Burghard Schlicht

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Burghard Schlicht (2020)

Burghard Schlicht (born July 24, 1946 in Detmold ) is a German filmmaker , journalist and author .

Origin and education

Burghard Schlicht's parents were the economist Herbert Schlicht and the economist Trude Schlicht, nee. Nebelsiek. At times he grew up in Detmold with his grandparents, the archaeologist Leo Nebelsiek and his wife Martha. He attended elementary school in Detmold and Frankfurt . There he also attended the old-language Lessing grammar school , where the later writer Jörg Fauser was his classmate. It was also Fauser who brought Schlicht to journalism in 1978 and later worked with him on the editorial board of the magazine TransAtlantik . After years of apprenticeship and traveling as a gardener, newspaper seller and TV producer , Schlicht began studying sociology in Frankfurt in 1971, which he completed in 1976 with a thesis on the figure of the "loser" in independent American cinema.

Film work

In 1970 Schlicht was "discovered" for the film and played a leading role in Michael Fengler's film Weg vom Fenster . Fengler, who worked with Rainer Werner Fassbinder , brought Schlicht to the antiteater , where he lived for a few months and worked on film productions, including the warning of a holy hooker and pioneer in Ingolstadt . Schlicht left the antiteater in November 1970, lived in Marrakech for half a year , and from the autumn of 1971 worked again increasingly in film productions, including Wim Wenders ' Die Angst des Tormanns bei penalty based on the novel by Peter Handke . In 1973/74 Schlicht wrote the screenplay for Eierdiebe , which Michael Fengler filmed with Marquard Bohm and Charly Wierczejewski in the leading roles. Further collaboration in films by Hark Bohm , Veith von Fürstenberg and Hans Noever . In 1989 Schlicht wrote the screenplay, produced, directed and played the leading role in the feature film Der Schönste ( ZDF ), a satirical comedy set in the Frankfurt Bahnhofsviertel (camera Jörg Jeshel , music Rio Reiser ).

Journalistic activity

From around 1980 Schlicht turned increasingly to journalistic activities - initially for print media (TransAtlantik, Der Spiegel , Stern , Pflasterstrand ), later for cultural reporting on television. Articles about the film in the Transatlantik magazine published by Hans Magnus Enzensberger , such as Poor German Film or Die Traumgroßhandel , which Schlicht wrote under the pseudonym Olga Grüber , caused a sensation. His film column Überflieger achieved some notoriety on the paved beach .

From 1986 Schlicht worked increasingly for cultural magazines on television, including books, books , a literary program initiated by Wilfried F. Schoeller , but also for programs such as Kulturzeit or ttttitel, thesen, temperamente .

Philosophy films and artist portraits

In the nineties, numerous films up to 50 minutes long were made for the Philosophy Today series by NDR and WDR about Jean Baudrillard ( On the Disappearance of Reality ), about metaphysics ( A journey to the things behind things ), about Michel de Montaigne , the Inventor of the essay, ( A journey between times ) or the philosophy of Hans Blumenberg ( Between Heaven and Cave ) and others. Some of the co-authors were the philosopher Franz Josef Wetz and the journalist Mathias Greffrath . This was followed by portraits of artists, for example about the film director Margarethe von Trotta , the photographer Barbara Klemm and the writers Wilhelm Genazino and Ingo Schulze .

novel

From 2012, Schlicht worked on the novel At the Moment of Freedom , which was published in July 2020. It tells the story of a young American woman who comes to Germany in 2001 and tries to track down her mother, who had lived on the film scene thirty years earlier, and all the greats of the film world at the time, such as the "Großer Kantlehner" or the singer Anna Lund knew. The young woman gets caught in a whirlwind of crazy scenes and encounters adventurous characters: The panorama of an era unfolds - spanning times and continents.

family

Burghard Schlicht is married, has two children and lives in Frankfurt's Westend .

Works

Films (selection)

