Christian Ziewer
Christian Ziewer (born April 1, 1941 in Danzig ) is a German director and screenwriter .
biography
Christian Ziewer was born in Gdansk in 1941 and grew up in Berlin , where he attended a humanistic grammar school. Studied electrical engineering, philosophy and social history. Directing work at theaters. Production manager for commercial film productions. Studied directing at the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin until he was relegated (with other students) in 1968. Directing student with Egon Monk , assistants with Peter Lilienthal and Franz Peter Wirth .
Together with Max Willutzki , Jean-François LeMoign and Thomas Hartwig , Ziewer made a series of so-called cinograms, short documentary films that accompanied the work of the tenants' self-organization politically after the relegation in the Märkisches Viertel. This work also resulted in Ziewer's feature film debut Dear Mother, I'm fine , in which numerous activists from the tenant movement in the Märkisches Viertel are involved. After the success of his debut, Ziewer was a co-founder of Basis-Film Verleihs Berlin, which emerged in 1975 from the non-commercial distribution of Christian Ziewer's and Klaus Wiese's films. In the first distribution program it was said that films were to be collected and made available, “which 1. describe the working and living conditions of the wage earners and 2. engage in the social struggle on the part of wage earners. (...) Although this conflict is waged daily in economic, political and cultural life, it hardly penetrates the public consciousness. "
Ziewer was involved in film journalism and film politics, for example in the Berlin Film Working Group (BAF), and later took part in research projects on cinema and (non-commercial) film distribution in Germany with some of his fellow students who were expelled in 1968. After 1989 he worked on setting up the “Alte Kachelofenfabrik” cultural center in Neustrelitz, to which he is still closely associated today.
Filmography
Director and screenwriter
- 1967: Karl Moll, born 30 (short film)
- 1968: Loneliness in the Big City (Documentary)
- 1970: (Collaboration) Now I can finally live happily ever after (documentary)
- 1971: (with Klaus Wiese) Dear mother, I'm fine , s. plus proletarian film
- 1973: (with Klaus Wiese) Snowdrops bloom in September
- 1975: The upright walk
- 1978: I see this country from afar
- 1985: The death of the white horse
actor
- 1968: Until the happy ending
- 1971: A bonus for Irene
- 1981: This is film - Kluge, Godard and others ...
Awards
- Berlin Art Prize
- Adolf Grimme Prize
- German Film Critics' Prize
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Christian Ziewer in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- ^ Fabian Tietke: The politicization of film production. The film work by Christian Ziewer, Max Willutzki, Cristina Perincioli and Helga Reidemeister in the Märkisches Viertel in the 1970s. In: Filmblatt. 19th year, 2014, No. 55/56, pp. 92–113.
- ^ First distribution catalog of Basis-Film Verleihs Berlin (poster), 1975, quoted here. based on: Film in Berlin: Der Basis-Film Verleih (= Kinemathek, issue 65, 20th year, October 1983, p. 4 f.), see www.basisfilm.de/Über uns, 1975, accessed on February 24, 2014 .
- ↑ Background information on the film on Helke Sander's website .
- ↑ Rosemarie Kuheim: Christian Ziewer. Retrieved July 31, 2010 .
- ↑ Deutsches Filmhaus
Web links
- Basic film rental / About us
- Deutsches Filmhaus - Christian Ziewer
- Deutsches Filmhaus - Filmography
- Christian Ziewer in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
- Christian Ziewer in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Old tiled stove factory - basic culture factory and cinema
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ziewer, Christian |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 1, 1941 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gdansk , Germany |