Christoph Huebner

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Christoph Hübner (* 1948 ) is a German filmmaker , author and producer .

Life

Hübner grew up in Heidelberg and Hamburg as the son of a church musician and an editor. He passed his Abitur in 1968 at the Johanneum in Hamburg. Then he studied law in Heidelberg and Munich, at the same time he was intensively involved with photography . In 1968 he met Gabriele Voss , with whom he has lived and worked ever since. From 1971 he studied at the University of Television and Film Munich, Dept. of Feature Films. The early college films received attention and were shown at various festivals such as Oberhausen, Hof and Mannheim. The documentary film "Huckinger March" (1973) was Hübner's first encounter with the Ruhr area. The next films were also made in the Ruhr area, including the four-and-a-half-hour film " Life story of the miner Alphons S. " (1978), for which Hübner (with Gabriele Voss and Alphons Stiller) received the 1980 Adolf Grimme Prize . In 1975 he received a professorship at the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg. In 1978 the company moved to the Ruhr area. There, Hübner founded the RuhrFilmZentrum together with Gabriele Voss, Werner Ruzicka, Theo Janßen, Günther Hörmann and others, which aims to achieve long-term and sustainable film work in the Ruhr area. He is also involved in regional film funding in North Rhine-Westphalia and was involved in the founding of the Filmbüros NW (1980) and the documentary film work group (1980).

From 1978 onwards, numerous, mostly documentary films were made for cinema and television. Many of the projects are film cycles or long-term projects. They accompany places and people over long periods of time, especially in the Ruhr area. Examples include “ Prosper / Ebel - Chronicle of a colliery and its settlement” (1979–1983, 1995–1998, 2018 ff.); “People in the Ruhr Area ” (1986–1988); " Emscher Sketches" (2006 to 2016); the soccer trilogy " The Champions", "Halftime" and "Nachspiel" (1998 to 2019).

Other focal points are Germany and German history. Often there are films about people whose history Hübner documents as chronicles of their time: life story of the miner Alphons S. (1978); AnnaZeitLand (1993), Thomas Harlan - Wandersplitter (2006); Estate (2017);

In addition, Hübner is always interested in art and artists and in reflecting on his own profession: Vincent van Gogh - The Way to Courrières (1989); Wagner Pictures (2002); Mandala (2012); Transmitting (2013) are examples of this. For 3sat , WDR and ZDF , Hübner developed the television format Documentary Works (1995–2012) , a series of 17 one-hour film encounters with fellow documentarians such as Klaus Wildenhahn , Jürgen Böttcher , Volker Koepp , Peter Nestler , Johan van der Keuken , Harun Farocki , Thomas Heise , Nikolaus Geyerhalter and others. It is about the documentary as an author's film.

In addition to the film work, Hübner published numerous texts on documentary film and its aesthetics. Lectureships, teaching positions and workshops took him through Europe, the USA, South America, South and Southeast Asia and Africa.

In 2004 he and Gabriele Voss received the Order of Merit of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia for his general services to NRW film and his film work in the Ruhr area.

The films by Christoph Hübner and Gabriele Voss have been shown at numerous national and international festivals a. a. in Berlin, Mannheim, Leipzig, Duisburg, Munich, Hamburg, Amsterdam, Vienna, Linz, Paris, Lussas, London, Riga, Haifa, Montreal, Melbourne, Bombay, Shanghai and Beijing.

The Goethe-Institut presents its films worldwide as part of tours and workshops in London, New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Chicago, Houston, Dallas, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Salvador de Bahia, Dacca, New Delhi, Calcutta, Kathmandu, Hyderabad, Jakarta, Manila, Madras, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Singapore, Accra, Lille, Toulouse, Tunis and Tblissi.

Hübner is a member of the German and European Film Academy.

Filmography

  • 1971: the first year
  • 1972: Prague film *
  • 1973: Three Views of a City
  • 1974: Huckinger March
  • 1976: Everyday life in a crisis *
  • 1978: Life story of the miner Alphons S. / 8 parts / 256 min *.
  • 1979–2003 cycle "Prosper / Ebel Chronicle of a colliery and its settlement":
  • 1980: The fourth generation (co-director: Theo Janßen)
  • 1980: Greetings from neighbor Karl
  • 1981: The Immigrants *
  • 1982: In the middle of Germany *
  • 1983: Stadtmusik Unna - fragments of a musical production
  • 1983: Ruhrchronik I: Clearance and demolition of the house on Auguststrasse No. 5
  • 1984: Ruhrchronik II: Back The Miners *
  • 1986–1989: "People in the Ruhr Area" cycle:
  • 1986: Hans Karl Steffen - Dortmund - painter
  • 1986: Theo Jörgensmann - Bottrop - clarinet
  • 1987: Eckard Schulz - Dortmund - Steeldrums
  • 1989: Ilse Kibgis - Gelsenkirchen - poems
  • 1988: The city rehearsal or: seven ways of speaking about Unna
  • 1989: Vincent van Gogh - The Way to Courrières *
  • 1993: Anna Zeit Land *
  • 1995–2012: Working as a documentary / a film series with a total of 17 films *
  • 1998: The old and the new / continuation of the cycle: Prosper / Ebel - Chronicle of a colliery and its settlement *
  • 2002: Wagner pictures / film installation based on musical motifs from "Ring des Nibelungen" by Richard Wagner *
  • 1998–2003: The Champions * (1st part of the football trilogy)
  • 2006: Thomas Harlan - Wandersplitter *
  • 2009: HalbZeit * (2nd part of the soccer trilogy)
  • 2006–2013: Emscher sketches / cycle of 80 documentary short films *
  • 2012: Mandala *
  • 2013: Transmitting *
  • 2017: Estate * [1]
  • 2019: Nachspiel * (3rd part of the football trilogy)