  • 1970 Away from the window ; Main role of karate ; Director: Michael Fengler
  • 1970 The American soldier ; Furnishing; Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • 1970 warning of a holy hooker ; Supporting role and equipment; Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • 1970 pioneers in Ingolstadt ; Supporting role and equipment; Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • 1971 The fear of the goalie at the penalty kick ; Furnishing; Director: Wim Wenders
  • 1972 Mourir Tranquille ( Payday ); continuous supporting role; Director: Hans Noever
  • 1973 We want to build an ark ; Furnishing; Director: Hark Bohm
  • 1974 shadow boxer (also: egg thieves ); Script; Realized in 1976 under the direction of Michael Fengler
  • 1975 A little love ; Main role of Nick ; Director: Veith von Fürstenberg
  • 1981 Oasis ; Short film, script and direction; World premiere: International Short Film Festival Oberhausen , with Eddie Constantine ; Predicate: valuable
  • 1989 The most beautiful ; Feature film 90 minutes, book, director, leading role, ZDF; World premiere at Hof International Film Festival 1989
  • 1991 Jean Baudrillard - On the Disappearance of Reality ; Philosophy feature; 45 minutes, NDR, script and direction
  • 1992 A journey to the things behind things , philosophy features on the subject of metaphysics; 45 minutes, NDR, script and direction
  • 1993 Montaigne ; Portrait of the French Philosopher; 45 minutes, WDR, co-author with Mathias Greffrath, director
  • 1994 Between Heaven and Cave - On the philosophy of Hans Blumenberg , Feature; 45 minutes, WDR, co-author and director
  • 1995 Freezing Prickles - Thoughts on Communitarianism ; Philosophy feature; 45 minutes, WDR, co-author and director
  • 1997 Pillars of Dignity - In the Face of Human Rights , Philosophy Feature; 30 minutes, WDR, co-author and director
  • 1999 In Search of Immortality , About Genetic and Biotechnology; Science feature; 50 minutes, HR / ARTE, script and direction
  • 2000 The fastest man in the world - Peter Weibel ; Portrait of the ZKM director Peter Weibel; 30 minutes, HR, script and direction
  • 2003 The Rogues of Bergen - About the town clerks of Bergen-Enkheim; 30 minutes, HR, script and direction
  • 2004 This comical melancholy of Wilhelm Genazino - writer portrait ; 30 minutes, HR, script and direction
  • 2005 A heavenly Hesse - for the 60th birthday of the cabaret artist Matthias Beltz ; 30 minutes, HR, script and direction
  • 2005 With heart and mind - portrait of Margarethe von Trotta ; 45 minutes, HR / ARTE, script and direction
  • 2006 In the Club of the Vienna Underworld - On the trail of the third man ; 30 minutes, HR / ARTE, script and direction
  • 2007 Travel routes to art / China: Guangdong - southern, cosmopolitan, futuristic ; HR, script and direction
  • 2008 Black and white is color enough. The photographer Barbara Klemm ; 45 minutes, HR / ARTE, script and direction
  • 2009 On the way between East and West. The writer Ingo Schulze ; 45 minutes, HR / ARTE, script and direction

Radio plays

novel

  • At the moment of freedom , Olga Grueber publishing house, Frankfurt am Main, 2020. ISBN 978-3-00-065307-0 . 528 pages

Article about Burghard Schlicht and his films

  • Michael Thumser: Different from the rest of the world . In: Frankenpost, 28./29. October 1989
  • Bernd Jentschin, Kay Hoffmann: Hof in the rollercoaster of films . In: filmecho / filmwoche, November 3, 1989, p. 3ff
  • The dream of quick luck . In: Die Welt, November 14, 1989, p. 24
  • From Frankfurt to Bangkok . In: FR, November 14, 1989, p. 25
  • Arnd Wesemann: 60 hectares of Germany . In: taz, November 16, 1989
  • The most beautiful . In: Hamburger Abendblatt, November 16, 1989, p. 16
  • Wonderfully colorful . In: Rheinische Post, November 16, 1989
  • The most beautiful . In: Frankfurter Neue Presse, March 26, 1990
  • Frankfurt from below . In: FAZ, April 1, 1990
  • Raimund Gerz: The most beautiful . In: epd-Film, 5/1990
  • Jürgen Richter: Burghard Schlicht. Marginal figure in German film . In: FAZ, September 20, 1991
  • The marble block . In: FR, November 11, 1991
  • Mathias Bröckers : Things are nowhere near . In: taz, November 12, 1991
  • Andreas Rossmann : Sunday excursion to Montaigne . In: FAZ, October 16, 1993
  • Henning Ritter : Cave Whispers . In: FAZ, March 14, 1995
  • Fritz Göttler: Fleeting neighbor . In: SZ, February 25, 2006
  • Boris Tomiç: Black and white is color enough . In: journal frankfurt, May 2009, p. 8f
  • Eva-Maria Magel: It's life . In: FAZ, May 15, 2009, p. 48
  • Rainer Kasselt: The resistant magician . In: Sächsische Zeitung, 24./25. April 2010, p. 9
  • World and turning point . In: Der Tagesspiegel, May 2, 2010

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personal data
SURNAME Simple, Burghard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German filmmaker, journalist and author
DATE OF BIRTH July 24, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Detmold