Corinne powder

Corinne Pulver (born June 19, 1927 in Bern ) is a Swiss journalist , documentary filmmaker and book author .

Life

Corinne Pulver is one of three children of a civil engineer and a singer. The actress Liselotte Pulver is her sister.

Corinne Pulver obtained a degree in graphic design from the Freiburg School of Applied Arts and then studied for a year at the Chelsea Art Academy in London . Initially, she planned to become a set designer and worked for a year as an assistant to the set designer Teo Otto at the Schauspielhaus Zurich . Since this work was physically too difficult for her, she changed her career. She went to Max Bill as a private secretary and employee and turned to working on television. At Max Bill, she developed the television series “From Silent Film to Cinerama” for the “Swiss experimental television companies”, which dealt with the history of film.

From 1956 she had her own programs on SDR , and from 1963 on ZDF in Paris . She created around 50 articles for the WDR magazine Please turn the page . She belonged to the Stuttgart school and was the only woman among numerous authors in the series “ Signs of the Times” . According to her own statements, she had difficulties with colleagues: The colleagues said I was too ambitious. Men just can't stand it that women too do something good at work for so much love.

Corinne Pulver was recruited in 1956 by the editor Heinz Huber for his fledgling documentary film department at SDR . With her work in the still provisional television studios on Stuttgart's Killesberg , she became the first female filmmaker in German television history at the age of 30. Her first documentaries appeared at a time when there was only one program on German television. Her films have been followed closely by the media. She shot in Italy, Germany, Switzerland and France. She made portraits of the gossip aunt Elsa Maxwell , the actress Jeanne Moreau , the poet Max Frisch , and the gallery owner Kahnweiler . Under the title Faded Facades, she took a look behind the scenes of traditional hotels and portrayed a classy boarding school in Switzerland. She dared to point out abuses in a slaughterhouse. Your report on the scandalous conditions of horse transports to Italy sparked a debate in the German Bundestag . She ran her own film production with Paul Motzko .

At the SDR , Corinne Pulver developed her characteristic TV column style. By 1962 she made over 20 films for the documentary film department in Stuttgart, most of them 30 to 50 minutes in length. As a trained graphic artist, she attached particular importance to the visual language and thus defended herself against the text-heavy “mirror style” that emerged in documentary films in the early 1960s.

Corinne Pulver had a relationship with Martin Walser in the late 1950s . She has one daughter each from relationships with Siegfried Unseld (Ninon, * 1959) and Michael Hausthar (Manon, * 1965).

In addition to books about her family, Corinne Pulver wrote biographies of Madame de Staël , George Sand and Elise Krinitz .

Works

• Small handbook of emancipation. Plea for a better world . Darmstädter Blätter, Darmstadt 1975, ISBN 3-87139-036-4
• Lilo powder, my sister . Nymphenburger, Munich 1979; Erpf , Bern 1990, ISBN 3-905517-12-4
• Madame de Meuron. A souvenir album (co-authors Rosmarie Borle, Herbert Distel and Urs Kohli). Erpfg, Bern 1980, ISBN 3-256-00019-3
• Madame de Stae͏̈l . Biography. Nymphenburger, Munich 1980; Knaur Taschenbücher, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-426-02303-2
• The German man . Meyster, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-7057-8121-9
• George Sand. Genius of femininity . Droste, Düsseldorf 1987; Paperback, ibid. 2003, ISBN 3-7700-4061-9
• Gertrud P. - The drama of a talented woman . Erpf, Kreuzlingen 1988, ISBN 3-256-00108-4
• Mouche . Heinrich Heine's last love . Droste, Düsseldorf 1993, ISBN 3-7700-1010-8
• Melisande's death. Report and concern . Erpf, Bern 1993; Bastei Lübbe , 1994, ISBN 3-404-16127-0
• Career or Love is a strange thing . Autobiography. Herbig, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-7766-2076-5

literature

• Monika Schlecht (text), Will McBride (photos): Films for television. Corinne powder. In: Brigitte, September 5, 1961, pp. 56-65.

Web links

• Corinne powder in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Literature by and about Corinne Pulver in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? The German who's who. 23rd edition. Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1984, p. 979.
2. ↑ ^{a b} The media women of SDR and SWF (ed.): Women in SDR and SWF from 1946 to 1956. An exhibition on International Women's Day 1998 . Waiblingen 1988, p. 111 .
3. ↑ Stuttgart School ; ( Memento of the original from December 16, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. mediaculture-online.de; Retrieved August 9, 2013. 
4. ↑ Die Medienfrauen von SDR and SWF (eds.): Women in SDR and SWF from 1946 to 1956. An exhibition on International Women's Day 1998 . Waiblingen 1988, p. 111-112 .
5. ↑ Birgit Lahann: Martin Walser: I am the whole novel stern.de, July 25, 2004
6. ↑ Ulrike Posche : Female takeover. How women in Germany take power ; Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-593-37415-3 , p. 96