Carsten Diercks

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Carsten Diercks (born August 8, 1921 in Preetz Monastery near Kiel , † November 2, 2009 in Hamburg ) was a German documentary filmmaker .

Carsten Diercks around 1975
Pillow stone for Carsten Diercks and wife
in the women's garden

life and work

Diercks began his career after the end of the Second World War as a photo journalist and employee at the radio in the North West German Broadcasting . In 1952 he became a cameraman for the NWDR. In 1953 he was involved in the first worldwide use of the pilot tone . He began to make documentaries against the opinion of the management of the broadcasting corporation and was ultimately to work on almost 500 documentaries as cameraman, director or chief editor. Diercks was instrumental in developing the Hamburg style when creating TV documentaries.

Carsten Diercks was also involved in the development of television in India as a consultant on behalf of the Indian Federal Minister for Information Indira Gandhi from 1959 onwards .

He was married to the CDU politician Helga Diercks-Norden .

Carsten Diercks was awarded the Great Federal Cross of Merit in 1985. Together with his wife Helga Diercks-Norden, he lived in a house in Hamburg-Lemsahl-Mellingstedt until his death . Both found their final resting place in the Ohlsdorf cemetery in Hamburg.

Filmography

  • 1955: Net overboard - herring fishing in the North Sea

Works

  • Carsten Diercks: "The world comes into the room". It began in 1952: the beginnings of television documentary films on the NWDR / ARD . Diercks, Hamburg 2000.

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personal data
SURNAME Diercks, Carsten
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German documentary filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH August 8, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Preetz Monastery
DATE OF DEATH November 2, 2009
Place of death Hamburg