classic broadcast vessels. An important focus of his work as an author from 1999 on was the development of multi-part "documentary film narratives" for the ZDF. He has made some of his more recent films himself. In his cinematic work he is close to the ideas of Direct Cinema .

He has repeatedly commented on the basics of the documentary television trade in publications and at advanced training events. He is particularly interested in the form of reportage and the dramaturgy of the authentic in features, in documentaries and documentaries, as well as dealing with the work of Georg Stefan Troller and Hans-Dieter Grabe . He worked as a coach for numerous television stations, including the Afghan television RTA.

In addition to the documentary television works, Witzke has shown his photographs and cartoons in numerous exhibitions.

He is married, has two children and lives near Mainz.

Prices

  • 1989 Wilhelmine-Lübke-Preis of the Kuratorium Deutsche Altershilfe ("Go as far as you can - old people in a day clinic")
  • 1993 Hartmannbund film and television award ("Among murderers, priests and forgotten - German doctors in Colombia").
  • 1994 XXI. Ekotopfilmfestival in Zilina / Slovakia: Prize of the Minister of Health of the Slovak Republic. ("Explosive: Are we poisoning our children?")
  • 1994 XXI. Ekotopfilmfestival in Zilina / Slovakia, 1994: First prize in the popular science program category ("Explosive: Are we poisoning our children?")
  • 1995 VII. Prix Leonardo / Parma: Certificate of honor, magna cum laude, silver medal. ("Explosive: Let us poison our children")
  • 1995 Journalist Prize for Development Aid : First Prize in the Television Category ("The Voice of the Tortured - A Journey with Amnesty International")
  • 1997 XXIII. Ekotopfilmfestival in Zilina / Slovakia: Prize of the Industrial Ecology Association ("Explosive: Risk of Electrosmog")
  • 1997 VIII. Prix Leonardo / Parma: Certificate of Honor, Bronze Certificate. ("Flammable substance: risk of electrosmog")
  • 2001 Hugo Junkers Prize of the Aviation Press Club ("Frankfurt Airport", Season 1)
  • 2003 Ernst Schneider Prize. Nomination in the category television, major business broadcast ("peat nose and blind flange")
  • 2012 "Explicit honorable mention" at the Senior Citizens' Journalism Award for the two-part series "Journey into Forgetting - Living with Alzheimer's"
  • 2013 Academy for Television, nomination in the category: "TV journalism" (for the two-part series of the long-term dementia observation "Die Briems - I am there for you" and "The Briems - You are my everything")

Movies

(Selection)

  • 1985: Ronny, Wiebke and the others. Bernd Wiegmann and Bodo Witzke report on young unemployed people
  • 1986: Annegret Baldus - at the age of 21 in a retirement home
  • 1988: Help from the collection bag. Ursula Scheicher and Bodo Witzke report on old donations
  • 1988: Ali Ali Oglu - a German karate master
  • 1988: Studies on credit
  • 1988: Nobody dances for a lifetime
  • 1989: poison seeker. Bodo Witzke reports on the fight against environmental hazards
  • 1989: Go as far as you can - old people in a day clinic
  • 1990: Brother Lukas and Pimann, the bum
  • 1990: No place for children. Bodo Witzke reports on the kindergarten misery
  • 1991: The Roßkur. Bodo Witzke reports on the health system in East Germany
  • 1991: The children of Bitterfeld
  • 1991: Just doctoring around. Nursing emergency - endless scandal? (in cooperation with Ursula Scheicher)
  • 1992: ... and you're out. Bodo Witzke reports on the Vietnamese in East Germany
  • 1993: Among murderers, priests and the forgotten. Bodo Witzke reports on German doctors in Colombia
  • 1994: "It used to be: dying". Bodo Witzke reports on German aid for Russian cancer children
  • 1994: Are We Poisoning Our Children? (with Gabriele Ammermann)
  • 1995: Jacqueline's death. Bodo Witzke reports on a priest among the "throwaway people"
  • 1995: The Voice of the Tortured. A trip with Amnesty International
  • 1996: Risk of electrosmog? (with Gabriele Ammermann)
  • 1996: Why does Alfred Welker risk his life in Agua Blanca?
  • 1996: Under the hammer. Bodo Witzke reports on the business with the bankruptcy
  • 1997: Witnesses to Terror
  • 1998: "We are all cannibals." Georg Stefan Troller and his personal descriptions
  • 1999: Frankfurt Airport , Season 1 (with Ulli Rothaus)
  1. Flight altitude zero
  2. Ladies from Bogota
  3. The neighing in the sky
  4. Glacier in a glass
  5. There and away
  • 2000: Frankfurt Airport , Season 2 (with Ulli Rothaus)
  1. Bomb or makeup
  2. Cocaine in stomach
  3. Flying fishes
  4. When gods travel
  5. Noise in the night
  • 2001: "Can you live with that?" Of cooks and flying fish (with Ulli Rothaus and Jürgen Rapp)
  • 2002: Port of Hamburg (with Ulli Rothaus)
  1. The channel is full
  2. A captain for the South Seas
  3. Hot goods
  4. No cash on the quay
  5. Duck dance in the Caribbean
  • 2002: "Peat nose and blind flange". With Manni and Peter in the port of Hamburg . (with Ulli Rothaus and others)
  • 2002: “I don't have to be afraid of bombs.” The documentary filmmaker Hans Dieter Grabe
  • 2004: The Bahnhofsviertel (with Ulli Rothaus)
  1. Red light and green sauce
  2. Chicken in the puff
  3. Life in the lucky bag
  4. The queen of the Kaisersack
  • 2005: The angel from the Kaisersack (with Ulli Rothaus)
  • 2006: Baltic Sea Stories (with Ulli Rothaus)
  1. Full on the stop
  2. Musical and fire jellyfish
  3. Starfish for Uschi
  4. Reach for the stars
  • 2007: Trolls, Fjords and a Post Ship (with Ulli Rothaus)
  1. Off to the Lofoten
  2. Beyond the North Cape
  • 2008: A stroll through Kabul
  • 2009: The ZDF-Quatschboxx: "What is actually ... typically German?"
  • 2011: Journey into oblivion. Living with Alzheimer's (with Uta Claus) - two-part documentary
  • 2011: Hartmut, Krista and forgetting (with Uta Claus)
  • 2012: "You are my everything". Care between love and bankruptcy
  • 2013: The Briems
  1. "I'm here for you"
  2. "You are my one and only"

