DOC 59
DOC 59 - Group for Film Design was founded on the initiative of Ferdinand Khittl and Haro Senft after a few preparatory meetings on April 9, 1959 as a non-profit association in Munich - Schwabing by filmmakers who were mainly successful in the field of short and documentary films .
The aim was to actively promote artistic endeavors, to stimulate general interest in culturally valuable film and to propagate and represent this in public. It was essentially the continuation of the intentions that had already been specified in the appeal " filmform - the third program " published by Herbert Vesely, Haro Senft and Heiner Braun in 1957 and which were ultimately reflected in the demands of the " Oberhausen Manifesto ".
The founding members were:
(*) later signatory of the "Oberhausen Manifesto")
* | Bodo Blüthner | Writer and director | ||
* | Heinz Furchner | camera operator | ||
* | Ferdinand Khittl | Writer and director | ||
* | Hans Loeper | Composer and author | ||
Enno Patalas | journalist | |||
Hans Posegga | composer | |||
Petrus Schloemp | camera operator | |||
* | Fritz Schwennicke | Cameraman and photographer | ||
* | Haro Senft | Director | ||
* | Franz Josef Spieker | Director | ||
Herbert Thallmayer | camera operator | |||
* | Wolf Wirth | camera operator |
At that time, the group also included:
* | Pitt cook | Director and cameraman | ||
* | Ronald Martini | Producer and director | ||
* | Raimond Ruehl | Director | ||
* | Detten Schleiermacher | Writer and director |
In the short term:
* | Rob Houwer | Director | ||
* | Dieter Lemmel | Director | ||
* | Peter Schamoni | Director | ||
* | Wolfgang Urchs | Animator |
At the founding meeting on April 9, 1959, three board members were elected in the following order: Haro Senft, Ferdinand Khittl and Fritz Schwennicke, and Petrus Schloemp as secretary .
A first step towards an academic film training was initiated by an apprenticeship contract between the group members Ferdinand Khittl, Raimond Rühl, Fritz Schwennicke, Franz Josef Spieker and Haro Senft with the "Ulm School of Design" ( HfG Ulm ) on October 2, 1961. The HfG Designer Academy (1953–1968) was founded by the “Geschwister-Scholl-Stiftung” and saw itself as a successor to the “Weimar Bauhaus” (1919–1934).
In early 1962 a public appearance was prepared and other like-minded people were offered to join the campaign. Among them was u. a. Edgar Reitz, Alexander Kluge, Hans Rolf Strobel and Heinz Tichawsky. On February 28, 1962, this led to a declaration being read out to the “8. West German Short Film Festival ”in Oberhausen. In future, the press only spoke of the “ Oberhausen Group ” and the “Oberhausen Manifesto”. In December 1962, a film department was set up at the "Hochschule für Gestaltung" in Ulm.
The association was not entered in the register of associations but was never dissolved. The activities were initially continued in the “Oberhausen Group” and finally in the “Working Group of New German Feature Film Producers” founded on October 24, 1966.
literature
- Hans Helmut Prinzler , Eric Rentschler Hgg .: The old film was dead. Hundreds of texts on West German films 1962–1987. Publishing house of the authors , Frankfurt 2001 ISBN 3-88661-232-5
Web links
- Arsenal. Institute for Film and Video Art, primarily archive and film institute oriented towards film history . In the publications area: Between barricade and ivory tower. 30 Years of the International Forum for New Films, 2000 (Bibliography); and: International Forum of New Films : Index 1971–1989; Dialogue with films. Forum Four Decades , 2009 (with DVD)