Celino white lead

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Celino white lead , real name Mechl Feiler ; (Born November 30, 1938 , but actually on January 4, 1937 in Przemyśl ) is a German director and screenwriter .

Life

Celino Bleiweiß was actually called Moses “Mechl” Feiler, son of the Polish-Jewish parents Mosche and Rachel Feiler (née Groß). The parents had married in 1936 and, with their young son Mechl, were subjected to the persecution of the Jews , which threatened the family after the occupation of Przemyśl on September 15, 1939. His parents were probably murdered in the Przemyśl massacre between September 15 and 19, 1939 by Einsatzgruppen of the Security Police and the SD . This fate also met the family of Richard "Szaja", who were murdered by a German police force in July 1941, namely Mrs. Hella and daughter Celina Bleiweiß, who had (forged) American passports.

However, the passports of the murdered Bleiweiß family were preserved. In the summer of 1942, the surviving Richard "Szaja" Bleiweiß (December 12, 1906 to March 16, 1998) and Sarah Katz (January 28, 1922 to December 19, 1991) took on the role of the murdered family Daughter searched for the preserved passport. They found Mechl Feiler, Sarah Katz's cousin. Richard forged Celina's first name in Celino, Richard and Sarah now pretended to be his parents. Mechl Feiler was henceforth called Celino Bleiweiß and took over the date of birth of the deceased girl, who was almost two years younger than him.

With this false identity of American passports, the family came to a special camp of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp as “ exchange Jews ” in 1942 . Here in October 1943 the verification of the authenticity of the papers of the "exchange Jews" began. After that, over 1,000 Polish Jews were transferred to other camps, 350 remained in Bergen-Belsen, including the Bleiweiß family. Their papers were recognized, however, so that the family did not leave the camp for the Theresienstadt concentration camp until April 11, 1945 . The chaos of the war now led to a train odyssey that ended on April 23, 1945 in Tröbitz . There, Russian soldiers freed the 2,000 train passengers. After the war, the family stayed in the Soviet zone of occupation, later the GDR, and began a new life there. Her new identity has long remained a family secret. In 1949 the family moved to Dresden.

Works

From 1957 Bleiweiß studied directing at the University of Film and Television in Babelsberg , among others with Günter Reisch . His diploma film Das Spiel (made under the supervision of Konrad Wolf ) was shown in 1962 at the 5th  International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film . In the same year, Bleiweiß made his debut as an actor in the multi-part TV series Das Grüne Ungeheuer by Rudi Kurz based on the novel by Wolfgang Schreyer . Between 1966 and 1968 he staged a number of plays for the Moritzburg TV theater in Halle , including The Mandatory Mandate of John Mortimer , The Love Worn by William Shakespeare , The Panne by Friedrich Dürrenmatt and Man of Fate by George Bernard Shaw . In 1970 he wrote the 13-part television series Zollfahndung for GDR television , in which he was also involved as a co-director. The series, which is very popular in the GDR, showed the customs investigators portrayed by Robert Trösch , Manfred Zetzsche and Roman Silberstein uncovering West German escape helpers, drug and art smugglers.

In 1971 he shot his first feature film for DEFA , the Andersen film adaptation of Little and Big Klaus with Fred Düren and Siegfried Kilian in the leading roles. 1973 followed the Eichendorff film from the life of a good-for-nothing with Dean Reed in the title role. In 1975, based on the children's book Der gute Stern des Janusz K. by Gisela Karau, he shot the feature film My blue bird flies , in which a communist kapo (played by Martin Trettau ) tries to save a Polish boy from annihilation in a concentration camp. In the same year the television film The Black Mill was made , a film adaptation of Jurij Brězan's literary adaptation of the Sorbian Krabat saga with Klaus Brasch as Krabat and Leon Niemczyk as the black miller. In 1977 he was awarded the National Prize of the GDR, 2nd class for art and literature. Further television works followed, for example in 1980 the film adaptation of Eberhard Panitz 's childhood memories of my father's tram , which played in Dresden during the war and post-war years, in 1981 the Goethe adaptation of Wilhelm Meister's theatrical broadcast with Daniel Minetti in the title role, and in 1983 the E. T. A. Hoffmann filming Zauber um Zinnober with Walter Hermann as Klein Zaches.