Publications

  • Happy birthday . Dusseldorf. Bastei-Lübbe 1989 (cartoon book)
  • Little lexicon of love . Düsseldorf Econ 1992 (cartoon book)
  • Brother Lukas and Pimann, the bum . / ... and you're out. / The children of Bitterfeld . / Among murderers, priests and the forgotten . In: Blank, Rudolf (ed.) In the offside of cities. Dusseldorf. Econ 1994
  • Are we poisoning our children? Environmental toxins as dangers in everyday life . Munich. Heyne 1996 (with Gabriele Ammermann)
  • Primetime, Niches and the Art of Keeping one's balance . In: Prix Italia. The Quest For Television Quality: The Documentary. Naples 1996
  • "We are all cannibals". Georg Stefan Troller and the love for the documentary . St. Augustine. gardez! -Verlag 1999 / new edition 2012 Norderstedt (publisher and author together with Susanne Marschall )
  • Thiemo comes home alone . Hamburg. Carlsen 2000 (Pixi book with drawings by Susanne Krauss)
  • The television report . Konstanz, UVK 2003 / revised new edition 2010 (together with Ulli Rothaus)
  • Fabrics have to be kneaded . Heiner Gatzemeier and Bodo Witzke, ZDF. In: Wolf, Fritz: All documentation - or what? About the differentiation of the documentary on television. Düsseldorf, LfM 2003
  • The docu-soap . In: Ordolff, Martin: TV journalism. Constance 2005
  • Documentary, documentary, feature . In: Ordolff, Martin: TV journalism. Konstanz 2005 (together with Martin Ordolff)
  • “I don't have to be afraid of bombs.” The documentary filmmaker Hans-Dieter Grabe . Remscheid 2006
  • Klein-Winternheim. A photographic picture book . Norderstedt 2007
  • Mrs. Brickhouse is a story! / From the raw material to the film . / Cutting technique . / The problem with the scruples . / Dirty cutting . In: Streich, Sabine: Video journalism. A training manual. Constance 2008
  • Docu-soap and documentary work . In: Hellemeier, André: Documentary television in Germany. Saarbrücken 2010
  • Ten theses on storytelling ... from the perspective of a viewer with a certain thrill factor and a powerful satellite connection . Working paper on the dramaturgy of journalistic television formats, 2014. Retrieved on April 17, 2017

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Verbandsgemeinde Nieder-Olm: Tuscany in Rheinhessen - Photo exhibition by Bodo Witzke accessed on May 5, 2019
  2. ↑ Bodo Witzke, Ulli Rothaus: The television report . Konstanz, 2010 (2nd edition), p. 304
  3. ↑ Bodo Witzke - Seminars, Trainings, Coachings accessed on May 5, 2019
  4. ↑ Verbandsgemeinde Nieder-Olm: Nobody knows what it looks like inside me ... Cartoon exhibition by Bodo Witzke accessed on May 5, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Witzke, Bodo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German television journalist and documentary filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Krefeld