Christian Bau (director)
Christian Bau (born July 31, 1942 in Hamburg ) is a German film director , cameraman and film producer .
Life
Christian Bau trained as a photographer. From 1965 to 1969 he studied experimental film in Hamburg at the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg (HfbK) with Wolfgang Ramsbott . In between, longer stays in Berlin at the Literary Colloquium. In 1970 and 1971 he worked as an assistant to Werner Nekes at the HfbK. In 1979 he was a founding member of the media center “Die Thede” in Hamburg Altona. In 1999 he founded “Thede Filmproduktion”.
The documentary filmmaker taught at the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin and the HfBK in Hamburg. In autumn 2010 Christian Baus' documentary film about the artist Jimmy Ernst with the title Zwiebelfische - Jimmy Ernst, Glückstadt / New York was released together with a bibliophile book. In 2011 he opened an exhibition at the Museum der Arbeit Hamburg: "Onion Fish, Jimmy Ernst & the Chinese Circle, Glückstadt-New York" with photos by Candida Höfer ".
Christian Bau is a member of the documentary film working group agdok and the Free Academy of Arts in Hamburg .
He is married to the filmmaker and editor Maria Hemmleb and they have a son together. He lives with her in Hamburg.
Filmography
- 1965: early days
- 1967: crash
- 1968: Lübke - projection for adventure violin and smoke candle in Grünspan
- 1968: Memorial installation with Hamburg lattice in the Grünspan foyer
- 1968: Paper + Form
- 1969: Kubla Khan
- 1972: Ottensen fights - if that happens
- 1983: Hamburg-Altona, a strong piece (joint project of thede)
- 1983: For the pleasure of looking
- 1984: Thedebadfilm
- 1985: The New Hamburg
- 1985: lovesickness
- 1986: Bring on the good life
- 1987: machine storm
- 1990: Lubitsch Junior
- 1991: May - tape
- 1992: Friends rendezvous
- 1995: Eiffe for President
- 1998: The Critical Mass. Film in the underground - Hamburg ´68
- 1999: 6 films for Allermöhe (project in the context of art in public space)
- 2000: The Abaton Saga
- 2004: Axensprung
- 2005: Shot in the blue
- 2005: Handling Death
- 2005: Shiva's Places
- 2008: Belfruit and Loincloth
- 2010: Onion fish, Jimmy Ernst - Glückstadt / New York
- 2011: Getting Married, Marriage Rituals among the Newars of Bhaktapur, Nepal
- 2011: The Authentic Replica, Rebuilding of the Shinto Shrines at Ise, Japan
- 2011: Temples of Jains, The Process of Cyclic Renewal
- 2015: Snapshot Mon Amour , short film
Awards
- 1987: Prize of the German film critic for machine storm
- 2011: North German Film Award: “Best Documentary” for onion fish, Jimmy Ernst - Glückstadt / New York
literature
- Christian Bau: Die Thede 1980–1996 . Black Art, Hamburg 1996, ISBN 3-927840-23-8 .
- Christian Bau, Niels Gutschow, Stanisław Klimek : Shiva's places - lingas and rituals in Benares = Shiva's places . Verlag Peter Hess, Uenzen 2006, ISBN 3-938263-05-9 .
- Christian Bau (Ed.): Onion Fish, Jimmy Ernst, Glückstadt - New York . Grethem-Büchten: Black Art, Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-927840-40-9 .
Web links
- Christian Bau in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Christian Bau at filmportal.de
- Literature by and about Christian Bau in the catalog of the German National Library
- Christian Bau at Die Thede
- Christian Bau at AGDOK (Documentary Film Working Group)
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.hinzundkunzt.de/archiv/skurril-wohnt-in-der-thedestrase/
- ↑ http://www.abendblatt.de/kultur-live/kino/article668046/Achsenspruenge-einer-Filmerin.html
- ↑ http://www.abendblatt.de/kultur-live/kino/article310930/Peter-Lohmeyer-erlebt-sein-blaues-Wunder.html
- ↑ http://www.taz.de/Verschrecken/!58357/ TAZ Hamburg September 14, 2010
- ↑ Film page about onion fish at filmportal.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Construction, Christian |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German film director, cameraman and film producer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 31, 1942 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg , Germany |