His last GDR television production, Expulsion from Paradise with Jaecki Schwarz , remained unfinished because Celino Bleiweiß moved to the Federal Republic in 1983 with his wife, the actress Monika Woytowicz , and their daughter Ina Bleiweiß , who was born in 1968 . The fairy tale film Zauber um Zinnober (based on a fairy tale by E. T. A. Hoffmann) was first and last broadcast on GDR television on December 25, 1983. Since the director, author and female lead had left the GDR in December 1983, the film was banned in accordance with the GDR's procedures.

The family moved to Munich. Celino continues to work there as a television director. Among other things, he was involved in the two most successful SAT-1 series of the 1990s, Anna Maria - A woman goes her way and Der Bergdoktor . Bleiweiß also works as a theater director and was a lecturer at the Bavarian Theater Academy August Everding in Munich . Celino's foster parents maintained the alleged marriage for over 50 years and died in 1991 (mother) and 1998 (father). His marriage to Monika Woytowicz was divorced in 2005.

Filmography

  • 1962: The Green Monster - Actor
  • 1962: Das Spiel (diploma film) - also screenplay
  • 1971: Customs investigation (TV series) - also screenplay
  • 1971: Little and big Klaus - also co-script with Wera and Claus Küchenmeister
  • 1973: From the life of a good-for-nothing - also script
  • 1974: I was in Honolulu - bet? (TV) - also co-script with Klaus Wolf
  • 1974: The Own Skin (TV film) - also screenplay
  • 1975: My blue bird flies - also script
  • 1975: The Black Mill (TV)
  • 1976: Viktoria (TV) rejected - also script
  • 1978: Youth consecration (TV)
  • 1980: Marx and Engels - Stations of their Lives (TV series) - co-director with Michael Knof
  • 1980: I want to go home (TV)
  • 1980: My father's tram (TV two-part) - also co-script with Eberhard Panitz
  • 1981: Der Sturz (TV) - also co-script with Horst Kleineidam
  • 1982: Wilhelm Meister's theatrical broadcast (two-part TV series)
  • 1983: Zauber um Zinnober (TV) - also co-script with Monika Woytowicz
  • 1983: My Friends (TV)
  • 1987: Steel Chamber Zurich (TV series, several episodes)
  • 1987: Gamer Stories (TV series, multiple episodes)
  • 1988: If you ask me ... (TV series, multiple episodes)
  • 1988–1990: Florian (TV series)
  • 1989: All in Queen of Spades (TV)
  • 1989–1991: Sag mal Ah (TV series, several episodes)
  • 1989–1993: Two Munich residents in Hamburg (TV series, several episodes)
  • 1991: The biggest festival of the year - Christmas with our television families (TV)
  • 1994–1997: Anna Maria - A woman goes her way (TV series, several episodes)
  • 1997–1998: Der Bergdoktor (TV series, several episodes)
  • 1998: Deadly Diamonds / The Secret of the Disobedient (TV)
  • 1999: A love on Mallorca (TV)
  • 2001: The bestseller - million dollar coup in Gran Canaria (TV)
  • 2000–2008: In all friendship (TV series, several episodes)

Literature and Documentaries

  • Hans Müncheberg: He makes German films with the temperament of a Pole and the feeling of a Jew. In conversation with Celino Bleiweiß . In: Film und Fernsehen , 3/1992, pp. 12–15
  • The gift of life , documentary, 84 min Written and directed. Dagmar Wittmer, production: ARD , first broadcast: December 15, 2014 Summary of daserste.de ( Memento of 26 November 2014 Internet Archive ), call: January 23 2015.
  • Claudia Kusebauch (Ed.): The TV theater Moritzburg II. Program history . Leipzig 2005. ISBN 3-86583-015-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The life of Celino Bleiweiß was portrayed in the television documentary The Gifted Life on January 15, 2014. (see web links)
  2. ↑ Torsten Wahl: Now he wants to stay who he is not , Berliner Zeitung from December 15, 2014
  3. ↑ There Celino was often called as Richard, because Celino was a very unusual name in Saxony.
  4. ↑ hff-Potsdam: The Game ( Memento from February 17, 2006 in the web archive archive.today )
  5. ↑ Only 12 episodes were broadcast, cf. Early crime series on German television including crime satires and mystery puzzles 1958–1978
  6. ^ Theater academy on white lead ( Memento from August 13, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME White lead, Celino
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Feiler, Mechl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH January 4, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Przemyśl