(* together with Gabriele Voss )

Films on loan

Real Fiction Film Distribution:

  • Vincent van Gogh - The way to Courrières / Anna Zeit Land / The Champions / HalbZeit / Thomas Harlan - Wandersplitter / Mandala / Transmitting

Kinemathek in the Ruhr area:

  • Everyday life in a crisis / Tor 2 / Ruhrchroniken I-III / Prosper / Ebel: The fourth generation / Matte weather / Women's life / The immigrants / In the middle of Germany

Deutsche Kinemathek Foundation :

  • Life story of the miner Alphons S. / Vincent van Gogh - The way to Courrieres

Film cinema text:

  • estate

DVD editions

  • Life story of the miner Alphons S. , LWL-Medienzentrum für Westfalen, D 2018
  • Prosper / Ebel - Chronicle of a colliery and its settlement , 7 films (1979–1998), LWL-Medienzentrum für Westfalen, D 2018
  • Die Champions , Alive - Vertrieb und Marketing, D 2003
  • Cuts in space and time , Edition Filmmuseum, Germany 2006
  • Thomas Harlan - Wandersplitter , Edition Filmmuseum, D 2007
  • Documentary work 1 - Wildenhahn / Böttcher / Nestler / Koepp, Edition Filmmuseum, D 2008
  • Emscher sketches. People and Places in the Emschertal D 2006–2010, Klartext, D 2012
  • Mandala , Good! Movies, D 2013
  • Documentary work 2 - Grabe / Mikesch / Farocki / Heise, Edition Filmmuseum, D 2013
  • Transmitting , Good! Movies, D 2016
  • Discount , Good! Movies, D 2019

Publications

  • Approximate realization of a small utopia. In: Jahrbuch Film 79/80. Reports / reviews / data. Published by Hans Günther Pflaum . Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich / Vienna 1979.
  • The viewer as an interested party. In: The Documentary in Criticism, Klaus Kreimeier (editor), Josef Schnelle (editor), Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Filmjournalisten (editor), Berlin 1982
  • Film work on site. In: Bergarbeiter im Spielfilm, Bert Hogenkamp (ed.), KM Laufen, Oberhausen 1982
  • The documentary as an attitude. In: Augenzeugen, Hans Helmut Prinzler (ed.), Eric Rentschler (ed.), Verlag der Autor , Frankfurt 1988
  • Filming, writing, photography. In: epd Film , Frankfurt 1989
  • Cinema in your head, television in front of your eyes. In: Bilderwelten, Weltbilder, Marburg 1991
  • Documentary work - 7 conversations about the documentary. Gabriele Voss (ed.), Vorwerk 8, Berlin 1996
  • Into the Open - Documentary Work II, Gabriele Voss (ed.), Vorwerk 8, Berlin 2000
  • Nine remarks on the current state of documentary film. In: Peter Zimmermann u. a. “Documentary film in transition”, Konstanz 2009
  • The art of asking. In: Carsten Heinze u. a. “Forms of medialization of the autobiographical”, 2009
  • Film / work: texts, documents, work notes. Bert Rebhandl (ed.) Vorwerk 8, Berlin 2014

Awards among others

Films about Christoph Huebner

  • The interest in raw states - portrait of the documentary filmmaker Christoph Hübner . By Alexander Kluge in series 10 11 , 30 mins ago, RTL, 1989
  • Dialogue with Christoph Huebner . By Peter Kremski, Kanal 4, RTL, 60 min., 1990
  • Working with images and sounds , portrait of Christoph Hübner a. Gabriele Voss, 30 min., WDR 1994, 3Sat 1998.
  • Christoph Hübner & Gabriele Voss on the life story of the miner Alphons S. (LWL, extra on the new edition of the film cycle)

Interviews and texts about Hübner (selection)

  • Wilhelm Roth on Christoph Hübner, Gabriele Voss and the Ruhrfilmzentrum, in: The documentary film since 1960 , Munich, Lucerne 1982
  • Wilhelm Roth: Christoph Hübner - chronicler of the Ruhr area , in Cornelia Bolesch: Documentary television , Munich 1990
  • Rory Mac Lean: Interview with Christoph Hübner , Goethe-Institut , artist in Germany
  • Michael Girke: People. Places. Everyday life - conversation with Christoph Hübner and Gabriele Voss about their Ruhrgebietsflme , documentary film initiative
  • Michael Girke: The raw and the cooked - a conversation with Christoph Hübner and Gabriele Voss , in: Filmdienst 7/2011

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Order of Merit of the Country | The state portal Wir in NRW. November 27, 2014, accessed October 14, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Show member. Retrieved on October 14, 2019 (German).
  3. ↑ Prague film - Film Detail - HFF Munich. Retrieved October 14, 2019 .
  4. ↑ HUPE Film - Documentary - Haymatloz - Exile in Turkey. Retrieved October 14, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Meet the Germans - Typically German - The Artistic - Christoph Huebner - Goethe Institute. Retrieved October 14, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Huebner, Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German filmmaker, writer and producer
DATE OF BIRTH 1948