Daniel Schmid (director)

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Daniel Schmid , originally Daniel Schmidt , (born December 26, 1941 in Flims , Canton of Graubünden , Switzerland ; † August 5, 2006 ibid) was a Swiss film , theater and opera director .

Life

Daniel Schmid grew up with his parents Arthur Schmidt and Carla Schmidt-Bivetti in their Hotel Schweizerhof in Flims. After graduating from high school , he went to the Free University of Berlin in 1962 , studied history, journalism, political science and art history and worked as a journalist and interpreter during his studies.

This was followed by an assistant director to Peter Lilienthal . From 1966 he studied at the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin and delivered several works for television. Since then he has made his own feature films. In Berlin he was able to live openly as a homosexual for the first time. There was no mention of this subject in his films. In the early 1970s Schmid worked several times with Rainer Werner Fassbinder , Rosa von Praunheim and Werner Schroeter . During this time he also appeared as an actor and became one of the most prominent filmmakers. Above all, the film adaptation of Fassbinder's play The City, Garbage and Death under the title Shadow of the Angels in 1976 made him famous. In 1977 he returned to Switzerland.

He switched to the staging of introspective experimental films that only appealed to an intellectual minority audience. With his film satire Beresina or The Last Days of Switzerland , he regained the attention of a wider public. The 1992 mid-season film was not experimental, but rather a film adaptation of sometimes whimsical childhood memories in the parents' hotel; a company that really has little in common with today's mass tourism. In 1999 he received the Leopard of Honor at the Locarno International Film Festival for his complete work.

Between 1984 and 2001 he also worked as an opera director. At the Zurich Opera staged four operas at the Grand Theater three. His affection for bel canto can also be felt in his documentary Il Bacio di Tosca .

His films found an audience in Japan too. At the invitation of the film critic and later friend Professor Shigehiko Hasumi , he traveled to Japan, where he was increasingly concerned with and interested in the local culture. His 1995 film The Written Face pays homage to traditional Kabuki theater, starring Tamasaburo Bando as the main actor.

In 2003 he assembled a film from material from the Flims photographer Jules Geiger , which he named Flimmerndes Flims . The film was part of the exhibition Flims he designed - an emotional backdrop in the Yellow House in Flims. It was the last work he could complete. The last film Portovero was no longer finished due to illness. Daniel Schmid died of cancer in his throat at the age of 64.

Schmid was never married. He was in a longstanding relationship with a film colleague. His last long-term partner was called Thomas.

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Daniel Schmid's estate ended up in the Swiss film archive in 2006 and 2007 through two bequests (also known throughout Switzerland as “Cinémathèque suisse”).

Filmography (selection)

Awards

  • 1972: Premio de Selezione Venezia Giovane at the Venice International Film Festival for Tonight or Never
  • 1972: Film ducat at the Mannheim International Film Festival for Tonight or Never
  • 1973: Prix Calimer at the Toulon International Film Festival for Tonight or Never
  • 1974: Grand Prize at the Figueira da Foz International Film Festival for Tonight or Never
  • 1984: Grand Prize of the Florence International Film Festival for The Kiss of Tosca
  • 1985: Red Gibbon at the American Film Festival New York for The Kiss of Tosca
  • 1986: Grand Prize at the Figueira da Foz International Film Festival for The Kiss of Tosca
  • 1986: Bündner Kulturpreis
  • 1999: Honorary leopard at the Locarno International Film Festival

Film about Daniel Schmid

  • 2010: Le chat qui pense by Pascal Hoffmann and Benny Jaberg

literature

Web links

Broadcast contributions

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Daniel Schmid in: A family tradition that goes back over 100 years. Written in 1999, printed in 2011 in the history of the Hotel Schweizerhof .
  2. ^ Pascal Hoffmann, Benny Jaberg: Le chat qui pense. 2010.
  3. ↑ https://der-andere-film.ch/filme/filme/titel/def/daniel-schmid.-le-chat-qui-pense
  4. ↑ http://www.daniel-schmid.com/2_movies/face.php
  5. ↑ http://www.swissfilms.ch/en/film_search/filmdetails/-/id_film/1473661586/src/150/id_prog/92/search/0/synopsis/de
  6. ↑ https://www.artfilm.ch/the-written-face&lang=de
  7. ↑ Discoveries in the «film landscape» of Graubünden - Switzerland's holiday corner - cinematic. In: NZZ , June 13, 2003
  8. ↑ Memories of a Flims filmmaker. In: Ruinaulta (magazine) , August 5, 2016
  9. ↑ http://www.taz.de/1/archiv/digitaz/artikel/?ressort=ku&dig=2014%2F02%2F03%2Fa0148
  10. ^ Pascal Hoffmann, Benny Jaberg: Le chat qui pense. 2010.
  11. ^ Pascal Hoffmann, Benny Jaberg: Le chat qui pense. 2010.
  12. ↑ FAZ of September 3, 2010, page 34:
personal data
SURNAME Schmid, Daniel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmidt, Daniel (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss film, theater and opera director
DATE OF BIRTH December 26, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Flims , Canton of Graubünden , Switzerland
DATE OF DEATH August 5, 2006
Place of death Flims , Canton of Graubünden , Switzerland